I loved this vid! She (like you) is able to see the flaws and still show what makes this game so intriguing!




Tricky!!! I don't think it is cheating if it is survival of just Henry against multiple enemies. I meant to point it out in my comment about the vid you posted from the girl = I loved what she said about the learning curve on how to survive and sometimes that meant outsmarting your enemies because there was no way to overpower them. That thicket trick is a great idea!








Wow, what a difference in the capacity of his new horse! You know, if you hadn't pointed it out I never would have seen those stats at the bottom of the picture! Really interesting; I hope you take regular shots of him and keep them to watch his progress! Really interesting!








Okay, a picture is worth a thousand words:

Oblivion:

https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/1...-1239938773.jpg

Skyrim:


https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/eldersc...=20120124104217


Sorry, and I know "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder," but ... imho the Oblivion Dunmer looks much more appealing than the Skyrim one.








This post has been edited by mALX: Nov 29 2018, 12:11 AM

Oblivion Dunmer look like they're just humans cosplaying elves with cheap body paint and I'm glad the Trans-Niben Pudding Faces are gone even if we have to put up with less customization out of the box. (Altmer look like they have jaundice and Bosmer barely look different, too) That said, everyone in Skyrim looks like they never touch water, lmao. To the point where a character that's supposed to be a teenager looks (and sounds) like a 40-year-old.

ESO's elves (IN-GAME, NOT THE STUPID CINEMATICS OR ART) are a nice middle ground between the two and come close to Morrowind's aesthetic. They're my favorite so far, tbh. Could be a bit more angular as far as their skulls go, tho.

Anyways, I think I'm done with Ultra Moon? There might be a few post-game events I'm missing aside from the one that happens one IRL month after becoming Champion but I guess I'll get to them then.

Dunno what i'm playing next but it's the season for Dark Souls and I also have an urge to play Fable 2 again.

Heh...Master Strike is wielding technique he's now able to perform, not a Weapon Master certification. Henry was able to execute it with some regularity for a few play sessions right after learning it. Alas, following several play sessions where Henry saw next to no combat I find I've lost my touch at clicking the right mouse buttons. Don't think Henry's successfully done a master strike since then.

As to blunt weapons, his overall skill with them is too low to be effective against all but the weakest foes, master strike or no master strike. What he needs to do is return to the training arena and spend session after grueling session working up the skill in a "safe" environment, spending a fortune in armor repair in the process.

He now has an enviable problem of being able to loot gear off defeated foes faster than vendors are able to cope with. They each have a set amount of cash to purchase spoils and other items with, replenished after a set period. Henry has amassed an ever increasing stockpile of spoils to sell as vendors replenish their funds. No biggie, except that while Henry has generous storage capacity it is not infinite. He himself can carry a decent amount on his person. His horse can hold more. He has a storage chest in the rooms given him. As of the beginning of this morning's first session, his room storage was maxed out, his horse could hold only about 50lbs more, and he himself was about 10lbs from max weight. A decent part of that session was spent visiting vendors and selling off what he could. It helps, but he's gonna have to be very selective of what he loots for a while. Boy is hard to leave valuable items on corpses, but what ya gonna do?

His major expense at this stage is repair kits. He eats through those a bag of chips, and unlike chips they ain't cheap. Training books and Alchemy recipes are becoming costly too. Doh!, that reminds me we forgot to check the Sasau alchemist for recipes this session. Too late now. Henry's back in Rattay.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Nov 29 2018, 10:40 AM

Hey!!

It's true, sadly. I was saddened to see how different than Morrowind they were.

I don't think it's any worse than the other races, though Bosmer look like potatoes.

I haven't played recently. Been too busy today. Tomorrow perhaps, after I get some knitting done.

Bosmer look like potatoes? I always thought the Bosmer males looked more like onions; but the Bosmer females were adorable!

Yeah it's mostly males with potato disorder. Faces are too fat to be elves imo.

Agreed; the forced dirt on the characters in Skyrim was one of my big beefs. Like they couldn't heat up water over the fire and bathe like the early settlers ALL did? (didn't the Dev's ever watch TV? )

And the men going around all bare chested in the cold air; but couldn't stand the thought of splashing some water on them - can you imagine how they must "Reek?" (GoT reference, ).

Not just the characters; but the houses too = like the cold kept them from sweeping their houses out, too? Even the palaces looked grimy!

And the age of the Player characters in Skyrim started at 45; they didn't give the Player an option for being young without mods.

More angular faces would have been better for the Elven races in Oblivion; yes, I agree with that. But in Skyrim the Dev's interpreted "more angular" to mean hideous; especially with their Dark Elves. I was hugely put off by the thick ridge they stuck in over their eyebrows; (and not thrilled with the harlequin eyebrows, either).

Example: Asians have very angular faces; but are absolutely gorgeous; I think they could have given us some kind of cross between what they gave us to use as a base (and the beauty of the Asian angular face) = as a foundation to work with. Like a midway point between their hideous and the beauty some Players would want to strive for. That way, Players that wanted a hideous character could ugly theirs up as they chose (and others could accentuate the beauty of the Elven angular face to make a beautiful character). It is just my preference and opinion = give everyone a chance to make the characters THEY want be it ugly or beautiful. (not trying to convince anyone to think like I do, it is just how I feel about it).

I also agree that the best CharGen so far (imho) is ESO's; plus their base character is an awesome starting point, too.









Agreed. There were some that were fine; but when I try to picture any male Bosmer = I can only visualize the Adoring Fan:

"Is there something you need? Can I carry your weapon? Shine your boots? Backrub, perhaps?"

Gah!

Henry was tasked to clean out another bandit camp. Only, these weren't your run-of-the-mill bandits. These wore full plate, wielded quality weapons, and were skilled at their craft. Henry "might" be able to survive a one-on-one against such foes, but three at once???? The odds are decidedly against it. He knew he'd never best them at swordplay, so resolved to bring them down via archery. By sheer luck he managed to finish off two, but took a terrible pounding in the process. He then made a near fatal mistake. With but one foe remaining he switched from bow to sword. That might have worked had he been at or near full health and stamina, but he was nowhere close. The bandit quickly took him down to the merest sliver of health. One hit would end it. Amazingly, Henry was able to re-equip his bow, back off, and fire a few more arrows into the foe. The bandit went down after the third of fourth shot. Henry was bleeding out at that point, with very likely only seconds to live. Luckily, he carries bandages at all times, which were applied in time to stop the bleeding. He then downed three healing potions, which revived him enough to carry on with his business. His armor was in shambled. Took quite a few repair kits to fix it, except for one piece so badly damaged he'll have to take it to a professional armorer.

He almost didn't make it back to safety. Part way to Sasau he rode into a group of five bandits. Thankfully they were on foot so couldn't overtake him as he turned tail an fled. He ended up spending the night in Talmberg, continuing on to Sasau next morning.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Dec 1 2018, 02:38 PM

ESO dunmer still have the brow ridge.

It's a little hard to see on Narisa here but... https://i.imgur.com/5x4npdP.jpg

Female Nords suffer from potato face disorder.. the eyes are too close together no matter what you do. I don't have the game installed, nor can I find any screenshots of Nadirah or I'd show her.

I must not have saved my screenies when I uninstalled. :/

I like that you have to strategize in this game; can't just go in there like an uber brute and clean house! Really exciting gameplay clip you gave here! I am guessing since they strive for realism that they don't have a way to "hotkey" food or potions to down in the middle of combat; which makes it that much more exciting! (also, that you have to apply bandages to stop bleeding; etc).









Actually, you can have the ridge if you like in ESO; but you can also use the "Forehead" slider to adjust it out if you want it gone. Their CharGen gives everyone the choice of how they want their Dark Elves to look; which is what I'm hoping the TES VI does.

And here is my Nord; I don't think she looks like a potato!


https://imgur.com/x8L8SRl

The eyes are too close together on female Nords, it bothers me. And I do have the slider down.

I prefer my mer to look alien, not like humans with pointy ears.

Found some old screenshots of characters from NA.

https://i.imgur.com/kLlCzuY.jpg female Nord

https://i.imgur.com/Jx35yvG.jpg male Nord

https://i.imgur.com/W63EwSp.jpg female Redguard

https://i.imgur.com/fsZSsfX.jpg female Bosmer. The eyes on this one.

Can't find any of my Altmer templar off hand. She had a mohawk.

Then I stopped playing on NA.

I don't like Ayrenn. She looks too Mannish for me.

Got a new PS4 (AGAIN) so I've gone back to playing The Division but I also bought Soul Calibur 6 and Darksiders 1.

Henry's on a mission that, so far as I can tell, involves no combat. He first has to find a meeting place by deciphering a priest's cryptic writing. No map markers of any sort for this one, so we need to figure it out on our own. We seem to have correctly decoded around half (or more of) the text, but are unsure of us next step. The general map doesn't seem to jive with our text at this point, leastwise not in any obvious way. That said, the general map didn't show an earlier landmark along the route. We'll just wing it and hope for the best...assuming we haven't overlooked or misread something in the text.

The quest is a bit uncomfortable, as we are at the moment working for something akin to a Bohemian Inquisition. There's a bit more to it than that, but I don't want to spoil things too badly.


<nods> Don't know all the limitations yet, but some things can't be done during combat.

Soul Calibur 6 is good! It’s probably the best Soul Calibur they’ve made in quite a while (3 was my last favorite).

Well, I've finally completed Fallout: New Vegas, but I didn't realize you can't play anything after the Battle of Hoover Dam, so I am going to do as much of the stuff I haven't done as possible. I haven't even started any of the DLCs, but there are still things to do in the main game. I'm glad the game lets you go back to right before the point of no return. Mariah's work is far from done. Jacobstown, the Vault 19 gangers, assaulting The Fort and killing Caesar myself...so much to do!

But for the first time through the Battle of Hoover Dam, I chose the NCR. I didn't have the independent option, but I think that is because I didn't activate the Securitrons at The Fort. Still, I wanted to see how it went siding with the NCR. But I'm going to go through again and at least get the other ending slides I want, and I'll decide then if I want to "canonically" side with the NCR or go independent.

This post has been edited by RaderOfTheLostArk: Dec 1 2018, 11:09 PM

To me SC6 is like the forgive us for 5 for the series. Oddly enough I actually like 3 though it was only exclusive to the PS2 for some reason. Only bad thing about SC6 is some of the past Soul actors aren't there Siegfried and Tira are noticeable and speaking of Tira I will say was a cheap trick locking her behind season pass or buying the deluxe edition but I'm loving this game so all's forgiven.

This post has been edited by Dark Reaper: Dec 1 2018, 11:54 PM

Henry spent forever trying to continue following his decoded direction lead, but in the end admitted defeat, returned to town, and tried a different route. He eventually found the site, but I swear the way we went that first time matched the text much better than the route that worked. Up until we hit the dead end, that is.

This looks to have been one of those quests with a number of possible outcomes. The way it turned out for us is quite acceptable. Whether it is the best outcome we could have gotten is anyone's guess.

Poor Henry ran into unexpected trouble during the mission. After discovering he could about the situation he headed to town to report his findings to the local authority. Only, we arrive there hours before dawn. The Tavern had closed. He had nowhere to sleep. We recalled that he'd come upon a deserted campsite with bed not terribly far from town during search. He sort of remembered its general location so rode toward it. Only, it was pitch darn. Couldn't see far by torch light, and nothing beyond it. We took a wrong turn and rode smack into a bandit camp. The fight didn't go well. These were poorly equipped fellows, but one was a surprisingly well trained swordsman. Another wielded an axe. Henry won out in the end, but it was a messy affair. He was bleeding, in low health, and suffered damage to most of his gear. It didn't help that he was out of Tailoring Kits so couldn't mend those pieces. We then attempted to ride back to town...and rode into another group of bandits! This time Henry hightailed it, eventually outdistancing them. Finally reaching town, Henry sat outside the Tavern awaiting daybreak. Once his investigation was reported locally we returned to Rattay, where Henry reported the outcome to his superior, ending the task. The day is fairly young, but Henry needs to catch up on missed sleep.

What are you talking about? Siegfried is absolutely on there, he’s definitely not missing. Tira is DLC but Khajiit got the deluxe edition so he had access to her from day 1.