Oh, come on, Bethesda!, Closed cities AGAIN? Options

[Thomas Kaira]

May I ask exactly why? Oblivion could take open cities in perfect stride. The only reason the cities got closed at all was because BethSoft panicked about the console support.

Granted, they did have an excuse then, as they only received the Xbox 360 to do actual testing over the last three months of dev. time, but here... not so much. The current excuse is that the consoles can't handle what they are doing. Trouble is, the industry always manages to surprise us with exactly what those consoles CAN handle.

So long as the NPC count in the cities goes up by at least twice what we got in Oblivion, I will be understanding and shall complain no more. If not... well... then I will KNOW you are just being lazy. I want to see progress in making these games the best they can be, I don't want Skyrim to simply be Oblivion HD.

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In other news:

- Alchemy is becoming a stealth skill. (Approve! Approve!)

- There will be no minigames involved with the crafting skills (Thank you!)

- Giants, Draugr, and other creatures will receive a bit of culture from the AI engine (Looking forward to this.)

This post has been edited by Thomas Kaira: May 3 2011, 07:07 PM

[King Coin]

If I didn't want a character to start in prison, I just played the game and didn't start my story until I got where ever I wanted to start at. That's a very simple solution.

[Helena]

If I didn't want a character to start in prison, I just played the game and didn't start my story until I got where ever I wanted to start at. That's a very simple solution.

It's hard to just ignore the tutorial when you still have to play all the way through it (barring mods, but that's exactly why I said I'd wait for a mod). It's especially hard when it's a fundamental part of the story, as in Oblivion. Oblivion's prison sequence provides the entire setup for the game's plot; you can't just discard it unless you want to ignore the whole of the main quest.