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

[Thomas Kaira]

Rumor has it that now Bethesda has chosen to merge together the Cuirass and Greaves armor pieces into a single generic "Armor" piece.

Anyone else think this is a horrible idea? I understand pauldrons, but greaves? Uh-uh.

Bethesda really seems to be falling into stride with over-streamlining their games to the point that it has a destructive effect on the end result. Just look at Oblivion and how they changed the skills, two of them were completely broken because of them being "streamlined."

Bethesda, please, stop fixing what isn't goddamn broke!

Perhaps I'm passing judgement early, but so far, this is where the evidence points, and if this gets confirmed in the fan interview, I expect no less than a massive ragefest on the forums from people who think this ruins the ability to customize your character's appearance (like the barbarian who wears no shirt, or the thief who goes without greaves to maintain the mobility of his legs).

But you never know, if this gets confirmed, perhaps the community will get mad enough that Bethesda will decide to retract this idea. One can dream.

This post has been edited by Thomas Kaira: Jun 12 2011, 07:01 AM