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]

There has been a lot of rather fearful speculation over the PS3 version of Skyrim on the other boards lately. A lot of it cropped up recently when Pete Hines announced there would be no demo of the PS3 version of the game.

The main concern is that the game will turn out to be a complete mess, like Fallout 3 was (inferior visuals, frequent lock-ups, bad framerates, etc.). Unfortunately, I have to fear for them, as well, as Bethesda has released absolutely nothing on the PS3 version of the game. All of the hype is for the 360 version, with a bit of PC thrown in for good measure... but the PS3 just sits in the corner completely ignored. And it's making a lot of people unhappy.

FYI: Oblivion's PS3 port was outsourced, but even it suffered from exclusive bugs (namely the Vampire Cure bug). Fallout 3 was Bethesda's first in-house PS3 port. This is mostly hearsay, but from what has been said, it has become rather clear to me that Bethesda didn't really care about the PS3 version of Fallout 3. I'm hoping the same does not happen for Skyrim, but once again, Bethesda has decided that no data will be shared about the PS3 version of the game, so it's looking a bit grim right now.

[McBadgere]

There has been a lot of rather fearful speculation over the PS3 version of Skyrim on the other boards lately. A lot of it cropped up recently when Pete Hines announced there would be no demo of the PS3 version of the game.

The main concern is that the game will turn out to be a complete mess, like Fallout 3 was (inferior visuals, frequent lock-ups, bad framerates, etc.). Unfortunately, I have to fear for them, as well, as Bethesda has released absolutely nothing on the PS3 version of the game. All of the hype is for the 360 version, with a bit of PC thrown in for good measure... but the PS3 just sits in the corner completely ignored. And it's making a lot of people unhappy.

FYI: Oblivion's PS3 port was outsourced, but even it suffered from exclusive bugs (namely the Vampire Cure bug). Fallout 3 was Bethesda's first in-house PS3 port. This is mostly hearsay, but from what has been said, it has become rather clear to me that Bethesda didn't really care about the PS3 version of Fallout 3. I'm hoping the same does not happen for Skyrim, but once again, Bethesda has decided that no data will be shared about the PS3 version of the game, so it's looking a bit grim right now.

As a wise man once said...Mothepussbucket...*Sigh*...

I've got the day off work for Skyrim...(Yes I'm that sad)...This had better be worth it...

Oh, we're PS3 here at Chez Badgere...

Oooh, *Shouts to wife* we're changing the house name dear!!...