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post #61 of 271
10/28/11 at 3:11pm
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This is the most anticipated video game of my life. There's very little chance that Skyrim won't be the GOTF. Bethesda can do no wrong, at this point. A couple hundred recent journalist hands-ons seem to back this notion up.

My first projected character-build, as it currently stands:

Male Imperial
Imperial Legion
The Companions (Fighter's Guild)
Blades (if joinable)
One-Handed/Two-Handed
Heavy Armor/Blocking
Smithing
Restoration/Enchantment/Alteration
Security
Speechcraft/Mercantile
Possible Dual-Wield

Was planning on joining the Legion anyhow as an Imperial swordsman-type character, but to have Saul Tigh AND Susan Ivanova both barking orders at me/biting my head off for the most minor rule-flaunting?

Sign me the fuck UP.

On another related note, just found out that the Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
East Empire Company
is in the game, and is very likely Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
a joinable faction.

Bloodmoon brings back so many amazing memories. Can't wait to rape and pillage the Nordic economy as a corrupt, self-serving Imperial bureaucrat in retribution for their little "insurrection" against their rightful Emperor... biggrin.gif
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post #62 of 271
10/31/11 at 12:23pm

I'm totally excited for this but concerned about the number of games I have backed up now. :) Some how I need to split time between this and MW3.

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post #63 of 271
10/31/11 at 5:48pm
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Ah, fuck MW3 -- it'll still be there when you get back from Tamriel. biggrin.gif

I love me some Zelda, and normally would be considering Skyward Sword my first- or second-most anticipated game of the entire year...but there's a brand-new Elder Scrolls launching almost directly opposite it. And EVERYTHING gets dropped for a new Elder Scrolls game, even Zelda.

What a year it's been, when we can consider a new major-console Zelda game to be only a mere appetizer, rather than the main course.
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post #64 of 271
11/1/11 at 2:47pm
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I'm totally excited for this but concerned about the number of games I have backed up now. :) Some how I need to split time between this and MW3.



MW3 will probably only have about 15 hours of storyline, so you should be done with it pretty quick :P

 

I picked up an Assassins Creed 3 pack on the cheap, but probably wont get to it any time soon. I should be busy with Skyrim until Grand Theft Auto 5 comes out. I have to agree with Josh, it's ridiculous how many quality titles are coming out. It's a new golden age!

 

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post #65 of 271
11/1/11 at 5:07pm
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MW3 will probably only have about 15 hours of storyline, so you should be done with it pretty quick :P

 

I picked up an Assassins Creed 3 pack on the cheap, but probably wont get to it any time soon. I should be busy with Skyrim until Grand Theft Auto 5 comes out. I have to agree with Josh, it's ridiculous how many quality titles are coming out. It's a new golden age!

 


Except for the hundreds of hours of MP time I'll spend. :) If I look at the hours I have put in on other games I may need to find a way to become a profesional game player. :)

 

Here is my current list of games with the most hours spent (via Raptr.com):

 

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post #66 of 271
11/3/11 at 12:36pm
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Except for the hundreds of hours of MP time I'll spend. :) If I look at the hours I have put in on other games I may need to find a way to become a profesional game player. :)

 


 

 

This is why I'm glad I never got into multiplayer in a big way! laugh.gif

 

Just bugging you. And with DC Online going free to play on the PS3 this week, that might change too ha ha. Speaking of PS3, Quar or whatever it on there had a nice Skyrim preview. Nothing really new was laid out, but it certainly kept me at froth levels for next Friday! I might midnight launch pick up this baby if the Gamestop I pre-ordered from is doing it. I'm going to be close by at a show anyways. Stand up comedy, pub beers and Skyrim, it will be a perfect evening! laugh.gif

 

One thing that preview has me wondering about is the food. they make mention again that you can kill a dear and cook the meat. Well our characters get hungry? Will he lose endurance if we don't eat? Is my dude Cannibal F**kface going to get hunger pains?

 

It would be cool if they did!

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post #67 of 271
11/4/11 at 5:01pm
^ even sadder, I'd love to just stand behind people watching them playing it. heh!
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post #68 of 271
11/7/11 at 6:41am
You can get your chance, the guys at GiantBomb are doing 12 hours of play through starting at 9AM pacific on thursday.

And I'm going to be pissed if my copy doesn't show up Thursday or before too, from Amazon. The official ship date is a federal holiday, what jackbrain thought that would be a good idea?
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post #69 of 271
11/7/11 at 7:48am
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UPS and FedEx both deliver on Veteran's Day -- they're private companies. Only the USPS is closed. smiley_wink.gif

If you've got Release-Day Delivery, you should still be good for Friday.
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post #70 of 271
11/7/11 at 8:23am

Mine shows Friday delivery as well. I most likely won't get to it until late Friday or Saturday. Harry Potter comes out so I'll be spending the night watching it in 3D. ;)

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post #71 of 271
11/7/11 at 8:37am

The gamestop that I pre-ordered it from is the only one in town NOT doing a midnight launch! And I'm going to be in the mall at a stand up show Thursday! FUCK!

 

Then again, probably best I don't fire it up in the wee hours of the morning after a bunch of pints to create my character laugh.gif

 

I burned through Oblivion's Shivering Isles the past couple days, so I'm officially ready for Skyrim!

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post #72 of 271
11/7/11 at 11:05am
Awesome, thanks for putting me at ease!
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post #73 of 271
11/7/11 at 11:20am
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The gamestop that I pre-ordered it from is the only one in town NOT doing a midnight launch! And I'm going to be in the mall at a stand up show Thursday! FUCK!

Then again, probably best I don't fire it up in the wee hours of the morning after a bunch of pints to create my character laugh.gif

Oh, God...the horror-stories I can tell you all about "drunken character-creation"...

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post #74 of 271
11/7/11 at 1:40pm

HA ha, I think nearly everyone is guilty of horrible character creations! I don't think I've ever made a "normal" looking cool guy. My favourite right now is the singer guy in Rock Band 3 with cats tattooed on his ass.

 

I find it the most stressful part of these RPG, picking the race. Ugh, I want ALL the perks, I don't want to have to pick and chose! I don't want to have screwed up from the very beginning! I already know I'll play as a dude. I alternate sexes with my games and the last elder scrolls I played a female. So yeah, gay dude for Skyrim! laugh.gif

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post #75 of 271
11/7/11 at 2:02pm
Think we are treading into the TMI borderlands =p

On silent protagonists ie most MMOs I almost always make my characters male, because I feel I can voice them in my head better.

For those that speak, I prefer female toons. TOR is going to make me think hard about this.
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post #76 of 271
11/7/11 at 4:30pm
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HA ha, I think nearly everyone is guilty of horrible character creations! I don't think I've ever made a "normal" looking cool guy. My favourite right now is the singer guy in Rock Band 3 with cats tattooed on his ass.

I find it the most stressful part of these RPG, picking the race. Ugh, I want ALL the perks, I don't want to have to pick and chose! I don't want to have screwed up from the very beginning! I already know I'll play as a dude. I alternate sexes with my games and the last elder scrolls I played a female. So yeah, gay dude for Skyrim! laugh.gif

That Deformo Mutant-Shepard was the end result of a particularly fucked-up bender-night.

I spend more time working on a character at the creation-screen than any normal, sane person should. Like, spending 40 minutes obsessively tweaking the hair-color and facial structures of my Oblivion characters, and then sobbing to myself.
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post #77 of 271
11/8/11 at 6:03pm
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Sweet-ass new trailer just went up:



Ivanova and Tigh want me to solve the Empire's problems, and put my sword through some Nord faces? All they have to do is point.

Also, was that Von Sydow, there, at the very end? Looks like his Blade-character's pulling a total "Caius Cosades"...about the only thing left to do is to remove his shirt and grab a Skooma-pipe.
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post #78 of 271
11/8/11 at 6:10pm

I must be a closet sociopath since I was constantly thinking "Ohhh! I wonder if I can slash him to bits? And that group there, and lizard face over there...." 

 

Can't wait, and still mad the one game stop closest to me isn't midnight launching! I'm never pre-ordering a store pick up again!

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post #79 of 271
11/9/11 at 4:05am
^ looks spectacular. Hoping to put this series above Gothic series finally. Maybe maybe.. if it's not all looks.

I have to put forth a lot of damn effort to NOT play RPGs like I'd be in real life. Although, it would be amazing to be able to track down somebody's family and apologize for offing their father/brother/son. "It was unavoidable, he attacked me first...here's where his grave is...I'm so sorry.. he was carrying this sword, etc... " hahaaha!
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post #80 of 271
11/9/11 at 9:13am
That trailer looked terrible to me....
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post #81 of 271
11/9/11 at 9:19am
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That trailer looked terrible to me....


 

BLASPHEMY! OFF WITH HIS HEAD! laugh.gif

 

 

Quote:
Although, it would be amazing to be able to track down somebody's family and apologize for offing their father/brother/son. "It was unavoidable, he attacked me first...here's where his grave is...I'm so sorry.. he was carrying this sword, etc... " hahaaha!

 

 

Oh I'd love that! Track down the family, kill them too, burn down their house... banana.gif

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post #82 of 271
11/9/11 at 9:25am
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Oh I'd love that! Track down the family, kill them too, burn down their house... banana.gif
You need yourself a serial killer simulator! cool.gif
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post #83 of 271
11/9/11 at 9:30am
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Oh I'd love that! Track down the family, kill them too, burn down their house... banana.gif
You need yourself a serial killer simulator! cool.gif
 


Ha ha, it's funny though, when I actually play it I'll end up being overly moral. Even in the GTA games I don't go totally batpoop crazy. Well sometimes :P

 

Anyone have a plan going into the game yet? I'm thinking of doing as much thieves guild and dark brotherhood quests as I can from the start. That way when I get into the main quest doing bad things wont effect it. I left those quests until the end of oblivion, which meant I couldn't keep the sweet knights of the nine armor since you had to be "pure of heart" or whatever. I probably could of kept the armor if I was more stealthy, but I'm more of an action bash them down type of guy laugh.gif

 

 

 

 

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post #84 of 271
11/10/11 at 7:01am
Review embargo is up, a bunch of perfect scores and nothing less than a 4.5 outta 5 and 9.5s outta ten so far...
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/11/skyrim-review/

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Edited by Sam Posten - 11/10/11 at 7:50am
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post #85 of 271
11/10/11 at 7:29am
Venture Beat lays out some big criticisms and then steps back...
http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/10/review-skyrim-is-far-greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts/
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post #86 of 271
11/10/11 at 8:38am
Live playthrough on now:
http://t.co/uHuKPJe2
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post #87 of 271
11/10/11 at 9:51am
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Originally Posted by Sam Posten View Post

Venture Beat lays out some big criticisms and then steps back...
http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/10/review-skyrim-is-far-greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts/

Awesome awesome. Thanks for posting this. Just what I needed so I can let everyone else go forward with this...while I stand back and continue playing Terreria. tongue.gif

"n Skyrim, some characters won’t even acknowledge that you’re standing there hacking away at them with an axe. The man who guides you through the opening scene can have six arrows sticking out of his head without so much as interrupting his exposition to ask that you kindly stop doing that" LOL
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post #88 of 271
11/10/11 at 1:59pm
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Also, found out yesterday I've been selected for Star Wars: TOR beta-duty, during this very same Skyrim launch-weekend -- my official BioWare e-vite for our guild is sitting right there in my inbox, cruelly tormenting me.

WHY???

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post #89 of 271
11/10/11 at 3:02pm
LMAO x2. Sorry guys!

Buuuuut, guess who just agreed to do a family vacation to Maine all weekend. Me. Wraaaaaa! So no Skyrim for me either!!!!!
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post #90 of 271
11/10/11 at 3:40pm
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Dude, Maine's fucking awesome. Am actually seriously considering moving there, down the road (depending upon various career-related things). But we'll be here, playing Skyrim (and SW:TOR). This weekend is Gaming Xmas. biggrin.gif

I checked the Metacritic score this morning, and it was at a whopping 95, with 31 critic reviews.

Then, I just checked one minute ago (since I'm obsessed), and there were 55 critic reviews. The score went up to 96.

I think we are looking at the Game of the Year.
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