Roman5: no spears
no crossbows
no polearms
no attributes
no minor/major skills
no classes
no mysticism
no acrobatics
no athletics
no hand to hand
no mounts except horses
can't mount dragons
fewer racial differences
fewer guilds
no werewolves
no dual-shielding
no spell-making
walled off cities
dragons respawn
no ladders
no medium armor
no greaves
no pauldrons
no locational damage
no weapon or armor degradation
forced finishers
forced 3d person view when on a horse
no footprints in snow
laugable perks
bugs out of the ass; Todd said that they won't fix "fun" bugs
shit UI
health regeneration
I didn't see any rain, fog looked great and snow was awful. That 'dynamic' snow stuff basically paints surfaces white, it looks ok on rocks but awful on anything flat - it doesn't build up, just paints. I saw a player next to me climb a wooden fort, relatively 'new' by the looks of it, with nice flat walls, floors and a well made staircase - it was in the mountains so there was snow everywhere. Now, snow had come in and basically covered the place with white - the floors were just solid white, no texture at all - the cracks between the floor boards were just about visible as there was only a smattering on 'snow' in them, so it gave this really ugly look - go onto MS Paint, put a Jpeg image in and fill any part of it white with the bucket tool; see all those rough pixels? that's what it looked like between the cracks.
>The person playing was actually so taken aback by it that he called over a Beth staff member to ask about it, the staff guy was like 'no, thats not a missing texture, its snow' and the guy playing said how awful and flat it looked and the beth staff guy gave his awkward stock response of "oh, it's a bug - it'll get fixed in the final build".
Underwater is a lot like Fallout, but worse to be honest. You know how in Fallout you can rest the camer directly on water level and see everything clear as day underwater, but if you go under there's a green tint? Exactly like that in this; although the shift is actually more noticeable, that 'clear as day' thing is visible every single time you dive, looks incredibly ugly - I just hope thats one thing they're workig on still. On the surface the water looks good, but the ripples are the exact same as in Fallout. At one point I also saw the 'shimmering' from the sun pop in on the water, as though it's a texture.
I watched one play walk up to a deer in the wilderness, the player got out his axe and hacked at it's face; the deer did absolutely nothing and stood there until it died. Similarly another player cast a flamethrower on a chicken in Riverwood which did nothing until it flopped down dead.
Physics are similar to Oblivion, on player was shooting arrows at a cart full of cabbages and each one went flying with each shot, easily flying higher than the surrounding buildings (Riverwood).
Mountains, sadly, DO guide the player. On my first play, I tried to turn around and head back past the start point and head North East - hit a bunch of unclimbable rocks and tried pushing around them. Before I knew it, I was entering Riverwood from the back on accident; totally unintentionally.
When standing on a high up rock, I noticed that models in the distance are very low poly and the ground had very noticable repeated textures.
The demo actually locked up on me once, I was attacking some people in an inn; as I turned to get out the door, I was stuck in an infinite load loop and a Bethesda staff member had to reset the console.
Some very random framerate drops, saw one player walking for like 20 seconds at what looked like 5fps.
Encountered a bug where every button made me dismount the horse.
You level fast: Saw someone get 3/4 of the way through level 3 during the 15 min demo.
Some pretty bad pop-in - saw the water wheel in Riverwood load in completely when I stood next to it. Also shows that water isn't dynamic, it's animated around the wheel.
forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1233296-my-hands-on-impressions-of-skyrim-eurogamer-2011
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At the part where the mountains are nontraversable magic walls and where psychic guards return
forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1233296-my-hands-on-impressions-of-skyrim-eurogamer-2011
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Mountains, sadly, DO guide the player. On my first play, I tried to turn around and head back past the start point and head North East - hit a bunch of unclimbable rocks and tried pushing around them. Before I knew it, I was entering Riverwood from the back on accident; totally unintentionally.
Killed a shopkeeper, went into a nearby inn (sword was still drawn), everyone inside attacked me - calling me a murderer. So I guess it was less about the drawn sword, and more about the murder they somehow know about from next door.
www.vg247.com/2011/06/08/console-version-of-skyrim-bethesdas-lead-sku/
“So we develop towards the consoles and then porting to PC is usually not too bad actually .”
“We wanted to take it and make it really accessible,” the producer said.
“… We still have the complexity behind the scenes, but we wanted to make it so that you could pick up the controller and play and it was easy; the average person could get into it.
“We knew we wanted to make the user interface a little bit more open and available … get away from the stats and things like that.
“We’re all big apple fans, so slick users interfaces is one of the things we really wanted to do, make it real natural and polished. You’re gonna be in that menu a lot.”
www.gamasutra.com/view/news/35678/Interview_Todd_Howard_On_Scope_Vision_Of_Skyrim.php
"You look at Call of Duty, the most popular game in the world, and that's actually pretty hardcore. At the end of the day, it's a hardcore game, has RPG elements in multiplayer, making classes, picking perks. I think the audiences are there, and we tend to make our game more for ourselves and other people who play a lot of games."
www.gameinformer.com/games/the_elder_scrolls_v_skyrim/b/xbox360/archive/2011/01/28/skyrim-men
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"Searching for inspiration, the team kept coming back to Apple, and for good reason. Over the last decade the company has revolutionized how consumers interact with software and hardware moreso than any other tech outfit."
“One of our goals was 'What if Apple made a fantasy game? How would this look?'"
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