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Quote from: Sowelu on March 19, 2011, 03:38:34 am

Nothing?

Nothing at all?

This. Is. Amazing. Blows the Morrowind one out of the water.

Skyrim, to be very nitpicky 

Anyway, yeah, it does . The sync with the voices is nothing short of amazing.

Has potential to make staggering amounts of money, but you need a couple of good planets that are reasonably close to each other, produce all the right things, and aren't already being used by too many other players.

I wouldn't say that planets can make staggering amounts of ISK. Me and a couple of friends are running a wormhole POS, and we can make something like 15-20 million a day from planets, between four people. Keep in mind that the wormhole system planets are basically the best planets available in the game, and there is literally no one else using them.

I whole-heartedly recommend trying out wormhole space, especially with a few friends. You don't need to set up a POS, just raiding wormholes that happen to open up in an area near you can be very profitable as well, and you don't need all that much skills, especially for lower class wormholes. For reference, our operation has four people; me - 6 years old, and the other guys, roughly one year old each. We do class 3 (wormholes go from class 1 to class 6, 6 being the hardest) wormhole sites in a pretty timely manner, at about two or three sites an hour using three battleships and a logistics cruiser. A class 3 site gives something like 80-150 million isk a piece, depending a bit on which site it is and how many melted nanoribbons you get from the salvage. It's very possible to do these sites in cheaper ships, but it will take a bit longer.

It's even more fun if you set up a POS, since you get to do some industry in the form of tech 3 and planetary production as well. Tech 3 production is very skill-intensive, though.

As much as I fear for what you guys will do with this link, here's the definitive pony image site.  http://ponibooru.413chan.net/

And links are...much better than embedding images.

After browsing through that site for a while one of the "refine search" links became "penis" .

I'm now scared of what kind of unholy horrors that dwell within that site. 

This thread made me dust off my X-COM copy I got cheap (along with all the other X-COM games) on a steam sale a while back. Over the course of this game, I've come to realise why I like this game so much. The single most awesome thing is the sheer amount of explosives you get to bring to bear in every mission. Suspicious looking barn? Missile. Suspicious looking hedge? Missile. Suspicious looking jungle?Missile. You get the idea.
Alien grenades takes the whole thing up another notch. I've just recently got hold of blaster bombs and launchers (probably due to me leaving pretty much any crash site/terror mission/alien base a smouldering crater), when they're researched, fun will be had by the aliens.

My motto when playing X-COM is: Blow to pieces first, hope there is nothing left to ask questions later.

Consider me another pony fan convertee victim. I have even gone so far as too convert my sister and one of my friends. Well,  think I converted him, the last I heard from him was "asuuuuum" in a skype chat.

He has not been heard from since...

Quote from: Silfurdreki on February 25, 2011, 03:32:57 pm

It's much more interesting to fight something whose motives you know and oppose (or maybe even support! Now that would be a first for a TES game, you actually siding with the designated bad guys!) than something that just randomly invades "for the evulz".

What're you on about, I for one was always rooting for the Sixth House.
Well, maybe not. But at least they're honest about their intentions to make you into a zombie with its face missing, unlike the 'good' guys who just lie to you and use you as a pawn. Plus destroying the Heart was such a grand waste. Azura's such a bitch. First she has a whole race of people wiped out because she finds it offensive that they dare to try and understand the world they live in, and then she just uses you to finish the job and get back at the guys who backstabbed her. Not to mention destroy a source of divine power and knowledge, thus condemning the mortal races to remain ignorant and powerless and at the mercy and whim of the et'Ada. Yeah, good job, hero.

I didn't mean it'd be the first time anyone actually sympathized with the designated bad guys, but that it'd be a firts for the TES series if you could walk up to the head dragon honcho and say something like "You know what? This whole eating the world thing you've got going on, it sounds pretty sweet. I want in."

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Looks near identical of the hyped Oblivion screenshots.  Not too impressed by that.  Forests, water and plants - big deal, been there, seen it.  Textures look completely recycled as well (notice the ferns and flowers in the foreground).

Screenshots probably won't do this game justice because it seems the main improvements have to do with physics and lighting.

Random Dragons roaming the world sounds like the coolest feature I've seen so far.  I wonder if fighting them will get monotonous after a while though (Cliff Racers anyone?).

Skyrim is sounding more and more like "Oblivion 2", not TES: 5.  In other words, it seems like they are approaching it to "fix" Oblivion, not to really innovate anything.  This is evidenced by the things they've said: "more diverse landscapes this time, instead of just forests!", "you can walk away from dialog this time", "real Radiant AI", "better leveled lists", etc. 

All of these arguments have been charged against Oblivion, not the series as a whole.  I would love if they started commenting on how they would improve TES while looking equally at Daggerfall, Morrowind, and Oblivion, not just Oblivion alone.

If I didn't know that screenshot was from Skyrim, I'd have said it was from Oblivion (or possibly a new expansion). Those rocks look exactly like the rocks in Oblivion 

I'd also agree on your other points, but gameplay wise, I think fixing the level scaling, dialogue landscape and AI is a fairly major step in the right direction from Oblivion. If they actually do fix them instead of just changing them to something equally annoying or even worse remains to be seen, though

The most major gripe I had with Oblivion compared to Morrowind was the quality of the writing and the world building in general. Morrowind actually feels like a plausible world, with very real political intrigue and historical uncertainties that you actually have to manoeuvre in and learn about during the main quest. Oblivion, on the other hand just feels like a backdrop for 'teh epic quest!!1' the player is embarking on with everyone is just there to acknowledge your progress. In essence, Oblivions world revolves around the player, while Morrowinds does not, at least that's the feeling I got.

That's also the biggest worry for Skyrim for me, I always appreciate a well crafted world, almost no matter how broken the gameplay mechanics are. As long as I can enjoy exploring the world I can put up with pretty much everything.

Also, I can't help but think that those dragons (actually wyverns anyway, no front legs) looked kind of silly flying with those tiny wings of theirs.

I totally agree, proper flight needs large wings, otherwise it'll just look silly. It doesn't help either that it's beating its wings forward, making it look like it's supposed to go backwards.