November 11, 2011

Skyrim!

Put about three hours into it so far. Just plain good-looking, nothing else to it. I need to find the screen shot key, some of these outlooks are just pretty. (And others are almost completely white-out blizzards - I mean, night in the frozen northlands is not known for its sultry breezes - but they're well-done blizzards.)

They've kept most of the skills around but changed up the stats pretty strongly (or rather, as near as I can tell, they got rid of them altogether?) No classes this time around either. Every skill I've leveled up has taken me closer to gaining a character level, and I've picked up five or so of those just doing the local gadabout near the beginning. Feels like a bit of a sprint, I do hope that it levels off somewhat. Skills do the normal go-up-with-use, or training, same as usual. Level customization comes in "perks" - you get one per level, and each skill has an associated tree of perks. Some of the effects look distinctly meh, some look brokenly powerful. So far I've just sank a couple into Heavy Armor... upping my armor's effectiveness by 40% early on has made my character into a bit of a juggernaut. Saving the others until later.

I'll be playing this one juuuuust a little, I think...

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at 05:00 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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1 Okay, tell me the bad news: what are the system requirements, and what are the REAL system requirements?

Posted by: Wonderduck at November 12, 2011 12:23 AM (2YMZG)

2 Haven't tried running it with a lean system. This one has an ATI 5870 video card (a couple of years old, but a $400 card two years ago), 4 GB RAM, i7 860 quad-core processor, nothing much special otherwise, and I'm running everything on "High" with no problems.

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at November 12, 2011 08:10 PM (pWQz4)

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