The OFFICIAL Anandtech Forums TeS V: Skyrim Thread

[RavenSEAL]

Thanks for sticking it Keith!

We are now fully official folks

 

[dennilfloss]

Yay! Must wake up early tomorrow to go fetch my copy at the store. It's been sitting there, waiting for me for a few days.

 

[HeXen]

looking forward to next year when this game has some decent mods and many of the bugs will be fixed.
Being a new engine, i suspect it will take a bit for modders to get enough experience with it to make some decent ones.

 

[Dankk]

looking forward to next year when this game has some decent mods and many of the bugs will be fixed.

And when it's cheaper. :thumbsup:

For the rest of you, have fun paying $60 to bug-test your game. :awe:

 

[shortylickens]

I always face palm at "100" reviews. Really?

Nonetheless, looking forward to modding the hell out of it to my liking.

Thats WAY too many 100's. Fanboys are obvious. I love Elder Scrolls but I wouldnt give any of the previous four a perfect 100. Seriously doubt the new one is perfect too.

If any of you jokers would like to do an unofficial review here on Anandtech I'd love to read it. People who dont get paid tend to be fairly objective.

 

[Modelworks]

Short take based on what I saw.

Graphics - it is really hard to rate this. In some scenes it looks great, in others it looks bad with textures that don't line up correctly or geometry that is offset wrong. I don't think many people will have issues running the game. I didn't see it as that demanding. If you can run the witcher2 , you can run this without a problem on high-ultra.

The difference in high and ultra appears to be draw distance, shadow quality. The system running the game was a quad core @2.4ghz, 4GB ram, GTX260, win7 x64. So not top of the line and the guy had it on high setting and I didn't see any frame rate issues.

Sound is good and fits well.
I absolutely hated the in game menu system. It is VERY console.

combat I tried was with sword and bow and both seemed to work well. I only played about 30 minutes into the game and instead of following the quest line, I just ran off into the woods to explore on my own. I found an orc on the road, picked his pockets then killed him and looted the rest. Followed the road and found a house, picked the lock and entered and was attacked by a bandit who was sleeping inside. Killed him and looted that place too . Then continued down the road to a bridge where I attacked an elf shooting arrows at me and he fell off, he tried to grab the edge, but plummeted below. Oh well, I went below and looted him as well . See a pattern here

Overall it was fun and I didn't see any game breaking bugs.

 

[spaceman]

And when it's cheaper. :thumbsup:

For the rest of you, have fun paying $60 to bug-test your game. :awe:

will do
no idea whether ill be alive next yr

 

[dennilfloss]

Aww, killing & looting. 90% of what I want from this game.

 

[shortylickens]

Aww, killing & looting. 90% of what I want from this game.

The good news is for folks that like depth its usually possible to forge ahead with the main quest.

 

[Merad]

Who else is playing at midnight? I plan to play 2-3 hrs before crashing (already been up since 5:30 this morning) and I'll try to post some impressions when I wake up in the morning.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Who else is playing at midnight? I plan to play 2-3 hrs before crashing (already been up since 5:30 this morning) and I'll try to post some impressions when I wake up in the morning.

Me, even though I gotta show up at work at 8am, until 5 :|

 

[RavenSEAL]

2 hours and 15 minutes for steam unlock folks!

 

[Chaptorial]

Who else is playing at midnight?

Midnight can't come soon enough. :whiste:

 

[Chaptorial]

Envious of those West Coast players who get to play at 9pm their time. How convenient.

 

[Grooveriding]

So no clicking to make selections in menu with your mouse ?

Console port, and very dissapointing graphics.

Hopefully the story and gameplay is good.

 

[Merad]

30 minutes!

 

[chavo12345]

New Nvidia beta drivers are up. ^ . ^

http://www.geforce.com/Drivers/Results/39239

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

The last 45 minutes have been the longest 3 days of my life.

 

[RavenSEAL]

T-13!

 

[Merad]

I had to resort to looking at People of Walmart the last 30 min to pass the time...

6 MINUTES

Edit: Decrypting now...! *Nerdgasm*

 

[RavenSEAL]

1 minuteee

 

[RavenSEAL]

I had to resort to looking at People of Walmart the last 30 min to pass the time...

6 MINUTES

Edit: Decrypting now...! *Nerdgasm*

Mine still says preloaded

 

[Merad]

It is time

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Decrypting files. Here we go...

 

[spaceman]