can i marry my sword? and get extra stabbity point for stabbing things? 'cause i likes me some stabbing
Skyrim to have fable 3 like features
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The Fable series wipes the floor with Elder Scrolls, in my opinion. Yeah, it's smaller, more linear and far easier; but it has charm, humour and NPC interactivity that just sets it apart. Elder scrolls is good in theory, but until now each game has seemed just as broken as the last. Roll on Skyrim!
But what else is more lovely than watching your beloved disembowel their enemies for entertainment?HontooNoNeko said:
The problem with marriage in the fable series is that you built a relationship through farting and dancing. Also every npc looked and acted the same, so there was no point to it. From experience with Bethesda's games this won't be an issue, as your interactions will be talking and actual actions that might make sense for how you would build a relationship. Plus the npc's in the game are not all copy pastes, but actual characters.
I think that it was the only thing missing in Oblivion. You could buy your own house, but you couldn't marry anyone, even if you bribbed them.
I think whoever is against this is just plain bitching. Dont like it? Dont use it then, someone else might like it. Especially OP. It is an obviously easily forgettable feature. And will likely not tie in to the main story, or most of the side quests.
(though it was hilarious when my motherless child after like 3/4 of the game shows up in an orphanage. It was epic. I just picked ANY other kid than him. (he was even like "Hi papa!"))
Ironic that you mentioned that they were broken, cause i remember when Fable 2 was released it was totally broken. I think i've lost like 2, 3 saves on it (and one of them with EVERY SINGLE ITEM IN THE GAME). Also Fable is now just plain bad. I was a fan, i was genuinely excited for Fable 3, but it was baaaaaaaad.Mutie said:
(though it was hilarious when my motherless child after like 3/4 of the game shows up in an orphanage. It was epic. I just picked ANY other kid than him. (he was even like "Hi papa!"))
Just because one game made NPC relationships a farce doesn't mean every game will. As Bethesda has yet to go wrong in my book with the Elder Scrolls series (sure, there were a few hiccups), I trust them to do these mechanics right or at least right enough that it isn't, "Durr Hurr, I have fifty wives and none of them says anything and my sex scenes are black screens with the voice overs of what sounds like two immature virgins trying to mimic what they think sex sounds like."
Bah. That feature's more trouble than it's worth. Should have focused their resources elsewhere.
Having been stuck in the uncanny valley for so long, I think they're doing as much as humanly possible to turn the NPCs into actual people. If they're actually fairly unique, then hell, I'll give it a shot. If they're little more than a different face and set of clothes from other NPCs, well, I won't know until I try.
How does the ability to have an NPC remember your deeds a bad thing? This is a baseless comparison, and most likely won't even affect the game negatively. It could even possibly improve the entire experience by allowing you to gain some compassion for them.
CALLED ITDPeteD said:
After i saw the e3 demo and how you use magic, i could only think of fable 3.
Infact apart from that i believe that it has been said the game will be immersive and more action based and less rpg stats based.
Infact to all those people who hated oblivion, guess what? this game is gonna make oblivion look like a proper rpg.. For the casuals ftw.
Same here. There is just too much money in casuals to ignore them. I don't think we will ever get a proper RPG-style game from Bethesda again.MacJack said:
I mean, c'mon, RPGs have never been about player skill and are all about the stats that represent your character. Morrowind NAILED it where your character could be weak, and no amount of skillful playing could compensate for that. Yet it still offered the feeling that the player was the character, so they would know what they could handle and what they couldn't. Yet despite all that, Skyrim seems oblivion-bent on making the game a hack-'n-slash with virtually no RPG elements. Why even call it a RPG then?
i couldnt play fallout:NV for very long before the glitches turned me off, but if i hear correctly there were relationships in that game with your companions; in that respect, this could work. having a housewife? that will not work; that will run into the same problem fable has always had of NPC relationships being pointless and emotionless. i cant get attached to a character that serves no purpose; thats just basic narrative design.
but again, relationships with your adventuring companions could work, as long as they revamp the implementation of companions to be more like fallout. in oblivion, there were no companions; just enemies that took 3 hits of friendly fire before attacking you. seriously, unless you were both archers/casters, someone was getting hit with friendly fire; and if no one was getting hit, you were frustratingly trying to manipulate the fight to avoid friendly fire rather than focusing on the actual bloody fighting. in fallout3/NV, pretty much everyone uses guns, and even then you can use vats; companions werent a terrible annoyance, they were actually useful. i dont know how they can reconcile the lack of vats and greater prevalence of melee weapons to make companions not a fucking nuisance....but at any rate, relationships with characters that are at least SUPPOSED to be helpful can work. they serve a purpose, im SUPPOSED to want them around....i just hope they realize the effort required to implement this feature properly, and dont churn out some tacked on annoyance like fable; itll be more a measure of what purpose your beloved serves than of bethesda's skills in romantic dialogue.
heres hoping there is a crassius curio in skyrim to fall in love with
but again, relationships with your adventuring companions could work, as long as they revamp the implementation of companions to be more like fallout. in oblivion, there were no companions; just enemies that took 3 hits of friendly fire before attacking you. seriously, unless you were both archers/casters, someone was getting hit with friendly fire; and if no one was getting hit, you were frustratingly trying to manipulate the fight to avoid friendly fire rather than focusing on the actual bloody fighting. in fallout3/NV, pretty much everyone uses guns, and even then you can use vats; companions werent a terrible annoyance, they were actually useful. i dont know how they can reconcile the lack of vats and greater prevalence of melee weapons to make companions not a fucking nuisance....but at any rate, relationships with characters that are at least SUPPOSED to be helpful can work. they serve a purpose, im SUPPOSED to want them around....i just hope they realize the effort required to implement this feature properly, and dont churn out some tacked on annoyance like fable; itll be more a measure of what purpose your beloved serves than of bethesda's skills in romantic dialogue.
heres hoping there is a crassius curio in skyrim to fall in love with
