They need to nerf the ancient dragons or else stop spawning them in towns. I'm sick of them killing unique NPCs.
Things that Skyrim Needs
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Hard-Core mode from Fallout: New Vegas or something similar. I know it wasn't the most polished thing in the game, but it did add some sort of depth into the game as opposed to the 'Stack on F' loads of ammo from every single 'munition catagory and blast away a city or two'
Edit: Forgot to add; Weapon catagories featured in previous games like throwing knives, ninja stars, throwing darts of doom, shaolin staves which ACTUALLY hit people with the piece of wood or metal, spears for proding cattle and what-not, and finally Cross-Bows. Its been years and 'y no crossbows?'
Edit: Forgot to add; Weapon catagories featured in previous games like throwing knives, ninja stars, throwing darts of doom, shaolin staves which ACTUALLY hit people with the piece of wood or metal, spears for proding cattle and what-not, and finally Cross-Bows. Its been years and 'y no crossbows?'
Visually, herds of wild horses galloping through the plains of Skyrim.
More bird.
GP wise, longer Guild missions.
More bird.
GP wise, longer Guild missions.
Better writing, more memorable characters, more tough decision making.
Plus better combat, I've gone from playing Arkham City straight to Elder Scrolls games, and the combat feels SO AWFUL, it is terrible, hits don't connect, and fighting in third person is plain clumsy, give us better combat, so it feels more real. Other RPGs don't have a problem with this.
Plus better combat, I've gone from playing Arkham City straight to Elder Scrolls games, and the combat feels SO AWFUL, it is terrible, hits don't connect, and fighting in third person is plain clumsy, give us better combat, so it feels more real. Other RPGs don't have a problem with this.
Cliff Racers.
Just think of how much fun reading the forums would be if Skyrim had Cliff Racers, eh?
Just think of how much fun reading the forums would be if Skyrim had Cliff Racers, eh?
Kikosemmek said:
A-fucking-men to that.
The progression of the series from Morrowind to Oblivion almost suggested that the next step in Skyrim would be to have this interactive world, but sadly we got anything but that and NPC's that either bark the same lines at you or do absolutely nothing.
But then I feel Skyrim also missed out on lots of other ideas. Why can we not see caravans etc which you could pillage? Why does the world still feel dead? Why can we not burn crops and watch a town starve? Why can you run around butt naked in a snow storm and be fine?
Sadly I feel that these issues will only be solved with an actual new engine and new hardware.
I know the modding community is probably working on a few things but I was planning on getting the PC version (I'm a proud 360 player) for the sole purpose of getting a group together to redo the whole thing.
I'd keep the roots of it all but expand so much more.
For example, there was an Escapist news post about mixing the visual beauty of Skyrim with the character depth of Dragon Age... I loved the idea.
How easy would it be to write in a few quests for your spouse after marriage.
Example: I'm sorry my love I am out of supplies for my shop so you will not recieve your 100 septims per day until you bring back 10x 30y and 5z.
Example 2: I just recieved a letter from my cousin in X, he needs help.
Ok they may be weak ideas but with a group and a little thinking I'm sure it could be thrown in pretty easily. Do that for many more characters around the world and you start getting a richer experience.
Add the above spouse idea to your followers... I can't follow you until I have helped my cousin with his rat/Draugr/girl problems.
There must be more than a few D&D players out there who can write a dungeon that is more than
1. Run in
2. Kill everything
3. ???
4. Profit.
Here's one I wanna see.
Beneath a volcanic mountain...
First it is a typical dwemer ruin, constructs and the like roaming the halls and maintaining the peace of their long-dead masters. It is all fairly straight forward but further and deeper in the guardians and traps get more and more lethal and complex. (I imagine that most people at this point have thir uber-character and want a challenge so I would have no problem making it nigh impossible for anyone less than the best.)
Below the city are cracks into the great dwemer mining halls. Here the dwemer constructs are in constant batle with the falmer. You can choose whatever method you like but at this point the constructs will not consider you hostile until you strike them. At which point both factions will attack on sight. Again I think there is no problem with beefing them up here or using superior numbers because who wants it to be a cakewalk.
Then comes the Falmer side where you have to get through the falmer traps and then the falmer city. This time steadily rising in depth but not too much.
The Falmer are all immune to poison and have a heat resistance. You find out why when you reach the other side of their city and pass through their "Temple District" where rivers of lava that emit a poisonous gas flow around statues of dragons.
In the heart of their temple is a great door. On the other side is the interior of a great volcano. The fog weather effect could be used but throughout it there is constant fire and poison damage.
Living in this cave is a great dragon guarding whatever prize that has drawn our character here. He breathes fire, is immune to heat and poison and it is so hot in here that he can even resist your most potent ice spells.
My point is that these projects may seem big but if you can get a group of people together than we can produce great mod and adventures that satisfy all our dreams for this game.
Gygax gave us the game D&D and although we all enjoyed playing the prewritten adventures the best ones have always been the ones we wrote ourselves.
Bethesda have given us Skyrim and a mod kit... We can use this for more than just child killing and nudity.
I'd keep the roots of it all but expand so much more.
For example, there was an Escapist news post about mixing the visual beauty of Skyrim with the character depth of Dragon Age... I loved the idea.
How easy would it be to write in a few quests for your spouse after marriage.
Example: I'm sorry my love I am out of supplies for my shop so you will not recieve your 100 septims per day until you bring back 10x 30y and 5z.
Example 2: I just recieved a letter from my cousin in X, he needs help.
Ok they may be weak ideas but with a group and a little thinking I'm sure it could be thrown in pretty easily. Do that for many more characters around the world and you start getting a richer experience.
Add the above spouse idea to your followers... I can't follow you until I have helped my cousin with his rat/Draugr/girl problems.
There must be more than a few D&D players out there who can write a dungeon that is more than
1. Run in
2. Kill everything
3. ???
4. Profit.
Here's one I wanna see.
Beneath a volcanic mountain...
First it is a typical dwemer ruin, constructs and the like roaming the halls and maintaining the peace of their long-dead masters. It is all fairly straight forward but further and deeper in the guardians and traps get more and more lethal and complex. (I imagine that most people at this point have thir uber-character and want a challenge so I would have no problem making it nigh impossible for anyone less than the best.)
Below the city are cracks into the great dwemer mining halls. Here the dwemer constructs are in constant batle with the falmer. You can choose whatever method you like but at this point the constructs will not consider you hostile until you strike them. At which point both factions will attack on sight. Again I think there is no problem with beefing them up here or using superior numbers because who wants it to be a cakewalk.
Then comes the Falmer side where you have to get through the falmer traps and then the falmer city. This time steadily rising in depth but not too much.
The Falmer are all immune to poison and have a heat resistance. You find out why when you reach the other side of their city and pass through their "Temple District" where rivers of lava that emit a poisonous gas flow around statues of dragons.
In the heart of their temple is a great door. On the other side is the interior of a great volcano. The fog weather effect could be used but throughout it there is constant fire and poison damage.
Living in this cave is a great dragon guarding whatever prize that has drawn our character here. He breathes fire, is immune to heat and poison and it is so hot in here that he can even resist your most potent ice spells.
My point is that these projects may seem big but if you can get a group of people together than we can produce great mod and adventures that satisfy all our dreams for this game.
Gygax gave us the game D&D and although we all enjoyed playing the prewritten adventures the best ones have always been the ones we wrote ourselves.
Bethesda have given us Skyrim and a mod kit... We can use this for more than just child killing and nudity.
Badger Badger Mushroom Snaaaaake?Akimoto said:
Yeah, snakes would be cool. Giant snakes. I loved playing Conan and taking pictures whenever I stumbled over those millstones.
It does already have strange cultists that vomit on you. I liked that bit. It was seriously messed up.
I want Hand to Hand to return as Martial Arts. I will never turn off a game where you can play as an magical elven Viking kung fu-kicking dragons in the face. And killing them.
As much as I love Skyrim the things that annoy me the most are the backwards steps that seem to have been taken since Oblivion. Namely Skyrim needs:
--- to have staffs ("or should that be staves?") appear on your back if you have them equipped but "sheathed". The animation for taking a staff from your back in Oblivion was a little odd, but I'd rather that than my staffs despawning from my hand when I'm not using them.
--- to have more varied magic spells to cast. Don't get me wrong, the magic in Skyrim feels really powerful, it's great, but riding my horse across the water of the Niben Basin from the Imperial City to Leyawiin and fortifying my acrobatics to insanity - fantastic. it just seems that the abilities you can gain from magic have been needlessly reduced in number.
--- to have guilds that have multiple houses in different cities. It makes the events of a guild quest line feel very inconsequential if the guild isn't even important enough to hold a footing in more than just one major city of Skyrim.
--- a 1st person view for horse riding. A small thing, but speaking as a player that prefers to play in 1st person, a forced prolonged change to 3rd person is a little annoying.
--- larger cities, or at least one massive city. The Imperial City really felt like the hub of civilisation in Cyrodiil - you could spend an in game week without leaving the Imperial City and still have a wealth of things to do, whereas it took me a decent amount of gameplay to realise that Solitude was in fact the captial of Skyrim. They look great and all, but the cities of Skyrim still feel like little road stops in your journey through the land rather than places to live.
The fact that these things are present in Oblivion and not in Skyrim unfortunately makes them stand out all the more as being needed.
--- to have staffs ("or should that be staves?") appear on your back if you have them equipped but "sheathed". The animation for taking a staff from your back in Oblivion was a little odd, but I'd rather that than my staffs despawning from my hand when I'm not using them.
--- to have more varied magic spells to cast. Don't get me wrong, the magic in Skyrim feels really powerful, it's great, but riding my horse across the water of the Niben Basin from the Imperial City to Leyawiin and fortifying my acrobatics to insanity - fantastic. it just seems that the abilities you can gain from magic have been needlessly reduced in number.
--- to have guilds that have multiple houses in different cities. It makes the events of a guild quest line feel very inconsequential if the guild isn't even important enough to hold a footing in more than just one major city of Skyrim.
--- a 1st person view for horse riding. A small thing, but speaking as a player that prefers to play in 1st person, a forced prolonged change to 3rd person is a little annoying.
--- larger cities, or at least one massive city. The Imperial City really felt like the hub of civilisation in Cyrodiil - you could spend an in game week without leaving the Imperial City and still have a wealth of things to do, whereas it took me a decent amount of gameplay to realise that Solitude was in fact the captial of Skyrim. They look great and all, but the cities of Skyrim still feel like little road stops in your journey through the land rather than places to live.
The fact that these things are present in Oblivion and not in Skyrim unfortunately makes them stand out all the more as being needed.
