Let the minigames begin! : V - Skyrim

» Wed May 11, 2011 8:48 pm

Beer drinking contest. You and your opponent both have meters that indicate how drunk you are. When the meter reaches 75% your screen gets blurry and when it maxes you fall off the chair, lose and have to pick up the tab.

Your first 3 beers should not effect your meter much but the more you drink it rises faster. The meter can probably go down if you pace your drinks but still rises significantly depending on how much you drank.

Sounds complicated but that's my two cents :spotted owl:

» Thu May 12, 2011 7:22 am

Jousting please!

» Thu May 12, 2011 8:20 am

DICE in taverns :wink_smile:

» Wed May 11, 2011 7:29 pm

Feats of strength type events would be great in the Nordish culture. Things such as from the Highland games like the Caber Toss or Stone Put. Also, things from the Lumberjack games such as Axe Throwing.

» Thu May 12, 2011 3:46 am

The closest thing i remember to a minigame in morrowind was a really stupid shell game in Mournhold...

Yay. Shells!

» Wed May 11, 2011 8:30 pm

I approve of most suggestions I've read here.

» Wed May 11, 2011 7:10 pm

Some tavern related activities would be nice, card games/dice games and such. Bar fighting should also definitely be in of course, although it wouldn't need to be an actual mini game.

» Thu May 12, 2011 7:06 am

The closest thing i remember to a minigame in morrowind was a really stupid shell game in Mournhold... and then in Oblivion you could bet on the arena battles.

In Skyrim i think there should be more minigames like the following:

Thats is not minigame that all sort of quest and not so hard to be implemented, try minigame its playing cards in tavern for example or thats horrible conversation minigame from oblivion or casino games from FNV.

» Wed May 11, 2011 10:15 pm

No, I don't want minigames, but those ideas for competition sound great!

» Thu May 12, 2011 12:43 am

Jousting please!

With Mammoths, yay!!!!!!

» Thu May 12, 2011 3:14 am

yeah, or maybe something like the dance off game in GTA SA? That rocked. Read the sarcasm there. I think some games of skill in the bar would be neat. It would be better if they actually used your character's skill as opposed to gamer skill. If you've got 100 archery, you should be able to shoot better than anyone in the town (unless there's a master trainer hanging around). Maybe you could use a spell to cheat somehow.

» Wed May 11, 2011 9:37 pm

I really liked the dice game from The Witcher.

Yes! I played that... well... for longer than I'd like to admit. >.>

I'd love some gambling games or the like, just as long as it isn't like Caravan in FONV. I hated that one.

» Wed May 11, 2011 7:22 pm

OP read fully.

Still voted no.

» Thu May 12, 2011 3:39 am

It sounds cool.

» Thu May 12, 2011 9:53 am

My best idea for a mini-game was this: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1161696-skyrim-trail/page__p__17053610__fromsearch__1#entry17053610

» Wed May 11, 2011 8:37 pm

I really love those, it makes me feel like the world is so much more 'alive' with little things like that. "take a break from dragon hunting, and watch a duel to decide honor and the status of manhood. Perhaps you're in need of some quick coin? Then come on down to Papa Nord's snow pies own factory and enlist yourself in the art of supervision, or snow pie making. Perhaps a game of chance is more you're thing, perhaps you will find you're luck in a hand of 'Hammer' a card game imported all the way from the Akavir themselves."

» Thu May 12, 2011 2:00 am

Yes if not skill related, like speechcraft minigame of oblivion.

Something like this:

You can challenge people to race with you to a destination, by any means.
You can join a local village contest to do a simple task, and a reward for the winner.
Duels with other people, like blade to blade, or spell to spell.
Like "Conan the Barbarian", join full contact local fights in each settling, and win the tournaments.
Offer to teach a skill to a person for a price, and spar with him for a while.
A kind of table top game, regular in Skyrim taverns.
A very special minigame which I will describe here:

There can be a minigame which is kinda interesting.

There can be special randomly generated/populated complex dungeons/caverns, full of hostile opponents and traps, scaled to difficulty level of the contest, and some people offer to join the contest, and the winner is rewarded, by an item scaled to the difficulty of the contest.

Each contestant wears a simple rag cloth, and is allowed to use a basic weapon/offensive spell, and starts in a random place inside the dungeon, and the goal is to remain the only alive/conscious contestant after a while, so you can actively seek and kill/disable the other contestants, or try to lead them to traps/opponents, and you can seek and find better equipment for the task, or learn about the traps and how they can be useful for your goal, and so on...

If you can eliminate all the other contestants while avoiding/removing local hostile elements, and be the last surviving one, then you are released from the dungeon. Your new equipment/learned spells is replaced with your original ones, before the contest, and you are awarded with a new item/spell or gold of your choice, scaled to the difficulty level of the contest.

You can start with easier contests, and move up to become the champion of it all.

» Wed May 11, 2011 9:41 pm

No, I don't want minigames, but those ideas for competition sound great!

The meaning of what a minigame is in video games has changed over the years i guess. it used to be that these kind of competitions were called minigames... any kind of non-combat activities.

» Thu May 12, 2011 1:11 am

As soon as I read your title I immediately clicked no but after reading your ideas yeah archery is cool.

» Thu May 12, 2011 8:49 am

As soon as I read your title I immediately clicked no but after reading your ideas yeah archery is cool.

ugh...

» Wed May 11, 2011 11:29 pm

Call the sub-games. The term mini-game is used for those tedious little UI routines you do for actions like lockpicking and persuasion.

» Wed May 11, 2011 11:50 pm

Look at Red Dead Redemption for how to implement mini-games effectively. They were fun to play, and made sense. Poker, Five finger fillet, blackjack, horshoes and liar's dice... Skyrim's a totally different environment so not all of these would work, but it would be a nice feature to include some card games or gambling in taverns or camps, or maybe on boats. Archery competitions and axe throwing could also be good.

» Thu May 12, 2011 4:42 am

Call the sub-games. The term mini-game is used for those tedious little UI routines you do for actions like lockpicking and persuasion.

Yeah, mini-games are considered tedious. I prefer to refer to this type of topic as, contest/gambling

» Wed May 11, 2011 8:52 pm

As long as there not the ones like Lockpick,speechcraft type were you have to do it over and over again through out the game then I have no issue with it, I used to like all the mini games in the Final Fantasy games, FF7 even had an indoor amusemant park, that was fun, but it was not apart of base game mechanics like the lockpick crap form OB.

» Thu May 12, 2011 11:34 am

The meaning of what a minigame is in video games has changed over the years i guess. it used to be that these kind of competitions were called minigames... any kind of non-combat activities.

It still has that meaning and also now refers to these tedious very mini mini games.