If the swapping between spell and free hand isn't really intuitive, that's gonna be one helluva poor design decision.


edit: I hope he was just really high when he said that and the French are actually right this time

Well said. I will have to steal that illustration from you and use it against my enemies with differing opinions than me now :ninja:

Sounds good to me
Thanks.

They said that after they found the Golden Dragon Claw they were tasked with finding, they used it to unlock a 'puzzle lock' and uncover a wall covered in carvings (they later go on to say this is one of the walls where you'll find a piece of a dragon shout). They don't really go into much detail than that.

This along with NPCs giving variable levels of detailed descriptions depending on how they like you, certainly seems as if the level of roleplaying consequence has improved dramatically. Excellent!

Meh maybe I′m over-blowing it, I just really, really, really hate slow time "cut-scenes", I′ve quit games because I′ve gotten so tired of it, I don′t want Skyrim to be infested with that horrific thing, like what kind of a madman decided slowing down time would be cool in a game... not to mention it screws up how well you play, it′s basically a mechanic that says "goodbye coordination, see you... well let′s not see each other ever again!"

Any other bad feature is mild in comparison, not really even sure if I know of a worse feature in the whole of gaming.

NICE! I am really psyched about these puzzle mechanics! Can't wait to see them in game!

I am happy

THANK YOUUUUUU

There was nothing about cutscenes, they simply said one of the Dragon shouts will slow down time similar to bullet time in movies.

I don't see the point in the magnetism. The problem with freindly NPCs is that they jump between me and my target after I have started the attack and before it connects. If I am aimed dead center at the enemy and the friendly NPC takes the same position (very common for any NPC with a dagger or touch spell) the magnetism will not do one bit of good unless the magnetism is really choosing the enemy in the path of your attack as the target even if there is a friendly in the way (would be a bit strange to hit someone through the Mage Apprentence always in the way).

FFS!!!!!

It's optional. It's something you yourself have to make a conscious decision to do. Also, how can slowing down time reduce co-ordination?? You have more time to do things, therefore more time to be accurate.

Yes, you are over-blowing it. Skyrim won't be 'infested with that horrific thing" unless you choose to infest it with it by using it way too much. Don't want it, don't use it --- there's not even any other creatures that we know of except the PC that can use it -- dragons might, but time won't slow down for you if they use it --- it'll just look like they're moving [censored] fast.

not to mention, more time anticipating the point where Axe blade meet enemys flesh ^^

Awesome. Awesome to the max.

Totally agree with this, if no one likes it don't bloody use it!

On Topic: Loving the all new info shown, this game is going to be a masterpiece without a doubt

so if i understand you correctly: more realism and better combat = the sims
it actually makes a bit less sense

also if you dont want to hear people gurgle blood then dont stab them with swords
thats your gore slider right there


edit: sorry i thought you originally said "the sims"

You're misunderstanding what this is. Not every dragon shout uses a bullet time effect when activated, there's one dragon shout whose purpose is to temporarily slow down time for enemies.

My God, you're brilliant :lmao:

Yes, go roleplay a pacifist if you don't like violence.


edited for more appropriate smiley

IDEA!!!! Call it a Temporal Distortion And it causes an infulx of energy from the Nirn sun(dimension thing) and you either move fast or time slows down for you...Now it's not bullet time!!!!

I can already feel the chills from the spider thing. I think the spider fights will be more intense for me than the dragons. I just hope there are more of them, not only one cave boss.

So todd said "left trigger" is to block unless you have a spell equipped. This confirms that weapon has to be in right hand and spell has to be in left hand.

All of these were great info, thanks! :tops:

So if I don′t like a feature I should just never use whatever it is tied to, even if it has prospects I like ? So let′s say each time you cast a spell 100 adoring fans would pop up, with 10 spells you′d have 1000 of them lagging up your game screwing everything up, but it′s oki, if you want to be a mage you can just skip casting spells.

Slowing down time reduces coordination because you′re doing something really fast in fluid motion and all of a sudden you do something that slows everything down (including you) when it stops you are suddenly a lot faster than you are now used to being after getting slowed down. There is nothing wrong with slowing down things around you where you yourself can run around at normal speed, but when you yourself get slowed down because you wanted to let′s say use a spell you need to take on a dragon... that′s bad.

Oh and to the "cut scene" thing is a bit poorly worded yes. I meant it like since you slow down there is little to nothing you can do, just watch and wait for the impending doom since you won′t be as ready to take on whatever is coming at you as you would have been if you had not been slowed down.

If I can toggle the bullet time thing off in the options then I′m fine, but if not then development time was just spent on a bad feature many will just have to wait for others to spend time to remove, like smearing dirt on a product you sell someone just so they have to clean it off or have someone clean it off.

I have to agree.

The "bullet time" shout ,is refering to the slow time shout.
I mentioned this in the OXM UK thread.
A "TAP" of the RB button slows time for 8 seconds ...TAP = one word of the shout.
You can't cast the same shout willy nilly,each shout has a different cool down time.