In another topic, might be a couch, on 12 February 2011 - 06:02 AM, said:

"so Skyrim's combat skills including perks (which i'm sure Bethsda could have used a better name for since so many people seem to not understand what a perk is) are on par with Morrowind's, and just might be even deeper."



I totally agree - I hate the term "perk" It reminds me of FO, and seems so superficial, when it seems in Skyrim that it will actually be a huge factor in defining your character. Maybe they could use another term like expertise, talent, proficiency, aptitude or competence

Would love to hear others opinions about the use of the word perk to describe such a huge part of defining your character. And would love to hear alternative ideas of what you would call it.

NOTE - This is not a discussion of whether you like perks, but what they should be called in Skyrim.

Storm

How about calling them Attributes?

How about calling them Attributes?

Because it hurts our feeling... :sadvaultboy:

To the role-playing connoisseur the term perk is mainly used to describe less important, useless and often double edged abilities that just give more character to your character.

In Skyrim I get the impression that the new system is centered around "perks" since you get one every level.
Perks aren't perks when the game revolves around them. Then they're abilities.

How about calling them Attributes?

You could call them a talent.

Love the addition of perks to this new post-apocalyptic game, but can't we find another term? Let's think of something that doesn't remind us of GURPS.
Love these skill things, but they remind me a lot of D&D/etc/etc.


Love the addition of dragons, but can't we find another term? I'm thinking Wingburnies.

I no longer take this forum seriously. The amount of topics that are just mindless complaining and pointless topics asking the devs to include literally everything possible in the game has gone beyond ridiculous. And when all options are exhausted, let's start complaining that the name of something isn't good enough.

If I was a dev for BGS, I'd be so very disheartened by the mass complaining that they get. We're lucky they want to work on this at all.

Sure, we get a few threads that actually promote healthy discussion about how to improve the game, but this is four pages complaining that name of one aspect of the game reminds us too much of Fallout. It just boggles the mind.

I no longer take this forum seriously. The amount of topics that are just mindless complaining and pointless topics asking the devs to include literally everything possible in the game has gone beyond ridiculous. And when all options are exhausted, let's start complaining that the name of something isn't good enough.

If I was a dev for BGS, I'd be so very disheartened by the mass complaining that they get. We're lucky they want to work on this at all.

Sure, we get a few threads that actually promote healthy discussion about how to improve the game, but this is four pages complaining that name of one aspect of the game reminds us too much of Fallout. It just boggles the mind.

I no longer take this forum seriously. The amount of topics that are just mindless complaining and pointless topics asking the devs to include literally everything possible in the game has gone beyond ridiculous. And when all options are exhausted, let's start complaining that the name of something isn't good enough.

If I was a dev for BGS, I'd be so very disheartened by the mass complaining that they get. We're lucky they want to work on this at all.

Sure, we get a few threads that actually promote healthy discussion about how to improve the game, but this is four pages complaining that name of one aspect of the game reminds us too much of Fallout. It just boggles the mind.