The starting Tutorial... : V - Skyrim

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:17 am

Honestly, I would prefer Oblivion style. I didn't like Morrowind's tutorial too much... because I didn't really know what on earth I was choosing. I had no chance to try different skills. It's something I understand, because I can't see a way to let you try your different skills when you are arriving to the census and all of that... Anyway, I liked how Oblivion did it, showing you what was going on and showing you your different options.

Well, with not class system in Skyrim you don't have to know what you are choosing and you can try different skills to your hearts content. If you don't like using a particular skill as it doesn't fit your playstyle you can change it freely. The class system in MW and OB allowed you to do the same, but with picking major/minor skills some, like myself, when we didn't like what we chose would make new characters instead of keeping skills that didn't fit how we played. With Skyrim you won't have that problem.

Now for the "introducing us to the story" I can do without it in Skyrim as it seems that from what Todd said, early in the game you will learn what's going on with getting your dragon shouts etc...

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:27 am

Why not just try to play one save? :disguise:

Well lets see...because Oblivion is a very replayable game for starters? Also to the other people saying "save before you exit" that isn't my point, I shouldn't have to do that, when the game starts it should have a simple "would you like to do the tutorial?" message.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:18 am

I am hoping for something that shows us the basic controls and then as you do stuff in the game a window will pop up explaining it in more detail.

EDIT: I actually didnt think of that Tlanti.

I actually dislike these. Especially in NV where it keeps popping up for all your new characters. Annoyng for me.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:20 pm

My first Elder Scrolls was the 3rd MW, when i first played it i was so excited got through the start.... it felt like "heres your stuff now get out of my sight" and i was just left with a huge ? above my head. My point is Oblivion was "New RPG player friendly" sure some players i tried helping got lost in the sewers but hey those that did make it out love the game to this day and have a full understanding of how the games work.

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:01 pm

I'm going to just assume that the tutorial will be rather short like in New Vegas, where what little bit of character building you need to do will be done in about 2 to 3 minutes and at any point, you can select an [END TUTORIAL] option at a few key points in the game, but there will be some light incentives to complete the tutorial though.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:50 pm

I loved the Tutorial in Oblivion and I made a save just before exiting the sewers so the next time I wanted to play, I wouldn't have to do it again if I didn't want to. For me though, it's a long time between games so I usually do it over. It was funny to see how almost every step in Sneak mode would level it up. I think that's a riot.

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