Are you hardcoe enough for Skyrim?

Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:57 am

I can only imagine people who like perma-death have no lives whatsoever. No one with a job is going to want to waste what little free time they have working on a character that could get snatched away permanently at any time
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:33 pm

I can only imagine people who like perma-death have no lives whatsoever. No one with a job is going to want to waste what little free time they have working on a character that could get snatched away permanently at any time

This seems to be a popular argument that really holds no ground. Just because a portion of the community would like the option of playing the game a certain way doesn't immediately correlate to them not having lives. People are different. People enjoy different systems about games. Some people prefer story and questing more. Others prefer combat and harder difficulties to challenge themselves. Some even prefer a more challenging, yet immersive experience enjoying the game more as a result.

Ultimately, what this thread, and every other thread comes down to is having fun. Everyone has their own opinion of what fun is, and it's BGS's job to accommodate as many play styles as they possibly can. The reason why so many love BGS games is because they give the player the ability to go where they want, and do what they want. Freedom, choice, and options are what people like, and this would merely be another option that a portion of the community would enjoy.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:19 am

comparing the first witcher and oblivion......the witcher had far more content than oblivion did. ive done more than a couple of complete run throughs and you can complete vanilla oblivion in less than 20 hours easy. thats including the main quest, guild questlines and a whole bunch of side quests as well including the daedric shrine quests.


I don't think "how fast can you speedrun it?" is what people were going for when they said it had "more content". They were probably talking more about the normal play of the game that most posters here seem to do - 100+ hours of wandering the gameworld doing stuff.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:22 am

If you never save your game, its permadeath....so everyone has that option

Happy now? :cookie:


No. Obvious point is obvious - If you don't save, you'd have to play your character's life in one sitting without turning off your PC or console....and that has nothing to do with whether or not you die. Deleting your saves if you die, yes. Not saving? That just doesn't make sense. There's no way you can play a normal length TES game without stopping to go back to real life at some point during your character's story. The same is true for most all games, and especially RPGs.

The fact that I had to clarify all that is a sad fact....
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:52 pm

I don't think "how fast can you speedrun it?" is what people were going for when they said it had "more content". They were probably talking more about the normal play of the game that most posters here seem to do - 100+ hours of wandering the gameworld doing stuff.

Keep in mind that "most posters" on these forums are the more hardcoe fan base for TES. We are in no way representative of the majority of casual players, who may not just wander the game world for 100+ hours. That being said, The Witcher 2 and Skyrim will be bigger in different ways. Skyrim will clearly be bigger in size and perhaps quests. But The Witcher 2 will be larger in story, dialogue, and the environments are pretty large as well.

Either way, the point of an Insane Mode for either game is an interesting challenge, and could be really gratifying for those willing to take the risk and play the game in that manner. As someone above suggested, perhaps BGS could do something similar to how Dead Space 2 handled their hardest difficulty with only three saves and a special weapon at the end.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:18 pm

I am too hardcoe for skyrim. Im not even going to play skyrim, thats how hardcoe and badass I am.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:48 am

I think it will be better for everyone if you who want that just play "dead-is-dead" by your own rules. Just think what an angry littlebrother or an [censored] friend could do with that.
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