Yep

Having seen his former comrades decapitating cattle, goats and buffalos at a single stroke, he has no doubt that the Babaji episode would have been a swift and clinical affair.


This is a quote from a Daily Mail article from last year, after a Gurkha decapitated a member of the Taliban. Yes it does happen.

Wait wait... You mean the core element of, i duno, EVERY rpg game in history?

Hmmmmm...

A mod maybe?

:shifty:

I don't know about anyone else, but i got quite a thrill from Morrowind's combat and other RPG style things in the game (lock picking for example)

Once you got high enough skill, the hits we SO much more satisfying than Oblivion to me. I'm not saying that it should revert to morrowind and whiff even when you hit the monsters, but it seemed like when you DID hit in Morrowind, it actually did something, so when you're skilll was high enough, it felt like you were "actually doing something" all the time. In Oblivion... it just felt tedious most of the time...

With lockpicking, i got ecstatic when i opened a very hard lock on my first try... especially with an apprentices lockpick or something. I DO think they should revert to something more Morrowind-esque for Skyrim. And for those of you who think "you should be able to try on any lock"... sure, but there's no chance in hell you're gonna pick a "grandmaster" lock when you're completely unexperienced (like in oblivion)...

IRL go try to pick even one of those round dial locker-locks... you can try, but I'm sure at least 99 percent of people couldn't pick it (unless maybe they had a how-to right in front of them.)

it will probably be a little simpler after all you are attacking them with a sword not a rusty butter knife

I'm hoping for a Fallout type VATS system. Targeting legs or arms.
Or maybe even a boss/epic fight done with a Fight Night type controls, with the thumb sticks controling shield blocks and sword blows, maybe even a gyroscope thing in the controler or something to make the avatar move when the controler is tilted and then thumb stick attacks.

The best we can really hope for is spiffy music though. Bethy likes to stay "revelutionary".

As I've posted in previous threads, i have a hard time understanding why people consider some stuff the core elements of RPG.. Truth is.. i don't believe there are Core elements.. you consider it being that important because you've never experienced anything different so you can't possibly know what is best.
I would really like to see a company man up and try out new things and explore new elements in their own games.
I'm doing Software Engineering in my Uni and one of my dreams is to become part of the gaming industry and be able to be innovative and create stuff that was never done before.

I knew some people wanted this... I got some [censored] for putting this option in my http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1179484-the-ultimate-skyrim-poll/

personally I wouldn't want SKyrim Combat to turn into VATS... It would just get boring I feel (like in Fallout IMO)

I definitely wouldn't like VATS either since i rarely used it on fallout. The thing is VATS is perfect for one reason, you can make the game for two kinds of players, does who don't want to depend too much on stats and more combat skill and ultimately immerse themselves more ( like you and me), and does who want to focus more on the stats and perks and what a more Dice-Roll experience aka Morrowind.

Simple fix: less enemy health, and to balance it, less character health.

Or, if you want a little more realism, Have small weapons (like daggers and shortwords) bounce off plate armor.

I always thought it was weird how, when I'm wearing Full Madness armor and a dagger still hurts me. Shouldn't it just kind of bounce off?

Even a full on stab would barely dent it.

I believe what they were trying to say was...... your damage with a (melee) weapon being effected by your Strength and Skill? In pretty much every RPG ever made.

And why wouldn't it, it's completely obvious that 1) if you can swing your chunk of metal harder (Strength) it'll hit harder (damage); and 2) if you're good at aiming your chunk of metal (Skill) you'll hit the weak spots (damage).

Yeah, the quality of your chunk of metal also matters. But to say that it bothered you for damage to be strongly effected by Strength and Skill? That's a bit wacky.

I think you are noticing Oblivion's enemy scaling issue, not its combat issue. If enemies didn't scale so much then lolbandits would actually go down in a hit or two instead of magically getting glass armor and skin made of iron and taking 20 hits to die.

Its interesting, these past few days of my experience on these forums i found a wave of people that actually want to have new things in Skyrim that i always wanted. Rarely in gaming forums there are so many people open minded enough to accept that the only way to improve the RPG experience is to try new stuff and not be so conservative on aspects that wont necessarily affect the core essence of the game. Yes, we all want a Elder Scrolls Game but we also want something new and vibrant, not just a better graphic quality (which is ofc very important). I dare to say that if Bethesda opts to go for a more penalizing combat system where skill actually matters the series will grow enormously and we will always remember Skyrim as a stepping stone in the advancement of gaming industry.

Yes, thats what i was thinking. I mean what else goes into the damage you can do with a melee other than strength and skill? (not including better types of melee weapons, because that is already accounted for.)

I really hope against a VATS type system for Skyrim. Fallout 3 it was OK as it was the first time using it but just a couple hours into FO:NV, I got so bored with it, it kinda took away from the game cuz combat got to be too rehearsed and easy. I don't want that for a TES game, no way.

In my opinion the best system would be one similar to morrowind's but when you 'miss' either show you missing or show the opponent parrying. Then again, I guess they'll have parrying or so in this so we'll see

You're right they didn't.


They use to tie criminals up and try to cut them in half with their Katana to see if it was still sharp.


They generally cut them in half.

...a regular sword would bounce off too

Also, after a samurai performed suppuku, then often a fellow samurai would cut of their head to end the pain, and actually only leaving a little piece of skin attaching the head and the body (meaning the fellow samurai had to be pretty skilled to get that precision.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepuku#Ritual