What Makes Me Mad about the Hands-On Articles : V

» Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:50 pm

Almost every one of the journalists that had the chance to play skyrim for an hour, did almost the same exact [censored] thing! They go down the rocky hill, see Riverwood, cross the river, go up the mountain side, kill bandits in a tower, and go to bleak falls barrow. If I would have seen Bleak Falls Barrow I would have walked right passed it looking for something that wasn't shown before. And a cookie goes to the ones who did something different.

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:50 am

This is an interesting point. It may mean actually that the starting region is more restrictive than we think - the geography may be pushing people to the same locations. In a way it makes sense - Morrowind landed us in the city, small one, but still, Oblivion had the IC so close it was impossible to miss, maybe they are truing to guide the player to some kind of settlement this time as well?

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 10:34 am

Maybe there's just something about where they started, and the way the gameworld is designed that just lured them that way.

We already know the gameworld will be quite path-heavy, purely because of the mountains and how steep they are.

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:49 am

This is an interesting point. It may mean actually that the starting region is more restrictive than we think - the geography may be pushing people to the same locations. In a way it makes sense - Morrowind landed us in the city, small one, but still, Oblivion had the IC so close it was impossible to miss, maybe they are truing to guide the player to some kind of settlement this time as well?

Yea, I guess Riverwood is Skyrim's reincarnation of Seyda Neen, but if I was playing it, I would have went to a region never stepped in before and explore it.

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:59 am

This is an interesting point. It may mean actually that the starting region is more restrictive than we think - the geography may be pushing people to the same locations. In a way it makes sense - Morrowind landed us in the city, small one, but still, Oblivion had the IC so close it was impossible to miss, maybe they are truing to guide the player to some kind of settlement this time as well?

The ones that followed the 'E3 path' it seems either did it because they knew hardly anything of Skyrim (and one of the first quests you get in riverwood sends you there) then others, for some reason beyond me, wanted to go there because they've seen it before. Fair play the ones who explored off the beaten path, the ones that did the E3 path just made me feel like I was reading a journalists impression of the E3 footage all over again...

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:02 pm

It was kind of annoying, but i remember there was that one hands-on guy who found that riddle-door that Todd loved so much. I believe he also made it to whiterun.

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:12 am

It's just common sense to head toward a settlement, you don't have to but hey it's you're choice.

» Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:38 pm

Hats off to reiner from gameinformer for taking the path less traveled

Hes the one who discovered the black door
And stole the horse which proved guards arent all knowing anymore
I think he also confirmed chicken eggs
Honeycombs
Moths
Bugs
And how alchemy works
He also is the only one who made it to whiterun and on top of that made it to a second village further along ahead

Hats off to him

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:30 am

Sounds to me like all the journalists walked forward from their starting point. I would have turned around and went the opposite direction.

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 10:59 am

one purposedly got caught and sent to jail to see how they worked and how lockpicking worked

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:01 am

Hats off to reiner from gameinformer for taking the path less traveled

Hes the one who discovered the black door
And stole the horse which proved guards arent all knowing anymore
I think he also confirmed chicken eggs
Honeycombs
Moths
Bugs
And how alchemy works

Hats off to him

Ah yes that was the guy i was thinking of. I really do wish he had figured out that riddle and we could've seen what was behind the door, but it was a great hands-on nonetheless considering how everyone just went start>riverwood>bandits>bleak falls barrow

» Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:51 pm

Oblivion had the IC so close it was impossible to miss

I laughed at thit because when I first left the Imperial sewer I thought I had been dumped in the middle of nowhere and actually set off looking for the Imperial city when it was right behind me!

OT: I think if any of the reviewers had any idea what the others were doing they would have went on completely different paths.

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:21 am

Ah yes that was the guy i was thinking of. I really do wish he had figured out that riddle and we could've seen what was behind the door, but it was a great hands-on nonetheless considering how everyone just went start>riverwood>bandits>bleak falls barrow

Yeah if reiner would have been the one to discover the wolf staff he would of had the best article hands down lol

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:29 am

one purposedly got caught and sent to jail to see how they worked and how lockpicking worked

I didn't know about this - did he write an article on it like the others? If so could you send me the link

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:17 am

I laughed at thit because when I first left the Imperial sewer I thought I had been dumped in the middle of nowhere and actually set off looking for the Imperial city when it was right behind me!

OT: I think if any of the reviewers had any idea what the others were doing they would have went on completely different paths.

This, I crossed the river immediately adn set off in thw wrong direction lookign for thwe city. I never thought to just turn around.

» Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:13 pm

I didn't know about this - did he write an article on it like the others? If so could you send me the link

I think all it did was confirm that the fallout 3 style lockpicking was back instead of oblivions
I dont remember him explaing the environment to well either...he was more focused on lockipicking

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:32 am

It makes sense, people that are more familiar with the series or have seen others articles would probably try something different. They want people to read their articles right? Need to do something interesting but at the same time don't want to waste time. If saving was an option, I'd probably save before every "interesting" point and do something wrong, then revert and do it a different way.

» Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:44 pm

Personally i suspect the black riddle door is either the Dark Brotherhood or the Volkihar Vampires. Either way its going to be awesome.

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 10:09 am

I didn't know about this - did he write an article on it like the others? If so could you send me the link

it was the one from IGN
http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/118/1186214p1.html

the guy IS a fan of the ES games as he seemed pretty accustomed to the mechanics of the elder scrolls series during the preview

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:44 am

In all of the demo footage we've seen Bleak Falls Barrow seems to loom in the distance as if beckoning the PC "hey, look at me...check me out!"

This all feels very intentional for demo purposes.

Haven't even played the game yet and already got Bleak Falls fatigue. :yuck:

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:07 am

You haven't read much hands on articles then, most of them went on different ways.

And they start at the exact same area, so yeah, they are going to find many similar things...

» Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:42 pm

Almost every one of the journalists that had the chance to play skyrim for an hour, did almost the same exact [censored] thing! They go down the rocky hill, see Riverwood, cross the river, go up the mountain side, kill bandits in a tower, and go to bleak falls barrow. If I would have seen Bleak Falls Barrow I would have walked right passed it looking for something that wasn't shown before. And a cookie goes to the ones who did something different.

Out of 20+ journalists who did the demo, only about 3 of them ended up in Bleak Falls Barrow

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:21 am

This is an interesting point. It may mean actually that the starting region is more restrictive than we think - the geography may be pushing people to the same locations. In a way it makes sense - Morrowind landed us in the city, small one, but still, Oblivion had the IC so close it was impossible to miss, maybe they are truing to guide the player to some kind of settlement this time as well?

What? We were supposed to go to the Imperial City early in Oblivion? In my first playthrough, the Imperial City was the last place I visited... Then again, I played Arena because it was free while I waited for my graphics card to arrive, which taught me you don't want to go the Imperial City after escaping the Imperial Dungeons.

» Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:33 pm

Personally i suspect the black riddle door is either the Dark Brotherhood or the Volkihar Vampires. Either way its going to be awesome.

*ends up being a high level dungeon instead*
awwwwww.......god damit bethesda....we wanted frost vampires......or uber cool dark brotherhood secret forest base
Or necromancer lair......

» Thu Aug 11, 2011 8:21 am

I think Gamespy was my favorite hands-on, with his single-handed mentality of "go north." I think he went through Riverwood, because "due north" ended up in him dying climbing a mountain.