Im an Elder Scrolls and a Fallout player and since ive seen a lot of threads about worries about certain systems and worries about skyrim being like fallout's system. So i was thinking if your so worried go ahead and give Fallout a try( For those who havent played Fallout). And try to think about the pros of a Fallout system in Skyrim.

I doubt, it. It will help pass the time though.

playing Fallout will help you prepare for really only for how level scaling and fast travel will work, and maybe in how general exploration will work. Fallout had considerably fewer areas than Oblivion but every area was filled with a ton of incidental detail and wordless narratives, mostly in how items and corpses were laid out. obviously Skyrim won't LOOK like Fallout but i'm very much expecting them to take a similar approach in the level design, not dissimilar to some of the corpses and notes you'd find in dungeons in Morrowind.

the actual act of leveling up doesn't feel anything like Skyrim's and the whole perk system seems much more like Oblivion's system than Fallout's, except in name.

also people who haven't played Fallout and complain about things with the mindset of Oblivion really need to svck it up and play Fallout and realize exactly how many of Oblivion's core faults were fixed.

I still think OB would be closer akin to Skyrim than FO3.

ps - how do you abbreviate Skyrim anyway? SK, SM, SYM, ...

Prepare? I guess if you mean by prepare you to stay up way late and not be very productive, then yes.

SKRM, TESS, TESV

lol I doubt playing RPG videogames is anything worth "training" for - Fallout 3 is pretty fun tho so Im lookin forward to TES5

Read the OP and then youll understand

SK, I have seen others use SR (and that makes sense in the context of how the word breaks down, but for some reason it makes me think SI ) but I prefer using the sound of the first two letters.


??? I did read, and that was my response. I am sorry if you don't like my answer but that was the only way I can think of that FO3 can prepare you for SK

"skrim" is the only acceptable abbreviation.

I wouldnt call it a waste of time or training more like getting used to FO3's system. And i would call playing vg's a hobby or a time passer

It will give you a sense of how Bethesda's team crafts their worlds and the level of detail they put in. As far as training for Skyrim, I can't imagine it would make any difference.

I am afraid only skyrim is the acceptable abbreviation for Skyrim, and even that is still bordering TES blasphemy.

I agree. Such an easy to type word.
How lazy can you be? :spotted owl:

I use C-Cyrodiil M-Morrowind S-Skyrim BM-Black Marsh E-Elsweyr V-Valenwood H-Hammerfell HR-High Rock SSI-Summerset Isle