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http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09 ... o-splurge/

As someone in the comments pointed out:

2-handed weapons
- Standing power attacks do 25% bonus damage, chance to decapitate

mrbobbins wrote: chance to decapitate

Looks like I'll be playing a barbarian nord again.

Mr. Johnson wrote:Looks like I'll be playing a barbarian nord again.

I might go with a tiny female dark elf battle mage again, for the LOLZ of heavy armour and massive 2 handed hammers

I might have to break with tradition and not do a sneaky kitteh in this one. Perhaps a new char called P'Waro...

FatherJack wrote:Perhaps a new char called P'Waro...

Can you make Bards?

Oh shit, 11 days till 11/11/11.

I hate Skyrim for wasting my money. I know I'll buy it because it looks awesome, and I know I won't like it because I didn't like Oblivion or Fallout 3. Even though I really want to like them. Curses.

Dog Pants wrote:I hate Skyrim for wasting my money. I know I'll buy it because it looks awesome, and I know I won't like it because I didn't like Oblivion or Fallout 3. Even though I really want to like them. Curses.

This, but without the dislike of fallout 3.

I'm not sure why I liked FO3 so much and didn't really care for Oblivion, I wanted to enjoy it more. It was probably the dystopian, sci-fi setting in FO3, or maybe just that it had guns. I will also be spending money on Skyrim, but not totally confident I will enjoy it as much as FO3.

I didn't really like oblivion because I hated the whole portal closing business and the enemies that levelled up along with you (or something along those lines, it's been a long time ago)
What I don't get about Skyrim is how everyone goes on about how pretty it is, I think it doesn't look all that different from oblivion to be honest. Some of the character animations still look incredibly wooden and unnatural, a thing I'd hoped they stamped out. Games like battlefield 3 and the witcher 2 have spoiled me with their magnificent shiny eye candy though, so my judgement is somewhat unfair.

I'm not bothered about the graphical enhancements.

I just hope that the gameworld's points of interest (ie, Dungeons) aren't a copy-paste job like Oblivion's were.

Mr. Johnson wrote:What I don't get about Skyrim is how everyone goes on about how pretty it is, I think it doesn't look all that different from oblivion to be honest.

Can't tell if serious.

Yeah allright, I guess that looks different. I'd only ever seen that presentation video.

BEEF and the witcher 2 are still prettier though.

buzzmong wrote:I'm not bothered about the graphical enhancements.

I just hope that the gameworld's points of interest (ie, Dungeons) aren't a copy-paste job like Oblivions were.

Although I am glad they don't all look like mutants like they did in Oblivion. I think Buzz kind of nailed it there for me, everywhere seemed so devoid realistic life, huge expanses of identikit dungeons and people who all looked the same and wandered about like zombies. It was the promise of a living world that disappointed me so much.

In all the videos they've boasted that a lot of the dungeons are hand-made.

I truly hope so. I suppose after Fallout 3, I've got more faith they might be. F3's "dungeons" were at least interesting for the most part.

Dog Pants wrote:I hate Skyrim for wasting my money. I know I'll buy it because it looks awesome, and I know I won't like it because I didn't like Oblivion or Fallout 3. Even though I really want to like them. Curses.

Protip: Sweep the floor.

I'm torn between getting this on the PC or the Xbox. On the Xbox I know it'll work fine and look great, whereas on the PC I run the risk of it looking rubbish, but it then has the keyboard/mouse controls and all the customisable stuff for the future. Think I too might sweep it first to see how well it runs, then decide on my medium of choice for purchasing.

You could always buy both.
Eggsbawks now for playing the main game, complete it then trade it in. PC later on next year when the inevitable GOTY edition gets released for DLC and modding funzies.