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HellGate, Elder Scrolls Hands-On
Hellgate: London and The Elder Scrolls IV are two hotly anticipated roleplaying titles coming at us in the upcoming year. Hands-On examinations of Hellgate are available at Gamespot, 1up.com and IGN. The Elder Scrolls is examined at Gamespot and IGN. From the 1up article: "'Since we're building an RPG, even though it's primarily played from the first-person perspective, we don't want it to be a twitch-fest,' he says. 'We're doing things that have soft-targeting, or area effects, or auto-locking, to make it where your success in the game isn't determined on your physical reflexes, or the dexterity of a fourteen year old. It's all about building up a character: your level, your stats, your skills, your equipment, your items -- it's the classic RPG in that sense.'"
This is the correct link to the IGN Elder Scrolls: Oblivion story.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/617/617488p1.html
If only they would make this game multiplayer... I loved Morrowind, but if you could work together to accomplish things (or even work separately, just on the same map) this game would have even more appeal. I don't want an MMORPG, I'm thinking like a 2-player or 3-player mode.
Windows isn't the answer... it's the question. NO is the answer!
Morrowind was the last game i had windows installed for , that was untill i got it working on linux . .Morrowind was a spoilt masterwork , it was far too buggy even after several patches , but i just couldnt get enough of it .
I do hope they release linux binarys for the game as the elder scrolls series are amoungst my all time favorites.
It is highly unlikely , but then there is a good chance cedega will support it soon enough.
If it can build upon the base of morrowind and fix all the little bits which drove people up the wall with morrowind then hopefully bethesda will finaly have their opus
It was a truely deep game with so much to do , and the modding support was brilliant (though it did needs alot of extension , the system was very easy to pick up and play around with creating your own areas )
heres hopping
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Here is the correct Elder Scrolls link to the IGN article. It currently links to IGN's Hellgate article.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/617/617488p1.html
I'm very responsible, when ever something goes wrong they always say I'm responsible.
As a long-time PC gamer, I've resisted consoles. I played Morrowind for countless hours on my PC, and even though this will be available for PC, it might be *the* title that gets me to buy a console (albeit an Xbox 360), if just so I can sit on the couch and play on my HD projector, rather than cooped up in my home office.
On a related topic. For anyone who hasn't found it yet, there is a HD trailer online:
http://morrowind.com/downloads/media_movies.htm
Conversing with other characters in the game is much more interactive. Bethesda took a page out of Fable's book by adding the ability to persuade NPCs to make them like you more through a host of methods including jokes, compliments, bribes, and intimidation.
This is not a page from Fable's book. This was in previous Elder Scroll games as well, specifically Morrowind. In fact it was a pretty crucial part of the game for many quests (provided you weren't playing as a psychopathic mass murderer)
Random and weird software I've written.
I really don't understand what's up with Bethesda (and Bioware, for that matter). They spent a huge amount of time creating a flexible game architecture, and then created very little additional game content. I fully expected to be buying add-ons for years, but instead they only released 2 expansion packs each, and then abandoned them. Well, NWN has released a few small modules as download-only, but I was hoping for more full-fledged expansions.
In my experience you get better at games the older you get... or perhaps the more you play.
I'm glad they're going to make the NPCs do more than just stand there in Oblivion.. One of my quests in Morrowind had me stealing a key from this guy. I found him in a tavern surrounded by his cronies.. Since I couldn't steal the key without being detected, and I couldn't kill them all. I decided to wait outside till he left.. (I was still pretty new to the game) After a couple day and night cycles I went back in to see what was up.. They were all still there!! That's what I call dedicated alcoholics!
'We're doing things that have soft-targeting, or area effects, or auto-locking, to make it where your success in the game isn't determined on your physical reflexes, or the dexterity of a fourteen year old. It's all about building up a character: your level, your stats, your skills, your equipment, your items -- it's the classic treadmill in that sense.'
Fixed a typo for ya, Zonk.
"The newly born animals are then whisked off for a quick run through a giant baking oven." --heard on Food Network
I might remember that quest if my Pentium 4 and GeForce FX could muster more than 10 FPS in Morrowind! I've had that game for a while, and I'm still waiting to +really+ get to play it.
Is The Elder Scroll series the new Ultima?
Hack your mind out of its sandbox.
imho, mw can't be turned into a mmorpg. It would spoil the gameplay, as far as I'm concerned. Some players would be unbeatable, considering enchantments like 100%sanctuary or similar effects. and setting player limits would take away the whole rpg-element in MW.
it's 4AM, do _you_ know where your stack pointer is?