Elder Scrolls games
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frwinters_ESO✭✭✭✭I got into TES due to Daggerfall. The graphcis are old but so is the game. It had some mechanics i miss, like the Climbing Skill. Loved running from guard and just being able to climb any building like spiderman when you got really good at it.0 -
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I've got mudcrabs with monocles and top hats.isengrimb16_ESO wrote: »I've got a TARDIS.
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I've got mudcrabs with monocles and top hats.isengrimb16_ESO wrote: »I've got a TARDIS.
Pics, or it didn't happen.
Crotchety Old Man Guild
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Dayv✭✭✭✭Has anyone played Skyrim tropical mod?
Yep, it is a great mod, makes you feel like you're rediscovering the whole game, and very stable too. It's a mix of tropical forests, deserts and tropical sand beaches - really gorgeous. It can be fairly greedy for low end rigs though as it replaces all landscapes and buildings' textures as well as water and weather systems. But if you love exploring (I do) it is a must-try in my humble opinion. There is also a "Springtime" mod that is really beautiful if you get bored with the snow.
I'm definitely going to try it next time I start a new game, but couldn't get it to works with the other mods I was using on my last playthrough. It looks cool as. Massive respect to some of the modders out there.0 -
Dayv✭✭✭✭So is the consensus that unless I want to roll back to some pretty old school RPG's with goofy systems, I need to just pickup Skyrim?
I really wouldn't say that at all. Morrowind and Oblivion are still very modern RPGs. The graphics in Morrowing may be lagging a bit but can be much improved with mods. Skyrim is the most simplified with the fewest visible stats, whereas morrowind and oblivion show you more stats, but not necessarily goofy. Morrowind is the most complicated in terms of spell and enchanting system but you don't have to bother with the complicated bits if you're not interested. I can appreciate them all but I'm a bit saddened by the ongoing simplification of ES games0 -
Dayv✭✭✭✭Malpherian wrote: »Just make sure you get all the expansions, to all 3 and play them as well. See you in a few weeks/months.
Shivering Isles expansion for Oblivion is great. It really compliments the Mages guild quest line in ESO. You really get to see what a fruitcake Sheogorath is. I reakky don't think he looks right in ESO0 -
siledre✭✭✭I didn't get into Oblivion as much as I did Morrowind and Skyrim but all are great games.0
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kip_silverwolf✭✭✭✭✭TES single player games are the most wonderful thing ever happening in PC gaming.
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This ^^
Get them all. Really, just get them all.
Arena & Daggerfall are still worth playing. (and the graphics are pretty impressive for games made during their time!)
"I'm going to live forever..or at least die trying"
drunken Nord & Tamriel streaker since Arena1 -
AstroshakSoul ShrivenAll I can say is this :
I am whole-heartedly against the idea of an "HD Remake" of a game. I feel that if the game was good enough, on its initial release hardware, for some to consider it worthy of such a thing, then it is good enough to maintain that hardware to play it in its original form.
HOWEVER - I would not only turn over a winning Powerball lottery ticket but whatever children I may have in the future (since I have none right now) if Bethesda was to sell us a remake of Arena and a fixed remake of Daggerfall. As someone said in a previous post here, Daggerfall's main problem was the random dungeons, which I estimate each one provided as much floor space as the whole of the rest of the game combined. Fix that (limit them to 10-20 room structures, for small to large dungeons respectively) and fix the bugs in both games (Arena had a memory leak, if I remember correctly, that would pop up every now and then) and you would have a pair of games that are considerably better than Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim.0 -
nerrollus✭✭✭FYI: I downloaded Skyrim last night from Steam. Figured I'd give it a shot and if I start really getting into it and want to know more I'll get the older games.
Thanks much for the help, I've enjoyed reading everyone's posts on this. I should hit you guys up after I beat Skyrim and start looking for a new game. lol
Ragnarok Blackfist - Templar of the Ebonheart Pact
Ronin Wanderhome - Dragon Knight of the Ebonheart Pact0 -
ozm8ey✭✭✭oblivion is my favorite, I just find the actors have a lot more enthusiasm and i liked the creepy visuals also a lot of random encounters oh and the theme0
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isengrimb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭All I can say is this :
I am whole-heartedly against the idea of an "HD Remake" of a game. I feel that if the game was good enough, on its initial release hardware, for some to consider it worthy of such a thing, then it is good enough to maintain that hardware to play it in its original form.
HOWEVER - I would not only turn over a winning Powerball lottery ticket but whatever children I may have in the future (since I have none right now) if Bethesda was to sell us a remake of Arena and a fixed remake of Daggerfall. As someone said in a previous post here, Daggerfall's main problem was the random dungeons, which I estimate each one provided as much floor space as the whole of the rest of the game combined. Fix that (limit them to 10-20 room structures, for small to large dungeons respectively) and fix the bugs in both games (Arena had a memory leak, if I remember correctly, that would pop up every now and then) and you would have a pair of games that are considerably better than Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim.
Oh, I wouldn't care if they even updated the graphics, really (I'd rather see Oblivion revamped for character graphics, ugh) - but godmode for Arena and Daggerfall might be nice. Heh. I would like to explore that great big world, but it's the damn combat that's stopping me. I like combat in an RPG as spice, nothing more. Things would be boring without it, but on the other hand, I have no problem with feeling kick-ass godly from the get-go in single-player - it's better than being dealt with unfairly at the beginning (and I do think Daggerfall is a bit unfair, get rid of heavy-armour idiot, or let me godmode his ugly face.) Hey, at least Legendary difficulty while godmoding makes the dragon fights a bit longer.
Footnote, from reading other posts and remembering something I was going to reply to - Oh, so bows are pretty much the same as in Skyrim in the older games, then. I can deal with that. I do have fun with a bow on my immortal cats; I like to switch that with 1H sword and fireballs. Glad they don't work that way in ESO, though - that would be a PITA.
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✭Get the Anthology... It's normally a way better deal on Amazon than buying the games piecemeal.
Morrowind is best game ever and I'd start there. Mod the graphics with the Morrowind graphics overhaul first and it will look like a as good as a current release.0 -
Dayv✭✭✭✭I'm hoping ES 6 is all about liberating Tamriel from the tyranny of the Altmer Dominion and the Thalmor. How I hate them [snip]s.1
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✭✭I'm hoping ES 6 is all about liberating Tamriel from the tyranny of the Altmer Dominion and the Thalmor. How I hate them [snip]s.
It will probably be about choosing to aid or hinder their objectives. Via the destruction/saving of the towers of the empire (which help pin down the reality of the world). You will choose whether to help save or condemn the towers, thus helping or thwarting the Thalmor plot to redo time itself.
There's a video in one of the threads about it, the Thalmor apparently have a really weird plot to undo time and recreate themselves as the Aldmer.Edited by AlexDougherty on July 11, 2014 9:32AMPeople believe what they either want to be true or what they are afraid is true!
Wizard's first rule
Passion rules reason
Wizard's third rule
Mind what people Do, not what they say, for actions betray a lie.
Wizard's fifth rule
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self
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cuz_mike200✭✭✭The only TES Games I have played are Skyrim and ESO but I hear Morrowind and Oblivion are great so I recommend you get games Morrowind - Skyrim.0 -
isengrimb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭AlexDougherty wrote: »I'm hoping ES 6 is all about liberating Tamriel from the tyranny of the Altmer Dominion and the Thalmor. How I hate them [snip]s.
It will probably be about choosing to aid or hinder their objectives. Via the destruction/saving of the towers of the empire (which help pin down the reality of the world). You will choose whether to help save or condemn the towers, thus helping or thwarting the Thalmor plot to redo time itself.
There's a video in one of the threads about it, the Thalmor apparently have a really weird plot to undo time and recreate themselves as the Aldmer.
Yeah, I got an interesting lesson about that on the Steam forum a while back. They were (or think they were) originally Aedra; the very existence of Nirn keeps them shackled to their inferior mortal Elven bodies; and Talos worship just strengthens those ties of mortals to Nirn, and Nirn to mortals, thus reinforcing their Elvish-body prisons, keeping them from regaining their true, godly forms. Or some crap like that. I dunno, reminds me of Louis Farrakhan for some reason.
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I doubt it. The Thalmor are clearly set up as the enemy in Skyrim and we could never side with the enemy in Elder Scrolls games. In most other games too, in fact. Besides, in the long run Thalmor success means the end of Tamriel as we know it - as exciting as the possibility is, it would be a definitive end of this story. Do we really want this?AlexDougherty wrote: »I'm hoping ES 6 is all about liberating Tamriel from the tyranny of the Altmer Dominion and the Thalmor. How I hate them [snip]s.
It will probably be about choosing to aid or hinder their objectives. Via the destruction/saving of the towers of the empire (which help pin down the reality of the world). You will choose whether to help save or condemn the towers, thus helping or thwarting the Thalmor plot to redo time itself.
There's a video in one of the threads about it, the Thalmor apparently have a really weird plot to undo time and recreate themselves as the Aldmer.0 -
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I doubt it. The Thalmor are clearly set up as the enemy in Skyrim and we could never side with the enemy in Elder Scrolls games. In most other games too, in fact. Besides, in the long run Thalmor success means the end of Tamriel as we know it - as exciting as the possibility is, it would be a definitive end of this story. Do we really want this?AlexDougherty wrote: »I'm hoping ES 6 is all about liberating Tamriel from the tyranny of the Altmer Dominion and the Thalmor. How I hate them [snip]s.
It will probably be about choosing to aid or hinder their objectives. Via the destruction/saving of the towers of the empire (which help pin down the reality of the world). You will choose whether to help save or condemn the towers, thus helping or thwarting the Thalmor plot to redo time itself.
There's a video in one of the threads about it, the Thalmor apparently have a really weird plot to undo time and recreate themselves as the Aldmer.
Skyrim spoilers:Well, no matter which side you take in the Civil War, the Thalmor wind up invading; Stormcloak is thought (at least by the Thalmor) to be a tool of the Thalmor. Skyrim has no definite ending beyond that, as far as they're concerned.
Since the single-player games advance in time, yes, I can see the Thalmor problem figuring large, unless they jump really far to a time after they were put down somehow, and several new problems have come up in the nonce.
As for being able to side with them, yes, I can see it happen (an Altmer player might want this, after all) - but of course, the Thalmor will be thwarted in the end, unless they want to reboot Nirn or just end the franchise.
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Dayv✭✭✭✭AlexDougherty wrote: »I'm hoping ES 6 is all about liberating Tamriel from the tyranny of the Altmer Dominion and the Thalmor. How I hate them [snip]s.
It will probably be about choosing to aid or hinder their objectives. Via the destruction/saving of the towers of the empire (which help pin down the reality of the world). You will choose whether to help save or condemn the towers, thus helping or thwarting the Thalmor plot to redo time itself.
There's a video in one of the threads about it, the Thalmor apparently have a really weird plot to undo time and recreate themselves as the Aldmer.
If it is, I know which side I'll be on. Having said that, I supported the stormcloaks in my first playthrough of Skyrim and later went on to regret it as things aren't as black and white as they initially appear.1 -
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If you plan on playing earlier games its best not to start with Skyrim. The gameplay and graphics make going to earlier ones harder.I've barely played arena and I've never played Daggfall, but I'd say Skyrim is the best one to start with, but do get the UI mod for inventory if you're playing in PC. I also really like Oblivion, but people tend to be more divided on it. Morrowind, is an absolute must, it's by far the most complex in terms of skills and gear and has loads more factions than the other ones. Morrowind totally blew me away when I first played it, I'd never seen a game with such scope.
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Hilgara✭✭✭✭✭Like a lot here Morrowind was my favourite but I think that's because it was a game of its time. It was so different to anything else and the freedom to do what you like was awesome but its common place nowadays. I think for someone who never played it you might be better off with Skyrim because you might be disappointed in Morrowind.0
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I doubt it. The Thalmor are clearly set up as the enemy in Skyrim and we could never side with the enemy in Elder Scrolls games. In most other games too, in fact. Besides, in the long run Thalmor success means the end of Tamriel as we know it - as exciting as the possibility is, it would be a definitive end of this story. Do we really want this?AlexDougherty wrote: »I'm hoping ES 6 is all about liberating Tamriel from the tyranny of the Altmer Dominion and the Thalmor. How I hate them [snip]s.
It will probably be about choosing to aid or hinder their objectives. Via the destruction/saving of the towers of the empire (which help pin down the reality of the world). You will choose whether to help save or condemn the towers, thus helping or thwarting the Thalmor plot to redo time itself.
There's a video in one of the threads about it, the Thalmor apparently have a really weird plot to undo time and recreate themselves as the Aldmer.
No, I like Tamriel, but that's were I think we are going. You might be right about us not siding with the Thalmor though.
But even if we were given that option, it's not an immediate end to the Tamriel story, destroying the towers is just one step, they would still be chances to undo the damage even if the Towers are destroyed. The lore based decision for the game would be that the hero saves the towers, and maybe even reinstates Talos as a member of the Nine officially.People believe what they either want to be true or what they are afraid is true!
Wizard's first rule
Passion rules reason
Wizard's third rule
Mind what people Do, not what they say, for actions betray a lie.
Wizard's fifth rule
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self
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✭✭AlexDougherty wrote: »I'm hoping ES 6 is all about liberating Tamriel from the tyranny of the Altmer Dominion and the Thalmor. How I hate them [snip]s.
It will probably be about choosing to aid or hinder their objectives. Via the destruction/saving of the towers of the empire (which help pin down the reality of the world). You will choose whether to help save or condemn the towers, thus helping or thwarting the Thalmor plot to redo time itself.
There's a video in one of the threads about it, the Thalmor apparently have a really weird plot to undo time and recreate themselves as the Aldmer.
If it is, I know which side I'll be on. Having said that, I supported the stormcloaks in my first playthrough of Skyrim and later went on to regret it as things aren't as black and white as they initially appear.
I supported the Imperials first time through, but I did enjoy the Stormcloak story later. The difference between the two stories was interesting, seeing both sides it was disturbing how thoroughly the Thalmor were manipulating it all.People believe what they either want to be true or what they are afraid is true!
Wizard's first rule
Passion rules reason
Wizard's third rule
Mind what people Do, not what they say, for actions betray a lie.
Wizard's fifth rule
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self
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