Elder Scrolls: Skyrim [DARGONS EDITION]
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I went there in literally the first 20 minutes of playing, without a horse. Right when that first scripted castle dragon attack was over, I walked straight toward the top of the mountain. Got notched pickaxe at level 1...
I just bought this game. So far it seems to be comprised 85% of the kinds of places I deliberately avoided in Oblivion (iced up mountain caps, monotonous steppes, scrub land).
Where in Skyrim can I find nice green forests like the Great Forest/Chorrol region in Oblivion?
Where in Skyrim can I find nice green forests like the Great Forest/Chorrol region in Oblivion?
It's uh... Skyrim. The nordic province of the continent of Tamriel. There will be mostly snow.
Most forests are in Whiterun Hold (Region of Whiterun), The Rift (Region of Riften) and Falkreath Hold (Region of Falkreath), with Falkreath having most of what you are looking for.
But yeah, it's Skyrim. This ain't Cyrodiil anymore.
Most forests are in Whiterun Hold (Region of Whiterun), The Rift (Region of Riften) and Falkreath Hold (Region of Falkreath), with Falkreath having most of what you are looking for.
But yeah, it's Skyrim. This ain't Cyrodiil anymore.
Um, I hate to say it but the vistas in Skyrim are much like they were in Oblivion; masses of incompletely rendered blobs floating in a green-yellow soup. Only this time it's partially obscured with fog.
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Finally hit level 10 and decided to do some side quests etc and am enjoying it so far. I never got in to Oblivion etc.
It seems once you hit level 10 the dragon encounters start (away from the main story) which has made running between places more fun than running from the odd giant.
Think I'm going to take on some more Misc. quests once I have furnished my house and can store loads of crap.
It seems once you hit level 10 the dragon encounters start (away from the main story) which has made running between places more fun than running from the odd giant.
Think I'm going to take on some more Misc. quests once I have furnished my house and can store loads of crap.
um, I hate to say it but you're completely wrong.
either you're playing the game with low graphics settings or you're partially blind; it's one or the other.
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"incompletely rendered blobs floating in a green-yellow soup"
Google screenshots of Oblivion and say that Skyrim doesn't look better. I didn't feel Skyrim looked that much better at first, but then I went back and played Oblivion and realized I just remember Oblivion looking amazing.
It's pretty impressive considering Skyrim was made to push the same console hardware that Oblivion was.
It's pretty impressive considering Skyrim was made to push the same console hardware that Oblivion was.
um, I hate to say it but you're completely wrong.
either you're playing the game with low graphics settings or you're partially blind; it's one or the other.
"incompletely rendered blobs floating in a green-yellow soup"
Yes, very convenient shots, but Skyrim suffers from exactly the same issue as Oblivion: massively inconsistent visuals. You can set up the most stunning frame and then turn 180° and be looking at a rather hideous piece of landscape. I could take a hundred captures proving that Skyrim is the best looking game, and that it is the worst. What matters is consistency in-game, and whilst it is a bit more consistent than Oblivion, it still looks like rubbish a lot of the time.
And you didn't choose very good shots to support your argument, they kind of reinforce what I said about that foggy haze being used to mask imperfections.
I saw that third shot before I purchased the game and my first though was that it looked really good. But then I clicked on it and in full size an it wasn't nearly so impressive.
At least they fixed they've fixed the stuttering issue that rendered Oblivion nigh on unbearable, and provided a more reliable means of AA than forcing via NVIDIA's lousy CP.
There is nothing impressive about this kind of technological stagnation.
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Sorry.... but is there a game that looks better?
I mean, you're right. You can get to White Water Watch Overlook and look down at Whiterun and it doesn't look like the best thing ever, but you're also looking down on what would be thousands of highly detailed rendered objects if it DID look good.
I mean, you're right. You can get to White Water Watch Overlook and look down at Whiterun and it doesn't look like the best thing ever, but you're also looking down on what would be thousands of highly detailed rendered objects if it DID look good.
I think that yeah, there are games that look better, but they are all looking better on smaller scales. Like BF3 or Crysis, you can look at individual textures in MASSIVE environments and say that they don't look as great as they could, and it's true, but it's also missing the point by a lightyear.