I hope the videos I've watched aren't on some dual Radeon 6990 Crossfire setup or something. lol. I'm hoping my 5870 is enough for "awesome graphics".
Ditto that. I also have a 5870. It's a 2GB edition though, so at least I know I have enough VRAM. I just wonder when the tipping point will hit for this card, though.
Yeah, I'm going to crap my pants when I have the first dragon encounter in this game because I'm always too scared to fight tough fights until I'm leveled and geared up. I'm kind of like Ottomaton in that I would rather have a goal to level up to rather than a goal that levels up with me - which makes no damn sense in terms of realism. It was the one thing I hated most about Oblivion. The leveling in this game is going to be interesting. In games of this type, I usually take a couple of days figuring out what I want to be and how I want to distribute skill points. In this game, you just get in there and start trying things out ... no skill points to assign when you create the character. Whatever you keep using keeps leveling up in skill. This makes a lot more sense to me.
Mine is only a 1GB. The 5870 is actually still among the best cards out there... it's still better than several of the 6xxx series cards. Oh well, I will seriously upgrade my video card for this game if I need to. The sad thing is trying to find another 5870 to go dual in my setup is almost impossible - I can't find many, and when I do, they're overpriced and not worth it. So much for that "I'll just get a 2nd video card and do Crossfire when I want to upgrade because it'll be a lot cheaper by then" idea.
Ya, it sort of amuses me how universally accepted it is that Oblivion's leveling system was broken. It just made no...sense...at...all. I usually stick with the same sort of persona in these games: a woodsman/hunter type of character. Two-handed sword, and the best bow I can find. I usually ignore magic other than your basic healing spells.
Picking this game at midnight at gamestop with the free physical map. Pretty much thats the best you can do. No discount or other goodies with the PC version.
Well hey, in case you're curious, the reason I went for the 2GB card was actually for Oblivion. I was getting killer stutter/slowdown when I got a big texture pack (I think it was called Qarl's textures or something? plus a ton of other mods of course). There was a feature that let you pull up how much VRAM the game was using real-time. With that texture pack it was hitting about 1.4GB. Even without it I saw it brush up near 1GB irritatingly often. Then I read something about how, even doing crossfire with 2 1GB cards, it doesn't treat it like 2GB of total memory somehow. So I dunno... if I were you I'd just steer clear of texture packs.
There is an Oblivion mod that basically tries to take the "content" from Morrowind, and stick it into the Oblivion engine. Called Morroblivion of course: http://morroblivion.com/ Haven't tried it though, and like a lot of mods, might be pretty rough. As for Skyrim's level scaling, I believe it is like Fallout's. Something like every enemy has a level range (say level 10-20), and your level determines what level the enemy is (so level 5 would mean level 10, level 25 would be level 20). And like the answer to everything else...mods. I'm still curious to see how Skyrim scales on PCs (probably some info already, but I haven't checked it out). Unlike previous games, don't think Bethesda is trying to max out the hardware that is out there (they're maxing out the 360/PS3 instead). Though with graphics mods (e.g., texture packs)...
Watching the live stream is making me want this game. Just got my 2nd 570GTX SC I ordered yesterday from Amazon too after selling them my old text books. :grin:
I'm also super curious about the leveling. Will you just use what you find and let your skills go up randomly, or will you try to only use things which makes the skills you want to go up go up? Back in the days of major and minor skills, I'd have heavy armor, block, sword and maybe the athletics one as a major skill, and archery, healing magic, and possibly stealth as a minor. I could try and only use items that will make those skills go up, or let my character develop more organically and not seek out opportunities to sneak unless they come up naturally. I just don't know I'll do until I play around with it.
Sweet. Just looked it up and it is released midnight EST... which means I get to play it in one hour.
I would think there might be a sale on Skyrim during the holiday sales, but I don't think I can hold out that long.
I kind of doubt it. Skyrim, Modern Warfare, etc. are HUGE money-grabbers. People will buy it regardless. If there is any sale at all, it will be extremely minuscule.
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