Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[AntiAntiMatter]

When's it coming out again?

11-11-11

[Sordid]

Fat chance.

Will you even notice the highly realistic NPC routines after a few hours?

Yes, because you'll be running all over the place wondering where the @#$% that NPC that you need to finish your current quest wandered off to.

[Sordid]

El whoopsie. Double post.

[AntiAntiMatter]

Will you even notice the highly realistic NPC routines after a few hours?

Yes, because you'll be running all over the place wondering where the @#$% that NPC that you need to finish your current quest wandered off to.

That's strange. That actually encourages roleplaying and using your brain. That's contradictory to the direction Bethesda seems to be going. Ergo, the quest compass returns!

[HLBeta]

Will you even notice the highly realistic NPC routines after a few hours?

Yes, because you'll be running all over the place wondering where the @#$% that NPC that you need to finish your current quest wandered off to.

If Oblivion is any guide, he's walked off a bridge, fallen through a gap in the geometry and died.

[Sensei]

Hrm, that never happened to me.

Also, I hope they make NPCs run when they ought to. I hated following slow-ass NPCs in Oblivion, especially since they stop and wait for you when you get too far ahead. Don't remember if Morrowind did any better, mind. At the very least that's something that should be easy to fix.

[MasterFancyPants]

Hrm, that never happened to me.

Also, I hope they make NPCs run when they ought to. I hated following slow-ass NPCs in Oblivion, especially since they stop and wait for you when you get too far ahead. Don't remember if Morrowind did any better, mind. At the very least that's something that should be easy to fix.

Oh... God... the followers in Morrowind... The Terror... THE TERROR! Anyone remember taking that woman to Ghost Gate... damn Cliff Racers...

[Sordid]

Bah, that's peanuts. Remember that useless level 1 slavegirl you were supposed to bring to the ashlander chief as a bride? Across half the damn map, and half of the way across water swarming with slaughterfish? You'd better have made a Waterwalk on Touch spell, or it's going to be a looooong trip punctuated by frequent quickloading.

[Sergius]

Followers in Morrowind had this weird pheromone-based pathfinding, where they would mimic every step you make, every breath you take. So if you start writing your name in the sand then turn around, you'll see the NPC following you doing the exact same thing.

[MasterFancyPants]

Followers in Morrowind had this weird pheromone-based pathfinding, where they would mimic every step you make, every breath you take. So if you start writing your name in the sand then turn around, you'll see the NPC following you doing the exact same thing.

I think I was to keep them from getting hung-up on rocks, walking off bridges, or stuff like that.

[xeivous]

Well, my greatest desire for this game is that they have werewolves, and actually make an effort to integrate their system into the world. There's practically no good games out there where you can play as a werewolf, and Bloodmoon in Morrowind was by far the best... but it still ended up feeling pretty empty and meaningless once you finished the main quest in Bloodmoon. There's no NPCs you can interact with in any way related to your condition, and any NPC who sees you transform just makes the entire world insantly hate you.

I guess what I'm really hoping for is not just lycanthropy, but it having some impact on your game besides a skin-change and a stat boost. I want questlines, other werewolf NPCs who don't try to kill you, Werewolf-hunter NPCs that DO try to kill you, stuff like that. Maybe even a cool hideout.

I'll be able to forgive a lot of questionable design choices in the game if they come through on this one thing.

Maybe if you are good enough friends with some people, they won't attack you if they learn that you are that particular werewolf and pity you. Or if you keep your lycanthropy a secret, running around murdering people and livestock and someone finds you out, they'll hate you unless you can convince them otherwise.

[Tilla]

http://www.ripten.com/2011/01/17/new-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-details-sam-n/

Some more stuff is in here. Mostly more details about the engine and quest system

[Sordid]

That screenshot looks really really pretty, but that landscape's going to be a bitch to get around unless they put levitation back in.

[scriver]

The game will run on an all-new “Creation Engine,” which features focus on lighting, draw distance, foliage and realistic environmental and weather effects

Not on dialogue, story or characters, then? I guess any sort of actual content would be too much to hope for.

If you swing your weapon near an NPC, knock items off their dinner table, or try to steal something of value, they’ll react with an appropriate level of hostility given their prior relationship to you.

Cue people turning into homicidal maniacs after you mistakenly knocked their broom to the ground.

There are a wide variety of random encounters,” said design director Bruce Nesmith. “Many of them are things the player can interact with, some are not. You might save a priest who then tells you about a dungeon where there are people trapped that need saving. You might run across mammoth beset by a pack of wolves.

...

“Traditionally in an assassination quest, we would pick someone of interest and have you assassinate them,” Howard says. “Now there is a template for an assassination mission and the game can conditionalize all the roles – where it happens, under what conditions does it take place, who wants someone assassinated, and who they want assassinated. All this can be generated based on where the character is, who he’s met. They can conditionalize that someone who you’ve done a quest for before wants someone assassinated, and the target could be someone with whom you’ve spent a lot of time before.”

Now this. This actually sounds promising. Almost got a little excited there (and we can't have that can we). I hope it works out and functions like it should.

[LoSboccacc]

Radiant Story is also smart enough to know which caves and dungeons you've already visited and thus conditionalize where, for instance, a kidnapped person is being held to direct you toward a specific place you haven't been to before, populated with a specific level of enemy. This helps Bethesda avoid repetition and usher the player into areas the team wants you to explore.

do not like.

If you're really good at a particular skill, like one-handed weapons or destruction spells, a stranger who knows of your reputation  may ask for training, challenge you to a duel, or beg you for a favor that will require you to show off your skill

do like. (but if the task was here to begin with and not created to suit you)