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Could be. Anyway I thought (since I made a comment earlier on the kb/m controls being shit in Oblivion) folks might find this dandy:

Skyrim is (from what I can tell): Creation Engine, composed of: Main game: Gamebryo Physics & Animation: Havok AI (and others): Radiant Story (Bethesdas own creation specifically for Skyrim, previously Radiant AI in Oblivion) Rendering: Bethesdas tweaks to Gamebryo In-Game Menus: Scaleform Facial Animation: FaceFX Face Creator: FaceGen It uses Bink too, but I haven't a fucking clue where unless Skyrim has FMVs?

360 versions usually looked better as they were made on 360 then ported across. The companies that excelled on PS3 were usually first party studios doing exclusives (and thus able to use all 7 cores instead of jsut three), or the few studios that made the game for PS3 then ported to 360.

Yeah that, the same thing most other programs handle like so: And only do it when you actually have an error, not when you install the client. Also it's Origin doing it, Windows has it's own service for error reports, if the windows service was doing it people wouldn't be moaning about Origin scanning their PC.

Rockstar games use for behavioural animations, Skyrim is using Havok, which started as a physics engine. So the animations they focus on are a bit different.

I think what Tenshi is asking is does it still scan your computer and does the EULA still have the terms that it's okay to do that. Obviously Origin isn't Spyware, it just acts that way. Same as Sony DADCs old DRM wasnt' a rootkit, it just acted that way.

Se that's where the difference is between a company with investors and a company without. Company with investors brags to the investors the prices are so high. Company without doesn't even really hit double digits.

http://www.indieroyale.com/ Bundle 2 is out. It starts low, price goes up over time. But if people pay more than the base price then it lowers the base price for everyone else. Ben There Dan that, Time Gentlemen, Fate of the World, Scoregasm n something else.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/38379/EA_CFO_Touts_Origins_Advantage_Over_Valves_Steam.php lolol. Iv'e seen this pop up a few times in Twitter, with the general lines of "but Steam has valve games".

See we have: *pulls mic from ceiling* In the blue corner: Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, and a few others. In the red corner: GAME, Gamestation, HMV, PC World & Co, Grainger Games, etc etc And in the yellow corner: Amazon UK, Play, Zavvi, ShopTo, The Hut, etc etc And in the green corner: (which you guys have too) Steam, D2D, Greenman Gaming, Impulse, etc etc. Competition is pretty high. But if you guys have like only one main competitor n a ton of little guys it does kinda fuck up the balance of power. We don't get the amazon voucher deals though.

I'll just throw this info here. So as you may be aware Bethesda is involved in two trials. One with Mojang and one with Interplay. The Interplay one started over Fallout: Online, the MMO that Interplay are making. Bethesda obviously doesn't like the idea (despite them knowing full well that the MMO rights were not part of their agreement and that Interplay were going to make an MMO). So yeah they took them to court. However recent changes to the case has meant that it won't be by jury (as per agreement of both parties). And also: Which means that if Interplay win, you won't see Fallout 4 being made by Bethesda. (hey maybe that means we could have Fallout London? ) It puts Bethesda in a sticky position becuase the very fact Bethesda are now taking them to court is pretty obvious proof that Bethesda weren't totally into the agreement in the first place edit: The agreement in question: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Asset_Purchase_Agreement

Does the US just generally suck for launch day deals? Everywhere is a solid $60? Cos I'm getting it for equivalent of ~$35 and it's not the only place doing that price. Wait, do you guys pretty much just have Wal-mart, Gamestop and Amazon? Cos that could be a big part of it I guess. We have supermarkets alone getting big titles and beating the shit out of each other with price cuts n rollbacks n double reward points n all sorts. Harry Potter Deathly Hallows was a huge one. It was news on how much cheaper each store was going each day. Oh I mentioned this on Twitter but not in above post: The map is pretty damn nice, awesome texture.

Red Dead looked equally gash. (It was also pretty damn empty.) In fact the "fur" type look is pretty similar now I think of it. @Tenshi: What do you mean? Mine cost like £20, which is half of what Steam is charging. And you get a map. Buying Skyrim on Steam is fucking insane. Also Skyrim came early for me. However: Oh n Duke of Pwn is playing already, he VPN'ed it. One VPN service even set up specially for Skyrim. https://www.vpnsecure.me/ if you're interested. Just NEVER BUY GAMES THROUGH A VPN. (It's illegal, oh n you'll be banned, unlocks are fine though)

Take your pick: PC: Rockpapershotgun - http://www.rockpaper...yrim-review-pc/ PC gamer - http://www.pcgamer.c...-skyrim-review/ Console(360): Giantbomb: http://www.giantbomb...-33394/reviews/ Joystiq: http://www.joystiq.c.../skyrim-review/ Grauniad: http://www.guardian....w?newsfeed=true Escapist: http://www.escapistm...V-Skyrim-Review edit: yep it's console. I quite like Giantbombs kinda banner thing at top of the review. Might steal it. Obviously PC gamer n RPS don't really need to state which version they get. Except of course when PCgamer requests a review copy of COD edit2: Gametrailers: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-hd-elder-scrolls/723801

This is awesome.

I hope you're kidding. Also, this looks fucking awful. But the game is already preordered, so I'll try to not pay attention to the visuals(as if). [image of cow] Yeah I'll probably be giving it a shot with a 360 pad, unless they actually bother with supporting kb/m properly this time around. As for visuals ever since their first trailer I've thought whatever it is they're attempting with this fur type texture thing going on (the giants/ogres have it too on their skirts) looks gash. That's looking pret Yeah, sure. Now look at this Morrowind screenshot. [image of morrowind] I'll wager that's a modded version of Morrowind. Though I have a feeling my modded Oblivion is going to upset my view of Skyrim too (mainly Qarls texture pack). I've not seen anything in-depth (And obviously we've seen next to nothing of the PC version since it's the 360 version that leaked) but it's certainly not a huge visual leap. Fingers crossed on the PC version. I know they've bragged on beign able to compress it to the 6GB for the 360, but come on, PC has much more than the limits of the 360 DVD. high-res textures out the box, not a mod or later download. Everyone seems to be doing Nord (at least the people with the leaked game). So unimaginative. As for sticking stuff in here or another thread. Up to you guys. If you make a thread for putting in adventures/backstories and leave this one for discussing actual game (i.e "it's broken" "DLC coming soon") then I won't stop you. From what I hear the draw distance has been improved (though I think that's maybe a console thing, since I could see Imperial City all the way from Sky Temple. Unless they're talking the LOD, that was pretty bad at fairly close ranges, hills became mushy textures). It is a bit worrying they're holding back on showing off PC and the only response to "can we get some PC footage at some point is "you've seen it: the first trailer" as if that's what we meant. Unless the bit from a dragons eye view is actually in the PC game of course, but I strongly doubt it. Oblivion was pretty bad port (not like Borderlands bad, or locked FPS bad, but certainly UI bad) so I won't mind too much if it's " shitty console UI with hilariously oversized fonts and buttons", but would hope that's improved upon.

Everything I know of US political system says that it's not meant to have a two party system at all, in fact afaik it's not meant to have a party system full stop. You guys have "independents" sure but the fact they're put in this dismissive category of "independents" is making me think people don't think much of them. While we may think BNP is a joke we take em serious enough because we know they can gain seats.

Yeah dude pretty much every current PC uses 2-6 cores, and the Xbox has 3. The PS3 was a pain due to a combination of coming out with 8-cores way before anything else had that many(in standard use) and it's completely different architecture with the Cell. It's not as much of a problem now since folks are used to it. Just a case of shaking out the old single-core programmers with fresh blood that can handle multi-core programming. @DocSeuss: You kinda missed the opening part "If you have dedicated cores to set tasks.."

That's where I liked White Knight Chronicles II. It came with the first game included. InFamous 2 was pretty decent with explaining the first game. Of course it's not always needed. See ..Uncharted series.

Elcor would be better. With Venom: DIE DIE. Alarm: It's an ambush sarcasm: I'm sure we'll get out of this alive.

The arrow part? edit: see I'd F5 then jump infront of that saw. Oh and from what I've seen, and from memories of Oblivion on PS3 and PC: I'm using my 360 pad (thank god it's supported unlike Oblivion which required crazy work arounds)

The "it'll use something Metro" is a bit a of "well durr" since MS are making it the default UI across all devices, including the 360. The "it'll run ARM with Win 9" is a "haha, yeah right". ARM is a minimal power processor. ARM is what you put in phones, tablets, Vitas. Not full blown consoles. Unless you want to fully blow your launch. Thurrot is playing it safe (extremely so, 360 already ties with MCE on PCs and has Silverlight, it's a bit like predecting the PS4 will have a dualshock controller) However I'll disagree with Madbass in regards to the multi-cores for different things being a bad idea. If you have dedicated cores to set tasks (And they don't all need to be equal, just small co-processors like the AA chip on the 360 already) it would help make a tougher console, though of course you're fucked if you don't give a shit about AI but want more physics. But if you've got a beefy main processor that can take on the load of whatever you want most. If they get too close to PCs (I know many people who skip a 360 purely because of the huge overlap between the 360 library and PC) then it bites into the Xbox sales. (Especially with publishers like EA making fairly huge moves into PC (it gives them more control than acting through the MS middleman) If MS can go "well develoeprs we offer a piece of hardware specifically tailored to the processing needs of a game, not a general purpose CPU for all tasks". And if they can keep their API n SDK strong so that it can still have easy porting between MS paltforms while taking advantage of the theoretical Xbox 720 fancy processor set-up it makes it more appealing. Could also extend the life of the console significantly. It's kinda the same set-up Sony tried with the PS3 this gen, more cores than needed, make em flexible enough so should physics or AI or something win out then the extra cores on the SPU are there to support the developer.

The shouts and the dragons aren't strictly related. @jesus christ: Remember heavy armour dulls your magic skills.

yeah this dudes theories were kinda torn apart in the original thread. Picking a game that's already localized 10 years ago is not a great example. http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/m5stj/hey_konami_i_have_a_question_answered