sirjuddington
Slade doesn't mean what it used to
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I've somehow managed to clock up 20 hours in the game so far (it released a bit earlier in Australia), and wow, it's really an amazing game. I'm consistently being awed by the scenery, some of the views you can get from the tops of mountains are pretty epic. It runs pretty smooth on my system too, which is almost exactly the 'recommended' spec they set for the game. I'm running it on ultra but with a couple of things turned down a bit (shadows and antialiasing), 1920x1080.
As for the gameplay, I've been playing a mage, and the magic system in this is easily the best out of all ES games. It's simplified a little from previous versions, but you can do quite a few interesting things with it, due to being able to have a different spell in each hand, or the same and either combine or alternate them (alternating fireballs can be pretty fun :P). The dragon fights are especially well done for the most part, their animation is generally pretty fluid, they way they perch on random buildings is cool and they can even be somewhat unpredictable at times. Haven't come across any dragons that were much of a challenge so far though, but maybe that's my choice of class + spell schools (destruction+restoration), seems to make lots of things easy as long as I don't run out of magicka (having some ~250% faster magicka regen rate helps a bit :P)
It's crashed on me a couple of times, but I remember oblivion and fallout 3 being somewhat worse in that regard, so I'm not too bothered. The only real complaint I'd have is how awkward it can be to use the mouse with the menus. I have no problem with the menu design itself, it just seems pretty fiddly to interact with unless you use the keyboard only. Oh and the map, while kinda nifty, can be pretty useless sometimes since it doesn't show roads.
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11-11-11 08:02 
