It's sitting in the glove box in my car waiting for home time.Then I can spend the afternoon faffing about trying to register it through Steam and getting whatever updates have already been released. Three and a half hours to go.

I bet you it's not. Or rather, I bet you it is but in a very different way. Does it have a house built inside the shell of a giant crab?

I'm in the same boat as you. I was going to get it and then thought I'd leave it until Christmas, along with Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3 and a badminton raquet I've been wanting for ages.

 

Still, I've got plenty of other games I haven't touched to get through until then.

I should be playing it i a matter of minutes. It's installed but auto updating itself via steam before it'll let me play. It's at 99% though. I am excited.

IT'S READY!

:o :(

It's not the same but is (so far) as good. But I've not played long and it could all yet go to shit.

All I've done so far is explore. I've done no quests. I've just run around the countryside looking. For 12 hours :Y

But yeah, they've got the weird back into it. It's awesome. I shall refrain from mentioning any specifics until we're all well into it :Y

The skills stuff has changed massively. Which for me is good because (like everyone else who played them a lot) I knew how to get overpowered very very quickly in MW/Ob. The skills system was part of what I was bored of because I'd fully explored it. Some will hate it though.

>>Some will hate it though

 

/Pete/ will hate it.

My favourite experience so far:

Early on, I was out in the wilderness and I ran across a couple of skellingtons. So I decided to give them a twatting. They were quite hard though and the twatting was quite balanced. Then a fucking skellington magiacian appeared and started dicking me with his magic ice bullshit. I was seconds away from being killed when a fucking woolly mammoth charged in from nowhere and insta-killed all the skellies :D I was like: " :O :O :O :O :O 8-O :D ".

Pete hates /everything/.

 

Very tempted by skyrim (which I keep reading as 'scrim' for some reason rather than sky-rim), but I also think I'll be holding off till Christmas. Hoping Batman can keep me going till then.

 

But oooh, dragons!

I read it as skirim, two syllabl*dies*

 

I was most upset when the advert I saw on the telly for it earlier made it sound like a gay astronaut porno :(

 

*not that there's anything wrong with gay astronaut pornos, I just didn't think it was pronouned like that. *rims the moon*

I'm kinda torn between this and Zelda. (giggle)

Actually, based on what I've read they've relaxed the rigidity of the system the previous games used, making it much more flexible and giving greater personalisation of your character, which is almost certainly a good thing.

That is, I believe (only played 12 or so hours so far), exactly what they've done. It feels far more fluid and free.

How close is it to what Fallout 3 had?

I'm curious about the skill system; whether there's a level cap or something. Because I'd quite like to get perks in quite a lot of things and I'm not sure whether I need to ration myself.

 

I've done a couple of quests so far, including my first dungeon, which was quite good, though it did seem relatively easy. The rest of the time I've been chasing dragonflies and throwing myself down waterfalls.

 

I'm going to do one or two more of the main storyline quests before I start properly exploring. I think I read somewhere that wandering dragons don't happen until you've got to a certain point, and if I'm going to run away from something then at least one of those somethings should be a dragon.

 

By the way, sneaky sniping Wood Elf. It was pretty much guaranteed that I'd go with that choice.

Very close, but better. Essentially the same, but the perks are arranged into trees under specific skills.

:D

I've done no quests (other than the one you have to do at the start). Though I'm doing one now.

Fighting got tougher quickly. First few levels it's easy, aye. But it ramps up so be ready for that. I'm actually using some magic, because it's fucking awesome this time.

I am, of course, a Wood Elf. Because that is what I am. I am using bows a bit, dual-daggers a bit (massive fun, them) and magic when it gets tight (often).

Throwing oneself off waterfalls is such a joyous thing in this game. I'm kinda using rivers as a fast way of getting around :Y

Skills stuff - yeah I'm in the same boat. Not quite sure about that stuff. I'm being kinda cautious at the moment and only getting perks I know will be useful to me based on how I'm playing.

Please will you stop making me want this game! :@

I don't have time to get sucked into something like this. :(

Wikipedia says "upon levelling fifty times, the player character can continue to level and earn perks, but the rate of levelling is slowed significantly", but it's source for that statement is an preview from February, and doesn't say anything about continuing past fifty.