[quote who="kryo" reply="64" id="3024754"] It's a Steamworks game, so *all* PC sales are "on Steam". No need to inflate the numbers; whatever number Steam says are playing are it. [/quote] Good point. I hadn't thought of that.
[quote who="Nenjin" reply="60" id="3024603"]So I'm torn on Skyrim. On the one, it may rank among the "best of" categories for anything Bethesda has ever done. Performance, visuals, story-telling, expansiveness. They're probably going to be able to license the engine out to tons of people based solely on how great it shows an open world and the level of fidelity it keeps. On the other, I can't see how anyone thinks this isn't a dumbed down version of TES.
[quote who="tetleytea" reply="143" id="3024419"]The problem I have with TBS is the time it demands from you. Your typical RTS game is over in like, 45 minutes? A large TBS game, 45 minutes is one turn.[/quote] How does that matter? You play 10 RTS games over the course of a month or 1 TBS game. To me, that's all the difference. I enjoy the occasional diversion while in class or at work thinking about whatever the situation was in the TB
[quote who="Jafo" reply="99" id="3024380"] Quoting Kantok, reply 98 Hope and potential win out over equality of misery. Wait until you are on the wrong side of the 'inequality of misery' that is capitalism...[/quote] I have been. And now I'm not.
[quote who="Jafo" reply="96" id="3024374"]Capitalism....Communism...two extremist ideals. Both flawed.[/quote] Without a doubt. But one allows you the chance to own your own successes as well as own your own failures. The other does not. One is generally accompanied by your individual right to have a say in how you are governed. The other is generally not. To me the choice is clear. Hope and potential win out over equali
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="94" id="3024370"] Gone, not missed and never forgotten, I hope. Horrible to think that misbegotten smear on humankind might, by error be repeated in any shape, way or kind.[/quote] I hope too. But I'm not optimistic. Just look at the negative press within the EU elite get for suggesting that countries hold elections and referendums to decide their societies fate (rather than leaving those decisions up to the educated 'elite&
[quote who="seanw3" reply="93" id="3024357"]I will avoid quoting as there are too many things to address. Based on these quick responses, I am guessing everyone here has a poor conception of what Communism was supposed to be. It was supposed to be a republic. [/quote] This is where the arguments for communism break down. It doesn't matter what it's supposed to be. What matters is what it is (or was). And it was (and is) an ideology
[quote who="seanw3" reply="90" id="3024313"] Quoting Kantok, reply 89 The Soviet Union wasn't an "experiment". It was one of the worst examples of human evil writ large in our history. It was a totalitarian monstrosity responsible for the wholesale death of millions of innocent people. Calling it an experiment is naive and a gross insult to all of those who lived with it. Would you say Hosking and Suny (two prominent historians of t
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="55" id="3024333"] The 3d map is bad because clouds cover a lot, and it's impossible to pick out any details about the environments. The only functional part is the dungeons/cities and quest locations. The white chalk map is bad because it's impossible to tell one thing from another. If I wanted to use it to navigate, I would be hard pressed to do that. This is true ten-fold when there's some sort of 3d layout to the geography.[/
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="48" id="3024205"]I'm very surprised at how bad the map is, both the 3d map (can't see anything) and the black sketch (can't see shit). The world is very pretty, I really wish we could get this sort of attention to a world in an mmo The game is supposedly selling extremely well: http://www.vgchartz.com/article/88459/skyrim-sales-exceed-34-million-units-in-two-days/ [/quote] I thought this about the map at first too,
[quote who="seanw3" reply="87" id="3023377"]While the soviet experiment did not succeed I look forward to a day when the art of labor is motivation in itself to sufficiently propel our society. [/quote] I have a few responses here, but am about to run out the door. I couldn't let this pass though. The Soviet Union wasn't an "experiment". It was one of the worst examples of human evil writ large in our history. It was a totalitarian monstrosity r
[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="44" id="3023291"]@KAntok yes, i saw the saves there as files... but i cna't get the skyrim engine/program to acknowledge them... the 'saves' option is greyed out, and does not respond to me. Is this becuase I installed the game on my D drive to advoid all the win 7 permissions hassles? Anyway, thansk for help... steam was driving me crazy - it still does...)..[/quote] I'm not sure where that's coming from
[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="85" id="3023307"]About food stamps and advanced degrees. Not all people earning a masters are going into high paying careers. Mine certainally wasn't a high paying career. Secondly, yes, its a choice. And some can argue that an adult choosing to live poor for a time to earn a degree is 'taking' money from other taxpayers. Perhaps so. But in the US, at least, during the past 30 years, automation has increased the producti
[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="41" id="3023173"]Thanks... how about where did my save games go? Appreciate it.... and use alt tab to get off steam so i can shut down the web connection?[/quote] You're save games should be in Documents/My Games/Skyrim/Saves, not solely in the cloud (although steam does it's save backup thing in the cloud).
[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="39" id="3023155"]I'm stuck and need help. Is there any way to play Skyrim, once its installed, without having steam on? (the internet connection off?) Installed skyrim from CD. Also, when I turn steam on, internet connection OK, Skyrim doesn't show any of my saved games, and will only let me start a new game. I have, like, 7 or 8 saves in there. HELP PLEASE.... steam is new to me and seems
One other thing of note. Nearly every dungeon I've been in has some sort of quick way out once you get to the end. I hated spending an hour or more wandering a dungeon in Oblivion and then having to spend 8 or 10 minutes backtracking to get out. In Skyrim they build in clever one way passages to get back near the beginning from the end. Doors that only open from one side via switch, passages at the end that lead to tunnels that are unreachable on
My stream of consciousness thoughts after about 10 hours of play yesterday. For the record I play on a high end custom built PC with all drivers updated. No spoilers below unless you didn't know there were dragons in the game. FYI, there are dragons in the game. There's a TLDR at the bottom. Graphical/Technical Stuff: I'm playing on Ultra settings. Never a frame rate slow down. Game is generally beautiful. &nb
Waiting on Steam, like you. I purchase very few games at launch each year, but as soon as I heard about Skyrim it was guaranteed to be one of them. Seeing what they've done with the game only reinforced it. My wife conveniently wanted to go visit one of her college friends this weekend. "You should absolutely go! Have a good time!" [e digicons]:grin:[/e] I've already informed my classmates that I'm "out of town" this weekend an
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="77" id="3021958"] Quoting Kantok, reply 75Seems like we largely agree unless I'm completely missing your point. We do indeed. And "my salute and thank you" to you and your wife for your service... one vet to another (me - IDF). If we don't talk before the 11th, have a well earned Veteran's Day.[/quote] Same to you sir. I hope things go well for your former compatriots in the coming days. It is not
[quote who="jackswift85" reply="76" id="3021954"] Quoting Kantok, reply 61 Quoting jackswift85, reply 59 The only people I know getting food stamps & living in trailers are ones that are almost done with their PhD candidacy or DVM degrees. Yeah, pretty lazy people that are a drain on society... Why should taxpayers be paying for someone to eat while they get their PhD exactly? Interesting. They get food stamp
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="74" id="3021945"] Quoting Kantok, reply 73By your reasoning Quoting DrJBHL, reply 72I do feel that he/she should (old school morality) be helping by working as much as he/she can without compromising the PhD. You should (imo) be receiving help/assistance as well as an extension of the G.I. Bill (the post WWII one, not the current washed out one).... there's no logic to privation, and no reason why a student should suffer. Nor is
[quote who="Alstein" reply="33" id="3021848"]You have to use Origin to install the games, so it's an exclusive to me [/quote] Do you have to have Origin installed to run them? Or can you uninstall Origin afterward you install the game?
[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="72" id="3021923"] He/she should (morals) be helping by working as much as he/she can without compromising the PhD. Why? Because in a society which values education (especially that which produces ideas that sell or improve our condition in some other way, or an educator to open and cultivate other minds) we realize that by helping others we reap concrete benefits. Beyond that partially mercantile reason, the
[quote who="OsirisDawn" reply="66" id="3021899"] (1) In this day and age, while using contraception, this is simply not the case. It is not likely. It is a 1: 100 chance and that even only due to rounding up. So thats basically where we disagree. If you get pregnant anyway, while under contraception it is unexpected. Thats all i am saying. (2) I dont think that is the case for most people. I knew / know people who fell on very (and sadly also terminal) hard times due to reason
[quote who="tetleytea" reply="68" id="3021907"] This explains where you're coming from right there. It's a tough pill to swallow to say that your full-time career you do for a living is founded on a lie--and when it's military personnel that makes it all the more politically incorrect on top of that--but unfortunately that is what I'm saying. Partisanship has nothing to do with it.[/quote] Hide your ignorance however you'd like. Y