sea's (Mostly Technical) Skyrim Initial Impressions

[Crispy]

EDIT: Do yourselves a favor by skipping my drivel and refer to sea's post on page 7 instead.

Okay, very initial impressions here. First thought that comes to mind: old-gen. Graphics engine is plain ugly so far. Many unimpressive textures, shadows are handled horribly, and the models and faces that I've seen at this point may be better, but pale in comparison to even something like RAGE.

Performance is a mixed bag so far. On one hand SLI utilization of my two 460's is reaching high levels, but framerates are plummeting fairly rapidly when viewing towns in the short distance. I need to back off the antialiasing a bit because I tried 8X to start off with, which my rig should be able to handle, but I'll settle for 4X if that brings the performance back up to where I like it. I also am now in the process of downloading the beta Forceware 285.79 drivers since they have a Skyrim SLI profile integrated, and I'm hoping some improved performance there.

Load times are short, intro was a bit disappointing.

That's it for now since I'm really tired but I'll hit it some more tomorrow.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

make sure you take plenty of screenshots old man

 

[Clockwork Knight]

First mod was already released.*snif*

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3

 

[Black]

Thanks for making yet another skyrim thread, it sure is appreciated.

 

[curry]

gay ass Jaesun retardoed my initial impressions thread so might as well post here

To be honest, Skyrim is a lot better than I expected. Definitely one of the best adventure games I've played recently

 

[Turisas]

Everyone should try this, even if just to experience the absolute piece of shit that they call the UI. It's hilariously bad, can't even be angry at it.

 

[Jaesun]

Everyone should try this, even if just to experience the absolute piece of shit that they call the UI. It's hilariously bad, can't even be angry at it.

That's what a well done LP will show. So we don't ever have to waste a second on d/l or installing such a Majestic Piece of Shit™.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

 

[sgc_meltdown]

I have to add that should Andyman, that pre-dinner mayonnaise eating viking steed, ever release a review I'll read it even if Crispy and half a dozen people beat him to the punch.

 

[Excidium]

Everyone should try this, even if just to experience the absolute piece of shit that they call the UI. It's hilariously bad, can't even be angry at it.

Can you at least bind your weapons/spells/etc on 1-9?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

For now, the most important tweak has to do with the fact that VSync is automatically on and can't be disabled from within the game. This not only reduces FPS, it also introduces mouse lag. To disable VSync in Skyrim, add iPresentInterval=0 to the bottom of the [Display] section of the Skyrim.ini file in the \Users\[Username]\My Documents\My Games\Skyrim directory.

 

[Oriebam]

Just pirate it. Or buy pre-owned/borrow.

 

[Peter]

900 kb/s 12m remaining

 

[Forest Dweller]

If all your impressions are just about graphics you are a faggot. Just saying.

 

[Morkar Left]

Re: Crispy's (Mostly Technical) Skyrim Initial Impressions

I will be picking the game up this evening from my local GameStop at midnight,

That's probably the creepiest thing you ever wrote. I'm disappoint.

 

[felipepepe]

Can you at least bind your weapons/spells/etc on 1-9?

Ahnnn shit...now you made wanna play Wicthaven...

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Crispy is fucking bacon, Dicksmoker. You don't get more heterosexual than bacon.

 

[Stabwound]

I'm playing it right now. People who say the menu/UI is bad are not exaggerating. It's a fucking travesty - by far the worst I've seen in a modern game. It reminds me of the UI from Might & Magic 3-5, but even worse.

I really hope someone mods this sooner than later, but there's probably only so much that can be done.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

You don't get more heterosexual than bacon.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gay+bacon

 

[Andyman Messiah]

You don't get more heterosexual than bacon.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gay+bacon

THAT IS NOT REAL BACON. THAT IS CANDY! REAL BACON IS CRISPY AS FUCK AND TASTE LIKE A MAN'S ASS.

oh fuck wait--!!

 

[Syril]

REAL BACON IS CRISPY AS FUCK AND TASTE LIKE A MAN'S ASS.

oh fuck wait--!!

 

[Andyman Messiah]

REAL BACON IS CRISPY AS FUCK AND TASTE LIKE A MAN'S ASS.

oh fuck wait--!!

even though I hadn't planned on editing it outCurse reply with quote!

 

[Trash]

My short impressions after playing Skyrim (with 1.1 patch) for about an hour. Runs flawlessly with all the settings on ultra, animations aren't as terribad as expected, UI is extremely terribad, where is the head bobbing, water looks cool, dungeon design is lame, spiders are kewt and did I mention the UI is bad? World also seems to be quite big.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

REAL BACON IS CRISPY AS FUCK AND TASTE LIKE A MAN'S ASS.

neigh-chan have you been getting high as fuck and mistaking man ass for bacon and vice versa

I await your shameful confession

 

[eggsackly]

Just finished the dragon-heavy intro/tutorial and the supposedly new engine looks just like the old engine with crude dynamic lighting tacked on. Seeing this makes one really appreciate what Carmack wanted to do with Tech 5; Skyrim looks just marginally better than Oblivion. Animation is as unintentionally funny as ever, already seen a dog moonwalk over a bridge.