(September 11, 2012 at 12:37 am)Tempus Wrote: Does Skyrim have books you can read?
Yes, many of them are very interesting.
Quote:Can you equip mismatching pauldrons?
No, but you get more choice over your armour than in Fallout. You can equip boots/chestplate/pauldrons/helmets all separately. Plus there's a huge (and I mean huge) amount of clothing to choose from.
Quote:I know you couldn't read books or equip separate bits of armor in TES:4.5 (AKA Fallout 3), which was stupid.
Fallout 3 wasn't TES 4.5, so drawing those comparisons is pretty stupid
Quote: I mean they had the terminals, but it just wasn't the same, maaaan. I don't want to use a computer on a computer. Don't be breaking the fourth wall and reminding me I'm burning time on a useless endeavour! I want to read a book, damn it - a real hard cover book. On a computer. Now that's classy time killing.
The terminals were just a minigame mostly, only in very few situations did they have any real information on them, equivalent at all to the elder scrolls.
Quote:Also, seriously, what's the point of equipping cool armour if you use first-person all the time and never see it? Yeah yeah, it's better defense or whatever, but no one cares about that shit! You can't screenshot defense! You can't triple stamp a double stamp! Which brings me to my next unrelated point: actually nevermind goodbye.
No one said you have to be in first person all the time. Hell, I spend a shit ton of time just panning the camera out admiring how badass and awesome my character looks. But when it comes to actually playing, 3rd person sucks. Combat is crap. Archery in 3rd person is practically impossible. Admittedly, 2 handed weapons in 3rd person is pretty cool, but apart from that you lose all the intensity of what makes the game so immersive. You miss out on the tactile interactions with the world and your enemies. The game just becomes like any other hack and slash adventure game, and less of an immersive, visceral RPG.
