11-30-2011, 10:27 PM
Picked it up a while ago and have been playing it.
So far mostly good. The consoley UI irritates me, but I'm overlooking it for now.
I'm a side-quester. Only just got Lydia at lvl 13.
Doing light armor / 2H (sword) / sneak / Ench / Smith perks as a first go around. Getting a 2H sneak attack is pretty funny. Two shot a bear with a critical sneak attack this morning.
Seems balanced to be easy enough that you don't really need to optimize, but I'm still pretty early on in the levels.
The leveling system is miles better than Morrowind. Pretty organic, you are what you skill kind of system, I like it.
Skills do have a strange balance in terms of leveling though. I have had to do a certain amount of letting things beat on me to get my armor skill or blocking to keep pace. On the other side of te coin, Sneaking seems to be a little on the "tremendously easy" side to level (you can sneak walk into a wall around a sleeping friendly while AFK and get skill ups). But it is nice that a successful sneak attack gives a HUGE chunk of a skillup... at least with a 2H weapon. I suppose this is considered a difficult kind of sneak attack, so it may get more bonus than a dagger.
Just by feel, weapon skills seem to be balanced around damage done rather than independent hits, so that seems good. Initially, I avoided weapon perks tried keeping my rockjoint just to get extra attacks each kill, but it didn't seem to help. That's some good design.
The caves and such feel pretty linear, but they are fun. Difficult enough that charging in gung ho will often get you killed, so that's good too.
I haven't had much experience with Lydia, but found this gem, thought people would like it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTMwjYgJsFQ
So far mostly good. The consoley UI irritates me, but I'm overlooking it for now.
I'm a side-quester. Only just got Lydia at lvl 13.
Doing light armor / 2H (sword) / sneak / Ench / Smith perks as a first go around. Getting a 2H sneak attack is pretty funny. Two shot a bear with a critical sneak attack this morning.
Seems balanced to be easy enough that you don't really need to optimize, but I'm still pretty early on in the levels.
The leveling system is miles better than Morrowind. Pretty organic, you are what you skill kind of system, I like it.
Skills do have a strange balance in terms of leveling though. I have had to do a certain amount of letting things beat on me to get my armor skill or blocking to keep pace. On the other side of te coin, Sneaking seems to be a little on the "tremendously easy" side to level (you can sneak walk into a wall around a sleeping friendly while AFK and get skill ups). But it is nice that a successful sneak attack gives a HUGE chunk of a skillup... at least with a 2H weapon. I suppose this is considered a difficult kind of sneak attack, so it may get more bonus than a dagger.
Just by feel, weapon skills seem to be balanced around damage done rather than independent hits, so that seems good. Initially, I avoided weapon perks tried keeping my rockjoint just to get extra attacks each kill, but it didn't seem to help. That's some good design.
The caves and such feel pretty linear, but they are fun. Difficult enough that charging in gung ho will often get you killed, so that's good too.
I haven't had much experience with Lydia, but found this gem, thought people would like it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTMwjYgJsFQ
Conc / Concillian -- Vintage player of many games. Deadly leader of the All Pally Team (or was it Death leader?)
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.