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    Skyrim vs LoG

    in Skyrim LE

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    Is this "LoG" game available in 3rd person or is it just 1st person like the trailer? Otherwise, I'm not interested in it.

     

     

    Unfortunately, First person only,

     

    Thanks.

     

     

    and I fell for the op's initial statement and purchased a copy....

     

    This is more like an old win98 style game, very VERY limited ability to do anything. Find a key, open door, run down hall, squash a giant snail that looks like a cartoon, might take a few hits... find the next key, open the next locked section of the "dungeon", ad-infinitum. Complete waste of the $18 I spent on it. Already uninstalled.

     

    /comfort

    Distances in Skyrim

    in Skyrim LE

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    Well, I, for one, would love to have a realistically-scaled Tamriel. At one time I did a little work, putting togther a lot of different things related to real-life geography and ecology and figured that all of Tamriel is probably about the size of Australia. Even at that there are a few oddities, such as the extreme cold in the north while Leyawiin County in Cyrodiil is supposed to be semi-tropical (at least in Oblivion). Bethesda changed this for Oblivion, though, since that part of Tamriel was steamy jungle in earlier games, or so I understand. It's rather difficult to balance everything and maintain a realistic Niben Basin.

     

    At any rate, to run Skyrim, properly scaled in real-world terms, would require a super-computer, and nobody has yet to release one as a desktop PC. Skyrim and Oblivion are so tiny because they've been scaled for game-play on console machines, which would totally choke if they had to deal with the complexity of environments and simultaneously-running AI scripts that a moderate to high-end PC could handle with ease. So, don't look for any changes from this in future games.

     

    Now, given a few tricks, though, it might be possible. Our gameworlds are flat. What if they were realistically curved? If Nirn were the size of Earth then the horizon would be about three miles away for an average sized human standing at sea-level and looking out across the sea. Ignoring the refractive index of air, the distance to the horizon if the observer is about 100 feet above sea level is approximately twelve miles. From an altitude of about 1 mile (a typical moderately sized mountain) it's about 90 miles away.

     

    Since the world-spaces that Bethesda gives us are bounded by either mountains or ocean this could be manageable with a dynamically-scaled LOD. Most of the time an observer within the game would likely be able to see no more than a mile or so in any given direction, anyway, and both Oblivion and Skyrim already have such vistas.

     

    Unfortunately, it would take an eternity for Bethesda's team to flesh out a map the size of Australia without the help of some sophisticated (and probably non-existent) algorithms to create height maps and then place vegetation and rocks and carve out realistic waterways. With such a tool, though, the designers could spend their time creating interactive content and just tweaking the environment where needed to fit that content into the world seamlessly.

     

    Do you think this would necessarily be the case if Bethesda used zones to separate the different regions? There's already precedent for it since you have to zone-in to enter the big cities anyways.

    Guys who play girl characters

    in Skyrim LE

    Posted · Edited by eodx9000

    I feel like a girl in real life even though I'm a guy so to me it's as natural to play a girl as for a regular guy to play a guy. Or a regular girl to play a girl. But for some reason, I am a guy that wishes he was a girl even though I'm attracted to girls too. But I don't want to be this way. If I could choose I would choose being a guy that is glad to be a guy over being a guy that wishes he was a girl like I am. That's why I'll never try to dress like a girl or get a sex change irl. Because I won't be a girl I'd be a transvestite. There's a difference imho. So I'm stuck as a guy so, dang it I might as well enjoy it. Right?

     

    Interesting, I'm almost the same way - I don't want to just "look" female, I want to "feel" and "be" female while attracted to females (funny thing, even my doctors said I should've been born female before I was born). I say 'almost' because I think it's just current technology that limits the 'sex change' operation that keeps me from becoming an actual female and that the Singularity holds the key to being able to truly change my current biology to that of a female, both in DNA and looks alike. (Of course that's also because I'm a Singularitarian-Transhumanist.)

     

    As for the topic - well in a manner of speaking I already mentioned why in this post, but there's more to it than that.

     

    1. I've not once played a game with an optional gender choice and managed to stick with a male character. The gameplay just seems so 'bleh' and like I likely alluded to, I just don't feel I'm 'myself' by playing a male character when there's an optional choice.

    2. I do like nude mods.

    3. Perhaps because I'm always more satisfied with heroines than heroes. For instance, Sigourney Weaver (Ripley in the Aliens quadrilogy) was my role model growing up.

    4. Maybe for the same reasons you like playing the non-human races despite that you yourself are human?

     

    For the record, I'm 28yrs old and if I caught flak for it in the real world, rest assured the chances of an individual leaving my sight unwounded would be slim-to-none as I'm 6'0, 245lbs (I actually just recently lost 15lbs of fat as a matter of fact, as I've started back to working out), and can lift up to anything almost twice my weight with a kick power of 250psi.

    Sexist Realism

    in Mod Ideas

    Posted · Edited by eodx9000

    An interesting mod idea, but as a male that almost exclusively plays female characters I'd want to at least see more dialog where the FMC can prove herself in a manner to embarrass the male characters.

     

    Strength-wise--under the right circumstances, training and upbringing, a woman can NOT be all that a man can be under those same circumstances. This isn't sexist, it's biology. Even taking steroids and GH, the strongest woman raised from birth to compete (understand this has happened in China and the USSR-if not wide-spread) cannot match the strength of the strongest natural male.

     

    While I agree with your assessment (that males are biologically stronger than females) and perhaps the poster you quoted was using the wrong terminology, I'd like to counter the exact part I'm quoting by saying strength isn't always the best offense, and it definitely is not the only offense. Women have faster/quicker agility and dexterity, are more alert and graceful, and can often be wiser than their male counterparts. Then there's the fact that humans are a seemingly minority in the animal kingdom when it comes to Male/Female relations (while males are often seen as fiercer and more dangerous in the human species, it seems for the most part the female in other animal species is the fiercer and more dangerous counterpart, like for instance the preferable guard dog is female).

     

    Edit: Also the above poster said it best, we don't even know what the biology is of the "human" species in the TES series is.

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