WolfySnackrib Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 I know I'm probably just one among all of you who constantly has Skyrim on my mind. It's been long since I've been hyped up for a game because most games just suck and have nothing impressive, new or spectacular to offer. I'm hoping that Skyrim will be the best freaking single player experience ever! Probably the best single player experience I've had personally is with Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. But Skyrim, being half a year away from release still crawls up your spine and slithers through your veins to grab your heart. I for one, first thing I do every morning is look up Skyrim news to see if there's any new info or pictures. Sucks to be obsessed like a geek, but I can't help it. Skyrim seems awesome!The only sad thing is that how I got a wind of skyrim was through my friend who told me that he heard they were going to make a new way for NPC's to talk, by recording only words and then linking them together through programming, enabling programmers to make quests with the voices of the NPC's from the original game. That got me all excited and thought it was about time someone started to put some science into that idea, but piece by piece it dawned on me that my friend is just a dumbass. Sigh. We're still not making impressive progress with games, I would've been impressed if they managed to program NPC's with words like that, it'd be tough since there's all kinds of things to take into consideration as to not sound too robotic, but it could be done. Definitely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetOutOfBox Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 I know I'm probably just one among all of you who constantly has Skyrim on my mind. It's been long since I've been hyped up for a game because most games just suck and have nothing impressive, new or spectacular to offer. I'm hoping that Skyrim will be the best freaking single player experience ever! Probably the best single player experience I've had personally is with Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. But Skyrim, being half a year away from release still crawls up your spine and slithers through your veins to grab your heart. I for one, first thing I do every morning is look up Skyrim news to see if there's any new info or pictures. Sucks to be obsessed like a geek, but I can't help it. Skyrim seems awesome!The only sad thing is that how I got a wind of skyrim was through my friend who told me that he heard they were going to make a new way for NPC's to talk, by recording only words and then linking them together through programming, enabling programmers to make quests with the voices of the NPC's from the original game. That got me all excited and thought it was about time someone started to put some science into that idea, but piece by piece it dawned on me that my friend is just a dumbass. Sigh. We're still not making impressive progress with games, I would've been impressed if they managed to program NPC's with words like that, it'd be tough since there's all kinds of things to take into consideration as to not sound too robotic, but it could be done. Definitely. Don't expect greatness from Skyrim in terms of technological features, the game will still be in DirectX 9, despite the fact that DirectX 9 is 8 years old, DirectX 10 has come and gone and we're now on DirectX 11. The game is going to look "pretty much the same as the console versions" according to developer Todd Howard. I'll bet money that it's going to have multicore support just as shitty as Oblivion's, and I'd be amazed if it included a 64-bit executable. Sure, it's going to look better than Oblivion (hopefully), but it's not going to be a big step up. I don't know what's with Bethseda making a big deal about the weather system, since it looks pretty much the same as Oblivion's in the screenshots. Just think back to when Oblivion was about to come out, and how Bethseda was hyping up the Radiant AI system, which we all know turned out to be nothing more than a mudcrab-conversation simulator. The reason why PC development is moving so slowly right now is because of consoles. They are currently the most profitable market, so game developers tailor their game's to console's capabilities, which in comparison to modern PC's, are abysmal. Unfortunately, the PC gamer demographic is a minority, most people are console gamers. Therefore there's a lot less room for profit when developing for the PC. Crysis 1 was an amazing example of a game that was made with PC's in mind, it not only supported cutting edge features only PC's could handle, it also was extremely optimized, with full support for multi-core CPU's, 64-bit OSes, multiple video card PC's (CrossfireX/SLI), etc. Most games have abysmal multi-core support, are not optimized for 64-bit systems, and scale poorly with Crossfire/SLI performance. As for the NPC voices thing your friend was talking about, yeah, it's bull. Even if it were conceivable to have a dynamically mixed voice system on todays computers, it would sound shitty. Just try mixing various sound clips from a recording of someones voice, the tone will sound all mixed up and awkward. What's more likely to be the next step is a TTS (text-to-speech) engine, but one that sounds realistic is pretty far away in the future. It's not so much a matter of performance, but trying to design software intricate enough to capture the various inflections, tonal patterns, accents, sentence flow, etc that people use when speaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfySnackrib Posted May 16, 2011 Author Share Posted May 16, 2011 I hate, I hate, I hate consoles!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullsy Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 (edited) I remember when I first saw the Skyrim teaser trailer. It was like I had found a reason to live. I immediately called up all of my fellow nerd friends and we made preparations to dress up in renaissance outfits and attend the midnight release. We are also going to trade in the money we will use to pay for the game for 1$ gold coins, to better fit the role. In case you were wondering, I'm the mage, one friend is a warrior, and my other friend will be an elven archer. (he has to grow his hair to his shoulders and shave his top into a widows peak so he can slick it back) I can see it now... "We have come from the far lands of the black marsh, to take part in the exchange of the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim!" Edited May 17, 2011 by skullsy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAPALM13092 Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 I remember when I first saw the Skyrim teaser trailer. It was like I had found a reason to live. I immediately called up all of my fellow nerd friends and we made preparations to dress up in renaissance outfits and attend the midnight release. We are also going to trade in the money we will use to pay for the game for 1$ gold coins, to better fit the role. In case you were wondering, I'm the mage, one friend is a warrior, and my other friend will be an elven archer. (he has to grow his hair to his shoulders and shave his top into a widows peak so he can slick it back) I can see it now... "We have come from the far lands of the black marsh, to take part in the exchange of the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim!" This is win on so many nerdy depraved levels. Me and my buddy were just gonna get it at midnight and play for like 24 hours straight drinking beer and being stupid with our PC's side by side in my living room. But I think you win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfySnackrib Posted May 19, 2011 Author Share Posted May 19, 2011 And I thought I was a geek for wanting to dress up like Rorschach for halloween. But I was lazy, so my best friend went as Rorschach instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herger_the_Joyous Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 That's normal to the average SCA member. Maybe I should break out my viking kit for the release.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crippledorphan Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 SCA is Awsome except I have banged in awhile my shoulder is still giving me hail after I found an unfortunate death at the end of my own house members pike good times ohwell yeah all my armor is nordic I was dubbed Osten the shieldbreaker after I broke a knights shield in a bday tourney it sheered his shield basket bolts right off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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