Skill Minigames

[Alcrin]

Here's a topic I haven't seen here yet: As many of you already know, it's confirmed we're getting more mini-games in Skyrim to determine things instead of random skill rolls, like Oblivion's lockpicking mini-game. Many more interactions, from pickpocketing to smithing, are supposedly handled by mini-games now as well.

 

How do you feel about this development decision?

Edited August 12, 2011 by Alcrin

[LeopoldCrank]

It's interesting that there have been no negative votes yet...

[worm82075]

So you consider FO3's crafting to be a mini-game?

[Alcrin]

Err, haven't played Fallout 3, actually. So I can't really say. However what I can gleam from reading about it is you just select the ingredients and out comes the crafted object. So it's not really a minigame unless Oblivion's alchemy also counts as a minigame. But again, haven't played the game.

[irnbru]

minigames = bad.

 

When I think of minigames, I think of RDR, Fable, GTAIV, etc. That kind of thing doesn't belong in TES. Everything in TES should feel natural within the world with no changes to the camera angle or anything scripted.

[WrathOfDeadguy]

I don't mind minigames so much, but truth be told when they're applied on top of skills (where your skill rank, IMO, should determine your chance of success as with lockpicking etc) they just get in the way. Once I had the Skeleton Key in Oblivion all I ever did was punch the auto-attempt button until it opened... whenever I had a sufficient number of lockpicks before I acquired it I did the same thing and just never sank any points into lockpick because the minigame made the skill worthless.

 

Basically, I don't consider the minigames a major impediment to gameplay, but they do little to add to immersion and I tend to start bypassing them as soon as I am able to do so.

[billyro]

I'm not casting a vote. I would like the minigames if they were real time.

[Jagex]

I'm not casting a vote. I would like the minigames if they were real time.

Well what if you suck at lockpicking, then you'd never be able to get into buildings before the patrolling guards came past.

Also, what happened to traps on locks? I just remembered it wasn't in Oblivion.

[LeopoldCrank]

I'm not casting a vote. I would like the minigames if they were real time.

Well what if you suck at lockpicking, then you'd never be able to get into buildings before the patrolling guards came past.

Also, what happened to traps on locks? I just remembered it wasn't in Oblivion.

 

Amen. I was in a Dungeon in Morrowind last night (ah the nostalgia at playing that game again) and I died when I opened a chest (lvl 1 character). At first, I swore profusely, as I hadn't lain down a save for a while. But immediately after, I rejoiced, since I knew it was the small, harder things such as the trapped chests that made Morrowind the best Elder Scrolls game by a long shot.

[LeopoldCrank]

Perhaps most surprising is the number of people who seem to think that there was nothing wrong with the Oblivion minigames. I still have nightmares about that Disposition wheel.

 

Actually, watch this, pretty funny, and highlights the issues I disliked too:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAHBMj2N5Qs