Posts by Steppenwolf

If your portfolio is excellent it shouldn't be a problem to find a job in another country. A bit problematic could be that you already have a partner and two kids. Without lots of experience you will not get a senior position so could be hard to make enough money to support them, pay the rent for a bigger appartement etc. And when things go wrong (aka you get layed off) it makes you less flexible to deal with the situation.

Never had an ATI card myself but had to deal with them more then enough due to family/friends. Always find them such a pain in the ass. Imo a classic example of saving money on the wrong end.

Regarding performance i must say a good card by itself doesnt give you good performance. The rest of your PC is just as important. I had to put my old 9800GT in my new PC and it run like a beast. Would easily still be good for 1-2 more years to play games and use 3d software properly. Doesn't have DX11 of course but thats not a priority for everybody.

This is why you don't buy ATI gfx cards

My father loves games like the Total War Series, Anno series, Mount & Blade, Civ 4,5 and so on.

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Oblivion and Fallout where the same thing. I stopped playing Oblivion around 60 hours, and Fallout 3 around 10. lol Im 47 hours into Skyrim so far and loving it.

I absolutely loved it in the beginning too. But yesterday i suddenly felt this "*meh*-click". I think it was because i already had 3 enchanted ebony swords and then got a 4th as a reward for finishing a major quest line. How lame is that? Something unique would have been nice. And imagine you spent hours improving your smithing and enchanting skills and then you find the same kind of stuff in crates everywhere and the shops have it in stock, which you can buy easily because its so damn easy to make money. So pointless.

And also in the beginning i was collecting money and felt motivated towards the 100k gold achievement but now there are mage robes worth 4000 lying around everywhere.

Another example, you clear a dungeon in the beginning and are proud because you did it and got some nice stuff out of it. Come back later and all the loot respawned but much better and you only have to run through it and collect without any challenge.

Fallout 3 for some reason motivated me beyond the 100 hour mark but i hated Fallout:NV. Only played 40 hours of it and already felt bored after like 10-15.

60 hours in and now i'm slowly losing interest in the game. The leveling isn't as bad as in Oblivion but again it serves as a big immersion and motivation breaker for me. Everything feels just pointless and devaluated by it in the end. What's the point of improving skills when the rest of the game improves with you? Another thing that bothers me is the lack of unique weapons and armor in the game. A game of this size and there are only a dozen completely unique items in it going by the wiki. The rest is enchanted standard stuff.

Also the balance of the game is a bit off. I started playing on adept difficulty which got too easy quickly and the game throws money and valuable loot at you on every corner. On master difficulty the combat is only a bit more difficulty and most loot is just trash and alms, which isn't fun either. After all the loot is an important motivational factor in rpg's.

Think i'm gonna finish the main quest line and the dark brotherhood over the weekend and then i'll wait for some mods before i play again.

Watched all four seasons of The Tudors not long ago. Great show. Learned a great deal about Henry the 8th and English history.

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Mine always gets noisy as hell. I just take the side of my case off and problem solved. I have been feeling some strange vibrations through my desk, I guess that's what it is.

That doesn't sound good actualy. I first bought a Palit 460 gtx with this new PC which was unbearably loud (like a jet taking off lol). Then i asked in the shop for a silent card and he suggested the Gigabyte 560 gtx. The clerk gave me his word about it. For the first month i had no trouble with it. It was indeed quite silent even when the fans run at 100%. Only now i get this noise and as i said it's not during the game but afterwards when the card cools down. I can also feel how it vibrates when i touch it.

Sorry for getting off topic.

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Gigabyte 560

Looks like we have the same gfx card. Did you have any trouble with it yet? One of my fans started to make a vibrating noise after a long 10 hour Skyrim session. Same yesterday after a long night session. Always happens when it goes to idle again after a long period of load. Not sure if this is something normal or if i should return it. Card is only 1 month old.

I often enough leave silver stuff behind. I can barely manage to transport the more precious stuff out of a big dungeon even tho i have the perk that allows me to carry 100 more and i only use light armor on myself. As soon as i have the achievement for 100k gold i will not bother anymore with regular items unless they are useful for me.

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Must sell stuff, to buy stuff!

I always go by weight to worth ratio.

That said my storage crates are already overflowing with loot that's actualy worth something.

This is gonna be like Morrowind where i had a house full with hundreds of precious weapons, armor sets and jewelry in the end.

Me and my crew:

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It's easy to criticise them for single aspects of the game but i can't even comprehend what it must mean to script a game of this proportion and do all the artwork and optimizing for it. I don't think they have a development team twenty times bigger then your average action game yet they squeeze so much more content in.

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it's seems you are some jack of all trades who can either fight and do magics.

In the end you have to specialize tho if you want to become really good at something. If i read correctly there are around 200 perks but you can only use 75 max (if you actualy level up that high).

I'm playing a thief/assassin so i specialize in lockpicking, pickpocketing, sneaking, light armor and one handed. Not going to max out all of these tho. So i will spend the rest on enchanting (because it's always fun in TES games to catch mighty souls and create powerfull items/weapons with them). Not long and i will be a silent killer who stabs his enemies with a dagger straight out of hell

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Menu fucking sucks though. And key binding sucks too. I used the arrow keys and rebinded everything around the arrow keys, and I still have to press tab to go back, and the bind instructions still show the default binds so I have to blindly press my new bindings until I get the right function.

THIS! Because of this i'm using the standard controls. First time that i play a game with wsad.

I'm getting the hang now of the controls but it still feels a bit awkward and clunky.

Loving the game. Biggest improvement over Oblivion are the dungeons imo. They seem a lot more interesting and less cookie cutter. Even found a couple riddles, something that i completely missed in Oblivion.

Also the size of the game, damn... I'm 13 hours in and have seen barely anything going by the map. Cleared like 4 or 5 dungeons but there are over 130 in the game afaik.

Had to travel to Riften for a quest but stumbled over so much stuff on the way, almost spent half the night only on this journey. They didn't lie when they said they never put so much stuff in one of their games before.

Visualy the game is hit or miss imo. Some places look rather ugly, in other places the scenery is breathtaking and beautiful.

Played only 1.5 hours last night. Think i'm gonna love the game. However the keyboard controls are clunky as fuck and the menu system is atrocious. Gonna take a while to get used to it. I'm just glad that i have a couple extra buttons on my new mouse otherwise it would be unbearable.

That's good to know. Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild quests in Oblivion were some of the best gaming experiences that i had in my life.

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It looks fucking stupid.

I think it looks cool. Very oldschool. But then i have no idea if the girls dig such mustaches these days.

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I never played any TES games, but I feel like playing more games that takes some time to complete.But looking at those videos I've no idea what to think, I mean...it looks super horrible. But the same goes for Fallout I guess, but it becomes so much more obvious when playing with melee weapons.

So people who like these games...does it look good compared to previous games, given it's 2011?

Can you have a dragon as an ally in these games btw?

Bit late my reply but since the game isn't out yet it shouldn't be too late. I think you have missed out big time by not playing the earlier TES games, especialy Morrowind.

It's true that the TES and Fallout games don't look like the best thing ever on the surface but you have to be aware of just how big they are. They can suck you in for over 100 hours easily and then you've seen maybe 50% of it, not even counting the stuff that would be different on a second playthrough with different choices. When i played Fallout 3 i often thought "lol this looks bad" but at the same time i was in constant awe at how much work they put in it regardless. The sheer complexity of it is insane from a game design perspective.

To me once i get immersed in a game gfx, animations etc. all become secondary. I know that Skyrim will probably do this for me like its predecessors so i don't really care too much how it looks now. Really looking forward to it. I just hope the leveling isn't broken like it was in vanilla Oblivion.