Skyrim

[damn-I-Suck]

Try upping the difficulty all the way up in oblivion and THEN tell me magic was broken. Actually, the game is pretty balanced. Magic ought to hurt more, why? Because wizards are frail that's how most RPG's are anyway.

The only exception maybe is invisibility, that one spell makes any half-brained character viable. Can't get past a certain part? Just go invisible and go past them. Need to kill them? Just go invisible, sneak attack with a multi-damage poison (with a 100% weakness to poison enchantment on your bow or weapon), then go invisible again, and TADA!! Watch their health just drop like a dead weight. Invisibility was broken. You could go through the whole game undetected. And stealing was never made easier.

 

[franman]

Another thing I'm interested in, is 3rd person view viable this time?

I play on the PC and yes you can switch to 3rd person view by hitting the F key. You can also scroll the camera to zoom in and zoom out.

Also when riding a horse there's no longer first person view and controlling the horse is awkward at first since you can't move your horse backwards.

 

[Ring]

Try upping the difficulty all the way up in oblivion and THEN tell me magic was broken. Actually, the game is pretty balanced. Magic ought to hurt more, why? Because wizards are frail that's how most RPG's are anyway.

The only exception maybe is invisibility, that one spell makes any half-brained character viable. Can't get past a certain part? Just go invisible and go past them. Need to kill them? Just go invisible, sneak attack with a multi-damage poison (with a 100% weakness to poison enchantment on your bow or weapon), then go invisible again, and TADA!! Watch their health just drop like a dead weight. Invisibility was broken. You could go through the whole game undetected. And stealing was never made easier.

When I played Oblivion (on PC, with OOO installed) I thought magic was overpowered. At higher levels mages were almost untouchable. Once you got your access to custom spells the game became easier. Paralyze spell was almost game breaking imo (especially when you got the Paralyze Staff from the Mages Guild), combining Paralyze for 1sec with many offensive spells was very convenient, there was also Drain Health spell, which killed any opponent with less than 100 HP instantly and cost little magicka, spell stacking etc...

Chameleon was another game breaking effect, especially if you somehow managed to get 100% Chameleon through enchantments ;)

I play on the PC and yes you can switch to 3rd person view by hitting the F key. You can also scroll the camera to zoom in and zoom out.

Also when riding a horse there's no longer first person view and controlling the horse is awkward at first since you can't move your horse backwards.

I couldn't play 3rd person view in Oblivion w/o a mods because the camera movement was horrible. Is it better this time?

 

[franman]

I think it's just the same. If I recall in Oblivion the camera moves as your character turns his/her head, Skyrim doesn't. What's so horrible about the camera in Oblivion?

 

[Ring]

I think it's just the same. If I recall in Oblivion the camera moves as your character turns his/her head, Skyrim doesn't. What's so horrible about the camera in Oblivion?

It was ok for exploring, but terrible for fighting. The camera movement was strange, and no crosshair made it impossible to aim with spells, arrows etc... completely useless.

I had to install a mod that made the camera behave like in Morrowind, and also add a crosshair for 3rd person view. It still wasn't perfect but much better.