SwissMercenary,May 13 2006, 12:01 AM Wrote:Even if he takes off his armour, the combat will still be no more then click to swing, right click to block. That's his problem with it.
I, for one thing, am really dissapointed that in 8 years of 'progress,' I haven't seen a game handle swordfighting better then Thief.
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8 Years? More like 3. Or are you referencing some game 8 years ago? What do you want to see in Swordfighting simulations? For weapons to tangle? Bounce off the other guy? Get caught in bones? What are your expectations?
Get Expert Acrobatics for dodge manuevers. They're pretty neat. There's also *some* physics in this game, stuff gets knocked back (though the frequency of which is disappointing). Personally, I use Alchemical Poisons, Enchants. Stuns/recoil make feints worth it. Frontal only blocks makes trying to outcircle the opponent worth trying when they're overextending themselves (frontal lunge). I think one of the problems is this:
Quote:Combat also tends to be a drag, being largely block-attack-block
I turned the difficulty down a notch or two to make combat a little less boring; some may find monsters with absurd HP values to be entertaining
How much down? If it only takes a few hits to kill, then it is probably too easy. If you're also always fighting one on one, then you've got it doubly easy. Personally, I find base (unchanged) difficulty slider health too low, and usually have 15% increased difficulty slider... which usually means 3-6x more health on their side. +100% difficult is absurdly high but.. if something is dying without threatening me at all, that's no challenge, nor requires me to use more advanced combat actions. Fight , stun, paralyze, recoil, burdern, distintegrate/armor weapons, run, heal, shoot, run, jump over terrain, heal, block attack, jump over more, dodge... etc.
See this realms beyond thread for a few tales from those that took a moment to write (Beware spoilers in that thread):
http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthread.php?t=843
As much as I defend Oblivion,I've got criticisms of the game that extend deeper than the stuff presented here, one involving FormIDs, another involving the direction Bethesda heading with its beta patch. Yes, I wish there were more quests--who wouldn't? For any game? But the ones I've been through were gold.
Quote:I've found it pretty interesting so far, though it seems to believe I'm a gofer most of the time.
Resistence is futile, join the dark brotherhood! Thieves guild and Mages guild quests are pretty fun and interesting too. There's one in particular I repeated over and over involving a house in Skingrad (my Dark Brothers should recognize this) based on an agatha christi novel I think. Coolest single quest ever ;) (ok, maybe not ever, but of that calibur and I have a hard time thinking of better right now).
Oh, and make sure to check out all the daedra shrines with worshippers. They're almost all worth doing.