Evening Reading

by Jeff Mattas, Jan 20, 2011 5:00pm PST

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With the deluge of new hands-on preview coverage we've amassed for today, it officially feels like the wheels of 2011 are building up speed, at least as far as hyping new games is concerned.

We've got environmental destruction and repair, a kid with wings, blue anthropomorphic avocados, a six-way race-war, and a couple of 3D shooting galleries. Honestly, who could ask for more?

You want a chatty, you say? Fine then. Here you go. Some folks are hard to please.

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What user suggested features for Skyrim has made you cringe?

Mine are a VAT system, capes and capes with cloth physics.

Jan 20, 2011 8:47pm PST

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  horse armor DLC. : massdev
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    Horse Dragon Armor DLC : CoreContingency
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      mudcrab capes DLC : Dave-A
      
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      I lol at the image of mudcrabs running around with little capes : Delaric
      
      somewhere some guy will is planning that right now : hamachi
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  What have you got against capes? On a semi-related note, I wish they would go back to the more complicate... : the_burd
  - That would be capital! : ArtilleryMarker
  - Yes yes yes : Skrynkelberg
- If it has VAT I'm MORE interested! : SeaLlama
- Is there a list of suggested features I missed? : johnlocks
- Co-op : freshyk
- guns : shirif
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  VAST is a Fallout thing? : SigENeaT
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    AVAST is a pirate thing. : Dolemite
    - Argh, perhaps we be able to shanghai us some bootay. : SigENeaT
  - It accurately describes the landscape in that game, so yes. : Skrynkelberg
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  Dragon Mounts, riding a horse is hard and dangerous enough in real life. It would be like "zombie riding"... : locater16
  - yeah lets bring up real life in a fantasy video game : gyokuro
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  VAT system? : stygian_whisper
  - The fallout 3 bullet time sort of strategic rpc thing : cpt_gloval
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  i think the game would actually benefit from a mini-cutscene combat system like VATS. oblivion and morrow... : DrFlammable
  - Only if it was done like Assassins Creed. Even then it would have to be a bit less in your face. : Hemotoxin
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    No, make the combat system better instead. : Skrynkelberg
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      ^^ This. Take some inspiration from Dark Messiah and Riddick and others that have worked well in first person, and I'd love it so much more (than I already do).
      
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      ^^ This. Take some inspiration from Dark Messiah and Riddick and others that have worked well in first pe... : aaarrrgh
- No capes. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
- Guns : Sailor of Fortune
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  interspecies marriage : Boxelder
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    how are centaurs made?? : GloriousCow
    - how is furrrry formed? : Hemotoxin
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  No mudcrabs or mudcrab relate dialogue. : greasyjohn
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    Elder scrolls without mud crabs is a TRAVESTY. : Hemotoxin
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      I saw some today... : greasyjohn
      
      It's the hero of chowder! : nem00
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  did anybody suggest a built-in game save corruptor? : cpt_gloval
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    No, everyone already assumes that will be a feature. : Hemotoxin
    - Meaning there won't be one? PREORDER CANCELLED : Hemtroll
- I think taxes in a game would suck, unless you could eventually end up needing the taxes in late game to ... : Ratalon
- VAT in a TES game? No thanks, it just wouldn't work that well - FO is fine because most of your weapons a... : Milleh
- 20% of the price of everything goes into paying for universal healthcare for Tamriel? : peanut-
- They make you pay income tax once you amassed more than 20k gold? : someWayne
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  VAT is there? Doesn't seem to belong in a TES game at all. I bet they make it just as gory too. : razlebol
  - he said "user-suggested". VATS isn't in there. : trelain
- Limb removal. : saunders45

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