Elder Scrolls V

[Spidey-Bat]

Achievements and Trophies are one of the best innovations this gen. They are just another layer to keep you playing a game, and I fully appreciate it.

Trophies and achievements are not an innovation. They're just a tacked-on gimmick that delude you into thinking you've actually accomplished something. Most companies are incredibly lazy with incorporating them. How many games with online MP are just "Reach level X in multiplayer"?

 

[Solidus]

I agree I find the trophies and achievements nothing but a gimmick. However the only nice thing is to see if some one actually beat a game they claim to have beaten. But in reality I could care less. I never care for trophies, they mean nothing to me.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Trophies and achievements are not an innovation. They're just a tacked-on gimmick that delude you into thinking you've actually accomplished something. Most companies are incredibly lazy with incorporating them. How many games with online MP are just "Reach level X in multiplayer"?

Don't forget their single-player equivalent, "Complete chapter/level X"--or, as I like to call them, "Here's a bunch of trophies just for playing the f***ing game."

 

[Micah12345]

For the rare game that I really really really love, trophies are a fun challenge for myself to complete. Sometimes they encourage me to complete challenging tasks that otherwise have no reward.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

I love achievements but I wish they actually meant something. I loved the whole Halo Waypoint achievement system, how getting achievements in a Halo game actually added to a point tally giving you in-game unlocks. That was a really cool idea, and I like being able to unlock avatar clothes. Personally i've thought for ages that your gamerscore should actually be like frequent flyer points for xbox live marketplace purchases. Hell, it would make the whole 'ms points' thing actually make sense.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Red Dead Redemption is a better way of implementing that kind of thing than the usual trophies/achievements, I think. Reward the player for completing challenges with something tangible like extra costumes rather than a pop-up and bragging points arbitrary numerical scores.

 

[Soapy]

I've said before, I don't care about the actual "points", but The act of getting an achievement is just really satisfying.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I've never understood that. It's a pop-up. Big deal. But different strokes.

 

[Speedball]

Does anyone else not want Jeremy Soule returning to do the score? I think all his music sounds the same. I really hope that the music in the trailer is more reflective of what we are going to get.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

I'm pretty sure the trailer music was just the oblivion theme reworked a touch anyway dude.

Didn't Jesper Kyd do the Fallout music?

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

The combat music constantly kicking on and off when just riding around on a horse in Oblivion was pretty annoying.
As was the mordor sky whenever you were close to an Oblivion gate.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Does anyone else not want Jeremy Soule returning to do the score? I think all his music sounds the same. I really hope that the music in the trailer is more reflective of what we are going to get.

I disagree completely. I find Jeremy Soule to be one of the best if not the best video game composer of all time.

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

I've said before, I don't care about the actual "points", but The act of getting an achievement is just really satisfying.

I agree, I know they're utterly meaningless.

I assume its the primitive part of my brain just responding favorably to the achievement noise like a pat on the head from my tyrannical overseer!

 

[Fenrir]

I disagree completely. I find Jeremy Soule to be one of the best if not the best video game composer of all time.

Yup, and his music fits the Elder Scrolls' universe perfectly.

 

[socool]

I want the score to represent Morrowind. That theme song is complete badassness. Seriously, too awesome.

 

[Soapy]

Jeremy Soule is great, but I would really like to see Russell Brower take a crack at TES.

 

[Speedball]

I disagree completely. I find Jeremy Soule to be one of the best if not the best video game composer of all time.

I'm not saying he's terrible at all. He's like John Williams, all of his music sounds alike once you listen to it.
The score for Guild Wars: Eye of the North had his brother, or son, or someone related to him (Julian) working on it with him and it had a very similar sound, but had a bit more punch to it. I feel like since it's Skyrim, the music should reflect that area of the continent, and it's native people. I can imagine a lot of drums, which Soule's work doesn't really use all that much. It's mainly horns and strings.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I want the score to represent Morrowind. That theme song is complete badassness. Seriously, too awesome.

Did someone say Morrowind? t:

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[Soapy]

Ahh, probably my favourite video game theme ever.

I don't think many people realize that the Oblivion (and Skyrim) themes are more or less the same as Morrowind's, just a bit faster.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

The Oblivion version is like the main LOTR score whereas the Morrowind was more like the little Hobbiton version of the same theme. Thats how I always remembered it.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Also, I love that Max Von Sydow is in it.

 

[Speedball]

Also, I love that Max Von Sydow is in it.

I'd like to see Christopher Lee in it as a villain (or if Sydow's character is the villain, as an elderly hero). I'd like to see the two get into a fight. It would be the most EPIC old man fight ever.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Yup, and his music fits the Elder Scrolls' universe perfectly.

This!

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

I'd like to see Christopher Lee in it as a villain (or if Sydow's character is the villain, as an elderly hero). I'd like to see the two get into a fight. It would be the most EPIC old man fight ever.

I'm not a fan of putting famous actors in video games. It's nearly always distracting.
From all the movies watched it seems Christopher Lee hasn't really got any range in his vioce, he always basically sounds like Christopher Lee, it's distinctive, which would probably make it all the more distracting.

 

[Speedball]

I'm not a fan of putting famous actors in video games. It's nearly always distracting.
From all the movies watched it seems Christopher Lee hasn't really got any range in his vioce, he always basically sounds like Christopher Lee, it's distinctive, which would probably make it all the more distracting.

Don't deny me my epic old man fight!