In game videos, it's like the player has a god mode on. : V

» Mon May 14, 2012 5:25 am

Did it worry others too? In dancing dog video you could see how guards beats the player from diffrent sides but with only a minimal health drop. I mean come on? It was like player was playing with god mode on. Even when the massive bear attacked and slashed, it took only few millimeters from health bar... What difficulty you think he/she played?

I really hope it was easiest. I'm gonna set the game hard as possible, no exception.

» Mon May 14, 2012 4:03 am

I hope the "hard" difficulty works as intended. In tutorials they usually make things easy so as not to discourage newcomers. Games like Witcher 2 where they kick your [censored] from the very beginning are rare.

» Sun May 13, 2012 6:15 pm

the character was level 30 ish i believe

» Mon May 14, 2012 8:10 am

In demos, the difficulty is typically turned down really low, and the player character is usually a bit more powered-up than it really would be at that level. Imagine if, in the Quake Con demo, Todd died and had to start over. Anticlimactic to say the least.

» Sun May 13, 2012 3:57 pm

He was also level 34 in that demo, but that's not the video OP is talking about

» Mon May 14, 2012 4:51 am

the character was level 30 ish i believe

Oh? who confirmed that? Good if this is true. And yes, i'm talking about the dogs video, not the E3 video

» Mon May 14, 2012 8:04 am

Oh? who confirmed that? Good if this is true. And yes, i'm talking about the dogs video, not the E3 video

No the level 30ish one is in the E3 video. Watch the video you are talking about again and look for a level bar with a 1 next to it

» Sun May 13, 2012 7:26 pm

true, its the beginning.. theres no way he's a lv30 already. clearly the beginning, and clearly too easy, "im sure" it's set to very easy.. it has to be, just we didnt see it from the title menu so who knows.

» Mon May 14, 2012 5:46 am

In the demo Todd was a very high level character. He had 999 health I believe, and even then the dragon took big chunks out of his health bar.

In the other video, the game had just started, they're not looking to kill you a few minutes into the game. We also don't know which difficulty level the player was on.

» Sun May 13, 2012 9:44 pm

In the demo Todd was a very high level character. He had 999 health I believe, and even then the dragon took big chunks out of his health bar.

In the other video, the game had just started, they're not looking to kill you a few minutes into the game. We also don't know which difficulty level the player was on.

I'm willing to bet it was "very easy". The player couldn't even shoot an arrow at a sleeping bear - I doubt they are the kind to up the difficulty for the challenge.

» Mon May 14, 2012 6:57 am

I'm willing to bet it was "very easy". The player couldn't even shoot an arrow at a sleeping bear - I doubt they are the kind to up the difficulty for the challenge.

The player was some kind of moron for thinking he just has to tap the trigger to fire an arrow. I'm willing to bet that he's never played an Elder Scrolls game in his life before he got his hands on Skyrim.

» Sun May 13, 2012 7:40 pm

In the demo Todd was a very high level character. He had 999 health I believe, and even then the dragon took big chunks out of his health bar.

In the other video, the game had just started, they're not looking to kill you a few minutes into the game. We also don't know which difficulty level the player was on.

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» Mon May 14, 2012 5:34 am

He was in Todd mode. He was level 33 and had 500 magic 999 health and 500 stamina he obviously gave himself godly stats for the demo.

» Sun May 13, 2012 10:31 pm

Now you know the origin of Buddha mode.

Game demonstrations are generally either pre-recorded or they use some mode that lets the character take damage, but no sincere risk of death. They feel it would be bad demonstration to show that kind of thing.

» Mon May 14, 2012 2:16 am

He was level 34, guess what!

» Sun May 13, 2012 8:19 pm

Demonstrations and journalist previews are always done on the absolute easiest setting. They don't want to be challenged, they want to experience as much of the content as possible as quickly as possible. If you were reviewing or previewing a game under strict time restraints you wouldn't want to have to waste any time reloading.

» Mon May 14, 2012 12:53 am

This is about the 20th time this(thread topic/concern) has been brought up. As stated over and over and above, dying while presenting your game to consumers, or getting stuck in a level with a poorly equipped character would not be very impressive.

» Sun May 13, 2012 7:12 pm

Also remember the Oblivion tutorial dungeon. All the enemies were nerfed compared to thier normal selves.

» Mon May 14, 2012 7:33 am

Well, do you remember this from Oblivion?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX8bZotFcTU

It's like that ;P

» Mon May 14, 2012 6:22 am

Reviewers who played the demo have written about how they died a few times. These were ES veterans so I would imagine the difficulty will be exactly how you would want it to be.

» Mon May 14, 2012 3:08 am

TODD MODE"

» Mon May 14, 2012 2:26 am

Actually I saw the 23 min tutorial gameplay and the character there was definetly level 1, and he already killed (I'll just spoiler what he killed just to be on the safe side):

Spoiler

a bunch of guards (which should be pretty well-trained) and even giant spiders and a bear

AlthoughI dont know the difficulty setting and it is just the tutorial, it seems pretty unrealistic that a level 1 character can already fight those things (and it seemed to be really easy).

» Sun May 13, 2012 4:26 pm

AlthoughI dont know the difficulty setting and it is just the tutorial, it seems pretty unrealistic that a level 1 character can already fight those things (and it seemed to be really easy).

Yeah, I know, none of the level one people I've ever met in real life have been capable of slaughtering such a high number of town guards.