Well I’ve got as far as I think I can go with Nehrim. I’m level 33, done all the quests and having revealed all the map markers using the console, I believe I have visited most of the dungeons. I played the whole thing as a mage, throwing mainly fireballs. I wish there was more, so first my question. Is there going to be another patch, with new quests? I’m not asking when, just if anyone knows if one is being worked on.
So, my comments. First the bad, lets get that out of the way. The initial quest is inappropriate. There are bits that are too hard, and it’s far too long before one makes contact with the real world of trainers and spell merchants. I would suspect that a large number of people were put off long before they could discover what they were missing. I’m sure I would have been if I had not read the rave reviews first.
Apart from that I have to say it was brilliant. I loved Oblivion (apart from the silly levelling) and it’s difficult to believe this is just as good. Lots of originality (glider from tower top to tower top!). I have to say its quite easy to get pretty powerful quite early. I concentrated exclusively on Alchemy and Destruction until they were both 100 (with fortification). As it’s pretty easy to get top level alchemy equipment I was able to make a shed load of money and had no worries about health or magicka. Also, no matter how many fireballs I fired off, I never seemed to run out of magicka (at the start yet, but not once D got high). I like this, tho I suspect some people like to be continually challenged.
Money. I’m sitting on 120k and could probably make another 30k if I liquidated my container. Just like in Oblivion, there is nothing for me to do with it. If anyone from the team reads this could I suggest a long running quest that consumes ever increasing amounts of gold. Not sure what the reward would be at the end, but I’m sure you could think of something.
A request. Please fix the Advanced Tower Defence quest. In both the medium and hard levels the boss level failed, with no bad guys appearing. I see there is a forum entry about this. I had to repeat the whole cycle using the console to killall each round. I wouldn’t mind but this is such a long quest. After all the effort its very frustrating.
I see no need for English Voice Acting – what we have is fine. What is needed is simply to ensure all the descriptions are translated – and various messages that sometimes magically become German.