Quote from HastyLumbago
Ugh, I was going to read through to see if anyone else had made the point I'm about to make, but then I didn't want to read page after page of "This is stupid. Bethesda is stupid."
Look, they HAVE to do this. The way copyright law is written, if they don't jump at every ridiculous lawsuit like this, they don't get to have a copyright anymore.
When I was growing up, there was this little hot dog stand not too far from where I lived called "Wee Dee's". Every so often, General Mills would come along and sue them for copyright infringement, to protect the trademark on Wheaties. Eventually, this was so amicable, and recognised as silly by both sides, that General Mills would actually foot the bill for the lawyer for Wee Dee's.
But every so often, the suit must occur. See, if they don't sue Mojang now, when someone comes along in a few years with, uh, I don't know, let's say a game called The Eldest Scrolls, then the company that made the CLEARLY derivative title can point to all the things with mildly similar titles that Bethesda allowed. No kidding.
So, as you can see, yes. This IS stupid. Bethesda? Totally not.
I was gonna be angry at Bethsoft for being Lucas-like douches until I read this. Chances are, the people who made Morrowind (the newer games are good, but pale in comparison :tongue.gif:) are not the sue-happy executives we are imagining. Hopefully the whole thing blows over with a minimum of melodrama.
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Most influential man of the year, or any year? Maybe not, but it doesn't mean he's a nobody. At least to me, video games are a truly important part of culture, potentially every bit as respected as books and movies. There's no reason why he shouldn't be in the running.
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Perhaps they could do something even as simple as attract the attention of hostile mobs. Why would monsters go after a possibly heavily armed human target when there's a big, juicy slab of bacon walking around nearby?
TL:DR, pigs could function as a "bait" animal. And it would be functional/extra hilarious if the pigs know this and run away when chased, going "wee wee wee" with a creeper behind them.
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Your sandstone does look much more dwarven though, in the same Tolkien vein. It implies more "mastery" of the earth than harmony with it. Like Slamdrag said, I would add less carved stone stuff, more wood, wool, flowers (*just noticed you've got some, but more can't hurt), and nice curves to get that homey look.
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You know you can drop stuff from the inventory screen, right? Just pick up the whole stack as if you're moving it, then click outside the window. *pop* 64 'Q' presses in 2 clicks.
Either that, or build a full-scale model of the colosseum, or something. Completely out of excess cobble.
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But when I went back to playing it again, it turned out that I was right the first time. The game rocks face for all the reasons you'd never think of as great (no quest markers/direct fast travel, speech in text form, armor split into 4 separate skills and 8 different equipment slots, etc.) Games have been prettied up and polished down from this sort of subtle realism that, while being a pain in the butt sometimes, immensely helps the experience.
While the feel of Minecraft is not directly related to the progression of the Elder Scrolls, the same sort of thinking applies. You have a winning formula to begin with, so must be very careful about the changes you make. In trying to make it better (such as altering terrain generation), you may accidentally gut that which makes your game awesome in the first place.
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Wow, just checked the date of the post above mine vs. the one above that. Nothing to see here. >.>
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Adding to your steel idea though, I think enhanced metallurgy would be pretty cool. Furnace with an adjacent new item called a "bellows" would turn into a "forge". With that you could add basic ingots and additives, a simple example being iron ingots @ coal to make "hot" steel which you quench (right click in water) to finish the process. More discovered additives would improve the quality of the resulting ingot, but seeing as MC doesn't have a bunch of metals like chromium or titanium for alloys, it would have to be very fantasy. I'd have no problem with throwing in sugar, or lapis, diamonds, etc. in place of realistic metals.
Long story short, voted "yes." But don't take your results too seriously; it appears your list is very iffy in opinion from item to iterm.
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