Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Pics Incoming

[F'Angus]

looks like they've got the enchanting skill back too

 

[Jonluw]

Really? More Dragons?

How dull. One company does something (whoever did it first is unimportant)and then the entire industry suck the idea right down to the marrow.

It seems that no one working in games has any ideas other than Zombies and Dragon. Piracy isn't killing the games industry, it's unimaginative developers.

...And what is it with the constant "go KILL dragons" storylines? I've always prefered my Dragons intelligent and machiavellian... not just flying fodder.

So Skyrim is just going to be a big dead world, with fed ex questing, the same cut and paste dungeons (although here it looks like valleys, to get away from the snow), crap voices, levelling for idiots, laughable respresentations of people ........ and dragons....... is this supposed to be attractive in someway?

It might look ok (generallly, although snow becomes very boring, very quickly) but that's no reason to buy a 'GAME'..Bethesda's Oblivion type of gameplay (and seeing as it was the most popular of the franchise they're not about to change it that much) sucked so much ass, it bored me to tears.

To everyone hoping for more of a Morrowind feel.....lol.. No. Games developers have never evolved a dumber gameplay then reversed that decision.

I admire your ability to infer everything about a game's characters, gameplay and content and judge its overall quality from 7 screenshots alone.

From the sound of things, I wouldn't put it past them to make some intelligent dragons.

 

[Droppa Deuce]

This looks like a sweet project, developing nicely.

Morrowing was the most complete gaming experience for me when it came out, I've not been more immersed in a game's world since.

Arkham Asylum is the only game that has come close to the level of perfect immersion. But Morrowind will always be a special game. So dense and magical.

 

[Orthon]

Oh, cool. Max Von Sydow voicing someone in a Bethesda game..

Who bets he will go the way of Patrick Stewart and Liam Neeson?

Looks pretty cool, graphics-wise. Let's hope everything else will be as good.

 

[Doom-Slayer]

Really? More Dragons?

How dull. One company does something (whoever did it first is unimportant)and then the entire industry suck the idea right down to the marrow.

It seems that no one working in games has any ideas other than Zombies and Dragon. Piracy isn't killing the games industry, it's unimaginative developers.

...And what is it with the constant "go KILL dragons" storylines? I've always prefered my Dragons intelligent and machiavellian... not just flying fodder.

So Skyrim is just going to be a big dead world, with fed ex questing, the same cut and paste dungeons (although here it looks like valleys, to get away from the snow), crap voices, levelling for idiots, laughable respresentations of people ........ and dragons....... is this supposed to be attractive in someway?

It might look ok (generallly, although snow becomes very boring, very quickly) but that's no reason to buy a 'GAME'..Bethesda's Oblivion type of gameplay (and seeing as it was the most popular of the franchise they're not about to change it that much) sucked so much ass, it bored me to tears.

To everyone hoping for more of a Morrowind feel.....lol.. No. Games developers have never evolved a dumber gameplay then reversed that decision.

Teh lols...immediatly presuming the facial animations are going to be bad because Oblivion wasnt too great?

You do realize the built an ENTIRELY NEW engine foe this game? As I quote "a new internally built engine" since they dont own the gamebyro engine for oblivion and fallout. And based on that alone it means itll be far different from anything we have seen in Oblivion/Fallout.

 

[Doom-Slayer]

This catchpa thing is annoying..ignore double post..

 

[Dyp100]

No more gamebryo, hallelujah.

The game is either going to be really good, or really bad, but from what I've read in the scans Todd is talking a lot of bullshit.

I'm hopeful, but I have a feeling I'm gonna have my hopes dashed.

 

[BENZOOKA]

It looks absolutely awesome. I've got such high hopes for this game.

Wait, It has level-scaling? Bye bye Skyrim.

Is that a joke or does it actually say that in one of the scans?

It's not a joke, and as far as I know, it doesn't say that in the scans.

The level-scaling ruined Oblivion for me. So as I saw these promising scans, I wondered if Skyrim has level-scaling as well; Searched and found out it has.

After posting the previous, I looked further into it and the situation is actually far better. They said here [http://feedthegamer.info/2011-01-08/bethesda-clarifies-skyrim?s-enemy-level-scaling-feature/] that:

Most RPGs have a built-in reward for your painstaking efforts to grow stronger than the fierce, two-foot-tall sewer rats of the world: you get to beat the stuffing out of the baddies who hung you from flagpoles and gave you swirlies back in the day.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, though? Not so much.

Instead, enemies? levels would scale with yours, or washed up enemies would be replaced with something more capable of snapping you like a particularly sob-prone twig. As a result, players complained that the game lacked a tangible sense of progression, and it served as a small red mark on an otherwise fantastic game.

Fortunately, this time around, Bethesda?s learned its lesson.

?Since people are asking, wanted to briefly touch on level scaling. All our games have had some amount of randomness/leveling based on player level. Skyrim?s is similar to Fallout 3?s, not Oblivion?s,? wrote a Bethesda community manager on the game?s official forums.

Fallout 3?s level-scaling, of course, was much less pronounced and far more refined. In other words, no terrifying three-eyed gorilla monsters until we?ve got the gear, stats, and (hopefully) psychological preparation to deal with them.

So I take my words back. As I had no idea Fallout 3 had level-scaling in any form. And I love that game.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Oh god. The birch forest. It's mind-numbing in its beauty. I don't think I can take the wait.

I liked that picture the most. The nature looks so homely and familiar, for a change.

 

[silverowl]

*droooooooooooool* now i want the game even mooore

 

[Mcface]

So much snow.... I hope they have a bit of variety in the environments.

Then again, it is Nord-country. But still... I hope it's not all white.

I'm sure theres going to be a pretty big hinterland area too.

 

[Vrex360]

It looks fantastic, can't wait.

I hope I still get to play as an Argonian, if I can't that would be dissapointing. The only reason I figure I might not be able to is because argonians are reptiles, hence cold blooded, hence they would hate cold weather. But then, that probably won't come into it.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

After the Dragon Age trailer, all I have to say is that those show me nothing about how the game will work.

 

[Rensenhito]

...THANK THE NINE!
It's been FAR too long. Oblivion was starting to get old for me.

 

[Omnific One]

....Where the hell is the HUD, there's not going to be one?

I'm not sure if this got answered, but you can select to have no HUD in 1st person. Awesome for immersion.

 

[Omnific One]

Let me get this straight... You fight dragons but you are part one? Sounds like a Divinity II rip off. Way to reach a new low of plagiarism, Todd.

Divinity 2...which came out a year and 2 months ago. Skyrim, which has been in production for years, and Elder Scrolls lore which has been around for decades. Think before you post.

And you think divinity II was made in a second? It was released on November 20th, 2009. By that time bethesda just finished with Fallout 3 and were in pre-production for the elder scrolls.

How would you explain all the years of Elder Scrolls Lore? But no, of course Bethesda are a bunch of unoriginal, plagiarizing douchebags because you said so.

Well technically they are. They were bought out after morrowind and replaced with its current staff.

Are you insane? They still have the same staff, for the most part.

You're just one of those irrationally pissed-off Morrowind lovers.

It looks absolutely awesome. I've got such high hopes for this game.

Wait, It has level-scaling? Bye bye Skyrim.

Um, no there is no confirmed level scaling. There is quest scaling, so I expect if you take a quest at level 1 you will be fighting rats, but at level 30 you will be fighting daera.

 

[Phoenix14]

Man I'd hope it look something like this too!

 

[rokkolpo]

Let me get this straight... You fight dragons but you are part one? Sounds like a Divinity II rip off. Way to reach a new low of plagiarism, Todd.

Drakengard did that before Divinity II.
Way to reach a new low for Divinity then?

 

[noble cookie]

One thing to say.

Holy Fucking Shit.
It's beautiful, fapfapfapfap.

 

[Omnific One]

Let me get this straight... You fight dragons but you are part one? Sounds like a Divinity II rip off. Way to reach a new low of plagiarism, Todd.

Drakengard did that before Divinity II.
Way to reach a new low for Divinity then?

This is a very old device in literature and movies as well.

Also note that Bethesda actually made a female NPC: