First Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Details Leaked

[OceanRunner]

I love Oblivion, and I spent the vast majority of the time playing "side-quests", giving next to no thought to the main story. If Skyrim can also be this compelling, then I'll pretty much not need to buy another game for months.

 

[Hashime]

It sounds like they took all of the best mods and made their next game with them. I am impressed, that was a good idea.

 

[Magicman10893]

This sounds great! I might actually be really looking forward to this game

All that I could ask for is some sort of development system. Get land for the player to build and manage; houses like from oblivion, estates for grander houses and farmland, maybe even a town you can get rule over through a quest or something. I'd love to have that in the game.

Oh, and the ability to actually make your own weapons by actually mining and smithing things. T'would be an awesome thing to have.

Have you ever played Minecraft? Because what you describe is literally Minecraft.

 

[kypsilon]

Sounds good so far, as long as they don't give me the create-a-guy mode from Fallout 3 as well...or New Vegas for that matter. EPIC FAIL.

 

[Magicman10893]

My entire point is that The Elder Scrolls series has been about letting people choose how to play. If I want to throw myself into reading all of the books in Tamriel, I can choose to. You don't have to, but lots of people will. By streamlining and catering to the masses, they'll spend less time on smaller subtleties like lore. I'm not saying you can't act like a throwable weapon for a quest giver. I'm just saying that I like my freedom to choose in games, especially games that encourage me to just wander around and do whatever I feel.

How does that relate to lack of skills in the game, unless there was a reading skill that I skipped over in favor more magic and combat skills?

What? Elder scrolls has never been focussed around the story, it's about the open ended gameplay. Morrowind and Oblivion are my favourite games, but I couldn't give a rats arse about the story, it's all about the immense amounts of fun the games are.

I definitely agree with this. I threw Oblivion's story and Fallout 3's story out the window immediately after I ended the tutorial! I mean think about it: why in Satan's glorious name (Futurama reference) would you listen to the final orders of a dead king who until about 10 minutes ago had you imprisoned for what was going to be the rest of your life? For a quest of utmost importance I didn't even talk to Martin (that was his name right?) until after I was the Archmage, Arena Champion, the new Grey Fox and the leader of the Dark Brotherhood as well as doing enough quests that made me a level 20-something!

Then in Fallout 3 I just started running around doing random quests until I was like level 15 and had most of the unique weapons and did the first 2 DLCs before randomly stumbling into the next story line quest by accident while shambling through the science lab of Rivet City looking for that damned bobblehead.

Now in New Vegas I still haven't finished the main quest and I'm a level 30! I just go around slaughtering the Legion and looking for places with interesting loot! I mean, I thought the point of the game was to track down the guy that shot you in the face, which I already did. Now all of a sudden everyone is coming to me for help with their problems because I am apparently more competent than their entire fucking army. Shit, I marched through entire Legion camp and killed Caesar himself because he was such a pussy for letting me slaughter his people and then forgiving me because I was their only hope. Might as break Charlie Manson out of jail so he can lead us to a bottomless pit in the desert and save us from the great race war that we are apparently eagerly sprinting towards.

 

[Direwolf750]

so. freakin. awesome. I heard that they weren't planning on doing another one for at least a decade, AND IT LOOKS AWESOME! hopefully the new engine will be as sweet as it looks.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Sounds like they trawled the internet for the most popular and well-received mods and copied their features... not that that's a bad thing.

 

[[Insert Name Here]]

Screw the story, I'm more interested in the awesome screenshot...

 

[Psychoninja7]

Can't wait. It sounds awesome. I loved Oblivion (haven't really played morrowind, sadly)
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[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

There are 18 total skills, down from 21 in Oblivion.

And down from twenty-seven in Morrowind. I'm really looking forward to Skyrim, but one thing I hoped they would address was the paring back of skills that happened in Oblivion. Instead it seems they've carried on the work. I know I'm sounding like a total gripe here, but which skills have they removed? Are we losing magic schools like we lost Enchantment from TES3?

 

[Blue_vision]

This sounds great! I might actually be really looking forward to this game

All that I could ask for is some sort of development system. Get land for the player to build and manage; houses like from oblivion, estates for grander houses and farmland, maybe even a town you can get rule over through a quest or something. I'd love to have that in the game.

Oh, and the ability to actually make your own weapons by actually mining and smithing things. T'would be an awesome thing to have.

Have you ever played Minecraft? Because what you describe is literally Minecraft.

Not exactly minecraft. More managed and predefined than minecraft.

But I heard that farming and smithing's going into the game, so I am quite happy Adding in like a town for the player to gain rule over or something would be great.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Sounds good although I'm going to miss being able to run the thieves and assassin's guild as a level one with more skill points in destructive magic than anything else.

As awesome as it will be to duel-wield, I'm more excited at the prospect of playing as a left-handed character. I can't wait to get my hands on this game x3

 

[Eatbrainz]

*High-pitched squeak*
I can't wait.

 

[Sennz0r]

Ok, dual wielding is totally awesome, and I can see why they'd like to step away from the traditional class system to keep it fresh. But why only 18 skills? Ever since they cut several skills in Oblivion I've been wanting them to put in some more skills which would allow for greater differentiation. I'm a little disappointed, but I guess I'll have to wait and see before I condemn the game to be dumbed down a bit too much.

There are 18 total skills, down from 21 in Oblivion.

And down from twenty-seven in Morrowind. I'm really looking forward to Skyrim, but one thing I hoped they would address was the paring back of skills that happened in Oblivion. Instead it seems they've carried on the work. I know I'm sounding like a total gripe here, but which skills have they removed? Are we losing magic schools like we lost Enchantment from TES3?

Seems I got ninja'd on the same page. Well said, sir. I miss enchantment, almost as much as I miss my spear and the ability to club creatures to death with my staff. I miss Mark, Recall and Levitation the most though.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Seems I got ninja'd on the same page. Well said, sir. I miss enchantment, almost as much as I miss my spear and the ability to club creatures to death with my staff. I miss Mark, Recall and Levitation the most though.

Yeah, I remember firing up Oblivion for the first time thinking I'd revive my Skirmisher custom class that fought with a spear in medium armour - I was ssooo wrong! What got me about that was the first armour you see (the Blades' banded mail) is the perfect example of medium armour!

And as for the number of times Recall has got me out of tricky situations......

 

[Wolf Devastator]

No classes, sounds great. It would be nice to build an unrestricted character.

Less skills to invest in, that's somewhat sad to read. Hopefully the skills will have some deeper thought put into their uses.

I am very grateful to read that the world will no longer level with you.

I am still very skeptical of this game after playing Oblivion and dealing with its... issues.

Well if it's Oblivion + Fallout + New Engine, then they'd have to do something terrible in order to screw it up.

Of course that's also what I thought moving from Morrowind to Oblivion...

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

Will wait a year for the mod community to fix the game after release.

 

[Kenny Doyle]

So duel system as in I have to use magic in one hand and some kind of melee in the other?
Can't I duel wield swords?
I wanna duel wield shields. Can I do that?

 

[Spencer Petersen]

Does this mean I can equip a shield in each hand and go bash-heavy?

 

[Rensenhito]

HOLY SHIT YES.
I am saving ALL MY MONEY now. I don't care how much it costs, I'm GETTING this game.
Seriously, I haven't been this excited for a game since... well... since Oblivion.