Skyrim Preview

[Wolcik]

I'm excited cause it sounds awesome. Looks like they learnt they lesson from watching people develop mods for Oblivion and then Fallout 3.
There might be a hardcore mode too ;D
It's nice to hear about ballanced leveling in Elder Scroll saga, and it be nice if many of previous bugs were gone then it would mean that witch each Elder Scroll we're getting to "perfect" cRPG Sandbox game

 

[Saulkar]

I hate you. I really do. Jealousy, thy name is moi.

But look! I brought you this preview!

Hey did you get to see what an Argonian looks like in this new game? As my favourite race from Morrowind I was dearly disappointed with their Oblivion counterparts and with how the Khajiit look from the new game I am hoping they gave the Argonians the same treatment.

 

[Vrach]

I hate you. I really do. Jealousy, thy name is moi.

But look! I brought you this preview!

If it had more pictures/video, perhaps I could forgive you, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, know what I mean? A wink's as good as a nod to a blind bat!

In all seriousness though, I shed a tear at the start of the preview when you were describing the surroundings. November can't come fast enough and Skyrim will definitely be my slightly late birthday present to myself

In the meantime, gonna start pooling money to chuck another video card in when it arrives... from how you describe it, it'd be a sin against nature to play it on anything other than max settings. I just hope my CPU handles it when it's time, but I think slightly overclocked (quad core 3.4 GHz atm, could overclock it to 4 GHz) it oughtta be able to handle it.

Also, wonder if the Dark Brotherhood are still around and kicking >:3

I really hope so. Those were the best missions and the best characters in the entire game. It that was taken out of Oblivion the game would have been just blah.

Agree, I hope we see either the Dark Brotherhood or Morag Tong and it'd be quite cool to see both locked in a sort of a struggle against each other. Anyone else miss the Morrowind House fights? I loved that whole storyline thing? They could work something like that in with the two factions (Fighter's and Mage's Guild could use some conflict again too)

 

[AlternatePFG]

Excited for Skyrim definitely. I think the people picking up the items you drop and giving them back to you will get annoying, if that's true.

 

[MadCapMunchkin]

I hope they give the Dark Brotherhood a good questline in this. I can't get the image out of my head (now that the Dragon Shouts have been talked about in detail) of sneaking into a fortress "Thief" style and sneaking up on my target before literally yelling at him to kill him. No backstabbing, no throat slitting, no magic.

I'd probably only do that once, though...don't want to get caught.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

I'm psyched though my current computer can barely play F3....

 

[Steve Butts]

"In Skyrim difficultly levels are locked in place once you visit an area, so you'll have a chance to go out and get stronger before coming back and facing a challenge that's been getting the best of you."

So, discover every location at level 1, then gain 50 levels, and just mop up? Am I reading this right?

No, I don't think that means that every single enemy in the game is 1st level when you start. What it means is that the dynamic range for the challenges is fixed once you encounter them. So you might head out into the wilderness at first level and come across a camp of 30th level bandits.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

I was on the fence about this game as Oblivion didn't really sell me on the Elder Scrolls series, but damn does look amazing, I will definitely be checking out Skyrim

 

[Ascarus]

i was a bit underwhelmed by the earlier video preview ... this has significantly improved my interest.

sounds very promising.

 

[faspxina]

"will we still be able to buy horse armor?" It's very important!

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I have been to the cold, white north and I have seen the dragons.

You forgot to ask the most important question;

How stable is the game engine?

 

[cursedmoon13]

I, too, would like to eat a dragon's soul. I wonder if the game would let me do it...

 

[DalekJaas]

Uhhh why does this ruin look exactly the same as the ones from Oblivion?

Because the imperial army that built these forts are in skyrim too perhaps?

Excited for the game, love oblivion so very optimistic for this one.

 

[carpathic]

Oh...it is coming...soon my precious, soooooooonnnn...

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

So pumped for this. November is so far away!

 

[DaHero]

The only person I will be talking to is my girlfriend come Nov 11th...

 

[ryo02]

but will there be cross bows? I MAY creat a ranged character (who also uses daggers) but cross bows mean I WILL make one.

also if I drop an item and the person who picks it up tries to give it back can I tell them I dont want/need it and they can keep it if they want?

 

[Argtee]

Looks pretty good!

Also:

Spoiler: What...

...is this? An orc or a goblin?

 

[AstylahAthrys]

Yep. I'm never going to leave the house again after 11/11/11. I'm so excited!

 

[blankedboy]

Looks awesome, but I am not digging the look of those ruins. Too bland. Daedric pl0x.

And the ecology system sounds awesome. That'll add whole 'nother level of immersion to the game, one that I wouldn't think up in a lifetime x3

Looks pretty good!

Also:

Spoiler: What...

...is this? An orc or a goblin?

I assume an orc, goblins are smaller in both Oblivion and Morrowind, not to mention a whole lot less civilised.

I guess the real question is why he's holding a Riekling blade oO at least that's what it looks like...