TES V: Skyrim announced

Peterboy · Post by **Peterboy** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 7:18 pm

osiris wrote:...and has not repeated the mistakes of Oblivion ...

Something tells me, that dragonslayer vikings aren't too unique (thu'um... my god)
Yep, I can't be too positive about Skyrim, although it realy looks beautiful

immortal_pigs · Post by **immortal_pigs** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 9:17 am

The High King of Skyrim has been murdered. In the midst of this conflict, a far more dangerous, ancient evil is awakened.

Oh c'mon...

Myzel · Post by **Myzel** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 9:51 am

The High King of Skyrim has been murdered. In the midst of this conflict, a far more dangerous, ancient evil is awakened.

Isn't that exactly what happened in dragon age: origins?

Yeah, I'm not impressed. My sceptical suspicions are only being confirmed. The only way Skyrim could be awesome for me is if it has an exciting, well-made plot. And I'm demanding in that regard. But I guess the "chosen one" clichÃƒÂ© is the only way they know how to build a plot around an unnamed character without a personality.

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 9:56 am

Myzel wrote:
The High King of Skyrim has been murdered. In the midst of this conflict, a far more dangerous, ancient evil is awakened.
Isn't that exactly what happened in dragon age: origins?

... Or even what happened in Oblivion!

Andres Indoril · Post by **Andres Indoril** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:28 am

Or maybe even Daggerfall? I do not remember exactly, but the king of Daggerfall had just recently died, had he not and then arose an evil and such! Never did get far in that game though <.<

Myzel · Post by **Myzel** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:54 am

Now that you mention it...

Of course, that ancient evil wasn't a dragon.
Nor did the death of the emperor in oblivion produce much political conflict, curiously.

Terrifying Daedric Foe · Fri Feb 25, 2011 11:15 am

That's because everyone with political power was busy hiding in their castle waiting for me to rescue them from the Daedra.

blackbird · Post by **blackbird** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:47 pm

The new trailer can be also found on the website from bethesda softworks, although I only saw it when I chose North America as my region.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:17 pm

If ALDUIN EATING THE WHOLE WORLD is not exciting enough for you I really don't know what is. "King dies, shit gets real" is as about as generic a description as you can muster, but that doesn't mean Skyrim is the same as Daggerfall or DA:O.

P.S. In Daggerfall, it was the king of a single kindom that had died, and it was not so much a greater evil as it was everyone trying to get their hands on a single mcguffin.

Andres Indoril · Post by **Andres Indoril** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:37 am

As I said, I never got far before my saves corrupted.

But yeah, I would love to have a machine that could actually run Skyrim by November. It could lead to awesomeness.

Evod Lighttaker · Post by **Evod Lighttaker** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:25 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muK3GGppPpM

Its the recent trailer 2.0 If you guys haven't already seen

Mwgek · Post by **Mwgek** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:23 pm

Even if the plot is crap, I want to play that..

MSam · Post by **MSam** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 2:02 pm

HWAH. WHO. OOH.

Disgusting.

I didn't really notice that much change in the trailer except the extra cliffracer at the end.

Terrifying Daedric Foe · Thu Mar 24, 2011 3:48 pm

That's not a Cliffracer, that's a Dragon.

Nomadic1 · Post by **Nomadic1** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:01 pm

Yeah, I wanna play that too

MSam · Post by **MSam** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:44 pm

That's not a Cliffracer, that's a Dragon.

No shit, Sherlock.

Evod Lighttaker · Post by **Evod Lighttaker** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:31 pm

Saying cliff racer is like saying bomb on an airplane.
It should be considered a slur.

Andres Indoril · Post by **Andres Indoril** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:35 pm

That's going a bit too far I think. Cliffracers were never anything more than an inconvenience. Honestly, I do not understand the general hatred for them. On that note, the dragons look all wrong. Dragons are supposed to be guars carried by cliff racers.

blackbird · Post by **blackbird** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:01 pm

There used to be dragons at Morrowind, but the cliffracers drove them away. I guess the dragons moved to the west, to skyrim.

Petethegoat · Post by **Petethegoat** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:11 pm

I'm pretty sure that there are no dragons in Morrowind because the Skylamps ate them, not because of cliffracers.

blackbird · Post by **blackbird** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:07 pm

This is my source: http://www.imperial-library.info/content/general-elder-scrolls-weaseling

Andres Indoril · Post by **Andres Indoril** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:36 am

I'm quite sure that even that page said Skylamps years ago.

gro-Dhal · Post by **gro-Dhal** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 5:33 pm

It did.

Bloodthirsty Crustacean · Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:17 pm

weren't that a seperate piece of weaseling about how the skylamps all got chased away by the cliffracers?

anyways, it always gets me a-nnoyed/mused whenever people cite that thing as a genuine grave part of tes history.

Evod Lighttaker · Post by **Evod Lighttaker** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 2:39 am

[quote="Andres Indoril"]That's going a bit too far I think. Cliffracers were never anything more than an inconvenience. Honestly, I do not understand the general hatred for them. On that note, the dragons look all wrong. Dragons are supposed to be guars carried by cliff racers.[/quote]

Ya sorry about that, I mostly meant that as a joke....

Anyway I dont mind what the dragons look like my main concerns is that I dont want them to be the "Mindless Baddies". I like villains that have their own reasons and motivations for doing things. I hate antagonists that are too apparent in their existence to be a mindless road block for the player it takes away from immersion. I like it so far that that the dragons have their own language even if that language is only used for power ups (Dragons shouts). I am hoping they add a culture to them and maybe even conflicting desires among them.

cire992 · Post by **cire992** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:45 pm

^ Its been a very long time since I've seen a villain in a game that wasn't an over-the-top, mindless roadblock.

I saw that trailer linked above earlier, and it reminded me (a lot) of Oblivion, so I went and played Oblivion for a few hours before I couldn't take it anymore. Now I'm sitting idly here in front of my computer aging slowly and I think I'm actually slightly less bored than I was while I was playing Oblivion.

... I better not pre-order this one, I'm picky about Fantasy games on a good day, and Skyrim just sounds way too similar to Oblivion for my liking.

Evod Lighttaker · Post by **Evod Lighttaker** » Thu May 12, 2011 12:45 am

http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1188422-german-pcgames-article/

Looks like I got my wish for a different kind of dragon. At least for a friendly one anyway.

The_Warder · Post by **The_Warder** » Sun May 29, 2011 1:28 pm

Nice to see everyone..been a while.., just watched it on xbox live earlier.

Maybe i can get into this one as i never really got into oblivion like i did morrowind

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:16 pm

Probably some of you have already seen this video. Anyway... link:

[url=http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-elder-scrolls/714852?type=flv]First Skyrim E3 demo on GameTrailers[/url]

Chin Music · Post by **Chin Music** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:51 pm

Yeah I saw that.

I like the new third person animations. Much better. Dual wielding for combat is cool too, like being able to have any combination of stuff in your hands.

Don't like: The God-of-War Press-X-For-Awesome finishers that force you into third person so you can go "dude I totally chopped that dragon's head off". Immersion breaking to hand over control of your character like that, and it'll get old quick anyway.

Also big friendly console HUD.
ONE-HANDED SKILL INCREASED TO 22

Why · Post by **Why** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 3:24 pm

I am glad we can totally look at plants now.

The Greatness · Post by **The Greatness** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 5:37 pm

osiris wrote:Probably some of you have already seen this video. Anyway... link:

[url=http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-elder-scrolls/714852?type=flv]First Skyrim E3 demo on GameTrailers[/url]

Impressive stuff, and it's nice to see some flowing water that looks like flowing water. I had decided I was really looking forward to it untill he said there would only be three factions, and that's even worse than Oblivion. Hopefully they will actually give you choices and roleplaying oppurtunities this time round, as that might make up for the lack of factions.

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 6:19 pm

I agree. And finally characters will have smooth, good looking animations, and dual wielding!

Nemon · Post by **Nemon** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 6:24 pm

Too bad about the faction count *coughDLCcough*, but I'm still looking forward to it. And give me some PC gameplay video, not some random shit played on hardware that is 6-7 years old.

Sickjin · Post by **Sickjin** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:13 pm

relax about the faction thing. That was off the top of his head, he also said 3 main factions, and that's not going to be a final count.

Post by **Haplo** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:55 pm

There were like 25 factions in Morrowind. Even off the top of your head, 3 is a far cry from 25.

Sickjin · Post by **Sickjin** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 1:01 am

a lot of those factions in Morrowind only had one or two quests attached to them, though, like the vampire hunter or knight's of thorn lodge "factions" in Oblivion. Hopefully these are going to have actual quest chains, and better rewards than a chest that multiplies alchemy ingredients.

Myzel · Post by **Myzel** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:03 am

Interesting gameplay idea there, controlling two hands. Though I don't think it's a big change from the blast & slash nature of combat as we know it from morrowind and oblivion.
Vanilla Morrowind had 10 main factions with large questlines.
Naked Oblivion had 5, if you count the boring arena.
Skyrim will have 3. If there were more, I think he would have remembered to mention them. Top of his head or not.

I'm not really tempted to buy this one. Maybe I'll borrow it from someone.

Why · Post by **Why** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 1:21 pm

Didn't they also confirm the Dark Brotherhood at some point earlier?

gro-Dhal · Post by **gro-Dhal** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 5:01 pm

Yeah I think those three are the principle factions. It's safe to assume that at the very least there'll be the DB and the Blades (or equivalent) too. Hopefully a religious faction of some sort too.