Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSRtYpNRoN0

Fuck yeah (watch in 720p)

I loved Oblivion to death. I don't know how but I've never heard of Elder Scrolls 5 before this.

Hopefully my PC can run this, 'cause that's the only way I can possibly run it at this point, sadly. : (

Holy shit yes. The transition into the main theme is the most incredible musical moment I've heard in weeks. Give this game to me NOW.

I love this series, and am hoping for two changes from Oblivion:

1) Towns that exist in the worldspace instead of separate loaded zones (like Morrowind, not Oblivion)

2) All of the neat Alteration magic to come back (namely flight), and the architectural options that flight opens up (Telvanni-style dwellings / caves / etc).

Also, this game looks like a dream. Hopefully I don't have to upgrade my PC to get it to run.

DOVAHKIIN DOVAHKIIN
NAAL OK ZIN LOS VAHRIIN


so pre-ordering this.

supposedly all that footage is from the 360 version so the PC version probably looks even better!

Just when I thought 2011 couldn't get any better for gaming. So freaking stoked!

Hopefully it's not littered with bugs and glitches like Oblivion and Fallout 3.

Wouldn't hold your breath.

Skyrim is looking quite fantastic though. Anyone sort of notice that the third person system/animations seem waaay improved?

That's pretty much a foregone conclusion

I've watched this a few times now and I'm fairly certain I have grown more chest hair because of it.

Ran into a mudcrab recently

Steered clear of it?

Did it judo-slam you into the ground like it did to me?

...and did anyone else spot the Nirnroot at ~1:40?
Now I have that itch that I forgot to do something. Maaaaan, now I'll have to go on a Nirnroot hunt.

I'm gonna slap up a mage bitch just so I get kicked out of the guild and have to search for plants. That environment looks crunk.

God DAMMIT Jeremy Soule, why are you so goddamn good?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H7kjsRQG-k

Just...he must have done this on purpose, guys.

I thought that this was pretty good considering that it's the day of the trailer's release.

http://www.bstrader.net/helmsdeep/skyrim_ringtone.mp3

you're welcome

disclaimer: brandon is not responsible for damages to cellphones (or missed calls) from the sheer epicness of this ringtone

Fixed that one for ya, BS.

how can it be a virus? it's an mp3 :-/

This will be cool, me is looking forward to it.

The elder scroll V construction set :3 nuff said. waiting for it too.

watched this last night and had to change my jammies

I want to be an Argonian.

Me too, best race IMO.

What I've heard from the character design is that level/skill system has been completely redesigned. Unarmed combat has been removed and magic is more "fun" to play.

No unarmed combat? But how will I punch?

Gecko, I have to apologize.

Back when Oblivion got out, I ridiculed the game based on my crappy experience with Morrowind. And as such I ridiculed you for liking it.

I tried Oblivion finally when a friend got me the GotY edition on steam. Rather than judging it from my morrowind hating perspective, I went in knowing that I liked Fallout 3, a game that shares a lot IMO with Oblivion. And I have to say, I like oblivion, and Skyrim is on my watchlist.

(Although Oblivion is still far from being my favorite RPG, if only because the leveling system is somewhat broken, either you have to willingly exploit it to get the most out of levels, or you get to raise stats poorly if you go with it more naturally. A revamped leveling system is a good thing for Skyrim.)

I agree about leveling. I wish that for the most part they would just make a realistic battle system. So you're not there hitting a human like 50 times with your sword trying to kill him. I can understand if they block it. But when you're hitting something that many times with a sword, it won'y survive THAT long. Let people realistically stab, slice, even decapitate people and monsters... no ridiculous drawn-out battles based on game difficulty. Yeah, I'm one of those guys who turned the difficulty down at some point because I was more interested in following the sidequests and stuff than getting slaughtered by rogues or cops in the wilderness. I know they've changed the battle system, I just hope they've fixed it.

I'm one of the biggest fanboys for the elder scrolls series, but skyrim has me worried... Morrowind IMO was the best RPG of the time and still the best in the series not taking into account the stupidly bad graphics compared to modern games. The essence of Elder scrolls is - and this is a direct quote from Morrowind's manual - "The goal is whatever you want it to be." Oblivion started to stray from this idea when it introduced the "new" sort of buggy levelling system. Between Morrowind and Oblivion, the developers removed 6 skills, 16 weapon types, and 7 spells. This was an acceptable loss, but an old fan could tell that oblivion felt streamlined in design. Skyrim by the looks of it has taken more cues from oblivion and is treamlining more and more facets of the game going so far to take out hand-to-hand, which personally doesn't matter to me, but it has been a skill in elder scrolls since day 1. I think that the developers are taking a backward approach to the design by removing instead of adding.

Thoughts?

Can Argonians become Vampires?

For anyone planning to run Skyrim on the PC, here are the system requirements. I think my laptop just squeaks in on the graphics card front, so I'm going to give it a shot.

Creepily enough the reccomended specs are the exact specs of my desktop.

Although I do have a HDD bigger than 6GB.

You can in Oblivion and Morrowind; don't know why they'd disallow it here.

My desktop meets everything on the Recommended front EXCEPT the graphics. On that, it's only Minimum...

Dammit. I'd be upgrading immediately if I had any money to do so.

Yeh my computer ran Rage flawlessly with just a Geforce 9800GT which is why I pre-ordered Skyrim for the PC... If it doesn't run as smoothly as Rage I'll probably be pretty sad. I guess it all comes down to how the engine is built though. :-o

Noooo.... i buy a hard copy, it's not to being forced to steam it. :whatevaa:

Just saw this today. The best part of it is that it means there'll be a lot more in-game music in Skyrim than there was in Morrowind or Oblivion.

I played Oblivion a lot and now I am wondering what will push me into get Skyrim. If there ain't much new stuff I think I will pass.

Skyrim is looking better than Oblivion in pretty much every way. They're using an upgraded engine, which means not only better graphics but also less buggy overall. They're tweaking the borked level-scaling enemies system to work more like it did in Fallout 3 (ie, not-broken). They're getting rid of classes and letting you develop skills naturally instead of enforcing the major/minor divide. (Not sure how they're implementing levelups, but my guess would be a standard XP system a la Fallout 3.)

Plus, there's dragons 'n' shit.

Hnnghghghg Steam activation.

What happened to OWNING my physical copies outright?

Sorry, a different thread entirely, tangentially connected.