TES V announced at last - it's Skyrim!

[Deimos]

Never really got into other The Elder Scroll games, but will certainly play this one, looks amazing.

[Maxey]

https://gamingeverything.com/?p=1500

This month’s issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine (French) has a bevy of details about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. We’ve separated the information into two sections, as some gamers may consider a few points to be spoilers. Check out the full list of details below.
Details

• ‘Magnetism’ is used to prevent friendly fire in combat, by slightly ‘pulling’ your attacks towards enemies
• Some, apparently unique, enchanted weapons will have “concealed” effects. You won’t know what those are until you try the weapon.
• You cannot block if you have a sword in one hand, and a spell in another. Only players wielding two-handed blades or sword and shield can use block.
• The Spell Shield effect returns.
• Taverns will play a large role in the game. You will be able to overhear people’s conversations, start quests, acquire information, and much more.
• They mention breaking and entering to find out more about people – “Because of the open world set up you can even progress by snooping around – following people, looking out for strange behaviour and even some light breaking and entering”.
• Quest givers can give you more or less information about their quest depending on their disposition towards you.
• Several new spell effects, including “Ice Trap” (only triggered when an enemy walks over it), “Circle of Protection” (push the enemies in your vicinity away), “Fury” (make enemies fight each other), and so on.
• One of the finishing moves involves “plunging your sword into your enemy’s chest”, coupled with gurgling death noises.
• The ‘free-form’ activities you can perform include cooking, woodcutting, mining and metalwork.
• A Dragon Shout that slows down time (a la Bullet Time) is mentioned.
• Some Dragon Shouts are found in dungeons.
• There’s a city called Riverwood. It is described as ‘A smattering of timber buildings, including a sawmill’.
• Radiant Story is in part inspired by the random encounters in Fallout 3.
• The game apparently looks amazing in motion, with great environment effects such as the wind making the water swirl and making waves.
• It is possible to raise all skills to 100 but not possible to get all perks.
• Dragon encounters aren’t scripted. If one comes across a town in its travels, it might decide to attack it without warning. This may or may not involve setting it ablaze.
• Magazine talks about the improvement of NPC’s and Radiant AI.
• Every big settlement is unique. The city of Markarth Side, for example, is set into “dramatic stone cliffs, with buildings teetering on the end of sheer drops.”
• Haarfingar is said to be home to the largest trading port in Skyrim.
• The game apparently includes ‘meteorogical effects’: clouds gathering around mountaintops, etcetera.
• The glorious return of the Dwemer ruins is once again confirmed.
• One of the cities in Skyrim will apparently be heavily inspired by the Dunmer (Dark Elves), and may even be a full-fledged Dunmer settlement.
• They’re trying to go back to the “eccentricity” of Vvardenfell. Every Nord faction will have their own customs, colors, and so on.
• The economy of the game is better developed than in Oblivion. If you destroy a city’s means of income (for instance, their crops) they’ll need to buy crops from another nearby city, and prices in the city will go up.
• Archers can ‘hold their breath’ while aiming. This consumes stamina, but gives the archer a better chance of hitting the enemy.
• A wounded dragon has a chance of crashing into the ground.
• You can cut dialogue short by walking away from the NPC.
• Dragon Shouts are assigned to the R3-button on the PS3 gamepad.
• Not every NPC will have a complete set of dialogue like in Oblivion. It’ll be more like in Fallout 3, where only the ‘important’ NPC’s have anything substantial to say.
  This information comes from Todd Howard (roughly translated)…
• Quests can influence each other. Quest A may be changed for you because you completed Quest B beforehand.
• Quest givers now give more detailed instructions, in a style that’s apparently akin to Morrowind. They might even escort you to the road, to show you where to go.
• The game has 120 unique dungeons, worked on by 8 designers.
  Potential spoilers section
• One dungeon is called ‘Bleak Falls Barrow’, and it is inhabited by the Draugr (the undead Nord warriors we first met in Bloodmoon). As you proceed through the dungeon, you’ll eventually encounter a ‘ghostly dragon priest’, and eventually the dungeon boss, a giant ‘Frostbite Spider’. It is said the dungeon is ‘terryfing’.
• The quest to Bleak Falls Barrow is given to you by a shopkeeper called Lucan, whose priceless Draconic family heirloom (a golden claw) was stolen recently.
• The death of the King of Skyrim has sparked a civil war in the country.

[Someonerandm]

I’m liking where this is going, but I’m not sure if everything is as well implemented as they say.

[Ry_amp_955_n]

@Maxey

“Details…”

I’m really admiring all of the new ideas and improvements. but let’s hear more about this “Story is inspired by the random encounters in Fallout 3” thing. It caught my attention and i’ve been thinking about it for way too long.

Enlighten me plz. …If you can.

[Maxey]

Have you played Fallout 3 at all? In that game, you can be approached by a random character at any time, anywhere and be given a quest.

In Skyrim similar stuff will happen but it’s less of a truly random thing. Where, when and why it happens is decided by your progress in the game.

[Ry_amp_955_n]

That’s what my first guess would have been, a random encounter but determined by the actions you have chosen beforehand.

And yes sir, I am a huge Fallout 3 fan. I’m currently playing the shit out of New Vegas right now. The game is very well done.

I have a feeling I’m going to be even more impressed with Skyrim though. And Bethesda usually does a pretty kickass job at what they do.

[Aaron]

I wonder how the spell overhaul will turn out.

[Surplus]

https://www.bethblog.com/podcast/

Just a note this has hardly anything to do with skyrim itself. They bring up a few questions related but no useful info.

[_rot_fodder]

What I got out of it:

Q: What’s your favorite upgrade from old elder scrolls to new?

A: Idk skills n’ perks n’ stuff I guess

If anyone else wants to take a half an hour out of their day to see if I missed anything, please do go ahead.

[Surplus]

@(rot)(fodder

What I got out of it:

Q: What’s your favorite upgrade from old elder scrolls to new?

A: Idk skills n’ perks n’ stuff I guess

If anyone else wants to take a half an hour out of their day to see if I missed anything, please do go ahead.

To hear them talk about how different it is from then to now was pretty interesting imo, but less stuff related to Skyrim than I thought. I thought there would be a little and it turned out to be none.

I apologize if my misleading post of that here lead you to waste time.

[_rot_fodder]

No no, I did find the other stuff interesting (about the company, anyways) and you had a warning right on the box.

That did rather sound complainy, I am sorry.

[Ry_amp_955_n]

Skyrim will be looking orgasmic, i know that forsure. Skyrim will be on a new engine… and i thought f3’s engine was good enough.

[Imonfire]

All I see here is Oblivion with bloom and colour-correction maxed out.

[Maxey]

I hope by bloom you mean depth of field.

[Hazzmat]

holyshitholyshitholyshit

[Maxey]

Awesome.

[Hazzmat]

Let’s all hope it is gameplay

[Maxey]

Yeah, they better show 10 minutes of pure gameplay running on a PC.

Ah, who am I kidding, they’ll show a 3-5 minute video of some nerd talking over vague footage of the console version.

[Someonerandm]

Pretty neato. Also, the Oblivion engine looked fine close up, but at a distance it looked terrible.

[Imonfire]

@Maxey

I hope by bloom you mean depth of field.

Yeah, maybe.

@Hazzmat

holyshitholyshitholyshit

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