The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced

Klo · 12 Dec 2010 at 02:18

Bethesda Softworks just announced the fifth game in the Elder Scrolls series and the sequel to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion will be called Skyrim. And it'll be out next year.

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Can't wait

Klo · 12 Dec 2010 at 20:38

Hmm, lots of different information. I really hope its a new engine, but I have a feeling us PC players will be held back by consoles.

Klo · 12 Dec 2010 at 23:15

Klo here, back with some more ground breaking news

"@jimrossignol It's a new graphics/gameplay engine built internally. We'll have more details down the road."

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Klo · 7 Jan 2011 at 16:13

m0r94n said:
Enjoy

Thats still pretty awesome now!

Klo · 7 Jan 2011 at 23:57

The graphics don't seem to be that much better, although admittedly its hard to tell much from those scans.

Klo · 8 Jan 2011 at 02:19

Since people are asking, wanted to briefly touch on level scaling. All our games have had some amount of randomness/levelling based on player level. Skyrim's is similar to Fallout 3's, not Oblivion's.

Hope that addresses some concerns, and we hope you're enjoying the GI cover story.

Have a great night

http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.ph...ooooo/page__st__40__p__16933097#entry16933097

Klo · 10 Feb 2011 at 17:05

Evilsod said:
I seem to remember it being mentioned they did yes. They instead made Health, Magicka and Stamina directly connected to your skill levels (and level) so they will readjust the moment you get a skill increase. 1 hell of a dumbed down system.

Either way, been playing a little Oblivion today. Decided to start again as a Warrior born under The Warrior (much like my Mage born under The Mage and my Assassin born under The Thief, original eh ).

I can only hope its not too hard to change the system back to something that doesn't suck.

Because we all know changing numbers= gameplay.

I'm all up for it if it makes the experience better.

Considering I never played Oblivion with any mods, I don't really care about mod support for this.

Klo · 23 Feb 2011 at 22:10

Shamikebab said:
OR

We could wait until we've seen the thing being played/played it ourselves, before drawing ridiculous conclusions on a few bullet points. This is like Antihype.

OH KNOW SOMETHING I DON'T LIKE, THE WHOLE GAME MUST BE ****

This.

See how the game plays before cracking out the ' Oh no this game will suck'.

Klo · 24 Feb 2011 at 17:53

lokiss said:
Fun watch, either way the hype train will nail a best seller when they throw up cinematics like that on top of the ip.

I was thinking more gothic, morrowind.... then i see people saying more oblivion, thats implanted the seeds of doubt.

Like somebody said on this forum, oblivion was very much generic high fantasy, morrowind being totaly unique in it's style... personaly i just loved that.

Look forward to seeing more of it though

I preferred Oblivions 'high fantasy' to Morrowinds grey and brown, so this looks great

Klo · 21 Mar 2011 at 23:10

Considering I like Oblivion, this looks pretty awesome. Love the new info coming out. I think people see Morrowind with rose tinted glasses tbh, whilst it is good, its not super amazing.

Klo · 21 Mar 2011 at 23:33

Tefal said:
lock on combat?

Ok, fair point. Hopefully you can play without it.

Otherwise it looks quite for me at least.

Klo · 7 Jun 2011 at 17:04

dmxdex2020 said:
I care i dont want to be stuttering all over place with bad memory management.

Never had that with any game from them, must be your computer?

Klo · 8 Jun 2011 at 12:30

Klo · 8 Jun 2011 at 19:10

Ozzie Dave said:
It'll be just like Oblivion, mediocre console crap until the modders turn it into something half decent. So about 6-12 months after release it may be worth playing. Mods like Blood&Mud, The Lost Spires, OOO, Aesgaard, etc saved Oblivion for me....

Really? I enjoyed Oblivion, and finished it almost on vanilla, just with a graphics improvement and the menu rejig. I didn't change any game play though.

Klo · 20 Jun 2011 at 00:20

I remember completing Oblivion without to much trouble and having majors in skills I used often?

Klo · 20 Jun 2011 at 03:01

Evilsod said:
Vague statement is vague.

Its also badly written.

Basically, I didn't have too much trouble killing people.

Klo · 20 Jun 2011 at 03:17

Tefal said:
sword /blunt warrior by any chance?

I'd class myself as a battle mage type character more, so I did have a sword, but used the destruction and healing spells as well.

Klo · 20 Jun 2011 at 14:13

Tefal said:
my first oblivion char had athletics, acrobatics and sneak in his major skills (was going to a kind of stealthy nimble bow and poison assassin)

Levelled up insanely fast cause of al lthe running and jumping and got brutally raped by the level scaled glass armoured bandits.

Which is probably what would happen in real life tbh.

Klo · 17 Aug 2011 at 16:20

Broken Hope said:
Can buy retail now if it's cheaper.

Ah, you beat me to it

Great news though imo.

Klo · 1 Sep 2011 at 19:15

Not sure what the benefit to preordering now when it comes out in 11/11. Its not like they will suddenly stop offering preordering.