Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Hugums]

Bethesda returns us to the land of Cyrodil after almost 5 years.

THINGS WE KNOW!

• Skyrim is set two centuries into the future, after the events of Oblivion.
• In Skyrim, you’ll fight dragons repeatedly in single combat. The game’s antagonist is Alduin, a dragon otherwise known as the World Eater.
• You play the last of the Dragonborn. You are the first of the Dragonborn seen in centuries.
• You can dual wield magic, weapons, a shield or both. You can combine different weapons, and different magic spells.
• There are 18 skills you can raise to as high as 100 points.
• There are no classes. Instead, you’ll improve skills by using them, and choose perks as you level, similar to Fallout 3.
• The higher a skill, the more it contributes to leveling. You can slow down the pace of leveling by practicing a wide spread of skills, instead of just your most important few.
• Gaining a level lets you choose a perk, improves health and gives you the choice to increase either your health (some more), magicka or stamina.
• Standard leveling will stretch from 1 to 50, with leveling beyond 50 possible, but much more time consuming to achieve than previous levels.
• Combat is based around staggering your enemy and looking for openings, a mix of offense and defense, rather than all-out offense.
• There are cinematic finishing moves unique to both your weapon and the target you’re hitting.
• Bows take longer to draw, but are much more powerful. Stealthy players will be able to kill targets in one hit from long-range.
• The magic system has dozens of spells, and five schools of magic. The school of Mysticism has been removed, and its important spells merged into the other schools.
• Backwards movement has been significantly slowed to prevent back-pedalling in combat.
• The ‘Radiant Story‘ system ensures the game-world reacts to your character and play style in both grand and mundane ways.
• Quests can be awarded dynamically, set to a location you’ve never visited and populated with enemies appropriate to your level.
• Your version of Skyrim is dynamically customized to how you like to play.
• NPC dialogue scenes will trigger fluidly in your normal view, rather than in the portrait-style zoomed-in view used in Oblivion.
• NPCs will have the ability to move around and continue with their chores while they speak with you.
• The game features a significantly increased number of voice actors over previous titles.
• Secondary conversations can be overheard and add notes to your Quest Journal.
• There are a number of new activities available in towns, such as smithing, alchemy to make poisons and potions, enchanting, and mundane professions like farming, mining, woodcutting and cooking.
• As one of the last Dragonborn, your character can learn and use ‘dragon shouts‘. There are over 20 unique shouts in the game, each formed from three words of power. One of the ways you can learn dragon shouts is by absorbing dragon souls.
• Some of the dragon shouts have been described. One hurtles foes away from you. One slows down time. Some are whispered and used for stealth. One shout speaks the true name of a dragon, summoning it to battle for you.
• Characters can now sprint by expending stamina.
• The game’s menus have been redesigned with simplicity and usability in mind. Todd Howard has said the team’s guiding philosophy for the UI was “What if Apple made a fantasy game?”
• Hitting the menu button will open a four-point style compass overlay, similar to the ‘before your eyes’ menus of Dead Space. Options are (clockwise) Skills, Inventory, Map and Magic. Skills are accessed by hitting up. You’ll look at your skills by looking at the sky, and each skill is represented by a constellation. New perks will light a new star in the constellation of the relevant skill. Skills are divided by areas of the sky representing melee, magic and stealth skills.
• Your inventory is accessed by pushing right from the compass menu. Weapons and armor can be tagged as favorites for easy access. Books appear as three dimensional objects you can open and read. Every item in the game has a zoomable 3D image you can examine.
• Pushing left accesses your Spells. There are a number of variations on core spells and spells can be combined.
• Pressing down will access the Map. Your character will look down, then the camera will zoom out to show you a topographical map of the world, viewed from a great height.
• You can fast-travel to previously visited locations.
• Like in Fallout 3, there will be children in Skyrim.
• Levels will scale like in Fallout 3, not like in Oblivion.
• Faces and facial animations have been greatly improved, with NPCs more expressive than ever before.
• Creatures and enemies confirmed: Bandits, wolves, Dragons, horses, Elk, Mountain Giant, Frost Troll, Giant Spider, Draugr Undead, Specter, Werewolf, Ice Wraith.
• Locations confirmed: Five major cities, and a settlement called Riverwood.
• Spells confirmed: Fireball, Ice Spike, Lightning Bolt.
• There are 10 playable races in the game. You can customize your character’s body as well as their face.
• Male characters will be able to have facial hair.
• The game has been built with an all-new game engine.
• Skills confirmed: Alchemy, Conjuration, Destruction, Restoration, Illusion, Alteration, Enchanting and Smithing.

Official Gameplay Trailer

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[JAW959]

I came. 

[Dippindots]

sweet

[zackin5]

Please don't be using GameByro, Please don't be using GameByro, Please don't be using GameByro.

[packersfan682]

I just saw it too!  This might have made the awards worth watching.

[Solid]

forget YEAR

[CC]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qqnTNGhrtQ
video courtesy of destructoid

[Desolation]

Dragons are back, forget yeah.

[Frontrox]

i jized

[tails]

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[Wizard]

There is ONE they fear?


OH HELL BETHESDA. forget OFF.

[LegoEggo]

>saw topic right as i clicked to go to some other site
>hit back button while thinking "omg omg omg omg omg omg omg"
>was very happy

[Messes]

Sah-weeeeeeet

[LegoEggo]

http://kotaku.com/5712282/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-unveiled-dated-for-2011

[IkeTheGeneric]

Yes.

YES.

YES!

YES!!