Seeing as Arkane is merged with Bethesda now as one company, it wouldn't surprise me to know that they are working together. You probably wouldn't know it. I think the staff merged too, so the combat designers probably were integrated into Beth's staff. After all, they have almost double the staff working on Skyrim than they did on Oblivion. Some of Arkane might be among those numbers.

Pete confirmed weeks ago that Arkane has and will not be involved with Skyrim at all.

They didn't acquire arkane soon enough to be part of the development, but it seems obvious from the gameplay trailer that bethesda played Dark Messiah and picked up some ideas.

Edit: Like the running backpedal. Dark Messiah didn't allow that, and was better for it. Bethesda said they were changing that for Skyrim.

They just said it is going to have a sort of target lock where you have to look for openings to get the fatal blow in, similar to AC and Arkham Asylum.

Yeah, I know what you mean.

*currently playing Arx Fatalis :user: *

Yep I made a thread on this awhile back... and got a confirmation that they are not.

Here's the thread if you want to read through the discussion.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1172059-skyrims-combat/page__p__17288674__fromsearch__1#entry17288674

Nevermind, see post above.

In the Skyrim Game Informer its says zeni max has aquired 5 or so companies under its belt including Arkane. and that they wouldnt be suprised if the 5 or so companies shared things with one another. Its really up to them. So yeah they might be helping with the combat maybe, but who knows.

AC and AA are third person games with QTE combat(like the Witcher but better). Skyrim won't be anything like them. It is not target lock, it is magnetism. Magnetism where your blow will connect to the right part of enemy.

Also if Arkane was working on Skyrim, we would see their company logos everywhere.

No to the first
no to the second
yes to the new monarch
surprisingly no to the last
I don't think they will have any impact whatsoever. I don't believe Bethesda would let anyone near their games....... for whatever reason........ever. And I do not want the game to come out tomorrow. As cool as it would be, I'm gonna say let's wait until the game is perfect (IE- November).

Arkane Studio's are currently working on an Elder Scrolls spin off to be released early 2013.

Bethesda can surely handle the combat all by themselves

And remember Kids, Bethesda Made Arena, And Arena Is The First Elder Scrolls Game.... And It Still Has Uriel Septim so NO WAY they will give away their master-work-that-everyone-expects!

Elder Scrolls Online!

They are working on that.

Are some people purposefully ignoring the fact that Pete confirmed Arkane has had no involvement with Skyrim at all?

I can't remember where, but I did read that Arkane would be providing advice and recommendations much like how the developers of idTech contributed to the Creation Engine. Arkane did the same thing during Bioshock 2's development, which was made by 2K Marin.



Yeah, they are. I'd like to think it's a Dark Messiah-type game made with the creation engine (which has my friend happy - he's a huge Dark Messiah fan) though I think Ubisoft owns the rights to the Might and Magic franchise, which means it could only be a spiritual successor at best.



Not a monopoly, but a company to compete with the likes of EA and Activision. Bethesda Softworks has come a looooooooong way after BGS released Oblivion. You can make money off of one successful publishing deal, but there is a lot more money to be made with more publishing deals. And by straight-out buying companies, you can make sure that the publishing goes through you. And fortunately for Bethesda, the companies they're grabbing have plenty of resources. Two new engines under the belt already.



No, they didn't merge. It's a parent-child company structure. The companies remain companies and stay in whatever headquarters they are, but they are administered over by the parent company. http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv175/Proditus/ZeniMap2.jpg.

Slightly off topic, the Arkane game currently in production is probably using Unreal engine. Just check the Zenimax job offers for Arkane.

That great if their taking inspiration from Assassins Creed. I was replaying Assassins creed 2 today and one of the many great things about it is the fluidity of the combat system. You are right Skyrim will be awesome

That just makes me wonder more about what they might be working on. If it was anything like Dark Messiah, why not just use the Creation Engine?