GI did "Ask Todd Howard About Skyrim" (03/02) : V - Skyrim

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:55 pm

What do you mean "mine out" a town?

In Oblivion it always felt like you entered a town, picked up the three or four quests, and then the people in that town faded into the background. They had no problems anymore, no conflict of any kind most of the time.

I'd prefer a certain amount of random quests so that there's constantly something that needs doing in each town.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:14 am

You know I bet Todd could convince a Penguin that the South Pole is actually the North Pole and the Penguin would believe it.

I like the stuff about the cooking and crafting, it sounds good although it's not based on skill it's probably going to be similar to an altar where you go up to it and then a menu appears and then you make whatever.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:07 am

Fallout 3 style fast travel you mean.

Aren't they the same thing?

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:34 pm

Hmmmm... I'm very suspicious to the possibility that spears might be only used as a ranged weapon... :mellow:

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:13 pm

In Oblivion it always felt like you entered a town, picked up the three or four quests, and then the people in that town faded into the background. They had no problems anymore, no conflict of any kind most of the time.

I'd prefer a certain amount of random quests so that there's constantly something that needs doing in each town.

That's true. I'd like to be able to remember more names than just Fargoth, that emperor guy and Martin...

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:44 am

You know I bet Todd could convince a Penguin that the South Pole is actually the North Pole and the Penguin would believe it.

What is he convincing anyone of?

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:04 am

Hmmmm... I'm very suspicious to the possibility that spears might be only used as a ranged weapon... :mellow:

They are a ranged weapon? :S

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:34 pm

Since when are Xbox graphics "smoother" than PC graphics?

Todd Howard, you're killin' me.

Don't know where you are getting this... he said no such thing.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:10 pm

He said that? He also said companions are shallow? Why would he even say that?

He did. He said that graphics are usually done at the Xbox level, because they're "smoother," and then most of that is transfered to the PC.

Before that, though, he said that they were going to have a large number of companions, but had to sacrifice depth of character just to have that large number of them.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:53 pm

What is he convincing anyone of?

I'm just saying but he's very good at convincing and telling people about a game/product. When you listen to him it's like "Wow that makes a lot of sense", instead of "Huh what does that do". I think a lot of us are convinced that Skyrim will be good (Which it will be) and the fact that he does a good job at explaining the features of a game. He's not the type of person that you'll get bored of if you listen to him for an hour talking like on the podcast, hence the convince a penguin line. :tongue:

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:41 am

I like what I am hearing from this podcast. I have hope back.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:32 am

The PC questions comes up at 40:55, Todd's comment about starting textures on the Xbox was at 41:50 of the Podcast.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:46 am

I liked most everything except...

alchemy now a stealth skill? wha?

Main users was archers not mages so it make sense, however why divide skills in groups anymore?

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:41 am

Is there a direct link? I want to listen to this on my media player

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:55 am

No answers about combat/mercantile/acrobatics, which is what I'm most interested in. Also I think Pete and Todd have serious communication issues with their technical staff. Ummm, guys there haven't been any improvements for the pc in your past 3 games.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:09 pm

I liked most everything except...

alchemy now a stealth skill? wha?

You gotta make poisons for your arrows.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:20 pm

Is there a direct link? I want to listen to this on my media player

http://media1.gameinformer.com/media/audio/toddhoward/toddhowardse.mp3

If that's what you want, say it, so I can add it to the first post.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:07 am

Why was the picture changed from the tavern girl with the mountains in the background to one of the wallpapers?

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:09 pm

They are a ranged weapon? :S

There are different types of spears. Light spears to throw used much like African tribe hunters do. Heavy spears used by infantry to defend against cavalry in medieval warfare. And medium spears used as a melee weapon by Chinese monks.

I was hoping for a spear that could be used with a shield or as a two handed melee weapon.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:45 pm

Why was the picture changed from the tavern girl with the mountains in the background to one of the wallpapers?

I really hope someone got that picture... New screenshots are always welcome, especially when they slip like that.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:13 am

Since when are Xbox graphics "smoother" than PC graphics?

Todd Howard, you're killin' me.

Other way around, xbox 360 is the weakest platform so they have to have the game running well on it, it will also determine minimum PC specifications, had been pretty stupid to develop the game on high end pc and then port to xbox 360.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:32 am

Why was the picture changed from the tavern girl with the mountains in the background to one of the wallpapers?

I'm wondering the same thing.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:41 am

The PC questions comes up at 40:55, Todd's comment about starting textures on the Xbox was at 41:50 of the Podcast.

What about ps3?

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:39 pm

I'm pretty sure there will be rideable dragon mods either way.

which is why mods don't interest me one little bit.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:04 am

He did. He said that graphics are usually done at the Xbox level, because they're "smoother," and then most of that is transfered to the PC.

What he meant is that since the XBox 360 has fixed hardware, any graphics made for it (and any console for that matter) can be super finetuned to work as smoothly as possible, i.e. no frame cuts or choppy animations. The PC, on the other hand, is an endless continuum of various hardware combinations, and adapting a console game to look better on it isn't really that hard. If they did it the other way around, however, the console graphics would suffer from it, since you can't go from wide to narrow that easily when it comes to hardware.