Thank you for some rationality! I agree with all your points. I'm excited about all this info

Noooo I can't stand another delay! November is far away already, another delay could kill people alive. The 11.11.11 requires impeccable punctuality please.

Wait??? What??? So does this mean we'll have nothing but typichal common rpg creatures like trolls and deer??? AGAIN??? I really hope I'm wrong!!! I won't buy Skyrim if I'm right...

Quiet! I'm still in denial and telling myself that's an epic ruin.

Grr.. fo3 while it was in developement was a bit smaller then ob was... but then they expanded the wasteland part of the map to double its size.. this expanded the map to a fair bit beyond oblivion in size. BUIT ONLY because its a square map.

As for the comment in this mag... be careful he doesnt say the MAP is a certain size he said the GAME is about the same size.

Asking detailed questions from a dev is like getting a cat to do things.. the only way to do it is to wait till they actualy do something then claim you asked them.

That's what I'd like to believe too actually =D

Some interesting information. Here's my take on some of it.

Around 20 hours main quest- I don't mind that as that's about the same amount of time that Oblivions main quest took (If you closed the optional Oblivion gates).

Fast Travel is back- Not a big deal I don't mind it being back.

Dark brotherhood is back- Now that is sweet, although I hope it's different from Oblivions version of the guild where you had to get rid of your clanmates.

Around 130 Dungeons, This I don't mind although Oblivion had over 200 and possibly up to 300 dungeons. I don't mind that they're leveled if you enter them early as long as they respawn. That pretty much means we'll be waiting until higher levels before entering all the dungeons. If the dungeons don't respawn then that means the game will end at some point which is extremely bad, unlike in Oblivion where you could play forever.

Active Blocking, I'm not sure what that means but if it's the same blocking from Oblivion then I'm happy. If it's not then it needs to be explained as to why the change from a good system.

It sounds good so far and I can't wait for more info

Does that count the OB gates?

20 hours of main quest line is incredible. That blows Morrowind and Oblivion out of the water. It also seems that they are keeping in Oblivion's massive and amazing side quests. If Skyrim has the deep main quest line like Morrowind and the deep side quests like Oblivion, we are looking at a game that could finally dethrone Daggerfall.



Active Blocking is what was in Oblivion.

I'll just store this comment for now and remind you of your promise when 11.11.11 comes around....

You're going to make the wait longer for yourself if you are expecting news on werewolves this soon.

Oblivion had 200 MB mods that added 15 hours of gameplay.Blows out of the water...????

Let's also hope they liked his 'missed shots and fresh corpses alert nearby actors' mods. Those mods add so much to gameplay.

Just want to add a tiny bit to the list that I overlooked:

"There is no level cap. You will nevertheless not be able to choose all perks with one character."

Btw, active blocking is described as if it is more engaging than Oblivion's system: "Melee is more fun to play, due to active blocking."

Special animations for stealth kills, sounds sweet.

I just don't hope it will be shown in 3rd person while playing in 1st. like in two worlds 2, really brakes immersion IMO.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. I don't see how mods for Oblivion have to do with the base line main quest time of Oblivion and Morrowind....

The fresh corpse mod would be sweet if it was in the game I mean if an NPC sees a body down wouldn't they normally scream "Dead body, somebody has died, there's a murderer around".

No dual magic makes me a sad panda as well



Well, that's the definitive proof that mods (in general) are just epic And kudos to Bethesda for watching over the community.

Sounds nice!
I hated the level cap...

Well I'm completely serius when I say I won't buy the game if its nothing but completely typichal rpg stuff like deers trolls minotaurs without a single unique thing you can't see in other games...

on size: it's overrated. It is nice when things are big, but it is really the experience that counts. As people have said, Morrowind felt bigger because its gameplay.
On books, depends on how much time they spent on it. We have no way to know how much dev time was involved, so no point praising or bashing it yet.
on fast travel: I don't mind whether it is there, just wish it could be toggled with other options available. Bethesda has a market outside of the rabid forumers (who are a small minority). Their average customer is not role playing a deer hunter totally uninterested in the main quest and obsessed with the market price of furs. So while I agree that there should be other options, I don't think Bethesda is completely oblivious. People here just have an ego complex (just because oblivion means so much to you, it doesn't follow that you mean so much to Oblivion). Bethesda's job is not to cater to a small minority.

I somewhat agree on the last point though: a lot of a people seem to adapt every piece of news so that it fits with their fantasy of a fantasy world. Just because there are going to be less dungeons, it doesn't mean each dungeon will be better. At the same time, having less dungeons doesn't mean the devs are just lazy either. People make inferences off of very little information. That being said, I disagree that vanilla Oblivion wasn't worth playing. I think people just take its flaws a lot more seriously after putting in 300 hours. Having the modding tools just raises the standards by which we judge the vanilla game. Every person judges the flaws of vanilla oblivion according to their subjective vision of what it is to them now (with their chosen mods). Thing is, no-one agrees what those changes should be, we all adapt the game to our vision of perfection. So either you have extremely high standards (and only think a couple of games are worth playing), or you are just bitter (seems more likely as you are on a Bethesda forum, apparently worth your time).

We are talking about unmodded. Did you not realize that?

Well I'm completely serius when I say I won't buy the game if its nothing but completely typichal rpg stuff like deers trolls minotaurs without a single unique thing you can't see in other games...

I think he was talking about the DLC...

Hmmm.It still will have the potential to be rescued by modders,if you're a PC user.