This two paragraphs are just from the preamble of the entire magazine. And this preamble is the only thing online till now. As the magazine will hit shelves in 3 days you cannot expect more.

At least it seems that a new magazine gets some new information. So we can hope for the 7 european releases

which ones specifically are covering it? do you know?

It looks like Bethesda's using the Commander Shepard approach when it comes to the main protagonist.

What's "low-fantasy"?

Lol I just ran it through a translater. PU is the mag, Skyrim is on the cover, and overleaf they predict the biggest/best games of the upcoming year or something. It's really the next sentence that's really TES related.

[Edit]: Kedz, it's the official Xbox and PS3 mags I think. Xbox mag has a big advert for Skyrim article in this issue, next one out Feb 10th.

That helmet reminds me of Batman's only with the horns facing downward.

Ram-Man or something :celebration:

"Protecting the citizens of (town name) from the dangers at night"

Can you elaborate?

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BGS always has a "main protagonist" they use with each game they make. Morrowind had a dark elf. Oblivion had the Imperial. Fallout 3 had a Brotherhood of Steel. Skyrim will have a Nord.

Even though it's an RPG where you can make your character look like anything you want, they use one look for the character mainly for advertising.

Isn't there a big thread where we can add the tidbits of info collected like this ? I mean, I live here, I learned only incidentally there wouldn't be no climbing.

There's going to be a ton of these crumbs with the European coverage...

This. What's the problem?

Did you ever see the oblivion advert...you know the one that came before mass effect?

Soooo... when's the English version of this coming out?

If you point me to that thread, I could post the unique info that Micromania (Spain, 27th) could probably have as soon as I get the magazine.

I don't recall an Imperial Guard being the main protagonist.

Low fantasy contrasts with the sub-genre of High fantasy. Low fantasy is characterised by being set in the real ("Primary") world, or a rational and familiar fictional world, with the inclusion of magical elements.

According to wiki.

...what?

I see a glorious future for you collecting tidbits! :bowdown:

Really too kind of you. :hehe:

So you never saw the oblivion cover story in gi? It has a picture just like that with an imperial on a horse?

Again, I don't recall an Imperial Guard being the main protagonist.

I thought it might be, thanks for the info!

There was an imperial guard in all the pre release hype when oblivion was announced. Same thing here with the nord in most of the screens.

In literature, it would mean a story set in a naturalistic world (Earth) with fantasy elements. High fantasy stories are set entirely in a fantastical world, like LOTR, etc.

In video games, the terms "high/low fantasy" have come to have entirely different meanings. The term "high fantasy" for video games has been associated with lots of JRPGs with extremely fantastical settings. I haven't heard the term "low fantasy" used to describe a video game, but I would take it to mean "the opposite of high fantasy games" - in other words, the opposite of JRPGs, or a game with slightly more realistic characters and settings, as opposed to games with extremely bizarre characters and art direction.

http://kotaku.com/5194643/high-or-low-fantasy-in-dragon-age

Hell, he's right at the top of this page.

On the main protagonist thing: I think one of you is talking about advertising, and the other is talking about in-game.

The comment that they're going the Commander Shepard route, as far as I can tell, was just meant to mean that all the advertising for the game is going to show a Nord warrior. Not that we will have a Nord in-game as the main protagonist if we don't want to.

Yea I'm not sure what the problem is. Guess he didn't see the imperial guard in most of the oblivion adverts.