It was in the Game Informer magazine :/

And thanks for telling us that that was 'in your opinion', just in case we might have mistaken it for the divine word of God, or someone else who you were surreptitiously paraphrasing.

Honestly, it's the most ridiculous, superfluous, self deprecating platitude in language. Not that I'm 'flaming' you, just the phrase.

* You can pickup a one handed weapon with either hand.
* You can have one only in your left hand.
* You can have one only in your right hand.
* You can have one in the left hand and one in the right hand, at the same time.

I don't think this picture (in my opinion mind you) is a real screenshot from any source console or PC. I think it's a faked mock up. I've studied all the other images so far (about 12 in all) and http://www.gamereactor.se/media/59/elderscrolls5_235967b.jpg is the most surreal and strange of them all. The lake is too painterly like hand-painted water or some shader effect that isn't working. The plants on the left-hand bottom of the screen seem clipped from a stock source and photoshopped into the scene. Everything looks odd, off-color, and the waterfall looks hand drawn one tiny line at a time, and isn't blurred like running water. The trees even look photoshopped in. Here's a big one: look at the rock in the middle over the lake, there's no shadow under it on the water, it seems to be floating out there in mid air. It's totally faked. Look at the textures on the bottom-left dirt patch, the green blotches are not real, they are a joke. This can't be from any real image. The other images like the Dungeon with the zombies is absolutely mind boggling, but this is no where close to that. In my opinion, again.

I'm sorry, but unless Todd Howard tells me himself that this image is really from the game, snapped during live play, I won't believe it. And I don't want him to waste his time doing that, hahaha.

1. That screen with the beautiful lake is very clearly and apparently an authentic in-game screenshot and not a photoshop job. I think you need to upgrade your glasses or something.

2. Bethesda don't do bullshots and such crap.

Shut the hell up you blubbering [censored]. Not that I'm 'flaming' you, just your post. In my opinion.

Thanks for the info, OP. Dragon Shouts are sounding cooler and cooler

He's not talking about the beautiful lake -- he's talking about that ugly pond we saw in the GI magazine It was pretty off topic and I find it weird that so many people reacted to it. It's obviously a real screenshot - just a poor one and one from an early build of the game, so it doesn't look as good as it should.

He's not talking about the beautiful lake -- he's talking about that ugly pond we saw in the GI magazine It was pretty off topic and I find it weird that so many people reacted to it. It's obviously a real screenshot - just a poor one and one from an early build of the game, so it doesn't look as good as it should.

/talk about GI screenshot

Well I meant the Gameinformer beautiful lake (or pond if you like). Early build or not, the pond screen is beautiful.

I haven't seen the lake screen from Gamereactor yet, but if it's even more beautiful then that's a huge bonus for me. :celebration:

Wow, you must be the first person I've seen that doesn't think that screen was hiddeous The Gamereactor screen is much prettier!

http://twitter.com/#!/Cratesmasher/status/35464219340054528 about the one-handed in two hands thing.... he's apparently away on a business trip, so might take some time before he answers.

Good, it seems like everything level scales again. Fantastic. Guess I'm waiting for a year or so before modders fix the game.

I start to wonder, what purpose does scaling serve in an RPG? So the game stays challenging throughout? Well... isn't the point of an RPG to progress, get stronger? If you get stronger, why should all your enemies scale to that strength to make you feel weak? I don't see the point. Why not just make this an action game with no stats, then we wouldn't need leveling scaling! YOU CAN'T HAVE BOTH!

i saw the picture amd i must say IMO it looks more like a painting then an actual screenshot. if it is real however, then props to bethesda artists.

This is what you are seeing in the "new screenshot."

http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/2716/map3w.png

This is what you are seeing in the "new screenshot."

http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/2716/map3w.png

Likely. But how could we know? It didn't come with a map

Good, it seems like everything level scales again. Fantastic. Guess I'm waiting for a year or so before modders fix the game.

I start to wonder, what purpose does scaling serve in an RPG? So the game stays challenging throughout? Well... isn't the point of an RPG to progress, get stronger? If you get stronger, why should all your enemies scale to that strength to make you feel weak? I don't see the point. Why not just make this an action game with no stats, then we wouldn't need leveling scaling! YOU CAN'T HAVE BOTH!

i saw the picture amd i must say IMO it looks more like a painting then an actual screenshot. if it is real however, then props to bethesda artists.