It seems to me that closed helmets are back, in the screenshot with the ice wraiths it looks like the elven helmet is a closed one... can anyone confirm this?

I wonder if it will be super confuzing or not
Two things I am worried about is this:

One: Is that lets say I am level 2 and go into a area were I would have to be level 5 to do a quest, will it let me know that I HAVE to be level 5 in some way or form thru text or someway? Or will it just not have a quest appear?
Two: if it is that latter I am worried about it the most because I have short term memory loss (only seems to get worse to and I am only 20!! T___T ) and I am afraid that I won't remember to go to "that cave near that first town" or something like that

Also did the mag have screens of any landscapes in the game? How do they look? Do they just show snowy areas or other areas?

I notcied the vest thing too... O.O NOW I am actually really hoped... if they put shoulder and clothing slots back I will be enternally happy

Are you talking about the Dunmer? Good eye. It does look like he is only wearing one pauldron.

I'm not sure why people are unhappy with the only 18 skills. I think people are just looking for something to be outraged about. They did it with Daggerfall to Morrowind and Oblivion to Skyrim. It's time to get ready for people saying how Oblivion is such an amazing game and Skyrim is terrible in 10 months. They removed some of the more worthless skills like athletics. It's better off that way especially when there are no more Major or Minor skills (I actually am even more optimistic about this game knowing this). As for the perks, I would have put it under on the fence since you don't know what they all are atm but I'm kind've skeptical about them too. I really don't see what the problem is with only having 5 schools of magic. 5 is a nice round number and mysticism always felt like a wasted school to me, I always thought that some of the things in Mysticism belonged in other schools like the reflect spells and telekinesis should belong in Alteration and dispel and detect life belonged in Illusion, pretty obvious things because why would reflect be in mysticism while all the shields were in Alteration?

In the tavern it looks like the guy in the background is a little more heavy than the PC, also the guy walking through the streets with the leopard/puma... I think they all have realistically sized bodies and different ones!!! So maybe, body size is adjustable...

Is the HUD-free optional?

One of the screenies is the character facing a giant spider.

So because it has less skills the entire game is bound to be simple and uninspired? Riiiiight. :dry:

Do the Dunmer look good? :ahhh:

+1 interbwebz I completely agree!

It's kind of sad that the only Mysticism skill I used was detect life and Alchemy could produce so many skills similar to magic classes it made a lot of those skills worthless at higher levels.

I'm so jealous O= I wanna see those pictures

Thanks for the updates though! It actually sounds good and promising!

This info is brutal.

The only pic is from behind, but the skin seems to be Morrowind grey and not Oblivion blue, so in my opinion that's a plus.

Your not supposed to transcribe it word for word, but I think the Mods let it slip.

I hope it won't be overused, not even once every 24 hours, and if it will be like that, it should have extreme disadvantages, like slowing down time would cause you to be ... and sending you from one place to another would make you poisoned etc. etc.
I don't want to be overpowered and feel invincible, we got god mode for that

Too right it is matey! :foodndrink:

I hope they are bringing the old voice actor back too...

Well it worked for Oblivion.

I don't know...it seemed to work that way with the last TES. Is it so surprising that some take a reduction of skills as a bad sign for the rest of the game? Doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Canary in the coal mine so to speak. You have to remember...a lot of people wanted a system at least as complex as Daggerfalls, so to hear that we've actually lost skills from Oblivion (I didn't think it was possible myself) is a bummer. Again, the article doesn't go into enough detail about anything but combat to make a judgment.

@sleign what do you mean dialogue pops up near enemies?

I certainly hope they picked up chain smoking again over the past 6 years.

So dragon shouts allow you to fast travel?

There's a pic (of Riverwood village, page 52) where it looks like a guard is walking with a dog beside him.

Sweeettt.

This game looks to be just epic.

Obviously the best addition is the beards. Finally, my Nord characters can be complete.

I believe these may be only usable when in combat with a dragon. That's what they made it seem like in the article since the dragons are so powerful and your lineage are the only ones capable of defeating dragons one on one.