Why wouldn't I? It doesn't sound so complex to me, especially if they almost had radiant a.I. in 2006?

Yay, not everything's out to kill you any more. Now I can walk by those rats without epic battle music playing and them charging at me.

Well, I'm hopeful. Then again they might do a "we had to tone it down" thing again on release. and people will believe it all over again and say things like "get over it"

Sceptical to that npc will return items to you? Npc picked up weapons in Oblivion it they had none. I previously posted that this has been in games before Morrowind, the new it the return item part.

I’m more sceptical to the sabotage to damage economy; it has to be a sort of quest, however it’s no big deal to add one quest for each location.

For using a sawmill and similar, I guess that then npc use the items they just work and usually don’t produce items, if you do it you use up raw materials and produce items you can sell or use in later crafting.

The relatives attack you will works like guards in Oblivion, if somebody see you they tell the relatives who become a hostile faction.
Also no problem to track you in real time, it was also in Oblivion, sometimes you could see quest npc move on the world map, once I was attacked by an enemy from a quest inside a sigil tower.

In short it’s nothing spectacular new who has not been seen before except the return item dialogue who I have never run into before.

Thanks for posting. Some of that info was new to me and again Skyrim is shaping up to be the game it deserves to be

Not really: Radiant AI just needs to create a random NPC, give him a random name and make it tell some BS how he just came from another province after hearing the relative has died.
In-game relatives take over probably happens only to some NPC's tough



Oh, I have no doubt such stuff will be there.
Will it work as good as we hope? Probably not...

the village you're thinking about is very close to the city on the arch, whereas it's been stated that Riverwood is more in the mountains (and judging by estimated placement isn't very close to any cities). i'm pretty sure Riverwood is the one with the old woman leaning and the dude carrying a log.

pumped about dragon daddies. pumped about neutral wildlife. pumped by the way they described picking up shouts from walls. everything else is cool too.

also: VATS is a real-time with pause mechanic that allows you to aim at a specific body part. bullet time is just slowing down time, and only temporarily.

also: TES has always been an action RPG. stop pretending it was anything else. the fact that they're adding completely useless [censored] like WOODCUTTING completely destroys every argument that their tightening up the combat system means they're turning the game into Call of Duty with swords.

ed adding this for good measure so i can repeat it in future arguments: if you've never messed with the limits of Radiant AI in the construction set, you are not qualified to doubt or criticize Bethesda's implementation of it.

I'm loving the "not every creature is out for your blood" blurb. About time.

Veeery interesting...



That, too. Also, the potential for mods that take profit of that (and more features included) is nearly endless....omg omg OMG...

First off beautiful Avatar. Kate Beckinsale is undoubtedly the hottest woman on earth.

Secondly thanks for all this info. I'm going to add some of it to my Dragon thread right now and I'll probably go out and buy this magazine soon. Yeah i already know what it says now but I use to have a subscription to it and I enjoy the screens that go along with the articles. Plus you gotta have something for toilet material :blush2: right?


I went a little bit into this in my dragon thread. They are definitely talking about the graybeards here. If you want to read more it's under my Dragonshout section in my thread. Link below. \/

This sounds awesome

Well, there go our hopes for an optional, complex dragon-slaying system. If you wait too long, they hunt you down and force you to engage. So they've gone from an awesome, optional main quest storyline (MW) to a crappy, yet optional MQ (OB), to a yet to be assessed MQ (probably crappy though), which is NOT OPTIONAL. Not to mention this kinda kills those sneaky thief-players' immersion. No sneaking into its lair for sneaky stabby death.

Cool - Dragons will be a part of the landscape, a real and scary part of the world. Dangerous and to be avoided unless you are ready.


I know that people are upset about the potential lack of spell making, but assuming that each spell is indeed different, 80 is far more than previous games.


If Dragonshouts will be so powerful, I am going to work on my Silence Spell


Truthfully, I thought Oblivion fights were good. To me it felt like a back and forth battle. Obviously some issues, but if this is much better, I will indeed be pleased.


I really, really like this. Frankly I got tired of dragging a chain of wolves behind me everytime I felt like riding between cities. And then if I got off to fight, they would attack my horse. Glad to hear that it will be more like real world, where most wildlife will leave you alone provided you do the same. (unless of course you give them a reason).


This is also great. I love Indiana Jones and envision exploring a dungeon the same way (slow, always on a lookout for traps and hazards.)


In previous articles we hear that Dragons can attack towns and cities. I suppose they too can ruin a town's economy as well.



Of course they are waiting. We still have 8 months until release, and they need to release information slowy in order to keep up excitement, (and keep us fanatics slobbering at every iota if information that is released). Also, Beth learned a hard lesson about releasing information on something before they are sure it is done. They probably get tired of people accusing them of "lying" (which means intentially deceving), when they find that something just doesn't work to the quality they hoped for so it has been changed at release.

Thanks for sharing, This was great.

Storm

*You are over-encumbered*

"Hmm, let me just drop this armor"

*NPC walks up and picks it up*
"Here's your armor back sir.

*You are over-encumberd*
"crap."

Great post, It's been a while since I found new info

All this interesting info has to stop. I cant take it. I cant wait.

I hope you're kidding. The MQ is optional, though... do you actually think that Dragons will fly around the globe and some of them won't decide to attack you sometime? It's partly luck, but you have to get used to the idea that Skyrim has hostile and wild environment, in harsh conditions.
Sometimes a warrior will have the disadvantage of fighting against some creatures, sometimes the mage has the disadvantage, and sometimes the thief has the disadvantage. So, yeah, sometimes it will be hard to sneak on a Dragon, but I'm sure it's possible due to the fact that Dragons land once in a while.

Dragons might not populate in the world until you do a couple quests in the main stories. Like how the Oblivion gates didn't show up right away.

Thank you for the boner lol....

Thank you. I can't wait to hear more on the dragon shouts, especially the one where your character can summon a dragon into battle.

Edit: It would be awesome if you can customize the dragon's features and equip it with armor.

I think this may be these "dragon priests" I recall hearing 'bout...

I don't think they directly start looking for you... perhaps when through some of the MQ... also dragons have to sleep sometimes (in caves)... and finally, you could wait 'till they sleep then sneak past 'em...

Great info. I like the bit about the landscape being less dangerous (meaning, not every random creature will instantly attack you)

Depend, heard something about a dragon attacks then you are about to be executed.
However it might be the only one in the start.
Anyway dragons are boss enemies nothing more, they are levelled to you and/or the area so unless you are infiltrating a high level area you should be able to kill them.
Do not see the difference between them and hard levelled enemies in Morrowind or Oblivion.

Yup, its totally realistic to expect the world-eating dragons to just leave you alone for the whole game.