140 is a lot of quests. Unless they're really really short side quests, I don't see the problem.

Im going to comment on a few points in the clip. As some have already stated many of these are old. But i just want to comment on these.

1 There will be no nudity in Skyrim
I belive before the first week is over there will be nudity in Skyrim, atleast for PC. Lots of talented and dirty modders out there.

2 Companions can be killed, not just knocked unconscious.
Well this makes companions useless. As they always die so fast in these game. Fallout New Vegas fixed this by not making them killable. It was much less frustrating.

3 You can turn the Holds against one another. Even starting a war between two rival militas.
This could be awesome if there would actually be war and not just small skirsmishes. When they make a game where factions actually wage war against eachother. Then i am talking about battle or something like that with more than 100 NPCs meeting on a battle. The worst part of the story line in Oblivion was the quest where you had to gather help from all the towns to defend from lots of oblivion gates. That scene was laughable. All towns sendt 2 or 1 person to help. Such an oppertunity to make it epic made it just shallow and stupid.

4 The perk for decapitation was confirmed.
Wonder why they did not keep the dismemberment stuff from Fallout 3. If this perk only give the option to chop heads, then this is a step backwards.

As far as I remember Fallout 3 had 34 quests. That gives us a rough number of ~170 quests in Skyrim, which is fine seeing as Oblivion had 178 quests, not inclusive of the trainer quests. That's an impressive number since to many quests can be a drag and sap the game of its creativity.

Well this makes companions useless. As they always die so fast in these game. Fallout New Vegas fixed this by not making them killable. It was much less frustrating.
You can GIVE ITEMS to companions, i.e. potions. It makes you have to focus a bit more on things other than yourself. Potentially cutting more selfishness from game-play. I like it, as it's more realistic.


Opinion.

I'd be expecting as many quests as Oblivion, a few less or more, but more detail put into them, more variation and creativity. Oblivion had some very well thought ones, especially the side quests.

About the companions being able to die: I would hate for my wife to die. :'(

I guess I should learn a restoration spell so I can heal her and I also need go find her some nice armor.

If she is about to die I want her to just go back to house..

WTHeck would your wife be doing with you in a battle!?!?!? It's the male's job to protect her, and die in her place if need be.

Oh, wait. We're talking about a video-game? Right..... Pardon my realistic look on things....

^ Well you never know if we are just walking and are attacked or something.

But I am overly cautious in general so I'll save often so if she died I would just load my last save and she would be alive again.

That is unless I wanted her ass dead! :angel:

You can also reanimate her but I don't think that would be too pleasant. :cryvaultboy:

You mean like bring her back to life?

:goodjob:

:nope:

And King Silva can you please stop using that text? If you want to draw more attention to your posts, make good posts. :poke:

Fallout 3 only had 28 quests?

Fallout 3 also got boring very fast as the whole world was full of nothing and nothing to do other than kill stuff.

Main quest is usually dividing up theirs so main quest alone is taking up atleast 10+ of them, more than 15+ for each guild aswell.

After all guilds and factions and so forths theres barely any numbers left of quests to get from regular people.

This cannot be right...

Quit your gibbergabber turkey!

You guys take everything as fact as soon as it is said =\. If it 5x the amount of quests of fallout 3 could be worked out to be 140, the video would just say 140.. It's Obviously just a rough guess.

I felt New Vegas was more boring than F3. Lots of stuff to find in F3 if you take the time to look. As for there being 200 quests in Oblivion... well.... hate to say it but those questlines were as mediocre as the rest of that completely bland game. Much more uniqueness in F3. As long as the quality of the quests go up I think it will be fine. Not to mention you might (maybe just maybe) not have to worry about being able to complete them all at levels 1 through 10.

I would say it is not a matter how many quests there will be. The complexity will make the difference. In the years ago the people where just fine with "kill that dog" -quest types but this has changed over the time.

The numbers are also not telling you how many subquest they will have. Oblivion has a lot of different quests, but not all of them where really long, for me it also depends on how the quest are introduced.

Words to [censored] live by.

AFAIK, it has never been mentioned anywhere that Skyrim has 140 quests.

The only reference to the number of quests was Pete Hines comment in the bulletproof pixel radio interview that Skyrim as "6 - 7 times" the number of quests in FO3, and another comment he made where he said 5 or 6 times the number of quests of FO3.

FO3 vanilla with no DLC had 31 marked journal quests. That suggests Skyrim could have anywhere from 155 - 217 quests (before DLC). According to UESP, Oblivion had 204 journal quests excluding DLC ( http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:100%25_Completion ).

And the number of quests does not exactly translate to hours of content, we have no idea whether we are talking about smaller fetch quests or longer, branching quests with more hours of content.

thankyou for confirming this

Are Bethesda good at branching quests? I don't remember the interview but when they asked if the story is branched they said no, they don't do branching like Fallout.