I go away for a few hours and this turns up. Fantastic interview!

Pretty much everything Todd confirmed or implied is fantastic news. And I guess the "carriage system" finally puts to rest the fast travel debates...

I agree, the support was essential, the modders can use it to keep the game great looking for a long time :clap:

What do you guys think the carriage system is?

My guess a Mastodon or Wolly Mammoth!!! (like a Siltstrider) :laugh:

Hmmm could this possibly be a goblin?

there were carriages in Daggerfall, at this point, I DO NOT CARE if magic map FT is in or out, we has Carriages I couldnt care if its teleportation on its own or scenic driving, anything that isnt magic map clicking is FINE.

Actually it has to do with Bethesda wanting an equal balance in terms of graphics, if you read the article.

Civilization in TES in the time of Skyrim is older than the actual modern world. I'd certainly hope they'd have carriages. Other stuff can be explained away by the use of magic negating the need for more advanced technology, but in my opinion it shouldn't be used as an excuse to keep them absurdly primitive.

A hollowed out Dragon corpse, tied upon stone wheels and pulled by a train of wingless cliff racers :tongue:

you sure know how to rain on a parade :sadvaultboy:

I think the term I'd use, for myself, is bitter-sweet. But I guess like with the other Bethesda games, I'll be waiting for those texture packs to make the game what I should have been out of the box.

That'd be my guess too. Bridled mammoths, laden with goods and passengers, plodding through the snow...

Of course, by "carriage," Todd might simply have meant "payed-for in-world travel system," so there could be multiple types of transport.

Now we know Pete meant "within 30 days," so there is definitely more to come.

Yeah maybe I was taking it a bit too literally. The mammoth idea sounds cool.

Since Bethesda is shooting real photographs with cameras that they turn to textures,I think that in Skyrim they will include good enough textures from the beggining.
Crysis uses 1024x1024 textures,while Oblivion used 512x512 textures.
Every single digital camera can shoot well above 2048x2048 pictures,and since there are machines capable of using 1024x1024 textures,I can't see a reason not to include textures of that quality.
There isn't a reason not to include Crysis-grade textures in Skyrim.
They already have them at bigger resolutions and they make them smaller in purpose.
Giving us higher resolution textures won't be hard or expensive for them.

I think there is a possibility that we will get 1024x1024 textures!
I also hope for it.

best interview so far!

quote article: IGN:I know you probably get this question a lot but we have to ask, is there any plan to include multiplayer features or co-operative play in Skyrim, or will The Elder Scrolls continue to be a single-player only franchise?

Todd Howard: The two most requested features we get are dragons and multiplayer. We got one of them this time! We always look into multiplayer, put lots of ideas on the whiteboard, and it always loses. It's not that we don't like it. I can think of ways it would be a lot of fun, but at the end of the day, that dev time is going to take away from doing the best single player game we can, and that's where our hearts are. endquote

I can't even express how happy I am to read this answer. Fantastic! That's where my heart is also...thank you.

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models are still nif :celebration:

My understand of DX11 tessellation, which I admit is not perfect, is that there are two parts. The first part is the engine. The engine must be told how to tessellate objects, or how to divide up the polygons. The second part is the objects. They need an additional texture, or displacement map, to tell the engine how to adjust the new vertices it created. I'm praying that they did the first part. Then, at least, it will be a simple matter of modders doing the second. If they didn't, then actually getting it into the game becomes a whole other beast.

Tessellation itself is not new. 3d modeling programs like Maya have been doing it for years. What makes DX11 tessellation different is that it allows it to be done in real time, on the fly. Whereas displacement mapping/tessellation in Maya significantly increases the render time.



I'm running 2048x2048 and 4096x4096 in New Vegas

I couldn't disagree more. The real time carriage riding in RDR was a huge waste of resourses and development time. It was cool for about the first 5 seconds then you realized it totally defeated the purpose of a paid fast travel service. I might as well just ridden my horse to my destination in real time. It really added very little or no value to the game. I hope Bethesda didn't waste time implimenting something so useless. Hopefully it is just a paid fast travel service similar to Morrowind.

NAKED PEOPLOZ MODZ :celebration:

you know its gonna happen...

anyway as of NOW the game is perfect for me... PERFECT.

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what more do we want??!! great combat, new magic system that rocks ( and screw spell making who needs it we got 85 spell effects), great stealth, dragons, big cities...etc

I mean and we got the CS so we can extend the game's life forever.

Yay! I hope so. (Because Havok isn't... the best...)

Not in the way your asking... I bet you get your arm bitten by a dragon and it flies in the air and you get a great view of Skyrim. Maybe you can see that one tower in Imperial City.

Skyrim confirmed to be rated AO and very disturbing.

I really hope they go with the new disk formate that is gonna be available for the 360 as it has another gigabyte of available memory, which means they can get even more on the disc for my money. maybe not alot more but more none the less

remember that dragons can take on human form ,..... so maybe we can ride some when they are out of their dragon form ???