I am very happy to hear that radiant AI type stuff is being extended to beasts. We knew about the wolves and that implied other animals would get similar attention but we did not know. Its a logical step. MW everyone just stood around. In OB npcs became much more real, yet beast still just stood around and walked in circles. Now in Skyrim Npc's are getting enhanced further while beast are getting there first taste of radiant AI, awesomeness.

I was hoping to see some Racism in Skyrim, and get the feel of Morrowind back. It's now been confirmed... yay!

Hah, you can try! XD

Great, they can't put enough polygons and NPCs in one load to have open cities because of the "current system"... yet people defend consoles so vigorously, *sigh*.

Everything else sounds like a massive improvement over OB. With that new sneak detection improvement though, gonna still need to mod in total actual darkness where there isn't real light, and *hopefully* cities without "loading walls" will not be too much of a problem to implement...

Great interview, one of the best to date. You've probably already got most of this info, but here are my personal notes on the interview:

Vibe in Morrowind, stranger in a strange land - alien. Wrong for Skyrim, shouldn't feel like isolated alien land.

Great thing about Morrowind, heightened wonder of discovery. Skyrim trying to walk line between classical fantasy and wonder of discovery. Unique culture while appropriate to what Skyrim should be.

"Different in different parts of this world, much like in Morrowind where house redoran or Telvanni would treat things differently, we have that, between the various holds"

"Bigger cities still have walls that load you"

More traps, gone a long way with traps.

"Spacial puzzles" and "Adventure gamery puzzles", more than before

Over 100 "points of interest" eg. Necromancer altars

Giants have camps, often with mammoths

Wolves, deer, elk have dens

Gods; Aedra and Daedra make appearances, still a big part of the world.

Land mass about the same size as Oblivion, "flows" differently due to mountains

10 races, each feeels different from the rest

Raccism, nords don't like elves. Some of this leads onto quests, is the theme for quests, but mostly adds flavor depending upon which race you pick.

Animations for cooking, smithing, etc

All NPC jobs can be done by player, animations play for the PC. Not minigames!

Crafting for magic; enchanting. Combat; smithing. Stealth; alchemy.

Alchemy works differently to Oblivion

Dungeons range from tiny, 15 minute dungeons, to massive, 2 hour epic dungeons.

Listening to these interviews is so great and I'm not bothered by walls...the tech of the future will eliminate those. I'm not going to let it bother me. What bothers me more is racism. I haven't finished Morrowind yet so I don't know what's in there about racism....always sad to see it. I *am* looking forward to the puzzles and I hope they aren't toooooooooo hard. I was also glad to read that Daedra/Oblivion would make an appearance.

:tes:

Hey rabbits. Maybe I was right about those small animals I pointed out on a screenshot.. if anyone remembers...

That in itself is worth celebrating. I kind of hope the whole minigame lode will just fade into oblivion and in 2 years time everyone will remeber it as just another urban myth.

Ahhh...
Feels good.

Can you link the sceenshot?

yeah here you go, everyone said they were rocks..maybe, maybe not. Keep in mind it was done while we were waiting for that new info in april. http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1180227-possible-animal-life-in-screen/

Getting to 11-11-11 is going to take forever. :brokencomputer:

I really liked this interview, let Todd talk and ask basic questions. Don't ask him dumb stuff like "Can I rides da Dragons".

The only thing I'm disapointed about is hearing that 50% of the dungeons are around 15 minutes long. I was hoping that number would be closer to 33% but then again the Dungeons in Oblivion were like that. You only had a couple dungeons in Oblivion that were kinda long like Vilverin or Lost Boy Cavern. Most were like Dzonot cave in which their was 2 areas but it didn't take you long to get through if you didn't sneak around.

Looks like any hopes for a Dunmer - Nord friendly alliance has just failed

As much as I hate cities in separate cells, it does make sense that a few cities will have walls around them. Especially during a civil war. Gives the city a stronghold feel

Todd mentioned salmon.

Best interview so far. And I am happy about all the info.

He said that we couldn't really pick sides, racism is there for "flavor"

I'm surprised nothing was said about the snow/weather system.

Of course you can pick sides! You can play as an anti-elf character all you want. They just won't force you to pick sides.

Ich danke Ihnen Gameswelt! Man, they got more information then our shows all got combined!

Maybe the other interviewers should stop asking already answered questions and less stupid stuff like "Can we be dragunz plz?"

Yeah I love the fact that gametrailers advertised this big reveal then asked the lamest questions ever ! Geoff: ''Soooo we can confirm that there are dragons in this game right?'' :facepalm:

At least half of the dungeons I've come across in oblivion were small. . . so this is no suprise. I imagine most dungeons will be similar, in size, to bleak mine, with one or two zones to explore.

Love it, love everything about it. Awesome, thank you, 1-2 hour dungeons? :shocking: Racial conflict?
All of it, awesome :disguise:

Eh, Todd needs to discuss separate pauldrons and gauntlets.

There's a reason Pete hasn't answered you on twitter. They're not talking about that yet.

Ah yes, "pauldrons" We have dismissed that claim.