Next GI podcast, “Ask Todd Howard About Skyrim” : V - Skyrim

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:22 am

Calipers: What will they be used for?

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 2:44 pm

since there is no class system how will the team deal with the huge combat disadvantage for the players who choose to level multiple skills instead of only focusing on one, this is why i prefered the way enemy levels were handled in fallout compared to oblivion, it just never made sense to me to see a group of bandits in full deadric armor with enchanted deadric weapons.

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:48 pm

Calipers: What will they be used for?

For keeping the water in the air so the boat can fly.

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 2:26 pm

When's the next Skyrim update of any kind (I'm asking forum members)?

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:04 pm

The updates are over. This is the last thing GI is doing.

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:51 am

The updates are over. This is the last thing GI is doing.

Yep. But obviously they are going to continue to follow Skyrim just like every other news site. This will just be there final piece of "exclusive" coverage.

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:55 am

Will there be quests to repair important/special landmarks that are destroyed during the Main Quest? (Think Plaza Brindisi Dorom, Fort Frostmoth, The Imperial Temple...Kvatch...)

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:26 pm

It was said by a forum poster that both summarized and translated that article. I would much, much, much rather have confirmation from a developer than a what I described.

Exactly. The forum poster translated it as "spell creating" Could that possibly have been mistranslated. The real meaning was "No spell combining" as in "creating" a spell from two different spells in each hand? A thought. But either way until it's confirmed by a dev, I won't believe anything I read in a foreign magazine, especially when Pete won't confirm or deny it. It's a question still worth asking.

Only question I might have is "Pertaining to stealth, how do enemies react to sounds or dead bodies laying on the ground? Do they hunt for what made the sound or killed the person or ignore such things?"

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:53 pm

The Game Informer embargo ends soon. Bethesda should be releasing the rest of the GI screenshots then, and other websites will be able to post exclusive Skyrim articles.

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:23 am

Okay.

1) I was already a longstanding member of GameInformer.com.

2) I have asked my question three times now.

3) It has been WELL over 24 hours.

4) My question has not appeared anywhere. Yes, I have checked every page.

What is going on?

P.S.

Since it isn't going through, my question is:

Will the NPCs, setting, and narrative incorporate a greater sense of culture and variety than Oblivion did in your opinion? Was this a design goal?

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:48 pm

Simple question.

How many equipment slots?

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:53 am

Okay.

1) I was already a longstanding member of GameInformer.com.

2) I have asked my question three times now.

3) It has been WELL over 24 hours.

4) My question has not appeared anywhere. Yes, I have checked every page.

That's what we were told. But as my previous post indicates, I am also doubting now that theory : going through the forum help pages, it looks like they have bugs, because the site is new : this one has occured before, and is attributed to overstrong spam filters. Tried to post on the forums, not showing either.

That's why I updated the op suggesting to hand over your questions.

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:29 pm

Will the NPCs, setting, and narrative incorporate a greater sense of culture and variety than Oblivion did in your opinion? Was this a design goal?

http://kotaku.com/5441878/bethesdas-todd-howard-promised-better-graphics-withstood-your-calls-and-tim-rogers-showed-up

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:04 pm

I thought that they were doing one more update besides this.

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 2:50 pm

Okay, bored now ! I cannot post at all anywhere in the GI site, not even for leaving a comment on the admin profile - where I saw a number of people having exactly the same problem, by the way.

So can somebody with a working GI account post this for me, please ? I've lost track of questions asked or not, feel free to scrap those you feel are duplicates.

1. About hostile NPCs. I was wondering if they were going to have the same abilities as us : maybe it's too much to hope for that one could kill you with just one arrow ; but I'd really like them to be able to sneak on me. On the same subject, will they display strategy in fights, especially when attacking in group ?

2. Journal/quests updates. We had some info about the UI, but I don't believe that topic has been talked about. What has changed ? And in particular, will we see the disappearance of the Oblivion-type quest updates ? Or at least, have they been made very, very, very discreet ?

3. Quests. Now I understand that two characters, having different skills, having followed different paths, will not get exactly the same mission. But does that mean we can expect multichoice, multipaths quests of the type of "Raven Rock" in Bloodmoon or "The Matchmaker" in Tribunal ?

4. Writing. The various updates and articles have covered many subjects, but not it. What can you tell us about it - in-book games, Lore, dialogues, etc ?

Believe it or not, that actually summing up all the invisible crap I posted.

Anyway, thank you, 'preciate it.

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:51 am

Beard sets

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:19 pm

~~Why did GI edit the screenshot of the dragon on page 46 & 47?~~

Hehe Just kidding :wink_smile:

Will there be an advantage if we were to learn the Language of the Dragons in real life?

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:42 am

WHEN WILL IT BE OUT

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:48 pm

WHEN WILL IT BE OUT

Feb 3rd.

It's in the OP.

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:23 am

Will there be ladders?

More seriously though, much influence did you use from Arena in skyrim?

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:58 pm

Feb 3rd.

It's in the OP.

I THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD BE OUT TONIGHT

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:23 pm

I still can't post questions, I signed up two days ago.

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:45 pm

How will shopping work? Will it use the classic shopping screen/tab method?

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:55 pm

I've put up two questions via GI: will MK be writing any in-game books and when will we be hearing more about the out-of-game books.

» Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:40 pm

lostinspace i still can't post questions and i signed up two days ago. Could you ask these questions

If they are included in the game, what are the physical traits of the vampires?

And

I what i heard is correct and there is a random encounter helping giants, that must require some communication with them, do the giants speak the same language as the player, or the language skills back from daggerfall or is it just them grunting at you?

Thanks lostinspace.

Edit i can post now