Nov 2011 Game Informer - "Elder Scrolls fans are going t : V - Skyrim

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:29 am

and you already know my stance on this i want vampires and werewolves in so i can hunt them and take whatever they have on them that could be of value pelts fangs blood believe me alchemists will buy anything they think they can make a good potion out of it would also be nice if i could sell the corpses to necromancers but im not holding my breath

:D

Hopefully, we all can benefit from the gameplay

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:59 pm

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1234961-elder-scrolls-fans-are-going-to-love-our-next-issue/

The November issue of Game Informer, which should start hitting subscribers in a week, will have a Skyrim feature. Andrew Reiner of GI said that "Elder Scrolls fans are going to love our next issue."

It won't be the review though because Pete said the other day that they've embargoed all of their game reviews meaning the media can't publish them becore launch day. Someone asked him about the RAGE reviews and that's what he said. He said it got "too confusing" with reviews popping up at different dates. So no Skyrim review before 11.11.11, which means they'll start showing up in January issues of magazines. January issues will start hitting at the end of November since they're a month ahead.

Let the speculation continue...

They've embargo'd reviews until launch day? I could be wrong but every time that has happened a game has svcked? Or maybe that's just perception..

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:39 am

Many of you have such little faith and think they're doing this because the game svcks? Really?

Well, by all means skip it until you get your review so someone else can tell you what to play. I'll be murdering dragons

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:12 am

They've embargo'd reviews until launch day? I could be wrong but every time that has happened a game has svcked? Or maybe that's just perception..

It just ensures that noone gets to release a review early and get a jump start on the other media outlets. It also ensures people won't try to rush through the game and skip content to try and one up everyone and get their review out first. That reason alone makes me happy. I've seen so many reviewers notorious for skipping content and rushing reviews just to get extra traffic to their sites because they have the first review.

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:21 am

I've seen so many reviewers notorious for skipping content and rushing reviews just to get extra traffic to their sites because they have the first review.

A review embargo won't stop this. In fact, I foresee it causing exactly this. Once the embargo is lifted you're going to have a mad rush from EVERY site trying to be the first to get one online and that will lead to MORE instances of these places skipping huge swaths of content just so they can be the first one out after it's lifted.

Apparently people and corporations have failed to learn that you cannot leash the media like this. Good or bad, they always find a way.

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 5:57 am

A review embargo won't stop this. In fact, I foresee it causing exactly this. Once the embargo is lifted you're going to have a mad rush from EVERY site trying to be the first to get one online and that will lead to MORE instances of these places skipping huge swaths of content just so they can be the first one out after it's lifted.

Apparently people and corporations have failed to learn that you cannot leash the media like this. Good or bad, they always find a way.

No. There won't be a mad rush. People will just upload them at 12am pst. There's nothing mad rushy about that.

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:55 am

@Andrew_Reiner Hello, Andrew! When will you show a cover of the next GI issue?

@TERAB1T Hopefully next week.

@Andrew_Reiner @TERAB1T Is it Skyrim?

@yanks4champs already*

https://twitter.com/#!/Andrew_Reiner

~~http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/are-you-serious-rage-face.jpg~~

Ohhh nevermind I read his last tweet. Well, at least we know Skyrim will not be on the cover again :laugh:

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:22 am

Didn't a journalist already give a review before it was taken down or something? He gave Skyrim a 9.5...i think.

Anyway, I think Andrew is in sync with the fanbase. Some stuff might be rehash, but I think we will see something in there we haven't heard about yet.

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:43 am

Clearly on Skyrim, none of us have concerns over the quality given previous history of how good Bethesda is,

:confused:

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 3:16 pm

They will confirm Dragons. :spotted owl:

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:11 pm

No. There won't be a mad rush. People will just upload them at 12am pst. There's nothing mad rushy about that.

Yes. To add on to this, there's nothing stopping IGN or Gamespot or the like writing the review whenever they damn well please, they just can't publish it until after the embargo lifts. But that is not what this discussion is about. I think people are going way off track complaining about a stupid practice that nearly all publishers have.

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:55 am

It was not necessary to make another one of these threads.

OH LOOK! LOOK! A magazine that comes in a week is advertizing itself! lets make a new post about it everyday!

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 3:19 am

Too bad I haven't refilled my subscription.... :sadvaultboy:

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:20 am

They will confirm Dragons. :spotted owl:

really? ithought that was just a rumor based on pure speculation :tongue:

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:15 am

really? ithought that was just a rumor based on pure speculation :tongue:

Yeah, some doom-sayers and forum-complainers said that Bethesda will put Dragons in Skyrim. I mean... Common! Why would they do that? :facepalm:

:tongue:

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:26 am

It was not necessary to make another one of these threads.

OH LOOK! LOOK! A magazine that comes in a week is advertizing itself! lets make a new post about it everyday!

:facepalm: It's called speculation. It's what the majority of the forum is about.

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 12:27 pm

I don't get this embargoing of reviews, it does not look good...but I'd never pre-order anything either.

Any developer that insists on an embargo prior to release is doing a disservice to their customers. People should respond by doing an embargo on day-one purchase as a polite way of telling them we don't appreciate it. However, fanb*ys will prevail.

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:38 am

I'll be too busy playing to read reviews after it comes out but I don't really care what reviewers say most of the time anyways. I wish i still got GI though eventhough I'm sure nothing new will be revealed or at least not very much.

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:20 am

Any developer that insists on an embargo prior to release is doing a disservice to their customers. People should respond by doing an embargo on day-one purchase as a polite way of telling them we don't appreciate it. However, fanb*ys will prevail.

Cool.

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:47 pm

Whatever the heck it is, it had better include a screenshot with "PS3" in its label and another with "PC" in its label.

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 3:08 pm

we're going to love it because the issue has skyrim in it (and the same old go anywhere do what you want dragons are in 11-11-11 info) isnt it obvious?

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 6:54 am

many popular,well known games have done this,I can still remember waiting an searching for reviews of halo reach I believe it was,one of the halos I know that much,
they had all the reviews on embargo,I would not let this worry anyone,reviews are only the person reviewing that titles opinion really,ever notice how some reviews vary greatly between them?
if you are a fan of the elder scrolls and/or Bethesda than it will probably be a day one purchase regardless of what some magazine or site has to say ,period.

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:01 pm

Did anyone get their issue yet?

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:09 am

I'm subscribed to Game Informer (or at least, I think I am), so I should be getting that in the mail in the next week or two.

» Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:25 pm

Did anyone get their issue yet?

They have not done the cover reveal yet. Also, it is the week of the 10th it goes to subscribers

Nov 2011 Game Informer - &#34;Elder Scrolls fans are going t

Nov 2011 Game Informer - "Elder Scrolls fans are going t