Alright, so perhaps my metaphor isn't based in reality since I ahven't playd Sims.

What I'm getting at is that they keep making thing more realistic. The crafting, less backpedaling, questgivers who are more vague, gurgling blood (get the occlussive bandage, stat!), swirling water, etc. It just seems that the designers have two things in mind:

1) more realism
2) better combat

Hope that makes a bit more sense

@miltiades
Aye, I'd gurgle, reach for my now dead mom, and get an academy award for it too! But I don't want to see the gurgling blood, no need to hear it, etc. I'm hoping that there's a gore slider. Regarding the combat, I was perfectly happy with the repeated whacking of the enemy in MW...I svck at all of the button combinatin stuff :toughninja:

Wish there was an option to turn friendly fire on/off completely. Can't count the number of times I've had "You have murdered someone, your actions have been witnessed unseen" or whatever the message says because of the chaos of battle.

I dont know if you guys know but if you try to block with one hand against a strike you are more than likely to get you own weapon to hit you right in the face. It isn't easy to block with one hand especially from a leverage stand point, your only holding on to the hilt so if someone hits the end the sword isn't going to stay in place lol. So it's actually realistic.

Magnetism & Bullet time dragon shouts...

Guess I will have to wait until those are modded out before I can play, really those two are the first features I learn about that make me not want to play, there are no other features so far that have been announced that I′ve disliked so much.

Please make those two optional...

Indeed, the shot of the Spider that AliTheLord mentioned was seen previously; but I'm sure the shot of the dragon on a mountain is new and so is the art of some new ruins/caves.



I've edited the post with the exact quote; I misread it - the buildings are built into the side of cliffs with a sheer drop below them.

:rock: :rock: :rock: omg this is gonna be so epic!
Thanks to OP for the info, they all sound great to me except that "magnetic" thing :down:

"Haarfingar is said to be home to the largest trading port in Skyrim"

Where is Haarfingar on the map?

It sounds bloody awesome to me
Dragons (as we know) aren't scripted,would that mean all cities etc are open?
Wouldn't they have to be scripted to attack a closed city?
Anyone?

I could block one handed with just a sword in Oblivion, why should I suddenly lose that? Plus if we are going that route I counter argue as a game ment to be fun it′s not so jolly not being able to block.

Don't see how that's a bad thing



Thanks for the info, OP ! Love the bit about the environment (wind affecting water, etc.) --- bit more skeptical about the weird dual wielding mechanic...

Right up north - go about a third of the way across skyrim from left to right and then go all the way up to the most outjutting point and thats it.

Sheer drop below them?

Unless the magic revamp is bigger than we know, we should keep in mind you don't actually hold anything in your other hand.

Thats what I'm assuming as well, I hope so will be nice to have open cities again, also I remember the hype of children being confirmed, doesn't anyone else find it weird that they were vaguely mentioned once in the GI magazine?, and even then it wasn't specific it could've meant anything perhaps just a young looking advlt NPC like the Counts son of Cheydinhall in Oblivion.

They are trying to be realistic, there weren't dragons in Obvilion either(aside from Akatosh's avatar) want them to take that out? Just because it was in Oblivion doesn't mean anything. The games change, look at Oblivion to Morrowind, They start anew completely for each game.
f you are so worried about blocking hold a shield.

Thanks for posting, this is fantastic info.

The one thing I'm disappointed by is the inability to block with a one-hander + spell; I'd like to be able to use the middle mouse button (or whatever) to block, even if ineffectively, with any equipped weapon. But if swapping out item & spell assignments works smoothly, I won't complain.

My favourites:

- "Taverns will play a large role in getting information, gossip and rumours from a town as it's naturally where most people go after working and you can listen to peoples conversation and learn more about the town and/or skyrim itseld - it's a lot more natural."
* Sounds really nice! That's exactly how it should be like!

- "There will be some enchanted weapons which don't tell you what they do - so you'll know it's magical in some way but you won't know how exactly, you'd have to find out yourself - (this would most likely apply to the things you find in dungeons, ie people wouldn't know about it so the PC wouldn't either untill it's used)"
* Awesome! Now that I think of it, it was kind of strange the player always knew exactly what the enchantment was. This is interesting and well thought of by Bethesda.

- "People will be more vague or specific when talking to you or giving you quests depending on how much they like you."
* Sounds really good. Hopefully this means all kinds of quest markers will be gone. The one who wants good directions should make sure people like him/her. If this is what I think it is, purely awesome Bethesda!

- "They mention some new spells such as one which acts as a shield against magic"
* Sounds as if the Shield spell will be completely and utterly awesome. This is going to be great!

- "[...]a giant 'Frostbite Spider'. They said that they were proceeding through the dungeon when it dropped down from the ceiling where it was hiding, it was said to be terrifying."
*

- "The game apparently looks amazing in motion, with great environment effects such as the wind making the water swirl and make waves."
* Looking very much forward to seeing it in motion!

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- "'Magnetism' in your attacks draws them more towards enemies rather than allies so as there is no 'friendly fire' in bigger battles."
* I hope this will be very subtle. It can be useful, but it can also be a pain. Still, it should be optional by a setting (like with crosshair). How good people aim, even in big battles, differ from person to person.

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Thanks for taking your time and sharing it with us!
I'm very impressed by Skyrim so far! :celebration:

What?

Really is there no one else annoyed by the bullet time dragon shouts. Does everyone feel that it wouldn′t be annoying to have the game slow down 300 style as you should out your words ? Please tell me I′m missing something... and the magnetism will svck, I hate not being in control of my character like that, if I shoot straight I shoot straight, not past my friend and into a nearby goblin, may as well just have a target system then like in WoW, target goblin and then watch as your spells fly in every direction but always hit the goblin.

The spider sneak attacks must be awesome! I guess torches and staring at the caves ceilings will be my new obsession

Haafinger is the nord word for "Solitude"

There's a pretty neat map of Tamriel pointing out all the major landmarks, and where they appeared in older TES games.

@ everyone complaining about dragon shouts; just don't use them.

There was a nice little section that explained that even from Arena it's been explained that Nords are dragon born and can do really powerful stuff with their voices; the most powerful ones had to be gagged, other wise the world would be ripped apart, or something to that effect.

So just roll (or role ) with it, or ignore it. TES lore is TES lore.

ie the whole "you can't block with one hand in real life" is a meaningless discussion. You don't hold anything in the other hand. If that was a problem, the character could free it temporarily and block with two hands. Anyway, you think this rule will also apply in dual wielding swords?

Hmm, i wonder what this daedric axe is enchanted with.... :chaos:

In what way is it meaningless?? Just because magic and stuff exists doesn't mean that our physics can apply equally to the world. Clearly we know they do.

still doesn′t avoid the fact it′s stupid to deny blocking just because you have a spell ready in one hand, duel-weilding will most likly use a one hand weapon block, heck just having a one handed weapon and one free hand will still have a 1 hand block animation, so why not do the same for weapon, magic combo?