Thank for sharing this video! Really enjoyed it!

Its in the gi article I believe.

That's one big dog they got there!

The second picture was very beautiful, I can't wait to walk around in Skyrim, feeling the atmosphere of this ancient land where the first people of Tamriel came to be. It really looks like this game will create an unique feeling like I had in Morrowind and that was greatly gone in Oblivion.

Great interview (i saw Todd for the first time!). This "Radiant" (spelling?) Story thing sounds good, like you are doing the same quests every playthrough no matter who you are, it looks good and adds a lot variety to the game. The conversations also sound fantastic aswell, finally i can move and talk!

Thank you RegentEagle, you have reactivated hype mode :ahhh:

edit, working on transcript, accidentally posted.

did it again

The new screenshot (http://yourimg.in/j/usvz7h.jpg) looks great, except that ... the sky kinda looks nuclear.

What do you mean?

GAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! I NEED TO WATCH THIS ON MY XBOX!!! :bolt:

When a nuclear bomb goes off it creates a huge bright flash all over the sky.
The sky in the picture looks wayyyyy too bright. Like if a nuclear bomb just have gone off.
It shouldn't look like that and it's ugly, that's what I mean

Thanks to the OP and 360RPGplayer for the video.....thankyou guy's :thumbsup:
Not a bad interview,wish it was longer though.
Conversations and the AI sound much improved.
And i love that new pic
I've just got that feeling in my gut ( which i don't get often with games ) that skyrim will be EPIC!
I've stuck my neck out there,but proud i've done so
The hype around this game is unbelieveable,and there is so much more we don't know or haven't seen yet :drool:
Just seen that vid on my xbox :celebration:

You do realise its against the forum rules to post magazine scans?

:down: I think that would have been noticed by now,just enjoy them,and settle down.

They're not scans. They're from a video.

I thought they were from a video?

OXM: Hello and welcome to Official Xbox 360 Magazine's OXM report. This week we talk to the man behind one of your, and our, most anticipated games of 2011: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Cool, so I'm here with Todd Howard, who's the game director on Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. So, tell me about the, the area of Skyrim, how it compares to Cyrodiil that people know from Oblivion.

Todd: In terms of size, first of all it's about the same size. It's different, in that it's very mountainous, so the way we use the geography is a lot different. So it creates, it creates a different scale, even though it's roughly the same size. But it is the northernmost province in Tamriel, and it's very rugged - one of the reasons we really wanted to do Skyrim was, it has this kind of, rugged, ancient... despite it being fantasy, lower-tech feel to it, it's more brutal. And coming off of Oblivion, which feels... you know, it's more King Arthur, almost like renaissance fair, and this is more Conan. And we could get into- the landscape itself, lends itself to lots of different types of areas. Not just all snowy mountain peaks, more Scandinavian, where there are these tundras, pine forests, fall forests, and volcanic tundra, this area called The Reach which is really craggy and then to the northern part of Skyrim we have these ice glaciers; so, even though it is all in one province, we're trying to mix up the types of landscape you're going to see, much more than we did in Oblivion.

OXM: And this area is mainly inhabited by the Nords, who featured in Oblivion and- and the other Elder Scrolls games... tell me about what they're all about.

Todd: So they're kind of the first humans in Tamriel; they are, like the landscape a rugged people, and so most of the people in Skyrim are Nords. But just like in our previous games where you see there's a dominant race for that province, whether it's Morrowind with Dark Elves... all of the races are there, in some fashion.

OXM: So in terms of the combat, you've kind of overhauled the melee combat system. Tell me about what you've changed.

Todd: So, the main parts of it are that you can put whatever you want in your hands; whether that's magic, or weapons and melee. So it all- the magic and the melee do kind of go together now? And so, basic melee you can put a shield in your left hand, a sword in your right hand, and then the triggers or the mouse works that. And we try to make it very tactile; where it's, if you hold this one and then press this one, it's going to do this move... so you can actually bash with the shield by pulling it up and then pressing the right trigger, you can do power moves by holding them down, we do kind of look at the direction you're moving as well, a little bit. It's very easy to play, but the end result... you feel a lot more in control of your character.

OXM: You're using the Radiant Story to add more nuances to the quests, is that right?

Todd: Right, so we have this new piece of tech called Radiant Story, that like the Radiant AI, kind of uses the same paradigm in terms of taking a quest, or any activity, and saying well, we want this to be a specific activity or we're gonna let the game choose. And so it's a really really powerful tool that honestly we're still figuring out how to use, there are some really nice ways that we can use it; where, you know you go into town you run into a character, and the Radiant system can say, oh, you know, I have a quest template that could fit this character, and your character - I'm gonna give you a quest, right now. It's a tiny one; the bigger story based ones, the factions, the main quest, we're still writing by hand, but we're using Radiant Story, the Radiant Story system even to make those quests, even when all the roles and the things are very very specific. It's just- it's how we make quests now.

OXM: One of the things you've solved is the old, crap(?) zoom into characters' faces when they start talking to you-

Todd: Solved as in took it out. Yeah. [laughs] Solved!

OXM: Tell me what's there instead.

Todd: Well now we wanted to treat dialogue, not- not as another mode. So before we would always treat it as, well this is a mode you're in, talking to somebody, but we want it to be sort of just, smooth in the same way, fighting a guy isn't another mode; it's just something you're doing, you know, the buttons are doing at the time. So now, the game doesn't stop, it's all real time - you press a button on a guy and like a trim(?) thing comes up, where the topics you can ask come out, on the edge of the screen, and you can select them with the thing, you can press the button and just continue on. You can actually... it's almost like displaying the menu and closing the menu? What we've actually found is a guy will be giving you a quest, and traditionally you'd click him and you're listening to the quest, and you jam the button to like, listen to it all and get the quest, well now he starts talking and you just press B to close it. He keeps... he just keeps talking; and then you just walk away and you're like "yeah I got it," and you just wander off, and, you know you can kind of back up and, talk to someone else and he's still- but he might stop, if you get far enough he just says, "okay I get it." But you can re-engage him right away without ever breaking the flow of that? It even allows us to have, sometimes we can have conversations with multiple people, so we just kind of viewed it as... not a whole 'nother mode it's like a trim(?) thing, like okay, how do you respond to somebody, as opposed to entering a mode where there's a back and forth.

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Should be pretty accurate. My English is better than most people's, but I'm used to British accents, so if there are typos or if I've misheard something, go ahead and correct me.

I'm still confused about the conversation system. When we engage in dialogue with an npc are we frozen until we press circle (ps3) to close the topics? Todd said you exit out of the topic display and can freely walk away/move around so will we not be able to do so when the dialogue topics are displayed?

I hate you so much, wasted two hours transcribing for nothing

Edit: JK, i don't hate anyone.

Sorry dude, didn't know anyone else was working on it.

But post yours anyway, I might've got something wrong?

You can still post yours,but chill out mate,no need to say you hate someone
I'm sure your take will be as appreciated as fearless hero's.

Ah, it's all good man i just had to run out and pick my little girl up from school or would have edited in a JK before you could reply.

nvm

Someone already posted a youtube link somewhere, you could read all of this or watch it. But, Some people said it wasn't allow cause it had scans in it or w/e.