It seems every one is so concerned about the changes. Skyrim has come along and changed the way we see,hear,feel,and changes the experience. All of these things in skyrim are not being removed or added they are just new. The game is different. change is not allways bad they have done some of these thing so that we can enjoy the game experience many of these posts are worried or scared about the new things in the game.This post Im asking everyone to post there biggest concern with skyrim and the thing they are looking forward to the most.

My biggest concern is dumb but it is a example if you can see others concerns maybe you might not be so concerned.
My concern is the grapics the grapics are great but they are so good the they worry me i don''t get how there wont be lag they look kind of rubbery.(dumb I know but im trying to break the ice.)
Well, there’s an awful lot more then 1 reason to be helplessly nerding out about Skyrim but im only going to name one the new leveling system looks amazing perks look really cool over all im looking forward to the perks.

The only thing im asking you to do is tell me your one or more concerns, and the one thing your looking foward to.

To shed light on how silly our concerns are compared to every oe elses.

My main concern is; When will I get to see more screens of the game :disguise:

welcome to the forums, here have a http://www.imperial-library.info/sites/default/files/dogate_til_fishystick.jpg. i am sort of concerned about the draw distance, in one screenshot the grass in looked blotchy. but im really excited for better character customization, and im looking forward to seeing how radiant story works.

Biggest concerns for me atm are:
1. Loss of ability to customise starting character abilities. I'll miss that.
2. How many and which joinable factions are in the game. I hope theres more than just 4 or 5 and that some are political or religious in nature.

What am I looking forward to?
So many things but pack mammoths are high on the list

Well like most everyone here I have lots of nit-picky worries about Skyrim that were mostly the same as my worries about Oblivion, and those were put too rest fairly well.
I think my biggest concern for Skyrim is the truth of the statement that Beth people have been making that they're trying too recapture the "Feel" of Morrowind.
Part of the "Feel" of that game for me was traversing miles of alien and interesting environments full of interesting things to see and do, and you can't get that particular
feeling in a "Low Fantasy" setting as it has been described, in my opinion. They had it spot on with the Shivering Isles, which tells me they -know- how too recreate
that particular feeling of Morrowind, but I doubt they'll capture it as effectively in this iteration. Now I -know- that the "Feel" of Morrowind was a lot more than just the
environment but it played a big part for me personally and I don't see them capturing that feeling again with Skyrim.

The game looks great. Bethesda is never going to be able to make everyone happy, they just have to make the best game they possibly can with the time and money allotted to develop the game.

I'm not concerned about anything. Slightly frightened the grab button might be gone but i doubt it.


What i'm looking most forward to is the release of the game, why? 'Cause it's an Elder Scrolls.

My biggest concern is that with the reduction in skills, the loss of classes, the loss of attributes and the further simplification in armour, it will be harder to create a character that feels truly unique, especially early in the game.

The thing I'm looking forward to the most is the improved interaction with NPCs, the greater sense of the world carrying on around you, the overhauled combat system, the use of perks. Oh, and dragons might be cool too .

Yeah, I know it was supposed to be the thing we were most worried about and the thing we were most looking forward too, but I just couldn't help myself. Despite my misgivings, I'm really looking forward to this game !

i think the main general concern is that we live in a new era of gaming compared to 5 or 10 yrs ago, new demographics, new market, new gamers, etc. The battle lines are being drawn so to speak between old school rpg-ers and loyal TES fans vs new gamers. And though nobody likes to turn gaming into a platform or pc vs console war, this is exactly what is happening and what I think alot of developers are struggling with. In a perfect world, everyone will be happy. But we dont live in a perfect world. But, the silver lining is that Bethesda & Obsidian did manage to please most of the gaming world with FA:NV and hopefully this will be the same with Skyrim. I remain cautiously optimistic..

I'm concerned because they're going too far with the whole accessibility and streamlining thing when it really isn't necessary. Many games have gone down that road before, and almost all turn out worse because of it.

Maybe my expectations are just too high. Morrowind and Oblivion were (in my opinion) two of the best games ever made... so I naturally expect Skyrim to be even better. I have no doubt that it'll be a great game, but I just can't shake off the expectation for it to be something more than that.

Im concerned about Spell Creation, a cornerstone of the ES series, also about the ability to build a character around unarmed combat. And if there's a way to increase overall max speed.

Concerns:

i. I'm really not impressed by the inclusion of either marriage or bar brawls. I've never seen romance in video games handled in an immersive way. It works well enough in more straightforward games (Metal Gear Solid), but when I'm expected to take an active role in sixing up an AI, I just feel dirty. Bar brawls just sound like some kind of mini-game, and mini-games are a really bad idea for games which are based on immersion. The designers of the original Deus Ex even made a point not to include any types of mini-games, because they didn't want to pull you away from simply being JC Denton.

ii. Guilds. I really hated the guilds in Oblivion, and I think the only things keeping that game from being absolutely amazing were that they threw away all the good things guilds did in Morrowind, and they had scaled leveling.

Looking forward to:

i. The new semi-scaled leveling system. I'd like to hear a bit more about it, but it seems Bethesda may have really learned from their mistakes.

ii. Character customization. I'm loving just about everything I'm seeing here. It sounds like, aesthetically, character creation may be the best in video games to date. I can't tell you how much this excites me. I want to make a Dunmer who looks as rough and creepy as they did in Morrowind SO bad.

@Sheogorath88 - I am scared of the streamlining too, but I actually expect it'll be for the good. Howard makes it sound like they're approaching the subject respectfully. I was scared about the new Deus Ex for this same reason (I'm a big fan of the series, if you can't tell), but after...erm...NOT playing the illegal leaked beta, I'm really impressed with the game, and think it could possibly even be as good as the original.

In my case it's almost ridiculously simple

Biggest concern: Conjuration.

Looking forward to the most?: Conjuration.

Don't worrey about graphics/draw distance yet. All screenshots were on the XBox, which has the worst graphics/draw distance (other than the wii) of all the consoles and PC. Even with the 360, there may be some sort of configuration for the draw distance and texture detail.

at this point I just want the frigging game

I just don't care about anything else anymore

My concern is speed. That's too primary to toss out.

Ah and also:
http://www.tvposter.net/posters/spartacus_blood_and_sand_2010_2708_medium.jpg
http://gameswalls.com/wallpapers/e/elder-scrolls-3-morrowind/elder-scrolls-3-morrowind-28-1.jpg
http://gameswalls.com/wallpapers/e/elder-scrolls-3-morrowind/elder-scrolls-3-morrowind-1-1.jpg
http://gameswalls.com/wallpapers/e/elder-scrolls-3-morrowind/elder-scrolls-3-morrowind-27-1.jpg

Bonus:
http://gameswalls.com/wallpapers/e/elder-scrolls-3-morrowind/elder-scrolls-3-morrowind-12-1.jpg

95%of what I have heard read and seen about this game is great.It sounds like they are really trying to make the world feel alive,

I'm a little disappointed that I can't run around shirtless but still besides that I'm looking foward to skyrim

Everything I've seen so far looks very impressive... Except the compass location and the huge and [censored] IM style text slapping me in the face.

Yea that is one thing that i hope doesn't make it into the final game.

My concern is that dungeons, while they may have more varieties/styles, will still be useless like the ones in oblivion, with there being no bosses in them, or the bosses being very weak... Basically not bosses at all =/ and you go to pick a very hard lock on a chest when your low lvl, only to have the chest contain a few gold/lockpicks... Also chests at low lvls being pointless to loot since the loot is just terrible, which ruins the fun of exploring the dungeon to begin with.

:facepalm:

Main concern: cut features and oversimplification of character system. Good riddance to classes, says I, and the horrible way attributes were handled before, but not replacing all the things attributes governed (e.g. speed) is bad, as is making all races start out with the same encumbrance, and probably primary stats as well. I fear that they won't even have multipliers for their stats when you level, and it will all be appearance and innate/active powers. Also, of course, no spears (understandable from time constraints), no crossbows or thrown weapons (less understandable as they would have required far less investiture of time and resources), and no mounted combat (just rip off Mount and Blade shamelessly, we won't care).

What I'm looking forward to:
New character system does look like it will have far better balance and fluidity than the old system ever had. Gaining discrete and diverse benefits for leveling in a way that rewards specialization without punishing generalization sounds a lot better to me than having to metagame if you want to optimize your character, as does the fact that there are now more limitations on your power, so that every character will be different as a virtue of the system itself.

Melee combat looks a lot more fun. Spells actually look fun as hell to cast and interact with now, and with the transition to active magical defenses and better-defined roles for each spell hot mage on mage action should be a lot more interesting now. No more THERE IS NO ESCAPE (fireball, fireball, fireball, whip out dagger, get horribly murdered by me).

More visual character customization. Scars, tattoos, beards, and with luck a return to the more diverse hairstyles of Morrowind. I better be able to give my Dunmer a nice spiky haircut to go with his facial tattoo or I'm going to be disappointed.

Abandonment of the Wikipedia model to adopt a more traditional dialogue tree system.

Animations that don't svck! Yay for hiring people who actually know how to [censored] animate!

DRAGONS. They just look amazing. Absolutely stunning.

Apart from that: dungeons look great, engine looks awesome and the graphics look good, introduction of children, wildlife ecosystems, living economies, NPCs actually doing jobs, Radiant Story sounds like it has potential, etc. Most of the things I'm seeing about this game make me very happy and I can't wait to play it. Then the modding begins, and it gets even better.

Biggest Concern, Dragons might not live up to their full potential :dry: But I am really exited about Dragon shouts

Concern: guard behavior. Although I've heard that it's supposed to be improved, I'm still worried that I will pick up a fork in an abandoned shed with no lights on and suddenly 3 guards will run in screaming at me an instant later.

Looking forward to: character development. All skills contribute to leveling; that's excellent. A swiftly-flowing stream of Perks to specialize and define my characters quickly also seems like it will be very satisfying.