A nice preview. I'm still wanting screenshots or a video of the UI and know more about the overall gameplay. I guess we'll have to wait until E3 for that.

Sprinting costs stamina remember, so I doubt you will be able to run for all that long without having to slow down and wait for a minute or so.

Nice article ^^! A lot of it was talked about in Todd Howard's podcast but it was a good read anyway and summarized it well.

That is Markarth (Karthwasten in Arena) Not "Markarth Side" as believed.

YES!!!

Take that, Imperial scum!

Thanks! Not much new information, but I hadn't read it yet.

Love this, though, regarding Radiant Story...

"The target of an assassination quest might be picked from the characters you’ve spent most time with, rather than a perfect stranger, to make the decision to kill them more interesting."

Here's hoping Radiant Story works as designed and the game in general gives us more of these dilemmas.

I did not like this article at all. It was all old, re-hashed information. Also, whoever wrote it tried to spice it up by adding in some of the worst jokes I've ever heard.

The funniest thing i've read about skyrim

It's god-damned, also, that writer needs to grow up.

I agree. Poor article. With the notable exception of the introduction on background history, it read like the author had in a rush gone through all the previous ones posted in competitor magazines and made a quick quasi-publishable mish mash out of them, just so PC Gamer would not look as bad as the total absence of Skyrim coverage would surely guarantee. Contrast this with the great feature Gameinformer did, which,evidently, while kept in a straitjacket so not to overspill too much information, managed to be informative, insightful and entertaining.

PC gamer article tasted like reheated canned beans.

Yup, just a rehash of old info.

The really important info is that they are still trying to come up with a way to mix two different spells to make a new one. Fingers crossed X.

This sounds great. I hope the Radiant Story lives up to the hype.

There's enough room. Look at Oblivion:

Imperial City - Imperial Isle
Chorrol - Great Forest
Skingrad - West Weald
Kvatch - County Kvatch/Imperial Reserve
Anvil - Gold Coast
Bravil - Nibenay Basin
Leyawiin - Blackwood
Cheydinhal - Valus Mountains
Bruma - Jerral Mountains

That's 9. And even then, you still have the Colovian Highlands unaccounted for.

Happy to hear about the bows, drove me crazy having the difficulty tuned all the way down just to get the feel of being a real archer/assassin

Somewhere in that article it said that the level cap was 50, what does the guy mean by that? theres no limit to how many levels you can get, not in fallout 3 or any elder scrolls game... i'm at a loss.

Thanks for posting this, OP! :goodjob:

It's a soft cap, that means you don't get anymore perks but you can still level up, but slower than usual.

ugh the author actually said that enchant was useless in Morrowind... it was actually very OP IIRC

He didn't say anything that hasn't been said before. In Morrowind you could enchant things....with a high risk of failure at the start, and even still a risk of failure as you progressed. Contrast this with people you can pay to enchant an item with 100% success rate, and you don't have much incentive to try and enchant things on your own.

i think this is hinting at that you can dual wield polearms o.o

Just wanted to stop by and say thanks for posting this. A good read for those of us who didn't buy the magazine.

I haven't read the info yet. On bows I'm glad they gave way to some RPG(but not all) elements on that front for more realism and visceralness. One thing I'm worrie though is it'll generally always be 1-2 kills. Especially since I want to try being a bowman first. A human could potentially survive a lot of arrows, or even one or two well placed ones. I wonder if they'll fact in bleeding/internal bleeding from the punctures just to slowly take away health if you place a few crappy shots. Where their alive but suffering and impaired from the arrows. Or even things like being sort of stuck if you shoot a few arrows and they go clean through their boots and onto the ground, then they attempt to pull the arrow out while...the word isn't comming to me. Basically a term used when you throw gunfire/etc. At your opponent to keep then at pay or overcome then. So they try to painfully rip the arrow from their foot while shooting spells with minimal accuracy at you, throw a sword with one han out of anguish. A bit too realistic ambitious view of mine maybe.

yeah but he said that this made it useless as a skill and it wasn't, not even close. not in my memory anyway. I remember it being ridiculously good just because the higher your enchantment skill, the longer your items stayed charged? Isn't that how it worked?

Aren't you about to get offed at the start?