PCGamer just released a new preview for Skyrim. I havent read it all, but FYI theres a bit of story info too. I'll post some highlights once I finish reading.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/03/18/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-preview/


Interesting points:
-Killing dragons does not give you shouts, it gives you the ABILITY to find specific shouts in the world by finding the right words on word-walls.
-There is a shout that literally teleports you across the battlefield to get behind someone (so, it wont be the fast-travel)
-Skyrim is divided into 9 "holds"/realms governed by different rulers or factions.
-The Empire is crumbling and has lost many lands in Morrowind and other regions
-Bows will be more like snipers, getting one and two hit kills generally (we knew that already, of course)

This is already known, dude.

Really? Ok, well I didnt see it, so mod can delete it.


No, I dont see this article anywhere. It was released literally less than an hour ago.

I liked this article, sure its all information that we generally knew but it was a good read.

This is the same article that's in the March issue of PC Gamer, so all the information's already known. Useful for people who don't have the magazine though!

I haven't seen it and didn't know everything in it so THANK YOU for posting that link!

added: "when you’re done arsing around with sidequests and guilds." :lmao:

This http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1166429-pc-gamerxbox/ summarises the info from the article too.

They actually got some things wrong. For example, you start off about to be executed.

WHOA, what? Where was the source for that? That's freakin' epic!

If the game world is the same size as Oblivion I have a hard time believing that there will be nine separate "holds" big enough to have nine different rulers/factions. World would need to be much bigger to pull that off convincingly. Will we walk like five minutes to the next "hold" dominated by a different ruler?

Ignore the jaded trolls that look for threads just to say "Old".

They're jackasses.

Thanks for the link, I haven't read this yet, considering I don't devote my life to finding every single mention of Skyrim in every press release that I can.

Think of it like this: It will FEEL bigger. It doesn't take that long to get from Seyda Neen to Balmora in Morrowind, but it sure felt like you just traveled a few miles.

don't be flaming the OP, i at least did not know about this.

Yea now that I think about it the scope of Skyrim may be bigger than I even imagined.

And aren't we talking about lots of mountains? That means a lot of traveling UP and not in a straight line. And then there's those 700 steps, um, I mean 1000 steps...um, I mean 7,000 steps! :lmao:

Yeah. I think that traveling in a video game is less about the terrain your travel, and more about what that traveled terrain represents. You can pass by just 3 or 4 swamp ponds and it feels like you've gone by about 10.

I swear I put about 10 arrows into a Scamp last night and he wouldn't go down. That's at Level 7. Looking forward to the new way.

This is new to me, cheers OP! :goodjob:

That's what I thought too when they said Skyrim being about the size of Oblivion. I expected bigger. Maybe with less dungeons and more geographic barriers it won't feel as cramped as Cyrodiil, but still... I hope they slowed the character speed as well.

Yea as long as you don't sprint it should be fine. When the player was sprinting in the trailer he was going very, very fast. At that speed, and with a world "roughly" the size of Oblivion, we'll be able to cover the map too quick it seems.

Thanks OP! Excited to hear that not all shouts will be grandiose attacks for use in combat. I can't wait to use that 'dragonwhisper' in my murderous escapades.

I'm willing to bet that there will be a limit to how much you can use the sprint feature. They might have it so that you use up stamina while sprinting and once you run out, you stop.

All the cities in Skyrim.
http://i.imgur.com/4yvOJ.png

Hey, don't worry about that.
I remember back when I used to play Gothic 3, I felt overwhelmed by the enormous size of the world.
In fact I was so surprised by the sheer size of the world that I was curious enough to check out the real size in KM2 on the internet.

I was shocked !

Gothic 3's world felt a good two times bigger than Oblivion's, but the fact was that Gothic 3's world was ONLY 2/3 of Oblivion's !

I was utterly amazed by what Piranha Bytes had accomplished !
The gameworld was set in three different countries which each had its own climate, a green grass/forest zone, a snow zone and a desert zone.
I still remember when I used to travel from one end of the world to the other, I had the impression I had walked through three countries, seeing all the different cultures and going through them was mind blowing !
The secret to the illusion of size was that the gameworld had a very stuborn terrain, it had a lot of relief, hills, sheer cliffs, huge mountains and thus making every journey a Zig-Zag matter and not a staight line like in Oblivion.

So, knowing that Skyrim is going to have different cultures, climate zones and very rugged terrain, I can rest assured that I will experience a huge world.

Triangles

What is that city by the Reach?