Preamble: I was watching the trailer and like everyone else I saw the clips shot from the perspective of a dragon. This got me thinking...We know that we cannot ride a dragon, but we do know we have a dragon shout that calls a dragon. It just seems weird that they would shoot from a camera angle that wasn't in the game.

Idea: If the trailer was truly all gameplay footage, is there a possibility that we could control a dragon (think section of bioshock two where you play as a little sister)? The concept seems really messed up and Im not sure whether I would like that sort of thing at all, but I cant shake the feeling that the camera shots were more than just cinematics.

Reasoning:

1. They could just pan over the vistas, so why use the perspective of a dragon, complete with swinging camera (to show flying perspective) if it was not in the game?
possible rebuttal to 1: they wanted to show the chase between the PC and the dragon following him.
my response: seems a bit weird that they couldn't just follow the dragon in third person cruising behind the PC or use some other camera angle other than taking the dragon's perspective

2. As noted, the rest of the trailer is all gameplay footage, either shot from first person, third person, or landscape shots (obviously ingame). This would be the only moment in the trailer (that I remember) where something was included that was not gameplay and shot from a perspective.


So I kind of hope this does turn out to be completely wrong (It seems unlikely), but I'm interested to hear your own thoughts...

voted for the 3rd option because i really mean it and thats all i have to say on the matter

woops I got major ninja'd. Find the same topic posted by another member the same minute as me.

[censored] it! they have control over the camera man, they tried to make everything look badass, and yea, the fight betwen the dragon and the human(probaly dovahkin) isn't in the game either! so why don't you people stop looking like a bunch of idiots who can't understand anything and try to stop adding pointless threads!! GRRR

calm down, I explained why they may or may not have wanted to do something in the perspective of a dragon, as opposed to other alternatives showing the same information. The fight scene WAS still gameplay footage, simply from a camera angle that allowed us to see both figures. The shots from the the dragon are the only parts of the trailer that aren't free roams and yet are from a perspective. Other stuff is definitely gameplay. With that in mind, I was asking whether anybody thought Beth had anything weird in store. I would appreciate if you would stop with your condescension, at least until you actually read the thread.

i mean SERIOUSLY!!! THE human vs dragon part WAS IN GAME FOOTAGE ,but the animation WASN'T! we are not able to do ALL THAT STUFF, IT WAS FOR BADASS SENSE, ONLY THAT, ITS COMPLETELY , DUMB AND IDIOT, TO THINK THAT WE EVEN ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO BE A DRAGON, THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE! AT ALL, THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE IN THE LORE! and don't come telling me that the KA'PO'TUN ALREADY DID IT , only one freaking tiger-idiot did it. ITS SO OBVIOUS THEY DID THAT SO THAT THE TRAILER WOULD BE SOMENTHING COMPLETELY STUNNING! I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE CAN BE THAT DUMB! no offense tough....

edit: OH AND YEA THE DRAGON IS FOLOWING THE HUMAN IN FIRST PERSON SO THAT WE GOT COMPLETELY SURPRISED WHEN THE DRAGON FINALY LANDS AND WE GET TO SEE HOW HE IS, THATS ALL, the trailer would be ruined if the just started showing the dragon on the first scene, you clearly don't understand anything about editing or good looking trailer by what i can see... wow...

even though youre right, you need to calm down bro

Dude it was all in-game other than the wall, how many times do I have to say this *sigh*.
EDIT:Please don't shout at me

alright.... ufff... alright... im calm now... it just pisses me off how people are dumb in this world... how can that be? i mean.. isn't it obvious?

I wanted to vote that you are crazy, but then I saw your username and didn't.

But seriously, you are crazy.

It's obvious to you, so therefore it must be just as obvious to every other person on the planet.
Right? Or is this how wars get started? Hmm....
Yep, wars.

right.. i mean... it really wasn't obvious that the dragon in the beggining of the trailer was to look badass? to keep the surprise of how the dragon would look? seriously? i mean...seriously? wasn't obvious at all? even a little?

I agree with you. There are some things that just shock me. How can people just not grasp things? I'm not the smartest guy in the world but some stuff (not saying this thread, but yeah this thread), is just so blatantly obvious.

right not going to dragon shout at you ... yet... even tough shouting means activating my caps lock.. whatever... yes... maybe you should try to understand what the "in-game" words means, no, its not what we are going to see in the actual game, its into the engine, we are in the game, but not playing it, is hard to explain without the right words, but eventually you will understand, the dragon flight, and the human vs dragon, was a piece of animation did separetely from the real game, to make IT LOOK BADASS! thats all, no real dragon was actually flying, they have total control over the 3d models of the dragon and of the human, they can do whatever they wanted, they could have show us the dragon flying all the way from the space right into a pit of lava, then throught the floor and then apear from nowhere into a npc house, because they can,BUT PROBALY THE OP WOULD STILL THINK THAT WE CAN FLY THROUGHT SPACE WITH FREKING DRAGONS!

Whoa, now.
I didn't say I was disagreeing.
I'm just saying, instead of typing in all caps at someone (shouting, I guess?), why not use your reason to convince them that you're right.
Then, they'll be all like "whoa, you're right." Then, you'll be all like, "whoa, dude. I know." Then, they'll be all like, "thanks."
Crazy concept. But, it works. :icecream:

Anyway, yeah. I'm sure the opening scenes from the dragon's perspective was just for show, while everything else was pure gameplay.

EDIT:
To the OP--
Hmmm. So the shout you're describing acts exactly like a Dominate Creature spell effect?
Just without the perspective shift....

I wouldn't call you "bat-droppings crazy", but i voted 3

lol just because i have caps on it means im shouting.. well i will use less caps from now on :hubbahubba: but yea i actually used reason with caps lock, it always works :goodjob: