No bonus races in skyrim? : V

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:15 am

Quote from T.Howard:

"Character creation options allow you to pick what you look like, starting with race. There are 10 races to chose from. After that, it is pretty much how you play. The development team wanted to minimize how you start out, they want it to be a little more organic with how you build your character up. Not select a bunch of pre-set abilities. You’re only choosing the aesthetic look of your character."

http://www.gametrailers.com/users/IW-Brooks/gamepad/?action=blog

I'm confuse. No more racial bonuses for the game? The races only differ in appearance? I can not understand this quote from T.H...

I'm sorry if this already been answered. I no see the thread. Thanks.

:tes: Always in my mind...

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:11 am

I'm pretty sure racial bonuses are in. They're preset though.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:36 am

Bonus races? You mean racial bonuses? If so, I'm quite sure they're still there. At least I haven't heard those will be removed too.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:53 am

There must be racials, would be a nonsense to reduce races to aesthetics.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:07 am

There must be racials, would be a nonsense to reduce races to aesthetics.

agreed. I do hope that they are substantial enough to make me want to create every race though. There were some races in Oblivion I just avoided.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:01 pm

I think there is still going to be racial bonuses.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:20 am

That would really svck if they were out, and it wouldn't make any sense.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:26 pm

According to a few of the previews this last week, racial bonuses are in, just no birthsigns.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:03 am

Bonus races? You mean racial bonuses? If so, I'm quite sure they're still there. At least I haven't heard those will be removed too.

Of course, I mean racial bonuses. I'm sorry, people , I think I can't edit the title of the thread . My english sometimes svcks... Sorry ! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

EDIT: Perhaps one of the friendly moderators can change the topic title to avoid confusion? ~~Bonus races~~ == racial bonuses ? Please? Thanks.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:56 am

If there aren't racial bonuses I would be pretty disappointed. Not enough to not have a blast with the game, but pretty significantly disappointed. Even if they're just the bonuses from Oblivion I'd be happy.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:07 am

They passed talking about races. They were meaning that you didn't choose birth signs or classes anymore. 99% sure that racials are still in.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:02 am

But, if racial bonuses were removed. I would not be surprised to see people saying "that's fine", "they were useless anyway", "deal with it" ......

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:23 am

A slight bonus on some skills maybe.

Racial powers will still be in, it was confirmed somewhere...

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:34 am

But, if racial bonuses were removed. I would not be surprised to see people saying "that's fine", "they were useless anyway", "deal with it" ......

And then there would be the people shouting "Their dumbing down the game for the COD noobs!!!!" even though in reality it didn't require any thought. Most people choose races on aesthetics. I would be unhappy if racials weren't in but chances are they still are in.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:19 am

And then there would be the people shouting "Their dumbing down the game for the COD noobs!!!!" even though in reality it didn't require any thought. Most people choose races on aesthetics. I would be unhappy if racials weren't in but chances are they still are in.

I'm pretty sure they're confirmed to be in.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:22 am

And then there would be the people shouting "Their dumbing down the game for the COD noobs!!!!" even though in reality it didn't require any thought. Most people choose races on aesthetics. I would be unhappy if racials weren't in but chances are they still are in.

This. I sort of hope there will be race-specific perks. Unlikely, maybe, but...it'd be awesome.

Still, race-specific bonuses are most likely going to be in the game, I agree. They've said they wanted to stress the differences between the races (which doesn't mean aesthetic differences, we can assume). Some form of nighteye for Khajiits, Bretons more talented mages/resistant to magic, Argonians immune to disease, so on and so forth

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:06 am

Birthsigns are gone and you no longer chose major skills nor 2 primary atributes so most all the choices come after you have played a bit... stilol the big choice is race.. tho how big we dont know as bethesda does tend to have fairly bland race mechanics.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:56 am

I think this was more of a generalization or he mispoke. Racial traits im sure will be there, im almost positive of it

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:14 pm

But, if racial bonuses were removed. I would not be surprised to see people saying "that's fine", "they were useless anyway", "deal with it" ......

Try harder, kiddo.

I'm pretty sure they're in. They even touted that more than ever it will be even a greater deal this time around, though to what extend is yet to be seen. Of course, there is still a possibility that they were just hyping us up with that remark, but I stand fairly positive about this.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:25 am

I'm pretty sure they're confirmed to be in.

Let's hope so... And also that the Gender can be distinguished by something more than just the aesthetic thing...

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:13 am

BGS has made some pretty hefty changes to player creation and stats/skills for skyrim. I would be awestruck if they took out racials aswell. That would be just....propostersous!!! lol

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:21 am

I think Todd said something about race spesific skill-bonuses in one of the earlier interviews, and I think we can safely asume that the races have natural abileties.