Was the skyrim gameplay all gameplay? : V

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:49 pm

I couldn't find a thread on this so i'm just wondering. Was every part of the skyrim game play in game footage? Like when he almost goes of the cliff and you see the characters hands in front of him catching his balance? I hope it is haha.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:27 am

Yes.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:27 am

As far as we all know, all of it was real-time footage from in-game. The first-person dragon shots were just done through changing the point of view.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:58 am

People say that it is, but I don't think the entire thing is gameplay. Maybe most of it.

But I mean the part where the dragon is overhead and he slashes it as it flies by... I find it hard to believe that that's gameplay.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:28 am

It was all rendered using the live in-game engine.

Whether any of the footage (or how much of it) was scripted for the trailer.... who knows.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:06 am

It was all rendered using the live in-game engine.

Whether any of the footage (or how much of it) was scripted for the trailer.... who knows.

Yeah that's true, we will see i guess. If it is i'll buy the game just for that haha

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:40 am

Yes, it is all glorious gameplay.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:20 am

I liked the cliff part. Makes the game look more like a first person shooter, though.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:15 am

I liked the cliff part. Makes the game look more like a first person shooter, though.

how?

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:32 am

As I've said before in numorous threads months ago;

Yes, it's gameplay. Pete Hines confirms this via Twitter.

The camera is just shot at different angles. And they've been working on dragons for 2 years.. And the fact that's it 2011 and a whole new engine, that kind of gameplay is easily possible.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:42 am

Minus the footage of the wall, of course.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:32 am

I liked the cliff part. Makes the game look more like a first person shooter, though.

I didn't get that one bit.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:31 pm

I have a feeling some of it was cinematic. But I'm hoping it wasn't.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:48 am

It's obviously not gameplay. But it's rendered with the in-game engine. :disguise:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:52 pm

It's obviously not gameplay. But it's rendered with the in-game engine. :disguise:

This. There were some parts that I have a really hard time believing is actual gameplay. Not because I have low expectations when it comes to the developers, but simply because they seem utterly impossible to actually pull off in-game.

Those of you who believe that it was all real gameplay-footage needs to get a bit more realistic.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:32 am

The stuff with the nord running to the cliff and then screwing around with the dragon were obviously not gameplay. We arn't that gullible Bethesda.

The rest probably was though. And it looks good, especially the stuff involving daggers.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:36 am

I like to believe it is.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:12 am

I can bet some animation parts (the dragonborn slowly raising his head before the shout, the cliff edge dizziness) are cinematic. The actual fighting scenes may be all gameplay, but they are captured from different encounters and from impossible angles, our actual experience may be less spectacular. For a teaser trailer it was very nice, but I'm more interested in seeing fluid gameplay of Todd fighting a dragon in 1st person, from the beginning to the soul absorbtion.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:51 am

It was all rendered using the live in-game engine.

Whether any of the footage (or how much of it) was scripted for the trailer.... who knows.

According to Pete, none of it was scripted. Everything you saw in the trailer is supposedly what happens in Skyrim, so the bobbing when you sprint and what not.

I can bet some animation parts (the dragonborn slowly raising his head before the shout, the cliff edge dizziness) are cinematic

Seems like it is most likely just the animation to get up from being staggered/knocked down since supposedly none of the trailer was scripted.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:40 am

I like to believe it's gameplay, I mean if it wasn't the journalists who saw a full dragon battle in the press demo would have been disappointed if the real battle was very different from the trailer battle.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:49 am

Yes.

Apart from the thing that was in the teaser that was mixed in, and the camera angles were also customly done.

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:46 pm

The dragon battle was scripted, everything else was gameplay.

edit: Just to clarify, I'm sure dragon battles will be just as epic as they were portrayed, but for cinematic purposes Bethesda probably controlled what the dragon did.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:59 pm

Yeah, most of it was gameplay, but the dragon battle was surely not.