Todd Howard: for his dedication to the games
Jeremy Soule: helped create the skyrim soundtrack.
Adam Adamowicz: for creating the runic dragon alphabet.
Bruce Nesmith: lead designers should always be noted. Well except Mike Laidlaw.
Matt Carofano: this guy since Skyrim art is to a top notch standard.

And all the other guys down at Bethesda who give themselves buttaches so that we can have entertainment. Hear's to them! :foodndrink:

I most admire the future modders who will return things like Attributes and Birthsigns to make Skyrim an actual RPG :teehee:

I most admire the future modders who will return things like Attributes and Birthsigns to make Skyrim an actual RPG :teehee:

You don′t even know what an actual RPG is I say! It is not the stats and spreadsheets that make or break an RPG. RPG stands for 'Role Playing Game' if the game allows you to express the role you set out for your character then that my good sir or madam is an RPG.

Let me elaborate. A game may break down its entire being through stats and mathematics, it may have a strength stat to display a characters strength, it may have an intelligence stat to display how smart the character is, it may have wisdom to display how wise the character is, it may have agility to display how gracefully a character can move and how lithe it is, or charisma to display how charming the character is in person, and so on and on I can count for a long time. But if you have a game that revolves around doing a set of missions where your stats come into play a game with good stats can tell you a lot less about the character than a game that is well done as an RPG. If you know what kind of person your character is you don′t even need the stats, you just need the scenarios to express how your character behaves. In Oblivion we didn′t even have a charisma stat yet in one of the Dark Brotherhood quests you get to choose how to take out a target where you can taunt him into attacking you provoking a guard to kill him through speech. And you have other options available, you don′t 'need' the Charisma stat to know if your character can rile up the NPC enough to attack you or not with words. You just need the scenario and the options to decide for yourself if your character is charismatic enough to play on his feelings like that or not.

I′ve done it twice, as an orc and as a dunmer, and while you could say statistically they had the same "Charisma" I made my dunmer be able to rile him up and on my orc I decided it wasn′t even his style so he just smashed him. I didn′t need the stats to express those two different personalities.

Stats of course play a tiny small factor in an RPG, they do help you know the limits of your character and how he would tackle challenges and such. But it is far less important than having the scenarios to make up your character and the role you made up for him.

My thanks go out to all Bethesda workers big and small for making TES possible. And for still making it despite the process of making the game being a big spoiler for them making them unable to experience the best game series out there in the same way your average player can. Honestly I don′t know if I′d want to work at Bethesda since I′d lose a lot of the awe and wonder as I first got to the many different places and scenarios in the games. So again I appreciate all the staff there for all the effort they make so that I can enjoy my favorite game series every now and then to its full extent.

Everyone at Bethesda. :thumbsup:

I most admire the future modders who will return things like Attributes and Birthsigns to make Skyrim an actual RPG :teehee:

You do know a real RPG is determined by being able to lose yourself in the game, And I've never really lost myself in an excel sheet. If you could show me how to do this it would be greatly appreciated, because it would really make work seamless.

Daroska, on 25 May 2011 - 08:40 PM, said:


Todd Howard: for his dedication to the games
Jeremy Soule: helped create the skyrim soundtrack.
Adam Adamowicz: for creating the runic dragon alphabet.
Bruce Nesmith: lead designers should always be noted. Well except Mike Laidlaw.
Matt Carofano: this guy since Skyrim art is to a top notch standard.

And all the other guys down at Bethesda who give themselves buttaches so that we can have entertainment. Hear's to them!

Here, here :foodndrink:

Now while not being the most articulate way of explaining an RPG your passion did shine through. Unfortunately many people can't seem to keep an open mind, however the people who work on the game at bethesda studio know what they're making and test many many different things before announcing their final decision to the public, and the reason they announce it is because they are confident that it will be an enjoyed feature. This takes great dedication to the customers and I'm glad that those people which will try to heckle them out of their originality and pioneering won't cause them to waver and to hold back. I'm grateful that they press forward through all the harsh winds of verbal abuse from people who are on the forums 24/7 with complaints, causing people to wonder why are they on the forum anyway if they think the game will be so bad, do they think the constant heckleing will deter bethesda, well I tell you now that there resolve is strong and we should be most grateful for that.

So in closing I would like to thank you bethesda! Thank you for your resolve. :tes:

Everyone involved in the construction of the game. Wouldn't be possible otherwise. So much work is being put in and I can't wait to get my hands on it.

I most admire the future modders who will return things like Attributes and Birthsigns to make Skyrim an actual RPG :teehee: