Or they just played for hours back at the studio, and when they encountered dragons, they edited out all the boring parts like you saw.

I think thsi si s more likely, the guy doesn't really understand what scripting is. Which is this, where they appear in the same spot every game.

I think since it was on an Xbox, and you can obviously see that it is edited, because of jumps to different areas, they probably picked and choosed the best dragon fights they got. Im thinking it might be true they are completely unscripted, for all we know it took them 20 hours of playing to get as cool a dragon fight as that one.

SO liley the dragons do use their cool little AI package and do whatever is determined to eb the best option, obviously if they are ina certain terrain it will designate certain actions as getting a higher chance of beign seleceted, just you wont always be having as awesome a dragon battle as that one.

The actions of creatures in the demo were scripted, but that doesn't mean they won't act like that in the actual game.

And how do you know this?

What!?

Of course it wasn't! This was as unscripted as Oblivion's unscripted E3 demo!

the one at bleak flats barrow thats part of a quest to get a golden dragon claw even in the magazine it said its there that is one that operates outside of the free ranging dragons, its a scrtipted one that stays there until you come, and probably scales to be like 1 level above you at all times to make it a bit of a challenge, but i dont mind having a few instances where u know your going to fight a dragon, but what im wondering is what your going to get from them when u kill them, i dont want to be able to loot their corpse and just get some treasure i wanna find like bones and a note and a key that leads me to some treasure, as it seems like a more likely case and helps with immersion

Well of course they are going to say that. It makes it seem more epic for the demo, but lets be honest here folks...




I'm pretty sure in the movie they would have been just as happy if it never showed up.

Depends on what do you mean by unscripted.

Are there some pre-defined scripts that tells him what to do, where to land, and whatnot? Sure, but it won't do the exact same thing all the time.

Todd knew where the dragon will land either because there are places where the game allows the dragon to land, or that part of the demo was manipulated (probably the both).

There's no such code, that watches whether or not you're attacking that one giant, so when it's about to die a dragon would interrupt. There might be one if there's a dragon nearby and he wants to attack you, but you're already engaged with somebody, the dragon would pick up the enemy then turn its attention to you. ... or just burst them to flames... or just land and eat them...
Who knows.


Also I've read somebody's twitter who sneaked in into a second screening just to see whether those events are truly unscripted... he said they weren't scripted...

No. Their behaviors are scripted but not when and where they will be except for a few instances where they want dragons for the story.

If I were making a demo and wanted it to be awesome like that one was, I'd play and play and play, replaying the same path I traveled and record all of it and then edit the gameplay to show what can happen in the game and what the game's about. I'd pick the best parts of course and I'm sure that's what their editor did. That's why it was so cool! I think this is how it could have been done for the video presentation of a demo.

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i would think that since its a demo made to show off how the game works. that it may be scripted just for the demo purposes. however i read that in one of the showings of the 30 minute demo a dragon flew overhead and never landed and flew away. so i dont know. maybe the demo video we saw was scripted. but maybe the one they showed on the floor was not.

Is that really a source that you can believe? I mean.... c'mon, I cold have posted that (if I had twitter). There is even a possibility he was told/paid by Beth to post something like on on Twitter just to quell questions like this.

Todd said himself that the grabbing the Giant part was scripted. Cause dragon appearences are often scripted, but after that they can do anything.