Armors and Weapons in Announcement Trailer

Post » Sat Mar 27, 2010 8:45 am

I just watched the announcment trailer and I recognized that you actually see some armor and weapons. Can anybody tell which armor Dovakhiin is wearing and which weapons are used?

I think the armor is Nordic Ringmail or am I wrong?
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Post » Sat Mar 27, 2010 2:18 am

I've been wondering the same thing i can't tell because i'm viewing the trailer on my tv and it's too dark.
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Post » Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:02 am

Considering that we don't know what any of the armor and weapons will look like in Skyrim, I'd say trying to determine from the images in the trailer what each armor or weapon is won't be all that productive. The look of the same type of armor or weapon has often changed considerably between games, and this makes sense. Because a weapon called a "steel longsword" isn't one distinct design of sword, it's a long sword made using steel. So just because two swords are both steel longswords doesn't mean they must look alike. Of course, the game can't include infinate variety for its weapons, so usually, in an individual game, the same model will be used for all instances of the same weapon, but this wouldn't necessarily be true in reality, and there's no reason why the designs of armors and weapons can't change between games. And even if you believe you can identify what type of armor or weapon a person in the carving is wearing, it's hard to say how close it is to the appearance of that item in the game. After all, the carving is probably just an artist's rendition of the events of the story, so there could very well be some creative license involved in it.
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Post » Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:05 pm

Considering that we don't know what any of the armor and weapons will look like in Skyrim, I'd say trying to determine from the images in the trailer what each armor or weapon is won't be all that productive. The look of the same type of armor or weapon has often changed considerably between games, and this makes sense. Because a weapon called a "steel longsword" isn't one distinct design of sword, it's a long sword made using steel. So just because two swords are both steel longswords doesn't mean they must look alike. Of course, the game can't include infinate variety for its weapons, so usually, in an individual game, the same model will be used for all instances of the same weapon, but this wouldn't necessarily be true in reality, and there's no reason why the designs of armors and weapons can't change between games. And even if you believe you can identify what type of armor or weapon a person in the carving is wearing, it's hard to say how close it is to the appearance of that item in the game. After all, the carving is probably just an artist's rendition of the events of the story, so there could very well be some creative license involved in it.


Yes, you are right, maybe it is just a rendition on some things the artist knows. But it seems that Dovakhiin will be the "star" of the game. So, therefore I think it is very likely that the he is displayed pretty near in-game in the trailer. At least his armor looks familiar to me, looks like the nordic ringmail from Morrowind as I already said...
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Post » Sat Mar 27, 2010 3:36 am

It looks a lot like Blades armour to me.
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Post » Fri Mar 26, 2010 10:05 pm

It looks a lot like Blades armour to me.


Ah sorry, I mixed that up. Looks like Blades Armor. That was it...

So, do you think Dovakhiin is a Blade?
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Post » Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:38 pm

I think the Dovahkiin is wearing some variant of the Blades/Akaviri Armor.
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