They may be thousands of dragons in this game but i am expecting that coming across a dragon is a rare/not common thing

This is my concern too. I really hope that they make it like Oblivion where the Oblivion Gates started to open only after you chose to start the main quest, plus dragons will be 10x annoying because you can't go around them like you could with the gates. If not, I think it will somewhat ruin the whole TES sandbox concept cause you are forced to do the main quest. It could be made so that there are these rumors about dragons coming (or what ever) and after you start doing the main quest the dragons will appear. Please Beth, give the player a choice cause TES is all about choices, thats all.

I know what you are trying to say about a random encounter being annoying at times. But i think that's exactly what Bethesda wanted is to make in an unexpected fight.

Erm, then what is a realistic role? Just sayin' Damn, I'm going to need to task out an air guard!

C'est la guerre :shrug: Should have run and resuppliedduring the cave encounter?

Agreed, five would have been enough :shrug: Eh, so could any enemy if you're not prepared for it.

Erm, that'd be realistic, right?

Hmm so war and wilderness should be convenient? Why only in the wilds? Why not in a city? Why not take more time to plan for the encounter? Why not have help in defeating the dragon? Why not as an ambush in a cave? Why not have it as part of a story line where your companion gets torched?


I hear your concern about too many encounters making life too dificult, and agree to an extent. But, it sounds like you're not using your brain enough, or willing to adapt playstyle to what the game or circumstances.:shrug:

I can imagine seeing a dragon high in the sky and then saying "Hey Ugly!" Starting pelting it with arrows

This^

Dragons don't wait for you to be ready, they attack you whenever they damn well please. Stop your whining and be more prepared. Cary some potions and a repair hammer so you don't get stuck in such situations. If you ever get caught in a situation where you're not ready and are being attacked, it's probably your fault for not preparing for things.

Also not every dragon is going to attack you on sight. Some of them just flies past you, because you look like an insignificant little ant from up there.

fleeing may not be an option in your first dragon encounter (one in quest) but that doesn't mean you won't always be able to flee. but real men stand and fight...always

*flashbacks of constantly running away from oblivion gates*
*flash backs of making a dash for the sigil inside of oblivion gates, turning around every once in a while to throw a destruction spell or two*

always..

Something just came to my mind.

Do you guys think we can compare the dragons in skyrim with the Behemoths in Fallout 3?

I believe Dragons should be rare i wouldn't like Dragons like bliviongate: <-- respawing everywere i didn't like that :shakehead:

Based on what Todd's been saying about the game, I really doubt he wants it to be anymore difficult than previous elder scrolls games. Like most game developers, Bethesda's really going for accessibility on this one...

I appreciate everyones opinion's and I certainly have been persuade that dragons are to be encountered whenever and where ever. although an attack in a city or village is a bit extreme since I presume that dragons don't just target you and will also attack npc which offer side quests.

Still.... I believe that the chances of having to fight a dragon in a quest that doesn't involve one should be significantly reduced.

Did you seriously just type this?

:facepalm:

You're right, playing the game should only be the privilage of the elite most hardcoe gamers!

The game shouldn't need balance, there shouldn't be a designed way to win, everything should be made for you to lose, but if you're hardcoe enough you can overcome even that.


Daikatana followed this idea too, look where it lead it...

And I really hope that there is not such a stupid thing as 'leveled dragons'. Like only weak dragons attacking you if you are low level. A dragon should be a fearsome foe that can't be defeated by a low/mid level character. Period. But knowing Bethesda they will probably make it like Kvatch, where a single level 1 yokel can defeat an army of Daedra that destroyed a whole town.

Didn't Todd already say that they will not swoop down and attack if they have no reason too.
It would take a long time for a dragon to travel if it swoops down to attack everything...

Well you don′t have to worry about dragons at all. According to part 3 of the Skyrim preview on g4tv.com you can slow down time, hit a dragon a few time while the dragon won′t hit you due to the time being slowed and then just throw two spells and the dragon will be dead, and not a single HP lost if I understood the article right.

I′m rather more disappointed since it seem at least according to the article that Bethesda has made dragons really weak, if you can just stroll up to one, beat it in the face while time is slowed down and then finish it in 2 damaging spells without taking any blows from the dragon then the dragons are weak.

Hopefully Bethesda will buff up dragons and make them stronger before they release Skyrim.

I really hope they were talking about a super powerful level 50 character when they said that...otherwise it would be a total disappointment and dragons would be a joke (just as much or even more than the oh so fearsome Oblivion invasion).

You're = you are. The word you're looking for is 'your'.

Same but would they really show a preview of the game with a end game character ? Hopefully it was a end game character but I′d not be surprised if it wasn′t.

It was stated in one of the interviews Q&A that the dragon fight was deliberately made easy for the sake of the demo.

Although a demo containing Todd being mauled by a enormous dragon for 50% of the time might be quite interesting.

EDIT: fixed a stupidly formulated sentence

Phew, that′s some good news. When I meet my first dragon I want to have to reload because the encounter would spell certain death, and I don′t want to be able to escape it before it gets me. Dragons should be scary and should signify certain doom to a low level (6 - 12 maybe) character.

Make the dragon much more deadly and instead of a nuisance it is now a dangerous encounter.