I live in Norway, so I didn't want to stay up all night to watch VGA online when there was a small chance it would be announced. I had actually told myself that wouldn't happen, so I wasn't really thinking about it when I woke up today. I was jokingly thinking "What if the game has been announced now?", and gave myself a mental smack over the head for believing such a thing. I went to see New Content on this forum, when I saw posts in a category called "Skyrim General Discussions". I think my mind went blank for a few seconds before I with shaky fingers googled to find more information - and found the teaser trailer. After watching it, and then reading all the "OMG, THE ANNOUNCEMENT IS ON NOW!"-posts over at the old speculation-thread, I literally cried.

This has made my day, my month, my year. Best Christmas-present I could hope for.

I had goosebumps and literally started tearing up. I then proceeded to sprint madly around my house chanting skyrim. Right im kind of in a numb disbelief that its finally happened. Im gonna go play morrowind now

i would be willing to give up six, porm, and donuts for this...this is the level of my excitement.

I did my every-few-days check of the speculation thread and noticed people talking about the VGAs and whether there'd be an announcement. Nah, I thought. I didn't turn on the TV when the awards started because I was busy with something else. When I finally turned it on, the "monks" were just walking on stage. I had no idea what was going on. Then they announced Todd Howard! Okay, now I'm on my knees in front of the TV ready to explode. When the trailer started, I thought, wait, wait, wait! It might not be ESV. The moment I heard the words "the Elder Scrolls" I was screaming so loud, I think the neighbours must have wondered if they should call 911. I haven't come down to earth yet. I'm still in shock and can't wait!!!!

I was a young boy. One day I visited my cousin. He played TES IV Oblivion. I totally got in love with that game. I borrowed it , but my computer was weak ... Time passed and I decided to buy a new computer. I installed Oblivion. It changed my life. After playing it for a year, I started loving everything that has to do with fantasy, swords, magic, elves, etc ... After playing all of the quests few times, exploring the whole map, passing all of the expansions, installed hundreds of mods, I needed more !! I started playing Morrowind, enjoyed it for a year, but got bored ... Then I played Oblivion again with new mods, and then I bought Fallout 3 ... I played it so much , passed it , explored whole map, enjoyed it, passed all the expansion , installed hundreds of mods, ... Fallout New Vegas got announced !! Totaly bought it when it came out and I still play it alot.
Today, my friend tells me only 2 words : TES 5 ... I totaly got high !! I started calling every friend, telling them about new TES, I watched trailer dozen of times, I still can't believe it !! This is totaly awesome !

You know, i wish i had done that! My brain wasn't working...maby i was stunned or maby it was my hangover, can't decide which?

I WANT THE GAME NOW !!111!1!!!!! :wink_smile:

I was hung over today, but these news cured me fully. YES!!!! Cant wait to hear more about it!!!

Woohoo finally! 11-11- 2011, that's pretty soon actually, 11 months to go until release date..

I am more than excited. Oblivion was great, for me. I have always loved TES, no matter how awful the game engine seems to get.

I was studying art history for my exam tommorow (neoclassicism up until impressionism) and got a tad bored, so I took out my iPod Touch and started my usual internet journey.
First in the row was the bethforums. On the top of the page, I saw there was now a Skyrim forum. At first I thought I was hallucinating, but then I realised it was actually there.
My heartrate went up quite a bit and I had to keep myself from cheering out of joy. I then spammed my mate's Facebook wall (huge Elder Scrolls fan) with my nerdgasm, wich he shared with me.
Finally, I smoked a cigarette to calm down. My heart rate went down and I was back to studying paintings and statues

I just cannot explain how happy I am. Can't wait for november 11th!

Woke up, checked Twitter on my cellphone, saw the tweet by Pete, ran over to the computer (almost breaking it, while slamming on the power-button :brokencomputer: , then thinking that for Skyrim I would need a new one anyway, therefore not caring much about it), watched the announcement and trailer like a hundred times, logged in at the forum and read the first reactions with tears in my eyes, went back to the bedroom and jumped :teehee: on the bed screaming and yelling at my husband that Skyrim had been announced (who untill that time was still vast asleep), after that I had to apologize all day to prevent us from getting divorced, and only now having the guts to check back here again (as he's playing Call of Duty (don't ask...) now).
Still very much psyched now! :clap:
Oh, and yes, I have a headache too.. Too bad for him!

I woke up this morning, having had other obligations during and after the VGAs, and thought "You know something. Screw the usual methods. They announced it yesterday."

Guess who was right.

So today in the morning I checked GameSpot like I always do and almost quit it when the word 'Elder' caught my eye on the right of the screen.
Before doing anything, I just stood up and shouted YYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS for 5 minutes

IM SOOOOO EXCITED
I waited for this game since I finished Oblivion in 2006, just WOW!

After founding out after going to community discussion saw a thread from xXantibodyXx with the subtitle TES5 announced and thought it was a joke but knowing antibody figured that was unlikely so checked it out and got really happy after seeing the trailer.

Ended up punching a few walls with joy and moving around a lot but thats okay because no one is home at the moment to question why I am acting odd.

I just passed out and awoke to tears of joy on my face!!!!!!!!

This game=GOTY 2011

no piece of crud Call of Duty, ESV. I'm so excited we'll finally get to see a game that deserves game of the year receive it next year.

I was watching the VGA's live saw the segment begin with robed men I'm thinking ok sounds like its something interesting then I see Todd come out and I did a literal Facepalm because I knew right then that they were announcing Elder Scrolls V. After the Trailer my reaction was OMG this is Censored Awsome and I was like that for at least an hour and it didn't help that Bioware then announced Mass Effect 3.

It's a mixed bag of feelings for me, and I seem to be the only one. Obviously I'm excited about a new Elder Scrolls game; I picked up Morrowind completely by accident (I saw it in a store, it looked kind of cool, so I bought it) and loved it. Got really into the lore after that, and greatly anticipated Oblivion, which I also loved. So, yes, a new Elder Scrolls game is an awesome thing for me. I'm just... really not excited about the setting, that's all. Of all the provinces we haven't really visited yet, Skyrim is the one that's most like something we've already seen (i.e. Solstheim).

But I guess I'm one of the few people whose first thought, whenever I thought of TESV for all these years, was "I wonder what type of environment we'll get to see next!" I'm still looking forward to the game, obviously. I'm sure the gameplay and characters and story will be fantastic. It's just tempered with wishing that they would have chosen another locale instead.

N.B. I don't even know why I'm disappointed, actually. I've known it would be Skyrim for years, ever since they registered it as a domain name a couple of years ago. What can I say, I'm a hopeless optimist.

This was my reaction. About 3AM last night, I was staying up to watch the VGAs just on the off chance that TES:V would in fact be announced there... and oh my GOD thank God I stayed up! I was just about to go to sleep (it was like 3:30AM or something...) when the foggy mountains backdrop and the monks came out, and I immediately thought "TES:V!". And it was, it was, it was, IT WAS. :woot: And I saw it live. And spammed the VGAs thread with my happiness regarding said announcement. Hehee, I am one damn happy camper right about now.

I just got home from work, the morning after a huge blizzard. Went to check the Fallout forums for patch updates and I saw a comment about Skyrim. So, with a little hope in my heart, I googled it and found the trailer! It's awesome because I wasn't expecting it and I was just thinking this morning that they need to get working on TESV!

I'm so excited!

Just found out about the announcement by searching "TES:V Skyrim"!!! YESSSSS!!!

So excited! First I was like "No way, gotta be fake, no way, no way, no way." Then I saw there was a trailer and I was like "YESSS!!" throughout the whole entire thing while my brothers were telling me to shut up I kept saying "The Dragons are coming back!".

Haha! You're a true fan to the core, mate!



You, too. I am so glad that Bethesda has such dedicated fans. :'D

Same here. I can see myself playing until at least 2015.



I now realize that when my friends call me a loser because I actually know who Todd Howard is, they just have no life.



I still think it is much better than having the game announced two or three years before launch. This way, we have no time for the hype to die and we'll get pretty frequent updates and news.



Goosebumps! Yeah, I had those, too. I'm actually playing Oblivion right now!



Whoa, man. That's a little craz... wait. So would I!

ME, TOO!!!!1!



I've heard that McDonalds does the trick, but whatever floats your boat! Skyrim!!



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At first (despite my HUGE EAGERNESS AND AWESTRUCKEDNESS), I wasn't really either. But seeing the mountain buildings and imaging that dragons might have something to do with lava and fire, I just removed that thought from my head. There's no way this game can be bad. For me, they could take Oblivion, rename it Skyrim, and make some minor modifications to the main quest and I'd buy it 15 times. I'm thinking we might see some burning, fiery places, somewhat similar to Oblivion.

Oh, me, too. I cannot wait for 2011's GOTY.