I'm sure the NPC in question will utter something like "bye" as you walk out of range. Obviously the PC will (hopefully!) remain silent as always.

They only had (at most) a unique "Hello" greeting and a unique take on the city.

Other than that, though, they could only tell you basic stuff about the town or a random rumor.

I'm going to guess it's somewhere between FO3 and Oblivion. Generic, non-named NPCs are placed around to make the town feel more alive, but people who actually have houses and such are "important".

It said you can only cut a conversation short by walking away. That's unnatural sorry. If I don't want to hear what you are saying I'm not ALWAYS going to just walk away.

And this has me really confused..."-For consoles : the "block" action is performed by pressing both trigger buttons at the same time."

So I have to press two buttons to block now? What? If I have a sword only why do I have to press two buttons? It doesn't make sense for a shield/sword combo either because one of the triggers is going to swing the sword?

This is all great info, just like the Italian coverage! :thumbsup:

This two buttons thing seems like it would be difficult to do and, even though it wasn't mentioned here, the new replacement for the hotkey system sounds inconvenient, too, in my opinion. I hope we can reassign actions to different buttons.

Any news pics in this article?

Yep. And I'm not entirely sure what would be so difficult about this... Expensive and slightly tedious, sure, to do all the writing and hiring voice actors. But it's not difficult to at least keep tabs on who lives in which towns/cities, what their occupations are, and just give the unimportant NPCs some dialogue options for other NPCs living in their town.

So what will happen with quests where we need to find a specific NPC? Are we always given specific directions by the quest-giver - "You can find X in the Fighters Guild HQ in Solitude"? Or, will we just walk around the town going door to door until we find the right NPC? Or, will we have to find someone in that town who has information on the NPC we need to find?

I agree with Korusus' point that this is perhaps a necessary way to go given the massive amounts of dialogue that will need to be written, along with the voiceacting. But I would have hoped for a little more padding on the NPCs, because it would have been useful for quests.

Anyway, we'll see how this works. The rest of the info sounds not bad to really promising.

Yea so if we accidentally hold the trigger too long its going to block instead of swing? Why is block two buttons instead of one?

I'm guessing they must have really run out of ways to make the game playable using a game controller. With dual-wielding, I could see that as being a problem, I guess, but until we know everything we are able to do and how they plan to get it all working, I guess there's no known reason, but I would think with spells not being controlled by a separate button from attacking, anymore, that blocking with a single button should be easily possible.

Sorry, maybe I wasn't very clear in my translation. I should have said "simply" instead... I'll update my original post to make it clearer.
From what I read in the article: you CAN walk away to cut the convesation short (and maybe in this case triggering an automatic goodbye... who knows) but I guess you also can end it by clicking goodbye yourself or something like that.

If we aren't frozen in place during dialogue I can see a lot of accidents. Say you press x(psr) to choose a dialogue option and accidentally you steal a shopkeepers item instead?

best post ever

Is there any reference about speechcraft yet? About a mini-game or about Fallout 3 type?

I'm so bloody hyped, this and FF are the only games that can hype me so much.

Great news, some I don't like a lot, but most I do. Especially about dwemers and Dunmer city, I hope they'll bring some of the good old Morrowind feeling to it.

YEAHHHH! Illusions going to be a ton of fun in skyrim!

I LOVE YOU :wub: .

Heeeeee was never mine to keeeeeeep.

But anyway, Dunmer city! This makes up for blowing up Morrowind...partly.

Sounds like it's getting better and better...

If we aren't frozen in place during dialogue I can see a lot of accidents. Say you press x(ps3) to choose a dialogue option and accidentally you steal a shopkeepers item instead?

Yes! Wow. Back to Morrowind style directions? Accompany to the road?!?! Very, very awesome.... only spears and travel network to go... make it happen Bethesda!

Awesome! Weaponsmithing, ACTUAL DIRECTIONS (might e instead of the [censored] compass marker), and more devs working on dungeons. Reading this relieved me a lot, and I just hope they'll implement realitc transportation options as well, since it seems they've adressed the compass complaints.


I can imagine when in dialogue the controls are frozen. The only difference is you can walk/look around. Either that, or maybe there's a button to toggle dialogue controls on/off somehow.

Any new pics in this article?

I am wondering, about the "percise information" when NPCs give you direction. Could some NPCs lie to you? Also while it didn't happen much in Morrowind, is Bethesda going to make sure that NPCs
don't give directions like my wife. "You want to turn left dear. NO! Not That Left. The OTHER Left! :banghead:

One of the innumerable responses Daggerfall NPCs would give you when asked for directions began something along the lines of, "I believe it's east...no...north of here. You'll be wanting to go south of here."

Let's just hope Skyrim NPCs are more on the mark than these.

Thanks to ca.tchoup and Lost in Space for translating and sharing all this amazing info with us. This is a lot more than we got from GI.

Everything sounds fantastic, and even a huge improvement over previous TES games.

Were there any new screenshots or concept art pics in the article? If so, can you describe them?

The information about the complex economies and cultures of the different towns sounds incredible.

And it's great to hear these details about the Snow Trap and Circle of Protection spells. This reinforces the comments from the Dutch magazine article about glyph/ward spells. It sounds like the devs are seriously giving the magic side of the game a much-needed complete overhaul.

EDIT: If anyone needs my help with translating some new Skyrim info in Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese, don't hesitate to ask.

How come gi got the world exclusive and has no where near as much info and precise info as this?