Agree wholeheartedly. One of the reasons I cringed at full voice acting in Oblivion. Look at what we got in return. Far fewer npcs and shallow, short dialogue, and repetitive, limited budget voice acting. Compare that to Fallout 3's voice acting and I think it's obvious that full voice acting can only work and still maintain the quality of the dialogue if it's limited. No more wiki-NPCs. Sure you can talk to every NPC in Morrowind, but does it add anything to the game? You can do the same in Oblivion, but they only have one or two unique sentences, sometimes not even that. The cost to payoff ratio isn't worth it. So I definitely think this is the way to go.

I just recently started playing Morrowind with all the Less Generic NPCs mods. Excellent, AAA quality writing in that mod, but it certainly highlights the amount of work that would be involved in making every single NPC unique (just looking at the number of NPCs that haven't gotten the LGNPC treatment yet). You could never do LGNPCs in a game with full voice acting. There's probably more dialogue in one LGNPC than in all of Oblivion combined.

Is it just me? Every time I read something from Game Informer I get worried about the game. Every time I read one of these international articles or watch the Bethesda devs themselves I start looking forward to it again...

It's said exactly like that in the magazine, I confirm. Very odd. Mind you, they say 80 spells and 120 dungeons, and that's not accurate either. *shrug*

Well, I didn't get worried, but I know what you mean. I think it's just the way that the GI writers word things, they don't exactly sound like actual fans of the series, more like bored reporters or something. But I've only been happier and more confident with every single news release of any kind. Same way I felt about Oblivion, and despite the general consensus among Morrowind fans, I think Oblivion delivered exactly what it promised and was a great damn game, and improvement over Morrowind even if I didn't like the storyline as much. And now I feel the same way about Skyrim, perhaps even more so.

All of this info is outstanding. In bold becuase it's just that good.

My highlights:



One thing I wanted. Much more realistic.



Fascinating concept, will definitely make the world feel a lot more alive.



YES!!! Also on my wish list :tops:



Good! More passive enemies is much more realistic, another thing I have been in favor of in forum discussions.



This is the best part. Hopefully no more magic compass!!!

In Oblivion, there were quests where you could get related information from any town or faction member that pertained to that town or faction. Like if you were given a quest to find someone in a particular city, you could go to the city and ask about that person, and they could tell you where specifically to look, or at least ackknowledge him. With this unimportant-NPCs-only-have-rumors setup, does that mean only specific NPCs could tell me about that person in the city? That doesn't seem very nice or logical.

Oblivion: 1 person - 200 + dungeons

Skyrim: 8 people - 130 + dungeons


YESYESYESYESYES!!!!!

I am super stoked! The quality of the dungeons in Skyrim is going to be fantastic! This is what I wanted! Quality, not Quantity!

It's like Beth read my mind! ( and the minds of thousands of fans)

I just can't help it, I am super excited!!

And thank YOU for your feedback on the translation. :hugs:

Thanks for the summary. Everything in there sounds cool.

Eight guys like that... I think we might be in trouble. :ahhh: They've already said that they've used more traps and puzzles. Fewer dungeons and more people working on them could be a deadly combination. I hope they hired a bunch of devious bastards.

Great, this will fix my problem with directions

Hey, merci l'ami ! o/


I've read it already on an another website for the most part, but there are bits and pieces I missed.

If you ever need help with translation again, just hola at me too ( but your english seems just fine :thumbsup: ).

So about the infos, well I feel quite confident. I mean, like many others I'm still pretty afraid because they promessed a lot for Oblivion back in the days, and they didn't really deliver for the most part... Especially concerning the whole Radiant A.I stuff. So when I hear stuff about commercial roads and all that, I mean... I wanna believe, but I take that with extreeeeeeme precaution :confused:

On the other hand, I'm SUPER excited about the dungeons, it really seems they worked a lot on them, make them less dull and generic. Because let's face it, dungeons are awesome. And I just CANNOT FRIGGIN WAIT for a video.

Seriously, I'd kill a rabbit just to have a video right now :'(


Ps : it's my first post, but I used to have a much older account, way before Morrowind even came out, I just couldn't find my damn account infos... So yeah, hi everyone o/

Fantastic news.

Me too. I'm glad they are cutting down the number of dungeons and instead make the fewer dungeons unique and fun. More puzzles, more traps, more awesome!

Oh, and thank you ca.tchoup! Great info.

Oh man that's fantastic :foodndrink: I love all of this.

Do you "burn" as in burn through or "burn" as in burn down?

By Dunmer city do you guys think it's a fully blown Dunmer-ran city controlled by the remnants of the Houses or just a Dunmeri styled city under Skyrim control with a few refuges?

I hope for the former but either way... Nerdgasm! :biggrin:

Wrong topic.

The new spells seems cool. And I like that there are more people developing dungeons, but I'm not so pleased with the number of dungeons. I think there should be less dungeons to improve the quality of them even more.

:D Yaaay Bethesda!!!

Hi, welcome back :foodndrink:

This info is just fantastic, I like everything especially the npcs who give you directions and show you the way! That's damn immersive! Ruining a town's economy is something I suggested before, it sounds great! I hope it affects people's mood and activities too, not only the merchants' supplies. I want it living and organic! And if Radiant AI works as intended, plus all this sabotage, it will be so fing cool I just can't wait!

HI, welcome to the forum.

I much prefer 8 dudes working on 100+ dungeons ( which they said are going to be more unique from each other ) over 1 dude working on almost 200 dungeons, and have them basically all the same like Oblivion.

thanks ca.tchoup, we appreciate the info :thumbsup:

De rien



I guess we covered pretty much everything the article says but you're welcome if you catch anything else I forgot.


Welcome back! Actually I'm new too, I made this account some time ago but never posted before, mostly spying :ninja: and salivate on Skyrim :drool:

The more information we get, the more I cannot even fathom in my mind what this game is going to be like... I cant even imagine if I will love or hate some of these changes they just seem so radically different. This really is going to be a totally different game from Oblivion and Morrowind. I'm optimistic, but I think this is one of those games you need to play (or see played) to really understand the level of immersion.



On a side note, I love the idea of weather systems and economies for towns.