While they're at it, they might as well take out voice acting, jumping, and vampires since they're not necessary. Maybe they can remove character creation as well. and just force you to play as an Imperial. Perhaps they could switch the item system to be like Fable 3, to remove the aches and troubles of having choice. Maybe they could remove AI, and go back to Morrowind style quest givers since we'll be adventuring most of the time. Maybe they could remove blunt weapons because no one likes them. While they're at it, they should just stop making the game since Oblivion is still in stores.

I want a bigger flamethrower with a side effect to make them light up with a light spell :teehee:
Is that too much to ask for? :ermm:

It still doesn't make any sense. Magicka comes from the stars and the sun (which are really just holes to the Aetherius, the realm of pure magicka). I mean, souls can refill enchanted weapons, so perhaps they do restore magicka.

It's just so odd because its never been done, nor mentioned before in the lore, although, as I said, I guess it isn't entirely improbable.

You can not combine spells but you can dual wield spells?

Sorry, I thought you were agreeing with Merari that Skyrim would not be a RPG. You were just saying it's not a pure RPG?

I'm not sure a pure RPG exists. Even Arcanum was an Action RPG unless you changed the setting to turn on "Turn Based". Troika had that horrid real time setting as the default.

I highly doubt that birthsigns are removed, they would not get rid of a substantial piece of lore, besides the OP said "it APPEARS that there are no birthsigns"

I took it to mean you can put fire and frost on different hands, but using them will just give you regular fire and frost spells, not some uber-explosive combination.

I think this is weird :shrug: if you jump off a high cliff and lose a lot of health points, you should be able to see how close to death you are although you're not in battle.

No more spell creation?! How do they expect me to set myself on fire? :flamethrower:

Why would the compass be shown while engaged in combat but not out of combat? Having health/magicka/stamina show makes perfect sense but the compass only popping up during combat is weird?

They might tie it to some kind of awareness skill or spell and show enemies close to your position as icons. Like in the new Fallout games.

iam actually okay with no spell creation.85 spells and five schools of magic is alot. great news though!the game just keeps getting better.although it would have been nice to have a larger gameworld

Specifically, that you can kill quest giving NPCs.

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Yeah, that explains it... go read the rules...

This forum does not allow the posting of scans. You should remove the link, or you might get banned.

Ouch, no scans are allowed on the forums, I would take that down quick!

I would like this to be absolutely clear as well. If there's any other Italians who can confirm/clarify, thank you!

No spell making? That's good, I hate emergent gameplay and fun.

Hopefully that's a mistake.

They only talked about the nebulae, they did not say birth signs are removed.

Perhaps that is a contradiction, but not necessarily. The GI article talked about generic quest givers, not "main quest" characters which is what this article summary implies will be immortal. That's a step up from where Oblivion was. It sounds like we will have immortal characters, but not as out of control crazy as it was in Oblivion (100+ NPCs).

Who knows.

I am guessing it was taken out since spells get cheaper on mana the higher your skill. fireballs get more powerful the more you use the spell (or also dependent on destruction skill) so creating spells is rendered useless by more organic casting system?

this is purely a guess, but from what they're saying it might sound right.

I'm not shocked by this, it just needed to be done. I hated running around Cyrodiil and casting fireballs that do 5 damage and when i wanted a bit more punch, i had to find an altar of spellmaking to do it. think we'll be able to charge our spells?

there's also the one handed/two handed cast system to alter spell strength... I dunno. will have to see how fluid and organic the system is before i pass judgement.

The reason for the spell creation is probably because you can make spells so strong that you have no threats. And when you think about it, it does not make all that much sense.

Thanks for the heads up guys!

No problem!

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Cut the whining about the spells already. Instead of using the braindead spell system of Morrowind or Oblivion, the spells will actually have some originality in them as in Bioshock style instead of being flying balls of different colors. It's not possible to combine such complex and varying spells with the physics system of Skyrim without a LOT of work unless if the whole game was built around it like Magicka. I'm glad that the spells will be at least somewhat interesting this time.