-the hud appears only when you fight. you will see the three status bar and the compass (sigh)

-the UI is really user freindly but it's not intended to be mouse-used

-it appears that there are no birthsigns

-there are 100+ subquests

-you can't create spells. WHAT THE HELL??

Setting oil on fire sounds interesting.

I do hope so! Should be fun KOing Esbern and then dropping his corpse into a pool of burning oil, watching him continually get up and fall over.

You know, the lack of Birthsigns does provoke a negative knee-jerk reaction even in me. But then, after some thought, I realize that if anything, this allows for even deeper roleplaying. Now instead of choosing a star sign that affected me before I was even born (which makes no sense when you think about it, imo,) we choose perks when we level up. Those perks do the same things (and more than) Birthsigns did. We can roleplay that we LEARNED this, or CHOSE to learn it, rather than being affected by something from before we even came into the world.

The lack of spell creation hurts. But provided they give us a large enough variety of spells, effectively it doesn't take anything away from us other than the process of having to make them. And it eliminates the list of redundant spells in our inventories. Now we just buy only the spells we want or need. Even better (imo) will be if leveling their related skill makes them stronger, rather than having to buy better and better versions of the spell. Now THAT would be awesome imo, and it would fit with their MO so far this time.

And we know enchantment exists, at least.

I swear, I'm not even excited about the game anymore..

I'm a bit mythed by this, weren't quest givers supposed to be killable and than a sister or brother took over.

And didn't the voice actor of Esbern do death sounds for Esbern, because the player could betray him?

You can't create spells anymore because the magic system has been totally revamped. Get out of the Oblivion mindset. "Oh no, I won't be ale to creature the cheap 100 points of charm for 1 second spell!"

No spellmaking? There better be a reason for that.

-there are 100+ subquests

I wonder what they mean by Subquests - does this mean besides the Main Quest or would this mean besides the Main Quest and Guild quests.

I'm a bit mythed by this, weren't quest givers supposed to be killable and than a sister or brother took over.

And didn't the voice actor of Esbern do death sounds for Esbern, because the player could betray him?

As I recall, spells will have multiple functionality in Skyrim. You can throw a fireball, or hold down the button and use it as a flamethrower, or use it to set a trap, etc. If that's the case, I'd suspect that the reason you can't create spells is because of that increased complexity.

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although ( i hear, dont know if its confirmed) but there may be spells to cast on the ground to be triggered by enemies, a trap basicly. Which is cool, always wanted something like that. Wonder why no spell crafting? thats a pretty big deal, not a huge aspect of the game but just about any one (unless they hate playing magic characters) used creating their own spells. I wonder if it has to do with the ability to make weak spells that are cheap which some one could abuse by casting alot to super speed they level the magic skills. I hope theres a replacement because I find that alot of the premade spells are bland and not benefactory to the way I play.

I'm thinking the same yet it also says 75% of the quests and questgivers are randomized and we know Guild quests are given by specific guild superiors. Unless it literally means we only get 25 guild quests divided among atleast the usual group: Fighter, Thief and Mage.

-you can't create spells. WHAT THE HELL??