Why did Bethesda Announce Skyrim so Early in the Year when the Game itself will be coming out by the End of the Year.

Why couldent they Announce it in June, atleast its Halfway through.

The Most Exciting thing for me is the Dragons, i mean Oblivion was Incredible and now Skyrim is Everything i Ever wanted in a Game. :drool:

I know what you mean, the wait is killing me too. hang in there.

To create hype?
One thing I hate about Skyrim is...
I don't think I have anything I hate yet.
The word of dante sounds good so far.
Might change once I finally get to play the game.

I've considered hibernation and cryogenic freezing, but have decided the best remedy is to try and put it at the back of my mind (and play a [censored]load of morrowind).

That's what I'm doing-- booting Morrowind back up. That game just has something...I don't know what it is, but the feel of it is just incredible!

I will just play Batman Arkham City/Portal 2/Star Wars Force Unleashed 2 while i wait, i Hope we get to hear about Half Life 2 Ep3 or Half Life 3 on E3 in June, because how long can they make us wait for that. :huh:

I Hate Morrowind, Bad Graphics and Especially No Voice Acting at all. :blush2:

Better than companies which announce a game months before they even have a release date in mind *coughblizzardcough*

Pfff 246 days left, now we can count down!! YAY!! (Yes I am counting down)

They announced Oblivion much earlier.

Yeah, Bethesda consciously made the time between Skyrim's announcement and release shorter (the shortest ever?). Imagine where we'd be if we had 20 months to wait rather than 8; and a lot less information on the game as well.

I don't mind the wait, personally. Gives me time to put together a new PC, and improve my (limited) 3D & Photoshop skills for realising my mod ideas.

You... might want to watch your step with that last statement. Folk have a tendency to disappear talking like that.

Gameplay/Storyline > Graphics/VA - if I had my choice Skyrim would have as much voiced dialogue as Morrowind, I far preferred the descriptive chat box over limited voice acting.

So far, there isn't really anything I dislike about Skyrim. In fact, I've loved everything I have heard. I only have a few worries (mainly about armour customization).

Because, if you think about it, we've been waiting another 5 years for this. We can wait a few months.

Thats Completly Diffrent when you Announce Skyrim and then wait 5 Years for it. (Half Life 2 Ep3) SERIOUSLY. :shakehead:

I dont mind and wouldent be surprised if the Next Elderscroll Game takes the next 5 Years to be made, but Dont EVER Announce such a Popular Franchise Game and make us wait 9 Months for it. :toughninja:

Anounce it and Release it in 3 Months time.

indeed.. its gonna be a loooooooooooooooooong 9 months.

ah well.. still got some guilds to do on morrowind.

At least we don't need to keep rubbing Bethesda's back every night. Now that was a long 9 months.

Someone didn't wait for Oblivion. Now that was a wait.

Well its the shortest time for them, so its an improvement...

And its always a good question of announcing early, to get feedback, or announce late, so the fans aren't dying.

Diablo 3 was announced early, and those fans are dying because it just seems like development is getting no where, and they don't ever get new content. But they can offer feedback, and Blizzard can listen.
But with a game announced as late as Skyrim was, I really doubt our feedback can mean anything other than feedback on graphics.

Ehh, which is the lesser of the 2 evils? Honestly, I wouldn't mind if the game was announced 2 months before releases, and then we got info every day or everyother day.

Oblivion was my First Game, there was Never any need of waiting on it, since i dident know about the Elderscroll Games at first, until a Friend told me to try it out, i fell In Love with Oblivion ever since, BEST GAME EVER :toughninja:

I can t stand Oblivion, not even boosting it up with tons of mods.
I think if i want RPG i will have to re-install my morrowind 300 mods and keep it up to date. I have the feeling i haven t played half of what it offers. But so many mods it s a pain in the ass even having put them in order of load etc.

For now at least i have DCS A10C this will take 2 to 3 month to master, then there s Shogun2 and finishing some older titles, no waiting here. Feeling are still very mixed for skyrim. But les negative.

I still think the new skill/perk system won t make any sense and will be Diablo dumb like.

Sure that would be convenient for you but not so good from a marketing standpoint.

such a dumb thread...

i waited for Oblivion, regretted it a bit.

waited for Shivering Isles, loved it. waited for Fallout 3 after they put out the teaser, loved it.

i've always said that every time Bethesda releases a game it has the potential to be a perfect game, but there's always that thing that niggles after a while, that mods can't really fix. for Morrowind it was the combat (though pure mage is still pretty fantastic). for Oblivion it was the world design. for Fallout 3 it was the XP-based leveling (which i never thought really FIT WELL with the kind of game Fallout became).

for Skyrim i honestly can't think of anything i dislike straight out:

- Fallout-style level scaling? awesome!
- no classes? fantastic!
- hand-crafted world roughly the size of Oblivion? amazing!
- dragons and viking imagery? great!
- completely overhauled combat taking cues from Dark Messiah and the Combat Archery mod? incredible!
- crafting, woodcutting, cooking, and all that other weird immersive sim [censored] that really isn't necessary but cool to have all the same? splendid!
- Daggerfall-style random quests mixed in with interesting hand-written quests? excellent!
- main theme? spongebobwallet.jpg

plus it takes place 200 years after Oblivion, so there's so much room for new lore.

as a kid i loved the hell out of Icewind Dale - the setting was great, the writing was great, the art design was amazing, everything about it was incredible - but i always felt like it was a really lonely game. you leave civilization and do nothing but dungeoncrawl until the end of the game. you can't really go back at any point and take sidequests from villages or really TALK TO PEOPLE like you could in Baldur's Gate, and i thought it was a little disappointing given the overall quality of the game and Black Isle's track record.

Skyrim as it stands is Icewind Dale with all the [censored] i missed as a kid, though maybe lacking Black Isle's mastery of dialogue, but in a first-person open-world with real-time combat. that alone makes it a contender for my favorite game of all time (which is currently a fierce battle between Morrowind and STALKER).

toss in different cultures, give me that Morrowind feeling of being, as Todd said, a "stranger in a strange land", and this is pretty much the best thing that could ever happen ever.

A very interesting perspective and probably one alot of people share.

But it is interesting that for years, many, many, many people on the TES V Speculation thread were very critical of Bethesda for not even letting us know whether they were working on a TES V.

So there is no good way of announcing.

If they had let us know a few years ago that it was in the works then people would have been demanding for Bethesda to announce an approximate date. Then if they said maybe two years from now then people would have been saying we can't wait that long. I'm guessing they announced it now in part because they have at least some comfort level that it will be released by the target date.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGEEEE.


Please die.

That's their marketting strategy I guess. They want as many people to know about the game as possible.