Good info overall.


I always fear when he says they are "simplifying" the dialogue system. How much more simple can it get? I just dont want to end up with just continuous exposition without any interaction. I want to actually react to characters in a positive or negative way--thats roleplaying

It's just a matter of making the world surrounding these NPC's function properly without them. Say, there's a quest to deliver an item from NPC A to NPC B, but NPC B is dead. These errors, for all we know, could be severe enough to make the game stop working, crash it, or lead you on wild goose chases for the rest of your time playing.

For the same reason racism is in the game. Flavor.

People still going on about children, and they still can't get over how they can't kill them?
Seriously, "immersion" only goes that deep?

Which is better than Morrowind's Save and reload until you win minigame...

People probably just want their revenge for being forced to kiss http://www.pixelvixen707.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/macready1.jpg's ass...

Personally I'd like to know more about how the Creation Kit is going to work, that's what I'm most looking forward to seeing.

Not much different than before, just more stuff you can do now with it.

I heard Todd saying that, but don't remember where.

I hope limb damage without death can be achieved, it always drives me nuts to go out of my way to incapacitate, or just wound by a shot/strike to an arm, then they die on me that irritates.

Found this the most interesting piece of info from the interview.

I love all of this information. There wasn't really anything that made me unhappy, except for maybe Todd saying "who wants to play with athletics or acrobatics anyways?" There were a lot of people who made dedicated acrobats and would jump around in a fight and the like. They loved it.

Just smile and Nod and hope for the best Ozorn.

Great questions thanks for posting this!

This is perhaps the best news I've heard for a while!

R.I.P. repetitive spell casting to raise levels! The evil witch is dead. :celebrate: :celebration:



If this translation is halfway correct, then I think it answers some questions I had about perks.

If we get perks from skills and not from leveling up, then we will be able to use many, many more perks than, for example, 1 perk per level in FO3. Sounds like fun!

So what do we get when we level up? increase to Health, Magicka and Stamina only?




Yes, I agree, directional sword slashing will be sick




Yes, thanks - fixed this in the OP.




Yes, you are absolutely right! fixed in the OP




I also heard this, I suppose he was referring to a few key NPCs that are relevant to the MQ?

I still don't get the "there are boats, but you can't sail them"

Does this mean there will be a fast travel system involving boats or there are just boats that sit in docks like Oblivion?

Sounds like Oblivion boats.

Probably boats sailing deep in the shore beyond an invisible barrier. Just for flavor.

In a separate interview, it was confirmed that there is a sort of fast travel system, but it only takes you to a few locations. That would seem to fit with boats taking you to locations accessible by water only.

However, it could also be just boats that sit in docks with specific quests or encounters on board.

Ummmm... perks!

No, it is not.
Even putting aside the principle that a world can never be too big.

Morrowind had

• 11 fortresses
  
• 23 Dwemer Ruins
  
• 40 Daedric ruins
  
• 88 tombs
  
• 12 Velothi Towers
  
• 12 mines
  
• 91 caves
  
• 11 grottoes
  
• and 32 egg-mines.

For a total of 320 dungeons (though keep in mind that egg-mines and tombs [and many caves] were quite small) and uncountable "places of interest".

Oblivion, on the other hand, had

• 89 Caves
  
• 59 Oblivion Gates
  
• 50 Ayleid ruins
  
• 50 Forts
  
• 32 Campsites
  
• 25 Mines
  
• 15 Daedric Shrines
  
• 9 Landmarks
  
• 8 Inns

For a total of 273 dungeons, plus 64 marked "places of interest" (probably a LOT more unmarked, however).

Skyrim has 120 dungeons and a hundred places of interest.
That doesn't compare well, and there's no way you can say that's "too big". Come on, Morrowind wasn't nearly the same size and had twice as much stuff.
I only hope that they're counting differently than I am.


Oh, and also

EVERYONE DOES THAT. LITERALLY, EVERYONE. I have never met a person who has reached a high-level in a TES game without trying to commit genocide.

Twice as many and most of them twice as small...


Do they actually keep playing normally after that?

We don't know the size of the dungeons in Skyrim yet.
And regardless of the size of many of Morrowind's, it still had a LOT more. Unless Skyrim's dungeons are closer to Daggerfall's than Oblivion's, there's no way it can compete.


Save->Rampage->Reload

Calls to mind the guy who blacked out drunk playing Oblivion and woke up to find this:
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/3981/12pr5.jpg

http://www.facepunch.com/threads/631191-I-played-Oblivion-blacked-out-drunk-and-here-s-what-happened-(via-picture-story)

Precisely.

Why should they design how deserted cities would work, if everybody just going to reload after killing everybody...

Then don't have to design how deserted cities would work.
They just have to NOT disallow the killing of certain NPCs.
It's more work to prevent rampages than it is to allow them, by far. The latter doesn't take any work at all.
Bethesda just has a screwed up design philosophy, frankly.

And so what if people are going to reload, they still did it. It's fun to spend a few hours killing everyone, and there's no reason to prevent it from being allowed.

I don't think it took them all that dev time to accommodate killing rampages.

I believe he's referring to the time it took to develop the aspect of Radiant Story that allows the game to assign new quest givers if you killed the NPC that was supposed to give the quest.

If you killed everyone in a town, 90% of the NPCs don't really matter for quests, only a few. In Oblivion quest givers could not be killed. Now they can (except for a few NPCs essential to the MQ probably)