...which is better, no? At least better than Oblivion.
Essentially it's like Morrowind now. Good. Oblivions cities being in separate cells were the result of Bethesdas bad job of prioritizing the game engine. A lot of things in Oblivion were a result of that.

Confirmed?

Edit: Trailer makes it pretty obviously, just wondered if it was officially stated.

On the computer i don't think this is that much of a problem since loading times are generally really fast, on the consoles though i found it rater annoying in Oblivion to be honest, good thing I got an OK rig to run it on the pc now.

BZZT. a lot of things in Oblivion were the result of Bethesda not having final hardware until six months before the game was released and therefore having no idea how the [censored] they were going to pull off what they wanted to pull for the game. they did about as good a job as anyone could have reasonably expected given the circumstances surrounding the game's development cycle.

I actually prefer to have separate cells for buildings (not cities themselves) for a few more game-generations when technology is advanced enough to do it properly. If you did it now, you would have massive lag whenever you are in a city, or the buildings would be vague of any detail.

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No.
Oblivion... bad.
Morrowind... bad.
Daggerfall... good.

now with dragons attacking cities id guess open cities are what we should expect

Nope.
If you think it's feasible to make a game world thousands of square miles completely open with no loading screens with todays level of detail you're dreaming my friend.
But then again, you weren't serious, were you? You just wanted to post something and make it clear you think Daggerfall is better.
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Those window screenshots could imply, that there not in poral range !
Portal is a system to make it work to some level.

Windows more likely imply illuminated windows at night.

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I give you Ice cream and celebrate with you sir! I feel that if the buildings where open there would be a lack of detail and maybe even lag. Besides separate cells just makes everything easier for the CS.

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if dragons attack cities (thats been conformed) then separate cell cities would feel kinda stupid

as long as the loading times are manageable i'm ok with interiors being separate. from what i've seen in the city footage it looks like they are part of the open world, as in many of the scenes you can see very far into the distance (and what you can see does not look like just a simple background template.

It will be cool that the cities are awesome, as long as it doesn't affect performance.

Actually most buildings have alot of detail however, they don't have chests etc lootable items unless you count a shopkeeper as a lootable container. However some buildings e.g the banks have containers but the cities are MUCH smaller than TES cities I think RDR's largest city has around 30 buildings but you can enter half.
Also the guy ^^^^ up there right above me his signature is all you need in life.

Yeah. I can only imagine how much it would svck walking into, say, the Market District in Oblivion's Imperial City, and having my computer have to keep track of the hundreds of decorative items each shop contains, all at once. Separate interiors lets them make them much more interesting.

I was quite serious. But I wasn't talking about land size. I'm not even sure how you arrived at that.

I am talking about the implementation of open cities and how believable they are within the game world.

Oblivion:
Oblivion's lack of open cities was bad. It really couldn't be helped given what Bethesda had to work with at the time. But not everything about Oblivion cities was bad. What Oblivion did right was having walled cities with specific points of entry. Unfortunately the gates did not lock as you would expect in a land where daedra are attempting to overrun your world.

Morrowind:
Open cities, yay. Problem is, the cities are far TOO open. Morrowind is (was) locked in an ongoing civil war between the great houses. I can understand shanty towns like Hla Oad being undefended. I can even understand Balmora, being more open to western influences having an open door policy. But Ald'ruhn? Allowing anyone to freely come and go as they please? With assassins running around? Sadrith Mora? Where it's illegal walk around town without hospitality papers? Most towns have walls, but these walls do nothing. What you see in game conflicts with what's happening according to lore.

Daggerfall:
On the other hand, we have Daggerfall. An ongoing war between Daggerfall, Wayrest, and Sentinel necessitates the use of walled off cities. But these walls have purpose! They lock at night to keep vampires, were-beasts, highwaymen, invading armies, door-to-door salesmen, etc., away. The average citizen cannot levitate on command, or scale walls. But these do not hold back our intrepid adventurer.

As it pertains to Skyrim, simply doing what Morrowind did is going to lead to another unbelievable, under utilized instance of open cities. Again, another civil war is rocking Skyrim, but none of the cities have gates? Or lock them at night? Ridiculous. What we need is open cities as seen in Daggerfall. Minor unprotected cities like Hla Oad. With big, powerful cities (like those at war with one another) should have high walls, gates, and most importantly, be locked at night. This would give levitation a real use, even if scaled back from the Daggerfall/Morrowind implementation of free flight. To adjust to the lack of climbing, cities could be entered by drainage areas, or by intelligently placed boxes, wagons, and other such things.

Having NPCs with believable schedules, where they travel during the day, and get inside by nightfall would do wonders for believability and make infiltrating a city at night for thieves and assassins that much more enjoyable.

Let me confirm that in this post i am talking about houses, shops ect & dungeons being seperate cells, i know towns (and cities, fingers crossed) will be open & small buildings such as the windmill in one of the screens.

already been confirmed that they're separate...

Link?

Can't find the link, it's an old tweet from Pete. A Pete tweet. Maybe the developer in here will confirm, but trust me, it's been confirmed.

how is this a suprise?

At least it suggest that caves won't have doors like in Oblivion.

maybe its just a small tunnel in the rocks, doesnt have to be interior of a cave

What exactly do you mean by "different cells"?