C'mon, if Bethseda can do frost spiders, frost waiths, why not frost dragons? Or different kinds of dragons...

Or are they already confirmed?

Aren't there something like twenty shouts with three words each and each word has a power associated to it. I think the total variations are around sixty. I would assume that the other energy effects would be represented.

Ohhhhhhhh..... it is their form of speech/ attack so it would be different... what do you think the dragon in the trailer said, "I'm gonna eat you up!"?

Ohhhhhhhh..... it is their form of speech/ attack so it would be different... what do you think the dragon in the trailer said, "I'm gonna eat you up!"?

Aren't there something like twenty shouts with three words each and each word has a power associated to it. I think the total variations are around sixty. I would assume that the other energy effects would be represented.

It was once possible to mix and match different Shouts, but that was taken out because Bethesda thought it would be too "confusing" :bonk:

Fus Ro Dah = Force Balance Push; it's a dragon shout called Unrelenting Force.

While in the trailer I can't hear the dragon saying anything when breathing fire, it does sound like the dragon fire breath is just a dragon shouts, and dragons can use other shouts as well, so it does seem like we'll see dragons use other abilities, whether it will be other breath attacks or not I guess depends on whether there are other breath attack type shouts or not, but they'll probably be able to use some of the other shouts that exist in the game.

You say this as if they ever got it to work in a way that's fun. It's more likely they never found a good way to implement it, so rather than add a bad feature they didn't.

and yet....they made spell comboing possible....85 spells.......to what 60 words? hmm mmh

) There Will be Some Spell Combining

It seems that there will be some sort of rudimentary spell combo system, based on some of the stuff we see Howard pull off. Putting a heal spell in each hand resulted in an ultra-heal spell of sorts. A note-quite-as-flashy-but-still-interesting scenario had Howard casting detect life and then an unspecified spell from the Illusion tree -- one that caused enemies to attack each other. Again, it's not flashy, but it was nice to have the detect life show you all the bad guys nearby, then to cast that illusion spell from afar and watch the mayhem through walls or hills without making any actual contact with the enemy.

The most interesting combination that Howard casted was a circle of protection paired with a chain lightning; this caused any foe to be instantly zapped whenever they attempted to close in for a melee attack. Until we get a deeper demo or some hands-on time ourselves, we don't quite know how deep the spell combination system can get, but it already looks pretty snazzy.

The player used that one, he asked what the dragon said, no one knows what the fire breathing shout is yet. (unless I missed it somewhere.)