The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Will Utilize a New Engine; Coming to PC, Xbox 360 and PS3

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• lol PS3 : Clench
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  Piss off : Dr_Cube
  • Aren't you a regular chatty poster? What the fuck is this shit? : abrasion
• no they dont : SadBot
• PS3 troll troll troll : flaakmonkey

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  I'm still going to argue that UE3 looks better, and we already know it performs quite well. Unreal Tourna : Epsilon Sector
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    in addition, the Unreal Engine has a massive modding community who is already familiar with the engine. D... : Epsilon Sector
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      Easy - licensing cost. : weapey
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        ID Tech 5 costs less to license? I haven't seen the numbers myself. Where did you get them? : Epsilon Sector
        • Probably comparably priced. Except that Id is owned by the same publisher now, so I'd imagine it'd be muc... : Iazu
        • Yeah, the cost is zero, they're the same company now. As far as modding goes, if id tech 5 is anything li... : Conan
      • A UE3 license is only around $500,000...and most AAA games cost 100-300 times that. Not a whole lot of mo... : Wisp!
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      Superb argument! I totally agree with you, Unreal 3 especially in the newest build is pimp and proven, th... : valcan_s
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        Well to be honest, I think the Unreal Engine 3 looks better than that. For one, look at the foliage and g... : Epsilon Sector
        • I thought what was shown in that new UE3 video was made pretty to show off what the engine can do, but no... : rick
• Key Features: Visceral 1st-person swordplay and exploration – Take on bandit gangs and hordes o... : valcan_s
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  1) The engine is called id Tech 5. Rage is a game powered by id Tech 5. And you aren't the first to wonde... : Walterbennet
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    Do you really think you would not use a Elder Scrolls V background or imagery of your new engines logo w... : valcan_s
    • There's a variety of reasons that the background is Rage, and not something from TESV. None of these reas... : Walterbennet
    • You do realize the background is something that is used for all tweets, right? They're using it because i... : zehh
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    Isn't Zenimax the publisher? and Bethesda just the dev house that makes TES/Fallout? : rick
    • Zenimax owns Bethesda, but I believe Bethesda's name will be on the box as the publisher. Zenimax isn't a... : Wisp!
• I knew it really looking forward to this one : yosan
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  YOU ARE WRONG. It's an updated Gamebryo based engine, continuing from Fallout 3's engine. Id software... : synic0
  • Correct; if they started some time after Oblivion that rules out Id Tech 5; unless they pulled a DNF whic... : pillzer
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  *record scratch* http://pc.ign.com/articles/111/1112464p1.html Bethesda Game Director Todd Howard ... : Tech T
  • What he said. Jesus people, it's not idtech5. My guess is, Rage's open environments are only open ... : tomwiththeweather
• You gonna RAGE about it bro? : flaakmonkey

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• R U GAY DAWG? : flaakmonkey

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• Also there better be freakin werewolves in this; after Bloodmoon was just a little ways away, it would be... : synic0
• Much of Skyrim is supposed to extremely mountainous, isn't it? I'm down because I love snowy settings in ... : pyide
• remember the bruma area in oblivion? that was my favourite region, yeah sure there was snow, but not a wa... : SadBot

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• This from a person who claims to be an ancestor of a dragon. : pyrogen
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  Nah, not all of us. You must have glanced at Goblin au's post :P : Epsilon Sector
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    That's the one. And others like it in other posts. Obviously, since I post here I consider myself a Sha... : DragonSire
    • Oh, you don't know the half of it, buddy! : Goblin au
• Just people that post on the front page. Waitamin, I'm posting on the front page! -__- : DM7
• im confused as to what this has to do with anything : SadBot

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• The audio is fine on my Nexus One, my MacBook Pro, and I'm sure my PC -- I'm just to lazy to turn it on, ... : JackAxe
• testy troll is testy : SadBot

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• please please please : Topsiderover
• That would be interesting. Imagine the kinds of environments they could create with that streaming textu... : Jobos
• That would make sense. Hopefully they'll confirm soon. : pillzer
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  They've already said in multiple interviews that id Tech 5 A) isn't what they're using and 2) isn't appro... : Wadmaasi
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    Well: 1) That blows.. 2) How is Rage not a big open world? It may not be Oblivion, but ain't Doom3 either... : pillzer
    • No idea, ask Bethesda! I'm an IT jack of all trades, not an engine programmer/game designer. : Wadmaasi
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    False : valcan_s
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      There were 2 separate interviews posted in the VGA thread this past weekend. If the interviewees were ly... : Wadmaasi
      • We will soon find out, for both our sake I surely hope so they are wrong :) : valcan_s
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    Huh? What's NOT open-world about Rage? Anyway, it sure would be strange for two studios to be simulta... : Walterbennet
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      :) ``Huh? What's NOT open-world about Rage?`` My thoughts as well, this looks pretty open world to me:... : valcan_s
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        it's open world, but as far as i can tell it's not suited for day-night cycles, moving shadows from the s... : xxx2xxx
        • I'm fairly sure dynamic lighting won't be an issue with id Tech 5. : Walterbennet
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          Good point. Technically since they have access to the source they could always add it; it'd still be fast... : pillzer
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            The thing that springs to mind is.... how many objects that the player can interact with can be in the wo... : Toraz Chryx
            • That's a good point, and it might be what Howard meant when talking about a "more dynamic" world at the e... : Johnny Law
        • Sorry, but major lols are to be had with your ridiculous comment. : phreakshow
        • Man, it was certainly silly of them to write an engine incapable of dynamic lighting. Bad Carmack! ..... : Arachnyd
      • Depends on how you define "open-world". Having a large playable zone doesn't necessarily mean a game ... : tomwiththeweather
• No. Maybe next time. : synic0
• That would be awesome, as long as it had the same features of ES4/F3 (fast-travel, dynamic loading, etc) : zehh
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  Here's an idea, who gives a crap about the engine and we focus on whether the game is good nor not. : FunkytownP
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    But everyone knows that graphics = gameplay : Arachnyd
    • actually its more accurate to say graphics == immersion, and if the game is not immersive due to shitty a... : ballystix
  • Believe it or not, the engine plays a major role in whether the gameplay feels good or not. And the g... : pyide
• I wonder how big the game world will be? With more "stuff" in it that'll consume more memory which is pre... : Dr_Cube

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  the leveling system was not complicated at all, the game increases your skill in an area proportional to ... : ballystix
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    Well, it capped out with monsters that were impossible to kill . . . That was my biggest gripe about Obl... : Aztiel
    • Heavily enchanted weps FTW. : Topsiderover

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• I am FRICKIN STOKED : Delaric
• My prayer was answered! : lord_omega

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• It's like Steve Gibson giving Destructoid an exclusive on Borderlands. Or Jason Bergman giving Gamespot ... : the archvile

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  For a long time, a console's life cycle was five years. With better and more expensive hardware, that's c... : David Craddock
  • Of course, with new games coming out for the New Xbox and the PS3 older, the PS3 will cost less. Remembe... : DragonSire
• Someone who desperately wants their current library of console games to become obsolete. Mark it on th... : passingstranger
• Yes, in 3 more years we will hear an announcement. : synic0

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• don't doesn't : noxiousgg
• Bethesda has to hire competent animators and character designers for that. They also need more voice act... : Sixcos
• Probably not-- it's still Gamebryo and Bethesda. : synic0

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• Looking forward to Fallout 4 not using Gamebryo either! : Topsiderover
• Yeah, this is great news. It's time for something new. Id Tech 5 would be AWESOME! I guess I should pr... : Gwyndion
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  I've called it "Gamebryo" as well but it's been pointed out that "Gamebryo" isn't an engine like we're ge : Schnapple
  • For Civ 4 I don't think the expectations were that high compared to something like Oblivion or Fallout. ... : mastermike569
• The engine won't make much difference if they don't have talented artists. The reason for terrible cha... : st4rdog

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  This is why ES3 > ES4 : Topsiderover
  • That, and a hundred other reasons. I'm waiting to hear a lot more before getting excited for Skyrim. : nightshade8468