First footage of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim released

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  Nerd boner. : XAVdeMATOS
  • Wh0a!!! : CrustaR
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    you're totally cheating at vanity search with this : harold.johnson
    • good thing its not working : dantastic
  • Seriously. : funnynamehere
  • Dragon boner. : GloriousCow
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    Sky boner. : HL3dsx
    • I'm gonna go with this one. I have a sky boner : dantastic
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9eGtyqz4gY : Begawkiness
  • nasty little creatures : 60days
  • Wanna rub nerd weeners? : Wolfanoz
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  Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is INSANE, a must have RPG. : valcan_s
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    I wonder if they'll put this quote on the box? : Demius
    • :) lol, that would be cool. : valcan_s
    • EVERY BOX : Dravenport
• OK - that video is amazing ... : johnhead
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  I thought it was the original video at first and didn't pay attention to the first 20 seconds. : trOmblyj
  • So did I, but then the music went up to 11. : Goblin au
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  see there should be a way to link our already-raging thread about this to the news story. : dirge23
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    Well, I think the key is that eventually... they will be the same... right? Why start a new thread when ... : Gwyndion
    • often we'll have a thread about something before the news story goes up. : dirge23
• i'm eagerly looking forward to the many mods that will make this game awesome : indosauros
• so very awesome : maulla
• Holy shit. : re-verse
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  Shack staffers] Can you guys verify this was console footage and not PC, that would be great, thanks. : valcan_s
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    I would assume that every game generates their in-game trailer footage using whichever platform looks/per... : LemonJoose
    • Not necessarily true. All footage from Crysis 2 so far has been from the console versions. : Goblin au
    • The graphics in this trailer aren't that great, so I'd hope it was console. But then again, the PC versio... : pizzaput
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    When is it not console footage? : Tech T
    • :) I just want to see the PC footage thats all, I know its not the PC footage. If they show the PC foo... : valcan_s
• That does look exceedingly nice. Love me some bombastic fantasy bullshit with a soaring orchestral score. : node
• Looks good, but so did Oblivion and that game turned out to be shallow in the gameplay department. Hopef... : Matt Burris
• Nice! Also, i kind of like this. It makes it easier for me to read about this stuff. And i don't like ... : Dschinghis Khan
• brb going to the mountains to freeze myself for 9 months : kill9
• This really look great. : Clay
• Must I? : losimagic
• SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!! : eeeealmo
• Why is November so far from now? : Arcath
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  player bug: Maximised, you lose all player controls, no way to pause it or un-maximise. Only way out is p... : niceguynick
  • I guess that's a way to pause and un-maximise though, eh? : famine101
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  I REFUSE! : Kub666
  • This is the new "It's so cold and lonely in here" post that inevitably gets made and then nuked very time... : LemonJoose
• wow they sure did build a world that draws you in with all the attention to detail they put in. amazing. : bosst0ne
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  OMG; the musical cues... :'( BRB, got something in my eye : d fluke
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    Why don't they put up the HD res trailers for download straight away though? Too much good PR? : d fluke
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      http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=25348759#itemanchor_25348759 : maulla
      • love you with mouf : d fluke
    • We also have it for download: http://www.shacknews.com/file/25755/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-gameplay : XAVdeMATOS
  • No kidding, I love the Elder Scrolls theme. : Topsiderover
  • i thought the kind of Viking chanting sounded silly to me : kainen1
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    chills all the way down my spine. Intense. : aaarrrgh
    • like in the tailbone? : re-verse
  • Yeah, that music is great. : ArB
• I had to wipe tears from my eyes : Hemtroll
• a million boners right now at work.... : Nemesis1611
• I'm definitely upgrading my video card before this is released. Hopefully, an AMD 6990 will be in my fut... : TheAirWolf
• that's sexy : MurrayTheSkull
• MORROWIND SOUNDTRACK REDUX!!!! That trailer was freaking AMAZING. : ajvitaly
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  Was this song (minus the singing) in Morrowind or am I just going crazy. It starts sounding real familiar... : pabloART
  • It's the Elder Scrolls theme that has been used for all of them I believe. : lplasmatron
• This game is going to be EPIC.... : The Grolar Bear
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  It's silly that if you go to the Skyrim game page ( http://www.shacknews.com/game/the-elder-scrolls-v-sky... : tangles
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    We're still cleaning some issues out. We only just launched. : XAVdeMATOS
    • omg shack is so buggy I'm cancelling my sub. : Rotten Deadite
    • I understand that. So, what do you recommend we use for reporting little issues like this (or big issues... : tangles
  • That issue should be fixed going forward. : Parg0n
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  This is the kind of game that inspires a hardware upgrade. : Topsiderover
  • It's a good year for that what with BF3 and this. : Begawkiness
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    i doubt youll need very high-end hardware for this if it's going to be cross platform : eeeealmo
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      so was oblivion and it ran like crap on low end PCs back then : dantastic
      • yea well that was 5 years ago : eeeealmo
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  november 11th, you say? well then, I have a while to save up for a sandy bridge uber rig! :D : Downforce
  • The 2166 socket should be out then as well as bulldozer, it'll be an awesome time in PC gaming. : one random winner
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  my sandy vagina is yearning to be filled with skyrim : trOmblyj
  • go on... : ssj4megaman
• This game is gonna 0wn so hard I will welcome the end of the world in 2012. : The Grolar Bear
• I can't wait to lose hours and hours on this game. : Trajan330
• awesome. : varsindarkin
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  The setting and potential plot excite me, but damn if those graphics don't look like shit compared to the... : greenbergMD
  • Who gives a shit about graphics if the gameplay is there. And from the older Elder Scrolls games, it look... : DM7
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    What the hell is this? : pigvomit
    • Valid question. : Ambient80
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    it says it is a new engine... : Downforce
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      Lies. : greenbergMD
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        they literally said it was a new engine. they told us that. in those words. : EvilDolemite
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          pretty sure they said that about fallout 3, too. anyway, it looks awesome, but look at the way that wolf ... : feek
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            They're using Havok for character animations, which they've never done before. : one random winner
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              Oblivion used havok : SniperWolf22
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                but not for character animations. : one random winner
                • A crack team of chimpanzees were tasked with their previous games' animations. : Danny5225
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            Animation and models are what I find unimpressive about this "new" engine. : greenbergMD
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              They specifically said in interviews that the combat animation has been upgraded. So unless you've seen m... : DM7
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                Not holding my breath on a great improvement there. The trailer quite clearly shows a sword missing a guy... : Adm.Snackbar
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                  There aren't many games that track physical impacts like that. I think Age of Conan was one. : LoioshDwaggie
                  • I just got horribly spoiled by the melee combat in Demons Souls. : Adm.Snackbar
            • Difficult to judge when they don't show much animation. I'm not going to judge it yet. : Nitrium
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            They just said Fallout 3 was a modified version of Gamebryo, which it was. : Mr. Goodwrench
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              im almost positive at some point, i think after initial announcement, that it was a new engine. it then s... : feek
              • *they said that it was a new engine : feek
              • They probably did to be fair. Bethesda have a way of embellishing a shit load of information on there gam... : Mr. Goodwrench
          • yeah that wolf really stuck out to me : indosauros
          • I hate to nitpick but I agree here. That wolf's animation took me right out of the immersion. : BarrowWight
        • Idiots cannot be reasoned with, I should know I am one. o__o : DM7
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          its new in the same way that quake 3 TA used a new engine from quake 3, or in the way KOTOR 2 was a new e... : vitek r
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            pretty sure they've said before that it is NOT GAMEBRYO : zerog83
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              No, they haven't been specific. : Conan
              • Dude, it's not Gamebryo. Gambryo went bankrupt because Bethseda decided not to use the Gamebryo engine f... : Ride-My-Rocket
            • i recall them mentioning that it was an upgraded version of the engine used in fallout 3. i cant remembe... : vitek r
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          I know they said that, but after watching that I'm pretty sure they meant a new version of their in house... : Conan
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            yeah, i think so too. which is what they did/said for FO3. i don't really care, it definitely looks aweso... : feek
            • FO3 was leaps and bounds better than oblivion. I think a large part of it was that they realized they ha... : vitek r
    • LOL : alexvj
    • define: new engine : Frush81
  • Are you fucking blind. Looks great. : RyDogg1
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    They DON'T "look like shit", however they do look like the game is made with a re-badged, newer build of ... : alexvj
    • if it has the same 64hz stutter bullshit as Oblivion and Fallout 3, it's definitely the same shitty engin... : pyide
• I recently viewed the launch trailers and teasers for oblivion, some of it looked crap, particularly the ... : dael
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  omg the videos play at work now thank god! : RogerDandy
  • I'm stuck in IE6 at work and I can't belive all this stuff works in IE6 great job! : RogerDandy
• I don't know the difference between pornography and art, but that's both. : Deathlove
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  Why can't we choose the quality of the video before press Play? : freshyk
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    I think we're trying to add the ability to set your default video resolution in settings. No more clickin... : XAVdeMATOS
    • Even better! : freshyk
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  much better to watch videos here now @ newshack : humbleone
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    Yes! We have a brand new video system. The quality of the old one was terrible. : XAVdeMATOS
    • ^^^^^^^ I am happy : LoioshDwaggie
    • Why do I still see some kind of side borders in "fullscreen" view? : alexvj
    • Thank God. Now I don't have to switch over to GameTrailers.com to watch videos. : LemonJoose
  • No doubt much nicer video system. I used to have to go to Gamespot to watch videos. : Scotty22
• Well now see that looks alright. It's still got the crappy "can't show a cut longer than 5 second" syndro... : locater16
• So hard right now : graceofdragons
• That looks so great. OFFICIALLY HYPED. : Dontdrop
• All of my dicks, etc, etc. : Vincent Grayson
• Wonder if I'll need a new machine for this. : Alco23
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  That looks amazing. Gratz to lplasmatron and the crew! It's going to be a great year for sword-swingin... : Dave-A
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    Thanks. : lplasmatron
    • how about some beta copies for loyal fans amirite? : eeeealmo
    • Your art is good! Just tell whoever's in charge that they need better indirect lighting, as shadowed area... : locater16
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      Your company is responsible for many hours of sleep that I've not been able to achieve. I hope you're sa... : Rotten Deadite
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        I predict November and December of this year to be dark months, filled with little sleep and much gaming.... : plunkymeadows
        • I'm thinking the stock market is going to take a dive. : The Grolar Bear
      • I've never thought of it that way. Bethesda must owe me damn near 1000 hours at this point. : braaains
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      You have to hide a shack logo in some hidden hermit cave in game, perhaps out of nuts and berries. : Dunwich
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        No way, integrate the Shack chatty coat of arms into a shield or set of armor; I would pay horse armor do... : TylerJSmith
        • Even better! Black and orangey/yellow armor, in honor of ancestral shack. : Dunwich
    • Please name a town guard after me!! : Dave-A
• Looks really good but they don't have to sell me on it. Bethesda making a new RPG, of course I'm going to... : baron calamity
• If they announced coop multiplayer, the sound of a million nerd splooshing vaginas would be heard. : JPMcWhiskers
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  It looks like Fallout without guns! : Rizob
  • nicely done : shakybonez31
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  Holy Cow! Man does that look good! This is the year for RPG'ish games Dragon Age 2, The Witcher 2, Zelda,... : InfernoAblaze
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    Zelda is an RPG? : bipolar
    • kinda : DANNERx0
  • Two Worlds 2, and Drakensang: The River of Time (out now) : valcan_s
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  i really hope they overhaul the entire magic system. destruction magic in oblivion was pretty much the wo... : DrFlammable
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    so was ranged/bow fighting. : kainen1
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      now that i think about it all of the combat sucked. archery was the least painful out of all of them s... : DrFlammable
      • a stealth fps i mean, since nothing came to attack me since i got crits from headshots in stealth and it ... : DrFlammable
• I have never played an Elder Scrolls game. :( : zebosausamite
• I regret not watching the trailer when I first saw this post... HOLY SHIT : shakybonez31
• oh my word : mwasher
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  It looks great. High fantasy RPGs kind of bore me, so I'll likely sit it out but man Fallout 4 is going t... : geedeck
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    whats high fantasy? : HisKillSkill
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fantasy : WadeMcLain
    • High fantasy is defined as fantasy fiction set in an alternative, entirely fictional ("secondary") world, : zebosausamite
    • Well good sir, it is a realm of whimsy and awkward characterisation! With dialogue of a kind ne'er whispe... : 60days
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    geedeck :( : Volatus32x
    • Wha? I mean I think tons of people will have fun with it and I hope they sell like 5 bajillion copies... ... : geedeck
  • I think after all the post-apoc I've played recently, I'm ready to stab a goblin or two in a foresty glad... : Dave-A
  • I am with you mr geekdick. : SiW.
  • I don't think High Fantasy RPGs will ever get old to me. I love me some lush natural environments + magi... : DinK
• Wow. Not sure why I don't like sandbox RPGs (because I love RPGs) but this looks AMAZING. : Navy Spitfire
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  DAT CHOIR : Darkstarblade
  • Wow soundtrack. That modulation at 2:00 is so badass. I <3 Jeremy Soule. : davantalus
• This footage is where wet dreams go to lay to rest. : mastermike569
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  Yeah, but what do the rats look like? : Igthuse
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    yea, and the skellingtons : Dravenport
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      and will there still be photobombs?? : Dravenport
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        Sadly, no. They've already said that the dialog system won't 'pause' the game like in Oblivion. Everyon... : kershner25
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          isn't that going to increase photobombing potential as weird shit wanders through while you're talking to... : dirge23
          • I suppose it does, but gone are the days of a nice still-frame shot of some mutant Oblivion NPC poking it... : kershner25
• Looks fantastic! It looks like the shoddy animation system is a thing of the past thank god, the improvem... : -JLN-
• Ho. Ly. Shit. : kallanta
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  Is the lame level scaling shit gone??? : kainen1
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    I remember reading so in one of the interviews earlier this month. That's a relief, that thing was such a... : pillzer
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      good idea. people just didn't use the slider. the funniest thing was the backfiring of people trying to t... : Downforce
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        the fundamental flaw in oblivion was gear. the random gear leveled with you, but if you levelled up too f... : dirge23
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          One of my favorite mods for Oblivion leveled level-specific loot with you. So a particular dagger that w... : Rotten Deadite
          • iirc those stones always leveled. : dirge23
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          that's true, but ultimately turbo-levelling had some drawbacks that people uncovered by consuming levels ... : Downforce
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            the slider is a cop-out for good game balance : dirge23
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              I like it in oblivion. you do whatever you want, and can adjust it if necessary. if it was on rails, p... : Downforce
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                it's good that it's there, just like it's good that games have cheat codes. but i consider these things a... : dirge23
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                  well it's a nice option to augment how you are playing the game, it balances out how the player didn't ac... : Downforce
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                    i think it does mean the game design is broken. you shouldn't be able to level up to max in the first dun... : dirge23
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                      That is of course the ideal for every game. The problem is that most games simply cannot deliver that ex... : kershner25
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                        most games do deliver that experience, at least at standard difficulty. i think it's mostly a problem in ... : dirge23
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                          Kvatch was actually really weird. Due to the way they scaled it, level 2-5 characters could frequently b... : Arcanum
                          • right, which is why it seems broken. it's not that it's hard or easy, it's that it's totally arbitrary. i... : dirge23
                    • that second sentence is the crux. in the open world games, people want that freedom. if you choose to do ... : Downforce
            • The slider turned my Oblivion experience from "oh wow, here's some more bandits with fucking glass armor ... : kershner25
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            I think I prefer the model in MMOs where different areas are level appropriate : boring gegtik
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              that is a more defined scenario, like WoW for example, where it works really well. you have specific que... : Downforce
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                I think it would be cool to just have different dungeons and zones and to randomly set their levels at th... : boring gegtik
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                  if it's random how do you know when it's level appropriate? : Downforce
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                    when you get your ass kicked and you come back later.. or you pay attention to their equipment : boring gegtik
                    • everquest had a feature where you could query a mob to find out if it was easy, your level, or way out th... : boring gegtik
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        Imagine how crazy Oblivion player characters must've seemed to the NPCs. Standing in one place for hours... : Rotten Deadite
        • i talked plenty when I was trying to puzzle through some of the quests without wandering too damn much. S... : Zolneirz
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    It's going to work similarly to FO3. So, each dungeon will have a 5 level scale, and it will spawn as cl... : bipolar
    • This is a good explanation and is also acceptable as a game mechanic. weeee : the_burd
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    Every open world game has level scaling; stop bitching about the entire concept : OverloadUT
    • um it's stupid so why would I stop bitching about it? : kainen1
  • I hope so; the leveling always bothered me and kept me from finishing past ES games. : stophelping37
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  That's all great.. I just hope the game has more "life" than Oblivion did. : dante2010
  • yeah Oblivion promised this but never delivered. Fallout: New Vegas started to feel close to this for me. : dirge23
• Cup filled. : shortbuscaptain
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  Yeah, sign me up, that looks AWESOME! : Gwyndion
  • It might be a small thing... but that waterfall-like river looks really nice. : Gwyndion
• I'm going to have sex with this game. : HL3dsx
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  Gameplay trailer has no gameplay. Absolutely hated Oblivion. Where was its "radiant a.i."? Don't... : Xulu
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    if you go back and watch the oblivion trailer and then compare it to your actual gameplay experience, thi... : dirge23
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      I think I disagree. The Oblivion trailer, watching it now after having played a shitload of Oblivion, cl... : kershner25
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        the combat does look highly improved, but i remember the combat and stuff in oblivion looking great to me... : dirge23
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          Same here. I like to give a developer like Bethesda the benefit of the doubt in a case like this, though... : kershner25
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            i'm sure i'll play this for 100+ hours like i did with morrowind and oblivion and fallout 3, but i am try... : dirge23
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              Definitely, you really gotta let your inner Elder Scrolls uber-nerd jizz all over this though, just this ... : kershner25
              • I tried that with Civ 5 and Fable 3 :( No more I say! Show my good gamepaly or gtfo (never did like Obliv... : locater16
  • Extremely masculine female orc in a flowery robe: "I saw a mudcrab the other day." : podung
  • This is my problem as well, and the previews I've read don't encourage in this point. I love me some good... : locater16
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    compare the AI in oblivion to other open world games and you will see the answer : eeeealmo
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      What do you mean by this, good sir? : kershner25
      • The oblivion AIs go to sleep at night. : Nali4Freedom
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      Despite the quirks, the character AI in Oblivion was far, far ahead of anything we've seen in other open ... : Arcanum
      • Ultima VII had day / night cycles of characters years before Oblivion. The underlying tech wasn't as adva... : Wikidd
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        That is a load of crap, even you know it, just read that back to yourself. Oblivion barely has an a.i.... : Xulu
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          No, it's not a load of crap, and I've looked at the modding system, including the characters. There are ... : Arcanum
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            It's a load of crap. The toolset doesn't allow anything the devs haven't already used for the game. : Xulu
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              That's relevant...how? : Arcanum
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                It's not in the game pal. Radiant AI doesn't exist. I'll believe it if they say they worked on some... : Xulu
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                  So, wait, does your argument essentially amount to "I couldn't find a section in the editor labeled 'Radi... : Arcanum
                  • i think his argument is that the AI in oblivion was so bad, that it does not justify the term AI. its re... : vitek r
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                    lol this is getting dumb. if this is a real life convo I'd promptly walk away radiant ai isn't some hi... : Xulu
                    • this is the exact same situation we are in now with this "new engine" malarky. : vitek r
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                      The problem is you're entirely wrong. The AI will walk around and have spontaneous conversations with ot : Arcanum
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                        That's not Radiant AI.
                        
                        NPCs walk to their spot, stare at a wall for 8 hours, then it's time to move on to their next spot. What food they eat are spawned directly in their inventory, nothing's lifted off the tables, and there are a looot of tables full of stuff. Guards will chase you into the bottom of the rivers. Etc.
                        
                        So basically a much-publicized feature isn't there. What is there's easily not as good as the one Gothic 2 has, many years before. Lifelessness doesn't just come from one thing, it's from all of these things - the crippled ai, the large world full of nondescript reshuffled assets, the single digit npc on screen at all times.
                        
                        Given everything, I don't believe a thing Bethesda says in regards to TES until it actually happens in the game itself, with the game running. Fallout revival gives it a little credit, and honestly that is its own thing with its own established fanbase.
                        

                        Feb 24, 2011 5:19pm PST
                        That's not Radiant AI. NPCs walk to their spot, stare at a wall for 8 hours, then it's time to move on... : Xulu
                • why are you so angry? : marmite
      • ^^^^^^^^ : eeeealmo
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        it's a weird tradeoff. in Oblivion all of the miscellaneous city-dwellers are NPCs you can talk to or fig... : dirge23
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          The GTA games always felt pretty empty to me. Yeah, there are a lot of bodies, but they're really more l... : Arcanum
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            GTA people are potential victims imo : electroly
            • It's hard for me to think of blatantly mindless drones as "victims". : Arcanum
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            they're not perfect but i think both of these franchises do that "this is a real city" feeling much bette... : dirge23
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              *grabs long list of logic problems with FO3* : Xin Jing Client 1a
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                every game has this problem. how many people really come through here buying swords? and if it's just me,... : dirge23
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                  One of my favorites: you hack three computer terminals to gain access the lowest level of the facility t... : Xin Jing Client 1a
                  • You attempt to hack a computer. You guess the password wrong three times. If you guess it wrong again, yo... : noxiousgg
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    The hype for each TES game is like the biggest mass delusion ever. When you take off the glasses there re... : vx2o
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      I think it's because they're actually pretty good games. : Nali4Freedom
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        So, how awesome was that Bieber concert you went to? : vx2o
        • Don't worry vx2o there's probably someone out there that agrees with you... somewhere... probably not her... : singlespace
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          You must think a lot of shackers like Justin Bieber: http://www.shacknews.com/article/41349/the-elder-s... : Nali4Freedom
          • these threads were what started me posting on shacknews : dirge23
        • Personal attack much? : Goblin au
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      the epitome of mediocrity? if TES games are mediocre, whats good? : maulla
      • Well, Gothic 2 slayed Morrowind, buried it, and pissed on its tombstone. Hell, Gothic 2 did that to Obliv... : pizzaput
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      I don't know what it is that's in this game that brings out the absolute mental midget in a lot of people... : Xulu
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        i played this game for a hundred hours before i realized hey this game is boring : dirge23
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          a hundred for slow people it shouldn't take more than 20, maybe 25 hours to get a good feel for the ga... : Xulu
          • bethesda fixed the random-pointless-dungeon problem in fallout 3 and i don't expect they'll backslide for... : dirge23
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            so skyrim should be bulletstorm in length, and no repetition, and unique art assets for all visuals wh... : Downforce
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              you know what I mean. quit acting dumb. no middle-ground people shouldn't be in any discussions : Xulu
              • Don't be ridiculous. You seem to be highly aditated over this game. I'm guessing you've spent, what, a... : Goblin au
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        Vast, carefully detailed worlds with rich backstory and literally scores of individual stories to investi... : Arcanum
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          Hint: Whacking monsters isn't the point. : Arcanum
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            yeah, if whacking monsters ala diablo isn't the point, there's no point left. it amazing to me that yo... : Xulu
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              breaking news: a game has an uneven sense of scale. more at 11. : EvilDolemite
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                Funny you should mention scale, and that you're saying it's somehow okay to call a few little huts with a... : Xulu
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                  well, that's most games. the cities in dragon age are a joke, size-wise. RPGs in particular suffer from... : EvilDolemite
                  • Yep. And quite a lot of the side content in Oblivion was more about individuals than anything with a gra... : Arcanum
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                    The Witcher doesn't. And it's not a matter of technology at all. It's a matter of ability to tell a d... : Xulu
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                      the witcher certainly has that issue : EvilDolemite
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                        They made it believable. They did it by making it clear that what you saw was only a very small part ... : Xulu
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                          in either case though, you know it's an illusion. i don't see how making gates permanently locked and pl... : EvilDolemite
                          • One has a working illusion, and Oblivion doesn't. : Xulu
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                That's exactly my point. It's insane to me that you can enjoy exploring randomly generated holes in th... : Xulu
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                  They weren't randomly generated in Oblivion, though they may not all have each been super-detailed in ter... : Arcanum
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                    They were. Those were the worst offenders. Then there's the apartments, which are cut/paste with a fe... : Xulu
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                      Do you actually have a reference about them being randomly generated, or are you just assuming that becau... : Arcanum
                      • Refer to any previews, interviews before Oblivion came out. Nobody said anything about FO3 having gene... : Xulu
                    • There were no randomly generated dungeons in Oblivion, apart from the Oblivion Gates which were still jus... : Mr. Goodwrench
            • Xulu, just ask Arcanum why you can't read books in FO3. : Xin Jing Client 1a
            • Xulu, you've got to get that sand out of your vagina; it's making you cranky. Does it itch? : thetangent
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          I don't know about carefully detailed. Most of Oblivion was speed tree + cut and paste + level scaling. ... : cetra00
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            the entire world and every dungeon was handmade. i thought the locales were pretty varied and the differ... : EvilDolemite
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              the impressive part of the game for me was the Cyrodiil overworld. so many good environments. : dirge23
              • yep. i never cared for the oblivion gates past the first couple. but the overworld, that was fun shit t... : EvilDolemite
              • yep. i never cared for the oblivion gates past the first couple. but the overworld, that was fun shit t... : EvilDolemite
              • Not to mention the Shivering Isles pretty much made up for the shortcomings of Cyrodiil. : OutlawSundown
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              If that's true it sure didn't feel like it. Most of the world was empty space and every cave I went in w... : cetra00
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                After the world they crafted in Fallout 3, I'm willing to bet Skyrim will a lot more varied and interesti : singlespace
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                  We'll see. Fallout 3 benefited from having real-life source material to work with. Fantasy settings requ... : cetra00
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                    oblivion was substantially more varied than that. mountains, snow in the north, the swamps down south, th... : dirge23
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                      There might have been different environments but there was nothing of interest in the environments themse... : cetra00
                      • ultimately, but i certainly had fun figuring out there was nothing there worth looking for : dirge23
                      • Daedric Shrines+Quests? Those were great to stumble upon and discover through exploration. : pyide
                  • How is that any different than what they're doing in Skyrim? Lamplight and Point Lookout don't exist anyw... : singlespace
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                  Yeah the games are different but I don't think you'll be disappointed in this regard. Dungeons in particu... : lplasmatron
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                    Good to hear! So can you tell us about how many environment artists are working on this one? I'm curious ... : singlespace
                    • i just want weather effects to make a comeback, i really missed rain in fallout 3 : dirge23
                    • I don't know offhand how many env artists there are, but there's about 100 people total on the dev team. ... : lplasmatron
      • It's true. Oblivion was a piece... Bethesda have terrible low production values, I wouldn't call them a A... : pizzaput
    • i guess i'm supremely successful at deluding myself because i've sunk over 100 hours into oblivion and co... : EvilDolemite
    • who'd have guessed that people like different things from you. mindblowing. : eeeealmo
    • YES you have figured it out everyone who likes what you don't is delusional! : loppsided
    • you just made me hard. lets go make love to one another, and shit up some oblivion threads. ill show yo... : vitek r
    • Cold and vacuous are good descriptions. They're technically crap, too. Bloodmoon was great in its time, b... : pizzaput
  • Except, you know, for all the gameplay it had in it. : ColoradoCNC
  • Don't. trust. the. hype. haha yeah this game series is definitely built on hype man good call : Downforce
  • Oblivion was a fantastic game. Flawed, but fun as all hell. I am greatly looking forward to Skyrim. Yo... : thetangent
• looks crazy :D : AMikaboshi
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  please be the iteration where pressing "Take All" actually fills your inventory with things you might wan... : crockroches
  • Yeah, like with cups, and plates, and forks, and..... : singlespace
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  MAX motherfucking VON SYDOW! I hope he has hours and hours worth of dialogue, and isn't killed off immed... : oO SilentK Oo
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    I'm friends with his granddaughter :] : justwr!ght
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      is this her? http://stureplan.se/articles/3033/images/article_image_9d39fc6e1d1ee3f9.jpg : cptstern
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        http://www.shackpics.com/files/popopop_fhlxeqymdb9gsthngjm9.jpg : justwr!ght
        • his other granddaughter is hotter : cptstern
        • why when i click on any shackpics link now do I just get a page that explains the summary and usage of sh... : mankeroo
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      Pics/Divx. Where are they? : oO SilentK Oo
      • ...should've refreshed. :) : oO SilentK Oo
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  The combat looks very visceral. The character getting knocked around seems like it's gonna be great. I al... : malevolence
  • We'll see if it works this time. I've never been a fan of FPS sword fighting. Oblivion did it okay, bu... : DANNERx0
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  YEAR OF MY PC UPGRADE : gyokuro
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    yes I think so too : indosauros
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      should I get a GTX460? : indosauros
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        I would wait until closer to the release. The 460 is awesome though :) : pancake humper
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          i bought that 9.99 or whatever Batman:AA deal (haven't played it yet) and want to play with PhysX... thin... : indosauros
          • Depends on if you want to upgrade now or later, the Radeon 7000 series will be out before Skyrim and like... : one random winner
  • I have already started. My GTX570 showed up last Friday. : RyDogg1
  • Yeah, me too. It's time to finally retire my good ol' Pentium D 3.2Ghz and my trusty 8800GT. They have ... : Gwyndion
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    me too! I think I will wait until the fall though... : Thomas Hace
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      Yeah, see if AMD's Bulldozer is any good. : JarEme
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        Radeon 7000 series, GTX 600's, and the 2133 SB (or is it Ivy Bridge?) should be out around then too, a ve... : one random winner
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          I thought Ivy Bridge was early '12 or is it still 1155? : JarEme
          • They're saying it might show up on 1155 in the second half of this year, and I meant 2011 socket, which l... : one random winner
    • Yup. I'll be pulling the trigger around Oct/Nov with BF3 and Skyrim. Its going to be so fricken awesome! : gyokuro
  • I really hope the new engine doesn't run like shit. I can play Bulletstorm with all details maxed on my Q : OverloadUT
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    I'm gonna have to SLI my 460. I'm not in the mood to plunk down $200+ on a new card again. : Rotten Deadite
    • a single 460 won't handle this you think? : indosauros
    • SLI solutions suck generally. Boost framerate but not gameplay latency (maybe doesn't matter for this) : DANNERx0
  • Me thinks too for this + BF3 + Rage + I dunno what else : DANNERx0
  • LOL I Second this suggestion. : Miller_TYM
  • Me too hopefully in May. : Mr. Goodwrench
  • Haha, this. My current PC is from right before Oblivion's release, except for the 8800GT I later added c... : DinK
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  That looks hot. How can I quit my job and play video games for a living? :( : node
  • Start ShackNews2.com and sell it :) : stonedonkey
• Art looks very good, technically it looks competent, that river looks like shit, areas in shadow look fla... : locater16
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  All I want with this is Steamworks and I will buy this fucker at full price! Even if its $60... Shit, did... : YerMothah
  • Some very special games are absolutely worth the 60 buck price point.. : watcherxp
• Oh hell yes. : Amlash
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  Seriously though, I know I'm supposed to be all cool and levelheaded when it comes to games because I nee... : XAVdeMATOS
  • it's ok. It's face worthy : sKetchflow
  • yea that shit looks siiiiick! : RogerDandy
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    Xav, did you hear they wrote their own dragon language? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DRAGONS!!!!! : LoioshDwaggie
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      I've been told by a friend that inventing a language actually isn't that hard. He once did something i... : Wikidd
      • I suspect there's a big difference between what a kid throws together in primary school sitting in a clos... : Arcanum
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    Settle down, Xavatar! : Dave-A
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      It looks real good. I'm a huge Elder Scrolls mark. : XAVdeMATOS
      • Me too! I am giddy like a school-girl. Teehee! : Dave-A
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  I hope the towns have a more real feel, better atmosphere. I hated in Morrowind & Oblivion walkng into ... : DANNERx0
  • Radiant AI is supposedly improved, hopefully including ambient things like this. : one random winner
  • considering how awesome the soundtrack is, they really need some diegetic music in these games. bars shou... : dirge23
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  That was a good trailer. : Snuffles-
  • If it bleeds we can kill it : pieman
• GOTdamn : siknsyko
• Fuck that spider! : whistletits
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  Looks decent enough - certainly a bunch of improvements have been made to the game engine (by the looks o... : wytefang
  • I totally agree about the clunky flying animation at the end. The relatively small wings also make it loo... : angry jellyfish
• EPIC !!!!!!!!!!! : gmd
• APATHY CANCELLED. : systatic
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  FUS RO DAH!!! : gyokuro
  • Yeah you too, buddy. : silent prophet
• Between this and Guild Wars 2 Jeremy Soule is getting a lot of work. : Crimsonbeak
• Welp, time to start shopping for computer parts. :( : filtersweep
• I think the "Comment on" phrase is awkward and doesn't need to be there in these posts. : ventro
• Hard to believe, but this is all 360 footage. This game is going to look awesome on PC : Sexpansion Pack
• Ok, this trailer completely squashed my interested in Two Worlds 2. It seems like I can now wait for my r... : Machlol
• the fact that we can actually backstab people makes me hopeful! : mnok
• looks good : bolneze
• Can't wait to get my hoard on with a thief again. : Greymatter42
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  Can someone tell me what Max Von Sydow is saying, "In their tongue he's DooFahKeen"? : steauengeglase
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    In their tongue, he's Dovahkiin: Dragon Born! : CoreContingency
    • http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Dragon_Alphabet : CoreContingency
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      Ah, OK, Dragon Kin. : steauengeglase
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        It means "Dragon Born," not dragon kin, just FYI. : LoioshDwaggie
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          I don't see the difference. : steauengeglase
          • Born = born from, Kin = related to. : ArcKnight
          • -kin usually refers to literal or adoptive familial relationship, -born usually refers to inherited resem... : Arcanum
• om nom nom : Veegeezee
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  We got this game for single player and BF3 for multiplayer and then Portal 2 for coop crossplatform puzzl... : Dr_Cube
  • thats the plan : gyokuro
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  Holy cow, this is an awesome trailer. I especially like the narrator. I recognize his voice, but can't ... : PrkChpXprss
  • max von sydow. You may remember him from such films as rush hour 3 and judge dread. : jujubeads
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  So i played morrowind for all of 5 minutes before dying to some guards and quit forever, I never played o... : Thisispol
  • Are you on drugs? It has DRAGONS! : Damarius101
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    You should play Morrowind. It was awesome. The combat was a bit crappy (alright, a lot crappy) but the ... : timmie
    • The quest log was also god-awful. And cliff racers. >:( : Arcanum
  • sounds like you have a great attention span : eeeealmo
• oh god, those liquid walls give me acid flashbacks : filthysock
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  how long do you think the Skyrim threads will be after it gets released. I remember Oblivion had to its ... : gyokuro
  • With the new combined chatty structure, "long enough to crush the chatty on lesser computers" seems entir... : Arcanum
  • 24 hours : -sk-
• fuck the spider things though >:( : Downforce
• daaaaaaayum! color me impressed. : X-GOUKI
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  Holy crap that looks amazing. I wasn;t expecting such a jump in graphics from Oblivion. : lord_omega
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    I have a feeling come release it's going to look noticeably worse than this early media. : pyide
    • I kinda doubt it. This isn't like Oblivion where they showed us stuff way early in development with conso... : Vincent Grayson
    • this has never been the case with previous bethesda games. why would that be the case now? : eeeealmo
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      They are 8.5 months from release, so they won't be making any large art or tech changes at this point. : jake
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        When optimization time comes as release gets closer, that's when sacrifices are made and visual fidelity ... : pyide
        • I really don't think we'll see any major upgrades until there's a new console generation. While I'm sure ... : Vincent Grayson
        • They need the texture artists from The Witcher http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=422113 : 60days
• I think the bigger news here is that Shacknews is SELF AWARE : Disarray
• I can't believe I am about to say this.. but I think this game is going to take my mind off wondering whe... : dookiebot
• here's some morrowind music to chillax too after seeing that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pywkwAoENBY : gyokuro
• I've been randomly adding DRAGON BORN!!!! to random thoughts and moments in my head after the first teas... : moe6
• I know everyone is gushing over this and it does look very good however at the 1:27 - 1:29 mark not sure ... : ant_hillbilly
• I know I'm supposed to be excited but...dragons? Yawn. : pantsburgh
• what is wrong with that water? the phrase "good from far, but far from good" comes to mind. : tasoli
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  W O W : vynn
  • Seconded!!!!! : Wolfanoz
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  i need to go to bed but the skyrim song is stuck in my head. what can i do? : gyokuro
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    "The Final Countdown" is now stuck in your head instead. Goodnight! : Zips
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      oh shit thats cruel! : gyokuro
      • At least it's not We Built This City! : LilCrypto
    • If you're in town, I'm gonna buy you a beer. Then I'm gonna break the bottle across the side of your face... : Orange Pylon
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    DRAGON BORN!!!! : moe6
    • DRAGON reBORN!!!! : Volatus32x
    • DRAGON PORN!!!!? : Dschinghis Khan
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    Someone posted just the music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTclvp0Nidk :O : d fluke
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      That's from the small trailer. Not the new one. : LoioshDwaggie
      • whaaa, I must have the sound muted when I saw that : d fluke
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  Hopefully this one isn't terrible like Oblivion was. The graphics are pretty poor, though. The trees (and... : pizzaput
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    360 : HisKillSkill
    • I agree that this is probably the 360 version, and sometimes a PC version will look better, but I don't t... : pizzaput
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    yeah looks terrible ! god why can't I have an open world crysis 2 running at 180 fps : gmd
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      Actually, that's probably not an unreasonable request for something like ~5 years from now. : SockMonkeh
      • I WANT IT NOW : gmd
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      gmd, this space you add in front of your exclamation points is starting to get on my nerves : maulla
      • IS IT ? ! : gmd
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    The graphics looks great... WTF.. Much better than any other RPG except the WItcher 2. : razlebol
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      the anti-Bethesda basement dwellers are out in full force saying how dungeon master gothic winter nights ... : gmd
      • They probably just make up these superior games. I'd never notice. : Dave-A
    • Now that's not true at all. I don't know if you're blurring the line between graphics and world design, b... : pizzaput
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    high-res screenshots you say: http://throwmeaway.imgur.com/tes_v_skyrim__hi_res_stills_from_feb_24_trail... : trOmblyj
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      I forgot this is a front page article which explains most of the comments : gmd
      • If you mean this isn't the Bethesda forums... you'd be correct there. : pizzaput
      • Oh, and part of the reason why this may look so different than the Bethesda forums is because there they ... : pizzaput
    • Lol, those are not high res, haha. And they also confirm the critique: muddy textures, like Oblivion had,... : pizzaput
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    Uhh.... LOL I remember playing a lot of games that were awesome but had shit for graphics. Namely just ... : HL3dsx
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      Really? Every good game you've played failed to meet the standard of "decent modern" graphics? My standar... : pizzaput
      • Haha. : Jess Horton
  • Oblivion was awesome, this looks awesome, and you're on crack. : CyCo_PL
• Instant purchase based on the Morrowind Theme Song : Sgt_Boomstick
• For oblivion and most sandbox games, I usually play through with a stealth/assassin character. However, ... : ltrls987
• Wow these game designers bust there asses to bring the general public a great game and all you people do ... : The idealist
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  I find it amusing when people who clearly want something other than what these games try to offer drop by... : DinK
  • Cheers. ) : Khalaq
• I'm excited to see dragons in this game, for no other reason than it means there will be some big badass ... : DinK
• i wanna hear more music like this its very ambient but more so cant wait for this kick ass game hop it ge... : gamerbit1
• Oh please, all over my face and body! : reelbk