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  Oh my! : lplasmatron
  • my words exactly! : niceguynick
  • Have you had some challenges making the world, since it's largely snow and mountains? Has it limited you ... : re4ctor
• Radiant Story: Left 4 Dead Director for massive Bethesda games. Awesome. : Arcanum
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  Some good "Sounds of Skyrim" stuff here - http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/01/14/the-sound... : CoreContingency
  • Everyone needs to watch the videos, some fascinating stuff! : niceguynick
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    Awesome video, but what's with the ADD cameraman? I'm not interested in the contents of his ear or what ... : Squid Division
    • hah I thought the same, super close-ups and hd videos always have their downsides : niceguynick
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    was that techno viking on the last video? : gyokuro
    • I was wondering how many people were going to catch that... : CoreContingency
  • Hearing that clip of the Morrowind theme then the Skyrim tease is driving me nuts for this damn game. : DinK
  • ^^ fucking awesome right here : kill9
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  They took Gamebryo and modified it so much for games like Oblivion and Fallout that it really was no long... : Dr_Cube
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    Are you claiming this is just a modification of previous engines? Do you have a source for that? : Arcanum
    • Its based on the half life 1 engine : grandmasterlee
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      i think its pretty obvious that they would just update their engine, like many studios does : HisKillSkill
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        Again, a source? : Clay
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          i dont have any and talking out of my ass, its like id software, you think they write a whole new engine ... : HisKillSkill
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            They have said it is an all new internally developed engine. Whether or not the animations are as terrib... : Crimsonbeak
            • No, I'm pretty sure they said this at least built off of the Oblivion tech, it's just heavily modified. L... : Fenring42
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          during quakecon a few months back todd howard said the fallout 3 tech was their starting point. : pyide
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            Unless you're a programmer, people don't realize the costs and risks associated with tossing an entire fr... : Dr_Cube
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              If code gets sufficiently crufty and hacked-together, you practically have to throw most of it out to mak... : Arcanum
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                I don't know how modular the engine is, but you'd think they probably rewrote most of the graphics, ai pi... : Shadowdane
                • It wouldn't surprise me if the input subsystem hasn't changed much, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's b... : Arcanum
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  tl:dr ? : HisKillSkill
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    Skyrim still has several months of development left, but after seeing the technology in action it looks l : niceguynick
    • and the innovative Radiant AI technology that endowed non-player characters with decision-making abiliti... : HisKillSkill
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  This has probably been posted (oblivion photo bomb) but I lol'd so hard at it http://i.imgur.com/dclis.jp... : haiku
  • he looks so fucking happy!!!! : vitek r
  • oh hi hero of kvatch : pyide
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  Can't wait, though i still need to play Oblivion all the way through. I wanna get all the dlcs too. : Ziz
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    Just play the Dark Brotherhood side quest and ignore the main quest line and you will enjoy the game a lo... : Crimsonbeak
    • that quest line alone made the rest of the game sucks. : HisKillSkill
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      I am playing it now I made the mistake of getting to the point where random gates appear, so fucking anno... : gmd
      • Do what I did go make a 1 second invisibility spell then just chain cast it as you run through all the he... : Crimsonbeak
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  Now would ya be able to take a job in the mines or farms etc? : Ziz
  • No but you'll be able to see a couple of NPCs do the same animations! :D : Zollington
  • They said there would be crafting and ores so maybe : Hemtroll
• sweet : lord_omega
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  That screenshot is so great, just imagine a whole world of that detail. I love the fantasy setting so mu... : gmd
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    i bet you watch harry potter when you are alone : HisKillSkill
    • the man runs around the condo with a broom stuck between his legs, bouncing a yellow rubber ball off the ... : devpaul
    • Of course : gmd
  • Yup me too! Love fantasy settings : Scotty22
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    Same here. I know people love to hate this kind of fantasy setting but it's got to be one of my favorite... : DinK
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      I enjoy that while it's a "normal" high fantasy world, there are a fair number of aspects that are differ : Arcanum
      • Dwarves being extinct.... : Arcanum
      • I might disagree with being picky about those details even more than writing off fantasy altogether. It ... : DinK
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  Did I get this worked up about a single screenshot a bunch of mostly empty words? I guess I used to. Now ... : locater16
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    Oblivion is possibly my favourite game of all time, so I'm always going to get super hyped about a sequel... : niceguynick
    • Oh I'll enjoy playing it I'm sure, it's just that I can pick out exactly what they're getting at and I kn... : locater16
    • they'll do their utmost to deliver the best experience they possibly can, at the lowest price! Fixed! : Xencer
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  True amazement will come if it all works without 30 patches. : cetra00
  • didn't oblivion only have a small number of patches? mods fixed the rest :) : niceguynick
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  Sooo... Any tl;dr version of the "Radiant Story" gimmick? Will it require me to replay certain parts of g... : alexvj
  • They don't go into enough detail about it. But going to guess you'll need to steal stuff and murder peop... : cetra00
  • Tl; Dr They move quest objective locations around to dungeons you haven't already looted and have backup ... : locater16
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    Is this seriously a complaint that there are going to be too many options? : Hemtroll
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      Absolutely. A game with too many options will usually result it lots and lots of a water down, generic c... : cetra00
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        You're right, I hope they make a linear corridor so we don't get that shitty watered down Elder Scrolls e... : Hemtroll
        • Call of the Elder Scrolls: Dragon Warfare. : Fenring42
  • Seems to me that in order for your choices to actually matter at all, some things MUST be unavailable bas... : DinK
  • To me, it sounds almost more like a procedural quest generator. : aaarrrgh
• it looks ok, but its just about where i would expect an updated oblivion to be. this is just one screens... : vitek r
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  Looks great but I want to know what the performance is on 360. : BouillonCubes
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    20-30 FPS with muddy, low res textures, no anisotropic filtering, lots of LOD pop-in, and shadows that lo... : pyide
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      Not to mention 30 second load times going from outdoor to indoor environments :( : BouillonCubes
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        Oh man the load times were the worst on the 360. I'm guessing interior and city loads are big part of the... : pyide
        • Yeah, I could do without most of that shit if they removed loading. Far Cry 2's interface and etc. are so... : locater16
      • I hope they can somehow optimize the load times to take advantage of SSD if its possible. : ant_hillbilly
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    Even without mods, this game is going to shine on PC even more than Oblivion and Fallout 3/New Vegas. Loa... : Dr_Cube
    • Even with an HD load times in Oblivion, Fallout 3, and NV are all terrible. : BouillonCubes
• It's just too bad that the graphics will be limited by console hardware. : phate81
• Cup hath been filled : melkore
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  Anyone know if Jeremy Soule is onboard? : davantalus
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    Oh ha. Yes. Already linked to - http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/01/14/the-sounds-of-skyri... : davantalus
    • lol techno viking in the music video : gmd
• I really hope that a final compilation mod comes out for oblivion so we can be ready! fuckin mud crabs... : Downforce
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  why not use idtech? or was that acquisition too recent for that? : Unleashed
  • This was probably already in development. : broly1718
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  The very first game I ever bought with my own money was Daggerfall when I was a kid. I absolutely fucking... : Drewus
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    Daggerfall was amazing. I remember that first dungeon so well. Swinging the sword with your mouse was als... : happynoodle
    • That first dungeon was epic. I remember last year when Bethesda released Daggerfall for free and the offi... : The Grolar Bear
• I'm already so hot for this game. Shit that shows they're improving it over the last couple they've done... : DinK
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  Have they hired any character artists this time around? I think it's time. : ArB
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    Nope, Todd got a pencil and he's hard at work. : Hemtroll
    • Ah, wee Todd. He tries so hard doesn't he? : ArB
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  Can't wait to see a Fallout game with this stuff. : SpaecKow
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    The grey will look even greyer!!! kidding, i love me some Fallout. New Vegas is the tits : Drewus
    • New vegas' tits are grey-orange punk >:( : SpaecKow
• My penis. It hardens. 10th months. : Hemtroll
• Yes! DEATH TO GAMEBRYO! : Donborvio
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  This is why you should wait until next fall for your Sandy Bridge upgrades. Intel will have the extreme/... : Volatris
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    But it's a console port. : Vegtro
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      In which the console runs at no AA, no AF, low res textures and short view distance. : Volatris
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        Consoles and pcs have the same textures, it's just that pcs can stream in higher mip levels at longer dis... : SpaecKow
        • And if they did, your graphics card is far more important than Sandy Bridge over the previous quad-cores ... : kill9
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          But on PC you know some nerd will have upload higher res textures pretty quickly. : Vincent Grayson
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            90% of fanart looks like shit. Look at fakefactory and their high res slutty alyx. Gurgh, and to say noth... : SpaecKow
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              Yeah, those are terrible, but I'm talking about the high res texture packs people have done for Oblivion,... : Vincent Grayson
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                Well it's a matter of luck, there's some good stuff, there's some bad stuff. : SpaecKow
                • I count on other nerds to sort it out for me and let me know which ones are worth downloading :) : Vincent Grayson
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                  http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/fms/Image.php?id=37447 TES modders have it down. : RetroRedEyeJr
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                    They're ok for the most part. Issue I have with 90% of them is to justify their high res textures they m... : kingdepork
                    • I've never used any other mods that were just texture packs, so i can't comment on them but the one i lin... : RetroRedEyeJr
• Glad to hear overhauled the terrible animations and the dead eye stare during conversations. : filthysock