Skyrim 40 minutes of game footage.

[phyzik]

Bethesda held a private screening at Quake Con, its been taken down on several sites, but here is a working link (at the time of this posting).

http://www.megavideo.com/?d=9V8CP01F

Game footage starts at about the 5 minute mark.

At about the 25 minute mark the video goes out of sync by quite a bit. Just FYI.

[phyzik]

My vote for game of the year.... by fucking far.

[baseline bum]

If you'd rather download it:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9V8CP01F

[symple19]

lol people booing when they said it was on 360 and cheering when they said the PC version looks wayyyy better

[symple19]

thanks phyzik...I'm sooooo fucking stoked for this shit

[Tinystarz]

xbox users have a gang sign? :lol

[symple19]

wow

[symple19]

xbox users have a gang sign? :lol

:lol i noticed that too

all the dual wield stuff looks amazing, as does the magic. Staffs and swords? sure! Fireballs and axes? you bet.

love that bows are actually useful now too. Gonna be awesome

Been playing through Oblivion as a nord to get ready for this. November can't come soon enough

[Frenzy]

:lol i noticed that too

all the dual wield stuff looks amazing, as does the magic. Staffs and swords? sure! Fireballs and axes? you bet.

love that bows are actually useful now too. Gonna be awesome

Been playing through Oblivion as a nord to get ready for this. November can't come soon enough

So...?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4doicHWaW1qzpudzo1_500.jpg

[IronMexican]

Watched it Sunday. So fucking excited.

[symple19]

So...?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4doicHWaW1qzpudzo1_500.jpg

as a matter of fact....................yes, yes indeed

[SourCandy]

:lol

you guys and the games. Such passion...I almost admire it.

[jman3000]

The perk tree looks awesome. Oblivion was such a pain in the ass to improve in anything because you only improved in certain things quickly.

I have a game going of over 175 hours and I'm only a level 42 or so. I don't think I've leveled in over 24 hours of game time because I pretty much maxed out so early on my major traits and it takes so long to increase your minor ones.

[PM5K]

I'm sorry but there's no way I'm watching 40 minutes of gameplay footage. That's like watching porn but not being able to jack off. What's the point of watching a game, they are meant to be played.

Five minutes, ten maybe, but forty? Maybe if it was a game based on the Bunny Ranch or something.

[IronMexican]

Only about 30 minutes(if that) of actual gameplay. Still great. Frenzy looks so gnarly.

[ElNono]

I fell asleep 5 mins in... :lol
Woke up and my co-worker was watching the video :lmao

[DarkReign]

My feed wigged out at the end.

Interface looks quite good, gameplay looks "better" than Oblivion.

But really, its the RPG experience with Elder Scrolls. The towns being alive, the guilds, the side quests, basically everything that had nothing to do with the main quest.

Looks badass.

[baseline bum]

It looks amazing, but it sucks the game world isn't the size of Oblivion's. That's one of the things that made Oblivion so much fun.

[DarkReign]

It looks amazing, but it sucks the game world isn't the size of Oblivion's. That's one of the things that made Oblivion so much fun.

I could have sworn that in the linked video, when he was showing the map interface (badass, btw), he said "The world is much, much larger than Oblivion".

[IronMexican]

All that means is it's going to have more in it per square foot. You wont get miles and miles of trees.

[baseline bum]

I could have sworn that in the linked video, when he was showing the map interface (badass, btw), he said "The world is much, much larger than Oblivion".

When watching it yesterday I remember them saying something like it wasn't going to be as large a game world as Oblivion's, but that there would be more going on in it (bad paraphrase, but I don't want to watch the video again).


All that means is it's going to have more in it per square foot. You wont get miles and miles of trees.

I liked that you had to explore a lot to find things in Oblivion. A smaller game world might really diminish the sandbox nature of the game.

[vander]

why doesn't the Dragon just step on you? or grab you and throw you to your death? or just eat you whole? or chop you in half with his claws?

also I thought fire couldn't kill or even hurt Dragons, or is that just according to George Martin?

anyways, giant fail on the Dragon part IMO

[Leetonidas]

Skyrim :worthy:

Only thing that sucks is the Halo: CE remake comes out 5 days after Skyrim so I'm going to have to put a lot of hours into it before that

[symple19]

When watching it yesterday I remember them saying something like it wasn't going to be as large a game world as Oblivion's, but that there would be more going on in it (bad paraphrase, but I don't want to watch the video again).



I liked that you had to explore a lot to find things in Oblivion. A smaller game world might really diminish the sandbox nature of the game.

I've read an article where they said it was only, "slightly smaller, but packed with more content". I also believe they said there's actually more area that you can explore since there were a bunch of mountains in Oblivion where you couldn't really do anything

I'll try to find it

[Sense]

why doesn't the Dragon just step on you? or grab you and throw you to your death? or just eat you whole? or chop you in half with his claws?

also I thought fire couldn't kill or even hurt Dragons, or is that just according to George Martin?

anyways, giant fail on the Dragon part IMO

cuz he's got a dragon soul bitch, and in a game I think it would be really dumb not to be able to kill something like a dragon with fire... that would actually make the game fail more being limited to what you could do to your enemies.

[baseline bum]

why doesn't the Dragon just step on you? or grab you and throw you to your death? or just eat you whole? or chop you in half with his claws?

also I thought fire couldn't kill or even hurt Dragons, or is that just according to George Martin?

anyways, giant fail on the Dragon part IMO

Why doesn't the player fall down and die of sepsis after getting stabbed once?

[Sense]

Why doesn't the player fall down and die of sepsis after getting stabbed once?

:lol

[symple19]

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Articles.Detail&id=89


QThe recent Skyrim trailer shows off a vast array of unique environments. How large is the world of Skyrim compared to Oblivion in both size and feel? (Does it feel a lot larger than it actually is or vice versa?)

AThe map is comparable in size to Oblivion, but in some ways it feels bigger because of the large mountains you'll be traversing up and around. Terrain has a big impact on how big a space feels.

[symple19]

A typical Vander response :lol

[vander]

Why doesn't the player fall down and die of sepsis after getting stabbed once?

yeah that's the same thing, good one :rolleyes

[vander]

should have to RUN FOR YOUR FUCKING LIFE!! when encountering a dragon, get to a fortress or something with some major dragon-killing weaponry: catapult, ballista, etc.

[Leetonidas]

Are you really complaining about the realness of fighting a dragon in a game based around talking lizards, cat people, and magic? C'mon son

[vander]

Are you really complaining about the realness of fighting a dragon in a game based around talking lizards, cat people, and magic? C'mon son

realness? no

[ManuBalboa]

I'm sorry but there's no way I'm watching 40 minutes of gameplay footage. That's like watching porn but not being able to jack off. What's the point of watching a game, they are meant to be played.

Five minutes, ten maybe, but forty? Maybe if it was a game based on the Bunny Ranch or something.

It's all about making a sizable deposit into the spank bank for those rainy days brah!

[scampers]

why doesn't the Dragon just step on you? or grab you and throw you to your death? or just eat you whole? or chop you in half with his claws?

also I thought fire couldn't kill or even hurt Dragons, or is that just according to George Martin?

anyways, giant fail on the Dragon part IMO

George Martin didn't invent dragons, ya know.

Cool thing about fantasy is that you(the author/game developer)can do whatever the shit you want.

[baseline bum]

QThe recent Skyrim trailer shows off a vast array of unique environments. How large is the world of Skyrim compared to Oblivion in both size and feel? (Does it feel a lot larger than it actually is or vice versa?)

AThe map is comparable in size to Oblivion, but in some ways it feels bigger because of the large mountains you'll be traversing up and around. Terrain has a big impact on how big a space feels.

Hope so. I have barely touched my XBox since '09, but I can't fucking wait for this game (and the new Bioshock next year).

[symple19]

Hope so. I have barely touched my XBox since '09, but I can't fucking wait for this game (and the new Bioshock next year).

Well, you've picked 2 very good looking games to dust it off for

[cheguevara]

I agree on the world size. the bigger the better. nothing beats horseback riding from one city to another nonstop for 55 minutes. and stopping here and there to kill some assholes :tu

[DarkReign]

Hope so. I have barely touched my XBox since '09, but I can't fucking wait for this game (and the new Bioshock next year).

Hey, computer geek, wtf is this Xbox shit youre talking about?

[ElNono]

I agree on the world size. the bigger the better. nothing beats horseback riding from one city to another nonstop for 55 minutes. and stopping here and there to kill some assholes :tu

You asshole :lol. I think I'm gonna dust up RDR and play it through again. I should get the Undead expansion too.

[ManuBalboa]

Hope so. I have barely touched my XBox since '09, but I can't fucking wait for this game (and the new Bioshock next year).

same here. My 360 has literally been boxed up for 6+ months now but I will for sure play skyrim.

[baseline bum]

Hey, computer geek, wtf is this Xbox shit youre talking about?

The thing that ensures I only have to spend $60 when I want a new game to play smoothly and look good. I could see spending the money for a gaming PC if I was still into modding, but now I just want to play the thing.