11/11/2011: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Vympel]

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/vga-1 ... lls/708369

After watching the full teaser, just as I guessed you're obviously playing the next Dragonborn - all the Septims had dragon blood, so I guess you're the new / future royal line.

Here's hoping they picked up some lessons re writing and quests from Fallout New Vegas.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

Being a huge Elder Scrolls nerd, I'm pretty stoked. I'm hoping they've learned from Oblivion and take a few pages back out of Morrowind's book. Modern graphics, an improved iteration of Oblivion's combat and magic, and Morrowind's writing, depth, and charm is all I ask.

[Vympel]

Being a huge Elder Scrolls nerd, I'm pretty stoked. I'm hoping they've learned from Oblivion and take a few pages back out of Morrowind's book. Modern graphics, an improved iteration of Oblivion's combat and magic, and Morrowind's writing, depth, and charm is all I ask.

Oh, and Fallout's NPCs and dialog system, kthanxbai.

I just hope they don't do some bullshit copout where you have to get some random NPC to step up because he's the new reincarnation of Talos / Tiber Septim / the Dragonborn / the Dragon of the North (Skyrim? Coincidence? ). That would suck. We should play that guy.

[Stofsk]

Please, for fuck's sake Bethesda, work in actual NPCs into the game this time.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

Yeah, definitely -- again, a return to Morrowind's take on it, where you were the dude (bonus points if they make it ambiguous with multiple inscrutable interpretations again). I mean, it's not too much of a stretch to be the Divine Talos reborn... Morrowind was more or less the same idea, the (alleged) reincarnation of a legendary god-hero from eons past.

EDIT:

Strange how Oblivion and its grand total of 5 different voice actors fell totally on its face, when they pulled it off brilliantly with Morrowind. All Cyrodiils may have sounded the same, but they had real character in TES3. Ditto for dark elves, back when they had cool voices.

[Vympel]

Point, I totally forgot about how awesome the Dunmer sounded in Morrowind. Of course, you can chalk up Dunmer sounding different in Oblivion to native Vvadenfell Dunmer and others having an Imperial accent from living in Cyrodil ...

[Stark]

If they fix the list-based inventory and the meaningless itemisation, it might be worth a look.