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[Vicious Parker]

Lots to see here and here.

[Donkeymog]

MOAR

Information about the engine mostly. Sounds like good stuff and I'm warming to dynamic quest creation. Mammoths!

No word about how easy it will be to mod though :(

[Vicious Parker]

Aw, beat me to it.

[Donkeymog]

Lots to see here and here.

In the third interview with Todd Howard he mentions something really interesting about how some sports games have really power RPG mechanics. Over here in Britain the biggest selling computer game every year is a game called Football Manager. It's basically a sports sim where the player only has indirect control over the events on the pitch. It's quite nice to hear I'm not the only person looking at these sports games and comparing them to, say, Pokemon. Most people just think I'm crazy for seeing the similarity.

[Donkeymog]

BAMM! (mod support).

[Donkeymog]

I hadn't heard about this before.

The wiki for Arkane studios has an uncited comment about them helping with the development of Skyrim. Harvey Smith making an Elder Scrolls game? Sounds too good to be true.

[Vicious Parker]

I wonder if they are trying to acquire all of texas... hmm..

But yeah, that passed under the radar, didn't it? I wonder why more wasn't said about that. (Other than them being much smaller than id software).

[Vicious Parker]

[SpazCat]

I honestly believe some people did get boners watching that trailer.

[Stars]

I was underwhelmed by the teaser. I liked that it revealed where the game would take place and gave an actual release date, and that's about it.

[Xavier]

I must have this game when it releases. Must I say! :D

This is not brought about by the teaser trailer, just the info released so far and the fact that I'm becoming a fantard for all things Bethesda. :D

[Vicious Parker]

http://www.pcgamer.c...wo-areas-alike/

Some interesting new information. Most interesting is the animal AI. Hopefully this means that I won't be going in to the editor and making every friggin' low-level animal non-hostile, like I had to for Morrowind, Oblivion and Fallout 3.

[Stars]

The animal AI sounds promising.
(I still use your happystyleedits mod in Morrowind since the Ecology mod that makes animals flee when you attack is obnoxious.)

[Donkeymog]

I want to know how they get a computer to generate "realistic" snow. It's always been one of those things I thought computers just couldn't do.

[Vicious Parker]

http://forums.bethso...sympothy-today/

I read this today and it made me happy. I've been more or less playing this way for several months.

[Vicious Parker]

I suspect this will be nothing more than medieval-fantasy fluff with a few scant RPG elements thrown in.

Sure is pretty, though...

Alright, Bethesda, you win. I'm excited.

[kspr]

/>http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1168301-i-actually-felt-sympothy-today/

I read this today and it made me happy. I've been more or less playing this way for several months.

but doesn't playing a game like oblivion or morrowind, and observing the npc's just going about their daily lives, ignorant of what you do, kinda make you feel like you're the only 'real' person? i started to get that vibe a lot during obliv and 3d dot heroes.

[Donkeymog]

Perhaps I'm just getting old or maybe my drug-addled sensory organs have just given up on making sensible distinctions but I can't seem to tell how much of that trailer was actual gameplay footage.

A lot of the interactions with dragons were clearly scripted but they seemed to be rendered using the in-game graphics engine. Modern computer games make me dizzy with all their seamless cinematic shinanigans.

It does look very impressive, at least this time it looks like there may be the odd fantastical setting that gives me a boner of Morrowind scale proportions. Oblivion just left me limp for so many reasons.

[Vicious Parker]

Good news?

http://www.rockpaper...-like-morrowind

[Stars]

/>Good news?