Originally Posted By placeholder (12 DEC 2010 3:06pm)
I would actually have thought they chose an ice and snow setting so as to make it easier on the engine - less detail and less colour needed.

Originally Posted By Stiler (12 DEC 2010 6:03pm)
Next November is going to be a fun month, Uncharted 3 is out 11-1-11 and Oblivion is 11-11-11.

Originally Posted By Stiler (12 DEC 2010 6:03pm)
Edit -
http://twitter.com/Bethblog/status/14010984884604929

"Seeing lots of speculation about #tesv game engine. It's brand new... and it's spectacular!"

So looks like it is a new engine after all, good news.

Originally Posted By placeholder (12 DEC 2010 7:16pm)
I don't see why one needs to have an entirely new engine just to have better looking characters.  In fact, I think the faces in New Vegas generally look nice.  I agree that the faces are certainly to be improved upon in Oblivion, but that surely doesn't need a completely engine  - even plain old mods got them to look better; and you can achieve a lot by simply overhauling an aging engine.
(Most importantly to me, I personally will not be able to play it if it  turns out to have specs like Arcania has.)

Furthermore, why change the world in TES?  TES has it's own very unique world and lore, different even from all the other medieval settings out there.  It's because of its own unique lore that I love it, otherwise it would just be another run-of-the-mill been there done that Shooter type or Medieval type RPG.

I'm not saying that having it in Skyrim is the end of the world, but Blackmarsh or Elsweyr or even Valenwood would have been more fun and mysterious and exotic, and you could have had more scope for rogueishness.  Summerset Isle would have been more magical.

I simply just don't find the Nords as interesting as the elves and beast races.

Also, Kajiit and Argonians are simply so much more fun than Nords are.  There's these nice small touches such as when the 2 beast races are hitting on one another with 'beastist' jokes...- like that Argonian standing in the pond at (I think) Leyawiin saying : " I'm a Kajiit in disguise!  Want to see me lick my own butt? "  ...and then he bursts into peals of laughter.  :

  (He also has a joke in similar vein about Kajiit cooking, btw.  

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Just a small touch that makes the world a bit more interesting...  

Anyway, I really dislike people calling this a sequel to Oblivion, as if there weren't other at least as notable games in the TES series.      :-/
...but please don't let's start a Morrowind vs. Oblivion war here in Xernosams' nice thread...  I took very special care not to say anything negative about Ob except to agree that the character's faces could certainly be improved upon.  

Anyway, by the looks of things, I can already tell you the backstory in advance.  The whole thing with Martin and Akatosh and the planes of Oblivion, cause dragons to return to the TES universe, and you, a special hero who has a special something that gives you an advantage against these dragons, will defeat them and save the world.     ...or, you will have to go and find the special hero that has a special something that gives him an advantage against these dragons..  etc.  <_<

Originally Posted By Stiler (12 DEC 2010 8:26pm)

If you remember when Oblivion came out it was one of the better looking games out there and pushed hardware to it's limits in it's day. It would be rather weird for Beth not to move ahead and make V the next step in that regard.

Originally Posted By Donna (13 DEC 2010 8:06am)

Originally Posted By Stiler (12 DEC 2010 8:26pm)

If you remember when Oblivion came out it was one of the better looking games out there and pushed hardware to it's limits in it's day. It would be rather weird for Beth not to move ahead and make V the next step in that regard.

This is true, it was the most advanced game at the time. I got the computer I have now exclusively to play Oblivion. New engine has been confirmed for TES5..

The engine was first demonstrated at the WWDC 2007 by John D. Carmack on an eight-core Apple Macintosh computer; however, the demo only used a single core with single-threaded OpenGL implementation running on a 512 MB 7000 class Quadro video card.[1]

I don't know how I feel about it, at all. I haven't played much of Oblivion because I got a horrible case of motion sickness and just couldn't go on. I think I reached the first hell gate thingy and that was it. All I heard later was that the storyline was bad and cliche and I avoid most RPGs because of their stock storylines (hello, Bioware).

As for Morrowind, I left two years of my life in it and, in a way, Oblivion's realistic graphics disappointed me. I loved MW because it was so beautiful and stylised.

Winter levels? Grrr, why, I hate those D: I'm sure the game will take you to pretty meadows eventually and the design teams knows what they're doing. It takes a lot of skill to bring a snowy landscape to life and I doubt they will paint the textures white, throw you in a blizzard and call it a day.

Originally Posted By Stiler (13 DEC 2010 10:05am)
The whole "save the world" has been done to death period, in games, movies, books, everywhere.

The story, so far from the trailer, reminds me a LOT of Divinity ego drancias.

Personally, I'd like to see a game where you play a redeeming hero, rather then a straight up hero. Your character goes ona  journey not to save the world, but to redeem himself through his actions and choices.

You could start the game out as an actual bad guy, on the evil side rampaging a town/village, something happens and things go amiss, you get injured/hurt and awake and go from there as usual on your quest for redempiton.

With  SKyrim being the birthplace of Humans in the greater lands we know(coming them from the other continent) I can definitely see some good back history to work off of.

One thing that could set the whole thing apart is how they handle the dragons. In TES lore dragons are quite intelligent beings, and capable of communicating.

So what if you actually can choose to side with a dragon or not, become it's friend, etc and eventually maybe even get to ride it around? That would really sell the game for me, giving you access to somethign you don't get much of in an rpg.

Though perhaps it's my joy of just wanting to ride a giant flying creature in an open world rpg, I watched too much Neverending story

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Originally Posted By placeholder (13 DEC 2010 8:44am)
If set in Valenwood, since it’s the country of Wood Elves, you could have had all kinds of interesting fey and folkloric fairytale creatures, like gryphons, fairies, (ok ob already had Spriggans) sylphs, mermaids, sprites, pixies, (already unicorns and minotaurs) .  Anyway, you could have made most of these creatures dangerous each in their unique ways, which has to be defeated in unique ways, whereas you could have had some of them friendly to you which could be recruited to help you in various unique ways.

Originally Posted By Stiler
Personally, I'd like to see a game where you play a redeeming hero, rather then a straight up hero. Your character goes ona  journey not to save the world, but to redeem himself through his actions and choices.

Originally Posted By Stiler (13 DEC 2010 10:05am)
Personally, I'd like to see a game where you play a redeeming hero, rather then a straight up hero. Your character goes ona  journey not to save the world, but to redeem himself through his actions and choices.