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I like starting as a human. Especially since it's an RPG that kinda prides itself on immersing you into the world the developers set up. It helps to have your in game character be somewhat relateable.

On my second playthrough tho, yeah I switch up the races. At that point I'm looking thru what makes more sense, lore, and stat wise. If I see that min-maxing an assassin means playing as a giant Lizard or Cat, who has night vision, and who's ppl have lore set up with sending their hatchlings/cubs to assassin cults, then I'm all for it.

My first run thru tho is reserved just purely for enjoying the game. Doing whatever I want, and taking whatever road I want, without thinking about the consequences. Taking skills that sound fun even if later on they're weak. Once I get late game and find out I'm weak, I don't mind starting over, or playing a different class and focusing on the end game from the start once I get a taste of it.
 
User-Generated Content in Skyrim — April 21, 2011

Bethesda's Todd Howard has confirmed that the studio is trying to find a way to let 360 and PS3 gamers install user-generated content with TESV: Skyrim. The only problem is finding a way to allow users to download the content. "It works on all the consoles," he said. "As far as the 360 and PS3, right now there's not an avenue for us to make that available, but we’d very much like to find a way. We have talked to Microsoft and Sony, and so there's a chance it might happen one day, [but] I don't see it happening for release."

Third-party mods have been a huge part of the Elder Scrolls series since Morrowind and have allowed PC players to add almost anything to their games. The leading TES mod site, TES Nexus currently features over 24,000 files, and there is every indication that Skyrim will continue the high level of input from the modding community.
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...Isn't Microsoft insanely difficult when it comes to putting stuff like this up through Live?
 
I know it's too early to declare this game a masterpiece, but that's really what it's shaping up to be, IMO. Not one dissapointing thing so far from Bethesda.
 
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Lord of Souls is the sequel to another one that came out last year or maybe even the year before.

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....You'd think this stuff would be in my "suggestions" section at Amazon. Odd.
 
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Oblivion may have boasted a large game world, but in that large game world, there was a lot of nothing. Todd Howard, Bethesda Game Studios’ Game Director, has already said that Skyrim will boast 5 cities and that the world is “about the same size as Oblivion,” but what about the rest of it?

“If you were to lay down the map, it’s about the same size as Oblivion,” said Howard” “which I don’t know a lot of people can comprehend that that equal X, but the difference with this one, because we have mountains, we found they channel us in different ways.”

“Theoretically they create less space, but they create more time... you can’t just cut across it, so it ends up feeling bigger,” Howard noted. “If I was to go from here to there and there’s a mountain chain, I know... it tends to get harder if you go up in elevation. So these ice wraiths, these crystal serpent things or those trolls, they’re up there, so you might be like... I’m not going to go through the mountain, I’m going to go this way.”

It’s not just snowy mountains though, far from it, Howard said you can expect a huge variation in environments.

“As far as variation of environments, the one you saw was like our pine forest and our mountains. We have a big grassy tundra, we have a fall forest – there’s some screenshots of that out – we have a volcanic tundra, we have a big glacial area to the north, it’s really icy.”

“Yeah, we have about 6 or 7 and we wanted to make them very different, whereas in Oblivion or even Fallout 3, there are differences, but they’re more subtle.”

Did someone mention cities? Yes, but what about the rest of the world? Are there any towns? In short, yes. In long...

“There are 5, what we call, big cities, and they’re all really, really unique. There’s a couple of shots of them [in the trailer]. Those 5 are really unique,” Howard continued. “Skyrim is broken into 9 holds – a hold is like a county and each county is governed by a Jarl, who’s like a King of that county. 5 of those holds are kind of bigger – they have big cities – while the other 4 have smaller, what we would call, like a town. A little bigger than [what we saw in the demo] but like that. So towns, we have 8 or 9 of those.”

So, to recap, that’s 6 or 7 environment types; 9 counties; 5 big cities; 8 or 9 towns... Okay then, so it’s bloody big!

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is scheduled for a 11th November 2011 release. Been living under a rock this week? Then check out our detailed preview, some new screens, Todd Howard on the new engine & class streamlining, news on whether the horses will make the cut and news on bloody mammoths!!
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Creating a living and breathing world is something that’s become a possibility in this day and age of games and as gamers, we expect things like an ecology now – or even the illusion of one – especially after Rockstar did such a fantastic job with Red Dead Redemption. Naturally, the topic of Skyrim’s ecology was brought up last week at Bethesda’s BFG Showcase and Todd Howard, Bethesda Game Studios’ Game Director, said that there will be one and that they have a surprise to show at E3.

“Some of our designers, we have a couple of them that are just in charge of what we call world interaction... or random things,” said Howard.

“This guy setup just making wolves go out in hunting packs, so we have these wolves that go out to hunt and if they kill something... we have mammoths, which you’ll see at E3, and they can hunt a mammoth and kill it, and then they’ll hang out by it for a while,” he continued.

“It’s like their kill... and then they’ll go back on their route. I mean, like honestly, something like that takes 15 minutes for our designers.”

“It’s actually something we didn’t realise people wanted... we give people bows, you give them deers, they want to hunt. We didn’t realise that initially, so we’re trying to add that. It’s a common question... we’re trying to add more.”

An ecology? Mammoths? It’s all sounding too good to be true now... I wonder whether they’ll be woolly... I mean, they must be, Skyrim looks a little chilly at the best of times!
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Seriously, this and ME3 are my most wanted games... throw in Batman: AC and well... perfection.
 
I agree, cant wait for those 3 games! Add battlefield 3 also for me!
 
And add Gears 3 for me! Playing that beta has made me really excited....in fact, add UC 3 and inFamous 2 while you're at it.... Aw hell, there goes the rest of my year :P
 
I can see myself acting out a scene from LOTR every time I go up a mountain, decide it's too difficult and instead go through it.
"Moria... You fear to go into those mines. The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame."
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Wow, those 2 new articles bow me away.I do'nt think I've ever been so hpye for a game liek SKyrim in a while. Well, other than Red Dead Redmeption. My whole lif is gonig to change on 11.11.11 Btw, my most hyped games of this year and in general are (in no particular order).

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Duke Nukem Forever
Mass Effect 3
Batman Arkham City
Max Payne 3
 
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Add Uncharted 3, Deus Ex, Splinter Cell Classic Trilogy, and LA Noire...and that's my entire year of gaming (minus catching up on last year and my pile of shame).
 
^^ Agreed. Though, I doubt I'll be playing Mass Effect 3 immediately after it comes out. I'll probably buy it right away, but I'll be devoting my life to Elder Scrolls V for a while.
 
Anybody know if any book stores carry the Elder Scrolls: Infernal City novel?
 
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