Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

I hope they go with a Morrowind style for the cities/towns/villages of just walking straight in instead of the oblivion load-at-gates.

Remember the Acrobatics Scroll found on the guy who drops from the sky outside Sedya Neen in Morrowind? . Increased your acrobatics by 500 or 1000 or somthing briefly and could literally jump across the entire map in one go, although you would die on impact haha!

It's even little things like that just make the game much more enjoyable

bluewolf wrote: »

Yeah, that was a killer too.
More immersive when it was morrowind-style.

It would be good, but things like hardware/software issues will have to be taken into account. They probably want to ensure a less stuttery/laggy game as possible (which suprisingly generally happens anyway in Oblivion and Fallout), incorporating a one consistent world with open borders might be tough on system requirements. Someone did do a open world mod for Oblivion where there were no gates for towns/cities, but yeah I think it did increases the FPS for players. Although I think Morrowind incorporated external cells which would load periodically when you entered new areas (albeit taking little loads constantly) which could be used again

Kiith wrote: »

I absolutely loved that bit in Morrowind. After leaving the starter town, you hear a scream. You look up and there's some guy falling from the sky. Pick up the scroll on his body, and it increases my jump you say? Lets give it a go. Weeeeeeeeeeee.....splat

That was great! I just ran to sell his stuff and forgot about the scroll Was there anything like that in Oblivion? I remember the town of invisible people but not much else.

pixelburp wrote: »

http://kotaku.com/#!5754577/the-new-elder-scrolls-can-actually-make-humans-look-attractive!

find it hard to believe the graphics will be as good as the screenshot of that barmaid bird at the top of that link. At least not on the 360.

evad_lhorg wrote: »

why? theyre not that unbeliveable.

i can't find a suitable screenshot to compare but it just seems too much of a jump on the same hardware. Textures are MUCH better for a start.

Overheal wrote: »

In fact: it's not the same hardware. The 360 has undergone several revisions since Oblivion's release (and the Original Xbox 360, long since retired and replaced by 360 Arcades and Elites, etc), getting newer motherboard, power supply, and memory specifications. I believe what was originally 256MB of Texture memory is now 512MB. And I wager code optimization helps too.

Has the xbox hardware spec actual been increased?

I assumed that have refined it and got cheaper components when possible rather then increase the spec. Afterall, I assume it will have to run on the first generation aswell.

Dunno why people are fixated on spears. I've not actually ever thought of using a spear to be honest. We talking throwable spears here, or what?