More Skyrim Details

[Purple Nurple]

Recent Skyrim news from Todd Howard, just expanding on previous stuff:

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More Skyrim Details - Graphics, World, Dragons

Graphics​

The inventory meny has also gotten some polish, with flash-based previews allowing you to rotate and examine every item in the game, from weapons and armour to accessories and ingredients. This feature will be used for puzzle-solving, occasionally. The series' famous collection of books and texts make a return, but this time as readable 3D models rather than the walls of text from the earlier games.​

World, Story and Mechanics​

The "low fantasy" world of Skyrim is said to be "approximately" the size of Oblivion's, and equipped with fast travel to previously visited locations, as well as containing 5 major cities and 130 dungeons, each featuring a greater variety of traps and puzzles.​

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Miscellaneous
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Todd Howard confirmed that the Xbox 360 version will not be supporting Kinect, and that the fan-favourite Dark Brotherhood will be making a return. Contrary to statements made in Game Informer, Howard denied the possibility of combining magical effects.​

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[Gikoku]

Dark Brotherhood! YES! I hope Wes Johnson will be making a return.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Glad to hear that they will be adding a variety of caves and traps etc in as the copy and paste design of some of the caves in Oblivion ruined the mystery a little. Also like the sound of the new examine feature, that would be great. Hope they increase the use of items too as i was sick of finding useless items in chests and crates that served no purpose whatsoever.

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

five major cities and roughly the same size as oblivion?
considering there were 8 major cities in oblivion (9 if you count kvatch) it looks like there will be much more wilderness play. more cave/ruins exploration... hopefully a smoother way of mountain climbing.
sounds fun.

noob question: anyone know what "anti-aliasing" means? they used it in the article when pointing out the difference between console and pc versions, i think.

 

[Gikoku]

noob question: anyone know what "anti-aliasing" means? they used it in the article when pointing out the difference between console and pc versions, i think.

Anti-Aliasing is the smoothing of a rendered image, so there will be little to no jagged edges on objects & characters depending on the settings.

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

Anti-Aliasing is the smoothing of a rendered image, so there will be little to no jagged edges on objects & characters depending on the settings.

so in essence "All three will look just as good, aside from the higher resolution and the anti-aliasing of the PC of course."
means that the console versions will have a more "jagged" appearance than the PC?

 

[Gikoku]

so in essence "All three will look just as good, aside from the higher resolution and the anti-aliasing of the PC of course."
means that the console versions will have a more "jagged" appearance than the PC?

Yep, also due to the fact that a good number of PC gamers these days have PCs capable of producing better anti-aliasing than the PS3 & 360 and rendering the game at a higher resolution.

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

this makes me so glad that i'm getting a new PC soon.

 

[Dark Drakan]

360 normally manages AA pretty well too but the PS3 has been known to have issues with it.