The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

I'm excited but I'll wait to see it in action before I can really care.

Out of pure happenstance I happened to walk into a empty tv room with spike tv on and see the live world premier of this trailer at the spike video game awards. Weird. To early to tell pretty much anything about this game, I just hope they get rid of that horrible auto unit scaling.

Release date: November 11, 2011.  11/11/11.  Awesome.

As has been rumoured, the game will feature a brand new game engine.  The last two installments, Morrowind and Oblivion, have both used the Gamebryo engine, as did the last two Fallout titles.  Hopefully, a new engine means better animation, and a more lively world.  In any case, this is one game I'm going to pre-order.

Unless Skyrim takes place in the future of the Elder Scrolls universe, where you play as Space Marine John 'Action' McCliche, fighting back alien invaders through scripted sequences.  With a focus on multiplayer, featuring perks, leveling and monthly overpriced DLC.
*shudders*

edit:
Watch the trailer here.  You have to fight Dragons?  Yeah, I'm calling it here:  Game of the Year.

I didn't care much for the trailer since it was merely a cinematic but I'm excited to hear the game has a release date.

It's not going to be a new engine, it's a modified Gamebryo. Todd Howard said that himself in an interview recently.  And it'll most likely be Steamworks too.

I was going to say as long as I can still commit mass genocide on those dirty cat people, but if its in Skyrim I'll have to take it out on the redguard.

OH GOD PLEASE HAVE A BETTER MAGIC SYSTEM THATIS ALL I ASK, AND KEEP THE MODDING CAPABILITIES!

Don't the Nords live in Skyrim?

Oblivion wasn't that good and was one of the most overrated games of its time. So I've got exactly zero excitement about this. Hopefully they fix the levelling system, at a minimum.

I will withhold judgment until we get to see something. It could be all the problems of Oblivion and (to a lesser extent) Fallout 3, intensified. Or it could go back to its roots, with writing and environment design like Morrowind and Shivering Isle. Character creation and whatnot could return to daggerfall levels of complexity with new options in addition to old things that have been excised, or it could become even simpler. Probably the actual product will be somewhere between the extremes.

That twitter is from a community manager, he's not in the developer team.

For the love of Pete no required Steamworks!!!

The elder scrolls games have always had oen of the better magic systems, you could make your own spells.  I'm surprised no other company has picked up on it to be honest.

So you are not familiar with Black and White perhaps ?

Some of the oblivion magic mods that were created for it were phenomenal -- vanilla magic system was somewhat flawed.

Oblivion was fine. I played more morrowind because it had more options and play styles (though we all which one was totally broken... Heavy Armor+Axe Weapons) and a very fun physics engine that made cheating a new game in itself. Oblivion's highlight was going through town at the end and slaughtering everything moving just to see waht kind of items they had. My only true critique is a lack of option to let the bad guys win and deal with hell on earth. I don't know how they missed that one.

If the new one adds variety and fixes the holes in their leveling system, it won't be bad.

Hey come on, its not like we are going to be too busy to play, just check the timecode for this post.

Oblivion was fun for awhile, but was a huge step backwards from Morrowind imo. I'm hoping Skyrim will redeem TES to it's former glory, and not be a console-ified dumbed down shadow of it's potential.

No crossbows?  How am I to kill vampires? Oh good they added garlic!

That was my first mpression of Oblivion.

That was a subtle hint that the game is more fun if you become a vampire. I guess it was a little too subtle

Oblivion was lame compared to Mirrorwind.  However, the mods for oblivion continue to be wonderful, and make the game worth buying - so I can play the mods.  Wonderful stories, and some of the total remakes are awesome, as well.

What are you talking about,oblivions magic system was not that great. It was mods that actually made the magic system even worth playing really.

Ever since Morrowind, the true value of the TES series was the modability of the games. Right now there are so many awesome mods for Oblivion, I would be hard pressed to come up with a better sandbox RP game when some of the best are installed.

So if they keep the game modable... dragons+mods = instawin.