The finer points of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

While my Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim interview at E3 focused on the wider, overarching story and development, here at gamescom we got to see the game in much finer detail. While the majority of demo sessions chose to show us over-the-top battle scenes, Bethesda kept it, simple opting to show us an hour of regular gameplay that anyone who would play the game would experience.

Those in the session got to check out the character creation, the new user interface (including the "favorites" system) combat updates, crafting (such as alchemy and enchantments), skills trees, the new Fallout style of lock picking, and we finished up by taking a look at the game's level design and length.

• Category

  Gaming

[ben19n01]

When he looks at her,he's like " Focus Pete focus!!!"

[Friesnketchup4u]

well out of the 7k people who watched this, 4 are gay

[travismalone1985]

I don't think he like Todd Howard's "Skill Constellation" thing...Wait, look at her tits

[THEZESTIFY]

i would tap that  8)

[cannibalTurtle McGee]

hhahah star at 18 sec look at his eyes

[megamarsvin]

That's exactly what it felt like to me too. The basics are solid, you can see plenty of good ideas in there but the execution just feels half assed. Better than it was in Oblivion but not the kind of improvement you'd expect after FIVE YEARS of development.

Hell I was replaying Ultima 6 (released in 1990) a few months ago, even that has a better interface and inventory system for gods sake ^^

[Spamazoid]

Sexaaaay and Sexaaaay accent

[Jacob Riley]

You mean 76k and 5 are gay =D

[megamarsvin]

Seriously. What is this 1995? Even on a console you'd think they could come up with something better.

[Zohaib1]

strong fat in that red head, not mirin not mirin.

[bambikohaku]

no, no...I saw gay boys in line last night, they were ahead of me in fact! ...damn kids

[multipurposepaperbox]

Meh. Get hold of a controller :)