IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN Options

[RagingMudcrab]

It's been a while since we had some Skyrim news now that Game Informer's Elder Scrolls bonanza is over. So what on earth could be going on? Not much now, but Bethsda added a countdown to their website with a message saying that it is "for the first, in-game look at The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim." I do LOVE Countdowns!

They also threw up a wallpaper of the sooper kewl dool weeldan dragunborm viking dood for those who want it. Oh, and a podcast with Pete Hines. Talks about his history with Bethesda, some stuff about id's Rage, drops some hints about Skyrim and pretends to give info on more New Vegas DLC but ends up saying things The Vault Wiki knew about back when the game first came out. They close the show with an awesome Fallout 3 theme jazz cover that I desperately want to find. But yeah, overall kind of cool.

So check back tomorrow for MAJOR NEWS. I'll be taking apart the trailer bit by bit and discussing it. It might be too much to hope for gameplay, but anything is possible.

Source: BethBlog

[Thomas Kaira]

Many things that are being shown off here, one of which is most definitely the new animation system. I'm liking it, massive improvement over Gamebryo's robotic, stiff animation system that was completely incapable of blending. You could find similar quality animations on a Nintendo 64 game.

The lighting looks a lot better, too.

I think they should keep working on those water textures, though. That stream looked like wallpaper paste. Ugh. I will not be happy if those water textures are the final ones.

EDIT: Oh yes, since Skyrim is the most mountainous of all Tamrielic provinces, volumetric distant fogging will be absolutely essential. It looks great, realistic, and will also allow you to get away with more optimization tricks for the Distant LOD because you'll be able to hide some of it behind the clouds.

This post has been edited by Thomas Kaira: Feb 24 2011, 11:14 PM

[mALX]

Many things that are being shown off here, one of which is most definitely the new animation system. I'm liking it, massive improvement over Gamebryo's robotic, stiff animation system that was completely incapable of blending. You could find similar quality animations on a Nintendo 64 game.

The lighting looks a lot better, too.

I think they should keep working on those water textures, though. That stream looked like wallpaper paste. Ugh. I will not be happy if those water textures are the final ones.

EDIT: Oh yes, since Skyrim is the most mountainous of all Tamrielic provinces, volumetric distant fogging will be absolutely essential. It looks great, realistic, and will also allow you to get away with more optimization tricks for the Distant LOD because you'll be able to hide some of it behind the clouds.

Absolutely the water textures in that one rapids were terrible - that was a total 'break from excitement' moment for me too. The other falls looked okay though. If they were trying to simulate rapids that attempt was a fail. I thought of glue when I saw it as well.

I would have to say the most exciting moment in the vid for me - and I kept rewinding it and watching it OVER and OVER again - the thu'um. That was AWESOME !!!!