Just (I think) announced by Tod Howard at the Spike Video Game Awards!!!
The video seems to tell of the return of the Dragons, and someone called "The Dragon Born". You should have acted. They're already here. The Elder Scrolls told of their return. Their defeat was merely delay Til the time after Oblivion opened. When the sons of Skyrim would spill their own blood But no-one wanted to believe. Believe they even existed. And when the truth finally dawns: It dawns in fire. But. There's one they fear. In their tongue, he's Novak'leen Dragon Born!
This better be real and not some dumb site a noob made up to trick people. I hope they put more guilds in it like a hunter's guild or something like that. New weapons like crossbows would be cool too. Oh and DRAGONS!!! I agree with Godlike about creating undead followers. It'd be cool if you could be a dwarf or a gorilla-man to play as.
Wow people these are THE official sites. I have been checking them several times a day for over a year. People all over the world saw it on the VGAs, its existence shouldn't even be question. The videos, do you think there is someone who looks just like Todd and gathered a giant crowd just to trick you?
Didn't every NPC in Oblivion have voice acting? There are people who want RPG to revert back to the old school all text, and I wouldn't mind, as I can read much faster than the NPCs talk... Have you played Morrowind? Just asking because it was 98.8% text. The only voice acting was basically the main quest combined with peoples random greetings and battle shouts. You N'wah!!!
Where's your sense of interactivity? O_o Reading while in a game immerses yourself in the game for more enjoyment! Oblivion had nearly all dialogue voice acted, and Morrowind had slim voice parts. Daggerfall had only the cinematic for voice. That and two words: "VENGEANCE!" and "HALT!!"
Hail Redguard!
It is annoying to listen to someone "talk" a whole paragraph that could easily be read twice as fast. ( I can't remember if almost most of the newest Elder Scrolls was vocie acted.) The problem I had was that side quests would have about 10 + pages of reading. I did less playing and more reading. Not to mention in game collectible books that are about 30 + pages. There is so much reading, I wonder why I'm playing the game and not jsut reading a book about it.
I'm not against in game reading, it just at that amount it becomes ridiculous to me.
I don't mind the voice acting so long as three different races don't sound exactly alike. Seriously, Dark Elves should not sound like Wood Elves, who should also not sound like High Elves who should yet again not sound like Dark Elves... and so on. Same goes for Khaajits and Argonians.
If memory serves, Morrowind had an individual voice for each race so none sounded like one another. Did Bethesda run out of money, not want to hire so many voice actors, or...?
Morrowind did have varied acting, but only to a slight degree. Many of the races sound eerily similar. Oblivion took the voice acting to a whole new level and immersed you into a world full of conversation, just as we would find if we were really there. That part of the voicing I really enjoyed, and I feel it increases your feeling of immersion in the world you are exploring.
I tend to agree with Reton on all the reading. I've been playing Oblivion since it came out, and just recently I got urge to put Morrowind back on my PC and I am just amazed at how much time I really spend just sitting and reading. Kind of strains my eyes too...
Morrowind did have varied acting, but only to a slight degree. Many of the races sound eerily similar.
How were some of the voices similar? And which voice? I'm pretty sure each male and female character of each race was a different actor. Granted, they did little acting aside from greeting/fighting scripts. I think the Imperial female actor had the most acting time, since one of her characters hunted Hrelvasue the daedroth.
I tend to agree with Reton on all the reading. I've been playing Oblivion since it came out, and just recently I got urge to put Morrowind back on my PC and I am just amazed at how much time I really spend just sitting and reading. Kind of strains my eyes too...
Well, the two options would be to either turn off the voice volumes and essentially turn it into Morrowind style, or to remove the subtitles in conversations so you *have* to listen. Although the former option would be kinda strange to see a man make shapes with his mouth and not hear anything, or to not have the nice Morrowind text pane.
It looks great. I wasn't disappointed in the first one. It was awesome. I love RPG games. I just can't wait to get my hands on this one. Lets see if I actually can finish the whole game this time.
