New Elder Scrolls Unveiled, Here be Dragons.
Bethesda have announced the fifth installment in their widely acclaimed Elder Scrolls franchise, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, due for release in November 2011.
The teaser trailer hints to an event equally as world shattering as the Oblivion gates of the previous game, with huge dragons awakening and threatening the world.
Also according to the trailer the evil of Skyrim fears one known as ‘dragon born’. Whether the player will fill these boots or play a secondary role as they did in Oblivion remains to be seen.
Unfortunately the trailer is full CGI and no word has slipped as to whether Skyrim will run on the Oblivion engine, recently seen powering Fallout: New Vegas, or if Bethesda have a new technical powerhouse ready to go.
What we do know is that Skyrim is located to the very north of the Elder Scrolls world, covered in snow capped mountains and home to the strong yet dim Nords.
Previous games have also hinted at the existence of Lycanthropes (werewolves), the tallest mountains in the entire world, and a Bard’s College in the area of Skyrim.
Hopefully the game will take some design pointers from Bethesda’s recent forays into the future, most notably AI difficulty. One of Oblivion’s biggest faults was that all enemies improved as you did thus blunting a good sense of growing empowerment.
We’re also hoping for an improved main quest, Oblivion’s wasn’t as grand as it wanted to be and the best stories in the game were actually found elsewhere.
What do you hope will make it into Skyrim? What do you hope is carried over or dumped from Oblivion? Let us know in the comments and your questions could be posed to Bethesda themselves.
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