Skyrim - Videos and Previews

A small roundup of Skyrim stuff.

First, G4TV has 11 minutes of new footage with two editors talking through some of their experiences from the recent 3-hour preview. Check out the spell at 1:16 that allows them to leap off a cliff, for example.

They also have this shorter video preview, with a combination of old and new footage, including some interface and conversation snippets. Thanks to CountChocula for both of these.

PC Gamer has an article about the Radiant Story system, which apparently ruined Todd Howard's in-game wedding night. It all sounds a bit like the setting-the-dog-on-fire from Oblivion previews, but - hey - who knows?

“I had decided to marry this one woman who was my friend,” Howard begins. “I forgot that I had done this Radiant quest for this other guy, who turns out he had liked her…”

Head over for the rest of the story.

Also at PC Gamer is lessons Skyrim has learned from Fallout 3:

Lesson one, Oblivion’s progressions system, which had creatures levelling at the same rate as the player, has been overhauled. “[Skyrim]’s a lot more like Fallout 3, where as you level up you are going to see harder things, but the easier things stay around as well.” says Howard.

There will still be combat where it’s tougher, but these battles will be against a new or uniquely named enemy, putting an end to the boring battle-churn that dominated the later levels of Oblivion. “You’ll still run into the weaker stuff and you’ll just decimate it,” says Howard. Bad luck, mud crabs.

...and another about vigilante chickens:

PC Gamer: “Can you think of anything you’ve seen Radiant Story do that’s surprised you?”

Todd Howard: Let’s see… something that was good lately… but this was a bug – lately we realised that chickens were reporting crimes. I found that very funny. That was just last week: “Why are we getting caught?” “Oh, the CHICKENS are reporting the crimes!”

The PC Gamer articles also have videos, so footage galore.