Steering your horse in Skyrim can often feel more like you've stuck a rudder onto an iceberg than Red Dead 2's reactive horses, so I am very glad indeed that this feature got cut. They were going to be used to carry more of the player's items, but how would that even have worked? Would we just have to take the essentials into dungeons with us, while leaving most of our weapons and potions outside? Assassin's Creed is not the first game that jumps to mind when I think of titles that inspired Skyrim , I'll be honest.
This feature is the ability to just take a break from all the epic narratives and chill in a town. Todd Howard described his love of simply sitting on a bench in AC and watching the world go by. As a result, he wanted something similar in Skyrim , which gave birth to the ability to chop wood, or go in an inn and relax.
We've come a long way from pitch-shifting Wes Johnson into daedric voices. The language of the dragons was created originally to facilitate the theme song's ancient sound, but spiraled from there. Whenever something new had to be described, a new word was created. Naturally, with vocabulary, came grammar. While it is roughly similar to English grammar, it doesn't have apostrophes, using word fragments to indicate possession. The language also places prepositions early in sentences, while pluralization uses repeating letters.
Interestingly, the script appears to have been drawn from the ancient Babylonian language of cuneiform. It's easy to look at Skyrim and think that what you see is what you get.
Surely one expansive world is enough, right? The AI needs to know how to navigate their way through the world, and as the resolution of the world is simply too high to be used in processing their decisions, a second, simpler world runs alongside it.
The AI uses this simpler world for collision detection, allowing them to navigate their way through towns, dungeons, etc. I say relatively, because nightmares such as companions wandering into traps do most definitely still happen. When it comes to game design, the simplest solution is often the best if you want a slick game. To guide them as they develop blockbuster after blockbuster, Bethesda use just three rules to help them out. Firstly, the game's target experience needs to be defined: in Skyrim , this was to reward players for exploration.
Secondly, keep it simple. Todd Howard said they knew they could "do anything," but they couldn't do everything. Finally, "great games are played, not made," meaning that every game put out needs to be vigorously tested and revised accordingly. Now this is something of a dirty little secret of Skyrim's. The game world may feel way more expansive than Oblivion's , but it really isn't.
Measuring in at just 14 square miles, it's no bigger at all. Why does it feel that much bigger? Well, in contrast to Oblivion's rolling Tolkienesque meadows, you have rocky crags and huge peaks that stop you simply walking as the crow flies.
Compare it to other RPGs, and you get a feel for how tight Skyrim's world actually is. For example, The Witcher 3's world map is a massive 52 square miles in size. Cast your mind way back to , and you might remember Lulzsec. A hacker group bent on causing as much chaos as possible, they hacked numerous high-profile targets, including, intriguingly, Bethesda. They hacked their way into the company's network, and stole Brink user data, but didn't release it.
They released everything else, however. Their motive for this was simple: they liked Bethesda, and wanted them to speed up production on Skyrim so that they could play it sooner. As motives go, it's not extremely malicious. In comparison to Oblivion or Morrowind's relatively small voice cast, Skyrim features enough to open up a theater company.
As well as the world-famous Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer, there are also a whole host of lesser-known actors taking on the roles of different NPCs around the province.
While I long for Patrick Stewart and Wes Johnson to make their returns or more substantial returns, in the case of Wes, the vastly improved VA is something every gamer can appreciate. No more does the same person ask you about the Gray Fox every few seconds! Even if you do just some of the side quests available and spend time off the beaten path, you can easily add another 70 or so hours to the game. And that's not even counting the DLC.
Dawnguard , Dragonborn , and Hearthfire each add 7 hours, 6 hours, and 2 hours to the story campaign, respectively. So you could end up with a story-only run that takes 48 hours. Topic Archived Page 1 of 2 Last. Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts.
User Info: tatsuo User Info: Megaguts. They've been working on it since Oblivion came out. Ain't nothin' finer in the land than a drunk obnoxious Georgia fan. User Info: Shugosha. I think they started working on it right after Fallout 3. Rule 1: The Doctor lies. No, like 5. Part of the Bethesda team worked on Skyrim while the other part worked on Fallout 3.
User Info: forsakensoul User Info: Aiden That's likely when they started doing the coding, graphics, etc. I believe that the concept and planning started after Oblivion was finished. More topics from this board
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