The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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**kenshin620**

I'm pretty sure they'll have mod support, oblivion and fallout did which have generated a huge community

**johnscott10**

kenshin620 wrote:I'm pretty sure they'll have mod support, oblivion and fallout did which have generated a huge community

If they do add mod support just think of some of the things they will do haha, the usual "OMG! My female is NEEKID" will probly follow which I suppose is good if your a loner who cant actually get some real action....

Anywho, i just hope my comp can run it decently so that I actually get a better lookin world, and mod support, over the Xbox version. If not ill be disappointed...

**WarhammerTabletop**

Slarg232 wrote:
WarhammerTabletop wrote:I can't wait for this, I loved what they did with dragons. Instead of having it be scripted encounters they have it so its completely random (Think of its in terms of replayability!) Not to mention they have some good mods from oblivion that they took ideas from.

On a side note, they better include mod support for this or I'll be a little heartbroken.

NOT CONFIRMED!

But I think I read/heard somewhere that they are planning on including Mod tools with the Consoles or some such. I doubt that, though.

Im a PC gamer

and after some research I found out along with the Creation engine they made a thing called the "Creation Kit" so I think they have modding support with it for PCs atleast.

**Slarg232**

Ah, here we are:

In a recent interview Todd Howard divulged a lot of information on the upcoming Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim such as the PC version looking the best, modifications on consoles and DLC.

In an interview with AusGamers firstly Todd was asked if Skyrim would look better on PCs?

"Yeah it does, obviously the PC version looks better..."

The topic of mods on consoles was then brought up, could we ever see mods on consoles?

"We’ve always supported it and we want to continue to do it. But a lot of our audience is on the consoles so they’re not experiencing that. So we have talked to Microsoft and Sony; “how do we do this?”.

There are still a lot of issues to solve with... because these aren’t instances like a song or a car you know, you could download a mod that destroys your game and we can’t have that. So we’re still... we have not solved -- even on paper yet -- how to handle security; how do we handle not messing up your saved games and things like that.

So it’s not going to be solved for the game’s release..."

Finally he discussed plans for DLC,

"We would like to do DLC; we don’t have any specific plans yet, but they’ve been really successful and we like making them. So right now I can say that we’d like to do less DLC but bigger ones -- you know, more substantial. The Fallout 3 pace that we did was very chaotic. We did a lot of them -- we had two overlapping groups -- and we don’t know what we’re going to make yet, but we’d like them to be closer to an expansion pack feel."

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**Avatar 720**

As long as the DLCs don't have the words "Horse" and "Armour" together in the title, i'm looking forward to them.

As for the modding, continued support would be excellent. The construction set is a very simple and easy to use tool, so I hope any Skyrim tools will be similar.

**KingCracker**

Moddnig

Cmon gents, you think they will leave that out? Thats one of those big things they are known for. I bet the PC users at least will have some type of construction set. Possibly the console guys? Thats wishlisting, but I mean in all honesty, the PS3/360 could handle something like that easy.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Avatar 720 wrote:As long as the DLCs don't have the words "Horse" and "Armour" together in the title, i'm looking forward to them.

As for the modding, continued support would be excellent. The construction set is a very simple and easy to use tool, so I hope any Skyrim tools will be similar.

Highlighted and QFT, its still one of the only downloads I don't own for Oblivion. Although I must admit I've not downloaded the expansion island yet either.

As to modding, would like to see it for the 360 version, I can understand the concerns though with game issues, save crashing etc. Some of the mods where quite interesting from what I could see for the PC game in Oblivion. Although some where also quite disturbing.

Of course as I only owned the 360 Oblivion, I've never got to see any of them 'in' game.

**Karon**

I'm all for DLC if its like Shivering Isles....I enjoyed the DLC a lot.

**johnscott10**

Karon wrote:I'm all for DLC if its like Shivering Isles....I enjoyed the DLC a lot.

Yea the Shivering Isle DLC was fantastic, heck even the quest chain from the Anvil chapel attack was great. Stuff along those lines would be awesome.

**Cheesecat**

I hope there's several body types like fat, skinny, muscular, average, etc.

**Battle Brother Lucifer**

I hope its like the KoTN and Shivering Isles, or even the houses that had epic benefits (Mage's Tower = spellmaking and enchanting without mages guild, etc) Rather than the FO3 DLC.

**Anvildude**

There definitely will be different body types, it seems, or at least the ability to change howthe body looks in some ways.

And I imagine the 'Modding' options for the consoles will end up being something like the Forge World mode in Halo Reach, letting you place, resize, and rotate items, maybe even create NPCs with your choice of pre-packaged AI, putting creature spawners down, that sort of thing- but I doubt you'll see many of the bigger sorts of mods that actually affect gameplay, like OOO, Midas Magic, or the various home-made meshes and 'housebooks'.

**Goliath**

Pre-order bonus has been announced, looks like you get a fancy cloth-like map for your troubles, as opposed to the standard paper version.

LINKY

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Sounds Good, now wheres the collectors edition info Bethesda. *bounces*

**Battle Brother Lucifer**

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Sounds Good, now wheres the collectors edition info Bethesda. *bounces*

Thats what I want to know. I'm gonna preorder, but I want to know if the collector's has anything good

**Kasrkai**

I like how UESP put:

"Combat with dragons is equatable to a 'debate'. To clarify, dragons speak words of power, words in the dragon's language which can have a number of different effects when spoken, such as breathing fire, pushing an opponent back, or slowing down time. Some others include summoning another dragon to fight, or calling a lightning storm."

**KingCracker**

So what happens if some proud parents, by some cruel twist of fate, named their new born baby the same name of the dragon that summons a dragon? Or summons a giant lightning storm and blows the gak out of their straw house?

**Karon**

KingCracker wrote:So what happens if some proud parents, by some cruel twist of fate, named their new born baby the same name of the dragon that summons a dragon? Or summons a giant lightning storm and blows the gak out of their straw house?

Only Dragonborn or actual Dragons can put power and meaning behind the words.

**Kasrkai**

KingCracker wrote:So what happens if some proud parents, by some cruel twist of fate, named their new born baby the same name of the dragon that summons a dragon? Or summons a giant lightning storm and blows the gak out of their straw house?

1. Give him a name to summon a dragon when it is said.
2. Do the same for that dragon.
3. Repeat for infinite dragon.

Dragon troll science

**KingCracker**

Broken. Nice job, you broke the universe

**purplefood**

Kasrkai wrote:
KingCracker wrote:So what happens if some proud parents, by some cruel twist of fate, named their new born baby the same name of the dragon that summons a dragon? Or summons a giant lightning storm and blows the gak out of their straw house?

1. Give him a name to summon a dragon when it is said.
2. Do the same for that dragon.
3. Repeat for infinite dragon.

Dragon troll science

Now you're thinking with dragons...

**Goliath**

Just went out and bought Oblivion: Game of the Year edition, which has Knights of the Nine and The Shivering Isles DLC already on it.

About to play on my first elder scrolls game

I still don't know what kind of character I'm going to make though

**Battle Brother Lucifer**

I'm torn now between going and continuing my guy in Oblivion (level 31) or making a new guy in Morrowind...
What do, dakka?

**johnscott10**

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:I'm torn now between going and continuing my guy in Oblivion (level 31) or making a new guy in Morrowind...
What do, dakka?

Purely because I like Oblivion more id say go with Oblivion lol.

**Anvildude**

Morrowind. If you've played Oblivion through once, you've played all there is. Morrowind, however, is much more replayable.

**djones520**

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:I'm torn now between going and continuing my guy in Oblivion (level 31) or making a new guy in Morrowind...
What do, dakka?

I played through and beat Oblivions main story, then went back and created a new character to explore everything else. I LOVED Morrowind, but I just can't get back into it after seeing the graphics of Oblivion.

**Orlanth**

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:I'm torn now between going and continuing my guy in Oblivion (level 31) or making a new guy in Morrowind...
What do, dakka?

Silly question, the answer is both.

Its not the character or the game anymore, its the mods you choose.

**Anvildude**

And if you have the GotY edition of Morrowind, you can get Morrowblivion and play both at the same time!

**Orlanth**

Anvildude wrote:And if you have the GotY edition of Morrowind, you can get Morrowblivion and play both at the same time!

You can?

I know some mods will upgrade Morrowind graphics to the point where they are almost indistinguishable from Oblvion in quality, but I dont see how you can port characters from one province to another unless someon recreates one world in another game engine.

**purplefood**

Decided to finish the tedious main quest on Oblivion...
The ending sucks...