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Now: The First Skyrim Trailer

By Alec Meer on February 24th, 2011 at 2:53 pm.

No, you can't take him from there, mate

Edit: Below: it’s below! And it looks amayayayayayazing. Get a move on and watch it, Dragon-Born.

Bethesda has a clock, a magic clock of ultra-teasing. They’ve put it over here. When it runs out – in about ten minutes from now which is now – you’ll be able to see the first-ever in-game footage from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Hopefully embeddable versions will be along soon afterwards, but in the meantime, head over there and stare, stare like you’ve never stared before, then stop staring and hopefully start dribbling a little bit when the trailer itself arrives.

It’s below!

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Yessir, that is a videogame. And that music, hey? That there’s music for adventure.

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  1. pakoito says:

    GLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW I CAN’T WAIT I CAN’T WAIT I CAN’T GLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

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  2. Falfa says:

    Less than 2 minutes. I’m excited

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    • I’m not.

      Looks exceptionally well produced… generic fantasy bollocks. It DOES seem to avoid that horrendous Oblivion Shine ™ that look like it came from the Uncanny Valley.

      But this needs more fucking dungeons. Overworlds are over-done.

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    • Jesse L says:

      Yup. It looks pretty similar to Oblivion. If you watched this trailer without knowing what the game was, I think you’d be able to guess you’re watching some relation of Oblivion. Can’t say much more than that based on this trailer. I’m still very curious about how the fighting of the dragons is actually going to work. Little or none of the fight we see here seems to be gameplay footage. We have some split-second glimpses of other fights. They looked…similar to fights in Oblivion.
      Didn’t learn a lot from this one. It’s what I’d expect. I’m surprised at all the comments I’ve seen where people seem to be drooling and rolling around on the floor at the sight of the trailer – not here so much as elsewhere. Much mention of erections and ejaculate. Shouldn’t be surprised; it is the Internet, duh.
      Honestly though, no trailer could show me what I most want to know about an Elder Scrolls game. I’m not the primary audience for this. Got to wait for the hands-on impressions.

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    • Bret says:

      Needs more… dungeons… as overworlds are… overdone.

      Really. This is an opinion people have.

      Huh.

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  3. SprintJack says:

    Haha, just when your twitter message showed up WMP started playing The Final Countdown :D

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  4. frightlever says:

    That was never going to end well.

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  5. pakoito says:

    F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5

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  6. duncanthrax says:

    Black screen now

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  7. bill says:

    I see a black page. Yay!

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  8. pakoito says:

    It was like that 5 minutes ago, now the page is gone. F5 still.

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  9. Tizoc says:

    It’s still black.

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  10. duncanthrax says:

    Now it’s timing out. Way to go, wingnuts!

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  11. Tizoc says:

    It works now!
    Edit : Hmmmm no.

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  12. Mitza says:

    Maybe it’s just a really, really, really dark game :)

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  13. Mike Williams says:

    I can’t even get on the page, so much traffic!

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  14. beefchief says:

    So is Skyrim just blackness?

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  15. Shatners Bassoon says:

    My F5 key is borked! Noooooo!

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  16. Carnius says:

    Well i’m not surprised.

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  17. AndrewC says:

    Elder Scrolls 5: Oblivion 2: Morrowind 0

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  18. Samonite says:

    AAAAAnd we ruined the website….

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  19. Tizoc says:

    No not at all : i’s white now, except for that strange message written in black.
    Edit : It’s all white now, but it’s okay we all now there’s lots of snow in this one.

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  20. frags says:

    It’s just a white page…

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  21. Centy says:

    Oh it’s like waiting on a Steam release.

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  22. Dan Twomey says:

    Crowded round a monitor at work, refreshing constantly. I’m experiencing child like glee!

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    • Curvespace says:

      Hah. Alright Dan. Feel a bit sad I’m not in today to see your gleeful little boy face.

      (That was sounded camper than it was intended to).

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  23. zind says:

    RPS broke the interwebs!

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  24. TillEulenspiegel says:

    Well I got as far as a language selector. Then it’s timing out again.

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    • Samonite says:

      I tried to open the source of the website to get the direct link to the video.. but I only got the code to the language selector/verification site :(

      Edit:
      Anyone got that btw?

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  25. gingerpembers says:

    WTB : F5 key

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  26. mickiscoole says:

    Finally getting something different!



    Oh wait, its a 500 error :(

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  27. doctorfawkes says:

    Betheeeesdaaaaaa. Why u no make website work???

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  28. Website still won’t load.
    Sadface.

    I lied! Its loading very very slowly.

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  29. The Sombrero Kid says:

    I don’t understand why their goal was to bring down their own website and frustrate their fans, they could at least’ve mirrored it some places. :(

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  30. Jockie says:

    It asked me for my language which was exciting, but now it will probably time out again.

    Edit: Yup.

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  31. Mr Wonderstuff says:

    Thats the trailer not the gameplay video.

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  32. MuscleHorse says:

    I’ve got a white screen, does that mean I get a special ingame item?

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  33. frags says:

    Y U NO HAZ BACKUP PLAN!

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  34. stahlwerk says:

    Mark one up for the ‘Shotgun. *smugface*

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  35. Samonite says:

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSRtYpNRoN0 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  36. Unaco says:

    People should have more patience, it is a virtue after all. Possibly even a virtue of Kings. Although, saying that, punctuality is the politeness of Kings. So… I’m thinking that we aren’t Kings (as we lack patience) and Bethesda aren’t Kings (because they fail at punctuality). Maybe we should get together and try and overthrow a monarchy or two, fuelled by our jealousy of not being Kings.

    OK, maybe Bethesda just shouldn’t set dates and times at which they are going to reveal or release things. They should just surprise us in future.

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  37. frightlever says:

    In unrelated news, Skyrim’s release date pushed back two weeks as Bethesda suffers extraordinary internet outage.

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  38. TheApologist says:

    Most predictably broken website in history?

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  39. AndrewC says:

    Weeeeell, i’m really not feeling them male voices trying to sing the theme tune. It sounds like an extremely classy fan-song, which is to say it feels like voices and tune don’t *quite* fit.

    It looks nice enough, but I worry that those vistas we saw were designed as vistas and not play areas. Like, they’re really nice to look at from a distance or soar over but a bit linear and dull to walk around at ground level.

    Unless, of course, they been *designed* to be soared over…

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  40. Bhazor says:

    A counter that crashes the server when it reaches zero.
    Awesome.

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  41. mjig says:

    http://cms.elderscrolls.com/sites/default/files/tes/trailer_downloads/TESVSkyrim_OfficialTrailer_UK_
    HD_0.wmv

    Trailer download for those having problems viewing it from the site. The download is sort or slow but better than not being able to see it.

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  42. TDM says:

    The trailer worked fine for me – I wish the water looked a little less Minecraft-y in the flow, but I don’t have too many complaints. Also, it looks like there’ll be a backstabbing mechanism.

    GW2 and Skyrim? My college education is going down in a fiery blaze of medieval fantasy video games.

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  43. Blackberries says:

    Yeah, looks alright.

    Though the animation on that dragon taking off at the end looked peculiar to me. Awkward and weightless.

    Addendum: The backstabby looking thing particularly excites me. Fingers crossed for some well-implemented roguery!

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    • LimEJET says:

      I thought the same about it crashing down. It was like it finished animating, and then clicked into place.

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  44. Vague-rant says:

    Turns out the blank screen was the trailer. A sign of bugs to come.

    Edit; Looks alright. Don’t feel like there’s a lot to be excited about. But I would’ve liked to see the guy drop the sword and punch the dragon in the face.

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  45. outoffeelinsobad says:

    MAX VON SYDOW!!!

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  46. El_MUERkO says:

    First person sword and shield positioning just looks wrong. It looks like you’re showing them to someone, arms outstretched, “This is my sword, this is my shield, teacher gave me a gold star!”.

    Finishing moves look cool but fighting doesn’t seem to have moved on from oblivion, it looks stunted and odd. I was hoping they had learned some lessons in first person movement and immersion from Dark Messiah and Mirrors Edge but it doesn’t look like it.

    Also at 1:33 in the video there seems to be a 3rd person view where you do some kind of spinning attack that doesn’t hit the enemy but causes blood splatter. WTF is that about!?! Can we not do hit detection in 2011?!

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    • BigJonno says:

      Weapon positioning in first person games is tricky. Assuming that you’re right-handed, an offensive stance would have your shield held quite close to your body (so it can’t be pulled away easily) and it would only be on the very periphery of your vision. Your sword would be held right across your field of vision, which is fine in reality when you can look past it, but a complete pain in the arse on a 2D screen.

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  47. Teronfel says:

    It’s EPIC!!!!

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  48. Tizoc says:

    It looked nice but we have yet to see actual gameplay, and I agree with AndrewC : that song is really not better with those voices.

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    • empfeix says:

      There was actual first person gameplay. It’s only a couple of seconds but it is there.

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  49. Basilicus says:

    Ahem.

    Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

    That is all.

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  50. diebroken says:

    “What daring! What outrageousness! What insolence! What arrogance!… I salute you.”

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  51. Sarlix says:

    Yay we have video – good job RPS – even though it is running at 2 FPS.

    Also did he just kill that dragon with a steel short sword!?

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  52. Selix says:

    I only hope this will have suave David Gaider dialog.

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  53. DrGonzo says:

    Another ancient prophecy eh? How original and interesting.

    I was quite excited about this as Morrowind is one of my favourite games. But really it looked incredibly bland to me. I am disapoint, unfortunately. I want my giant mushroom houses, and zombie robot dwarfs. Not generic Norse mythology! Although, it is more interesting than generic Tolkien world from Oblivion I suppose.

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    • drewski says:

      Yeah, it’s almost like ancient prophecies are the whole point of Elder Scrolls games. Like, there’s some kind of…old…document…thing…involved.

      Old Parchment?
      Older Writings?
      Ancient Texts?

      Hmm, it’s there somewhere.

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    • Selix says:

      Actually, this looks more like the generic Tolkien setting as depicted in his mythology than Oblivion does.

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    • Wilson says:

      I dunno, if they do it right the world can still be interesting even if it’s mostly based on generic Norse fantasy. I can’t really remember any noteworthy locations in Oblivion (except maybe the capital), but there were a few distinct looking places in that trailer. Though of course we don’t know how representative that is of the actual game. It certainly looked more interesting than Oblivion in terms of atmosphere. I don’t want more Morrowind mushroom trees etc (wonderful as they were), I want somewhere new and interesting. In all honesty, this probably isn’t it, but hey, who knows?

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    • DrGonzo says:

      So it’s called Elder Scrolls, and that means EVERY bloody story is, big evil will destroy the world, chosen one must save it?

      I don’t see the logic in that one. Scrolls are mentioned in the title so we are only allowed to have ANCIENT PROPHECIES OF DOOM!

      I guess I should give up on the franchise. The first two games were set in generic fantasy land too. It’s just Morrowind that stands out from the rest. So it’s foolish of me to expect something interesting in the first place to be honest.

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    • Pointless Puppies says:

      I wonder if people get a personal adrenaline rush from crapping on a series in the article in which the first footage of the newest game just gets announced.

      It’s obvious you’ve never cared about the series given you think it’s all “generic fantasy land” apart from one game. Nobody cares if you’ve never found it interesting, buddy. We’re enjoying the trailer, go play your other games.

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    • Zephro says:

      Maybe I’m also a grumpy arse but I got the same feeling. While Oblivion was interesting from a tech/game design point of view the conversations/dialog/voice acting all left me cold, things had a identi-kit feel to them and the same went for the setting (generic western fantasy).

      The only thing that stuck in my mind which involved them flexing their creative muscles rather than technical ones was the quest in the painting. That was just to show off an “oil painting” pixel shader really.

      I’ll be impressed if the technical muscle goes into AI or procedural systems for making the cities come to life a bit more.

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    • drewski says:

      Gonzo – yes, an Elder Scrolls game means ancient prophecies, ancient evils, and a player character chosen by destiny and the Gods to save the Empire (or part of it). That’s an Elder Scrolls game. If you don’t want those things, don’t play an Elder Scrolls game.

      Just like you play a Fallout game for a post apocalyptic wasteland, and you play a Mass Effect game for a sci-fi shoot and talk; a Doom game for Mars based demon killing etc. You wouldn’t complain about Half Life 3 featuring the Combine or Portal 2 being about portals, I hope.

      If you don’t like the tropes of a series, don’t play the series. The whole point of Elder Scrolls games is that you fulfill ancient prophecies. That IS an Elder Scrolls game.

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    • Zephro says:

      Except he said he liked Morrowind….. duh.

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  54. mandrill says:

    Okay. So. Trailer wise.

    Guild Wars 2: 0 Skyrim: 1

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  55. Koozer says:

    Mmm the Oblivion theme is right up there with the Battlefield 1942 theme.

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    • suibhne says:

      Sigh, kids these days. *grumble* It’s the Morrowind theme, not the Oblivion theme. Oblivion took it from Morrowind.

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  56. westyfield says:

    Never played an Elder Scrolls game before but that music gave me chills. I am excited about this one.

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  57. utharda says:

    There can be only one?

    looks good actually looks very good. Funny but I’m more excited about actual human looking faces from the screenshot last week than the video. but yeah I’m excited.

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  58. disperse says:

    The video was playing pretty choppy for me; so, a pretty realistic impression of what it will be like playing it on my laptop.

    Yea for giants, dragons, and stealth kills!

    Boo for wild dogs that attack you randomly!

    That’s really all I got from the video.

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  59. Zyrusticae says:

    Well.

    I am impressed. Granted, my expectations were Oblivion 2.0, so it is easy to eclipse them. Still, I actually got goosebumps watching that thing, and that’s somethin’.

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  60. Bloodrite says:

    Not to be a stick in the mud…

    But I have this horrible nagging feeling it’s gonna be some horrible console port.. all the screenies I’ve seen are xbox >_>

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  61. Ultra Superior says:

    TRU DRAGON AGE

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  62. LionsPhil says:

    Look, RPS, I know you’ve got to pay the bills, but can you please grab your advertisers by the shoulders and shake violently while yelling at them to stop running ads that sit in tight loops written by interns? These damn SHOGUN 2 ones, once they get past the text, sit there and max out a core each. And that starves the damn video player. :(

    Adblock is clearly not a desirable solution here.

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    • Ludden says:

      @LionsPhil

      Wow, just checked and it indeed uses about half of my CPU – the equivalent of one of its cores. I often have RPS up on my browser in the background and it’s one of the few sites I have ad-block disabled for, but I can’t justify that kind of power consumption.

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    • bastronaut says:

      Surfing the Internet is best done on a Mac with ClickToFlash installed.

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  63. CMaster says:

    So you level up by eating dragons?
    Novel.

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  64. Daniel Klein says:

    That’s not bad at all.

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  65. Dragons are the new zombies? Why are either of these things so overused, anyway? Is it just to excite the inner child? Are most devs really this lacking in imagination? It looks like Beth have stepped up their game, but their game is still one of hackneyed western fantasy.

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    • drewski says:

      Yeah! There’s a whole one other Western RPG on the market that features dragons! TOTAL OVERKILL GUYS

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    • AndrewC says:

      Looks more like Barnet to me.

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    • Davie says:

      It’s not like this is a surprise. Dragons have been referenced in pretty much every Elder Scrolls game. Admittedly, it’s not the most original idea, but if they replaced the dragons with something else, people would still complain.

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    • Pointless Puppies says:

      It’s not like Bethesda just decided to go with dragons after Oblivion, you know. Dragons existed in the series universe since the very beginning, and all the events of the previous games fulfilled the prophecy that the dragons were going to come.

      If you want to complain about hackneyed story elements, you should complain that Elder Scrolls 1 had them in the first place, not Skyrim.

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    • Nick says:

      psh, existence is so cliche.

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  66. MrWolf says:

    I need a new keyboard.

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  67. ivsound says:

    Ridiculous music.

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  68. sinister agent says:

    I have to say I normally am annoyed by and so ignore game trailers that don’t show how the game actually plays. But this is really well done, and the new take on the “da da da, da da da, da da da, dadada da da” (official lyrics) music theme is much better than Oblivion’s. Fun stuff. Let’s hope the gameplay fixes the millions of whiney complaints we’ve had over the years.

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  69. Kdansky says:

    The textures are so incredibly high res, they start to dither and pixel quite a bit (check the trees, they “flicker”). Hopefully decent AA will get rid of that.

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  70. FunnyB says:

    Anyone else thought that he almost said “DRAGONBALLZ!” at 1:07? :D

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  71. omicron1 says:

    This trailer suffers from aiming for a T-rating.

    Two spots in particular that stand out:
    The effect of the “dragon shout” is not shown – it supposedly did a lot of damage to the dragon, but the camera takes us whizzing past the supposed bloody carnage and out into the snowy wilderness.

    Furthermore, while the warrior seems to have ripped open the dragon’s stomach/internals just before it crashes (this being a reason why it dies at that point) you don’t really see much evidence of this – a smattering of blood, and then the dragon falls to the ground.

    Compare with, say, the prior Dragon Age II trailers, which have shown significantly more violence, and it becomes evident (to me at least) that Bethesda are courting a T-rating.

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    • rei says:

      But they’ve said they expect an M rating, and it says PEGI 18 which is an adult classification right there at the start of the video.

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    • Pointless Puppies says:

      Dragon Age in general just has a comical amount of violence.

      I’m personally interested in the actual game, not how violent it is. It could rated Early Childhood for all I care. Bethesda has said before it’ll very likely have an M rating, but all the while I don’t know why you’re talking about “courting for a T rating” as it if were bad. Do remember that Morrowind (the game that everyone loves to death for some reason) had a T rating, and it wasn’t any worse for it.

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    • omicron1 says:

      Maybe not the game, but the trailer seems stilted and unnatural – as if it’s pausing one step before awesomeness, holding back just that little bit and being the worse for it.

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    • rei says:

      Could be, but the release is still far away and I expect they want to save some punches for later as well. The detailed effects of the dragon shouts are probably one such thing.

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    • Berzee says:

      It wouldn’t be weird to think the trailer is awesome or is not awesome. What would be weird is to think that it is not awesome but that simply adding gore would make it awesome.

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  72. James G says:

    One thing I’m liking about Skyrim, is that its really looking like it’ll have a sense of place, while at the same time maintaining a bit of variety in its environments. If the promises of hand on tweaking of environments are accurate, and the world doesn’t end up feeling like it was pieced together from a few identikit elements, then it looks like Skyrim may succeed where Oblivion failed.

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    • DrGonzo says:

      Snow, snowy mountains, and caves?

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    • James G says:

      It’s a bit more diverse than that. I note a few different varieties of forest, distinctive habitations, costal areas, as well as diversification in the more mountainous areas, from snowy planes, to fjords (or some other steep sided mountain valley formations) and lightly forested slopes.

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    • Pointless Puppies says:

      Yeah, all the screenshots/previews have shown (and Bethesda has explicitly said) that the game will have a large variety of different environments. They’re only showing the snowy areas in major screenshots/releases because the game takes place in Nord country, the area known for being cold and icy, as a preemptive way to shut up the whiners who would undoubtedly go “WAH WAH WAH SKYRIM IS SUPPOSED TO BE COLD”.

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    • Maykael says:

      I agree with you. This environments really look more diverse. I hope they do pull it off. If you remember in Morrowind almost every city and surrounding environments had their own style l, something that was truly missing from Oblivion. It was a joy to explore that damn island! Here’s to a return to form for the Elder Scrolls series.

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    • Eschatos says:

      I have never gotten why people think Oblivion’s environment is generic. It’s one province that’s been settled for thousands of years, so of course there are going to be similarities. The terrain usually wasn’t exciting, but it was unique and after a while of playing I was able to tell where I was by the plants that grew there. Sure it wasn’t Morrowind crazy, but neither are most RPGs, and I never hear anything else denounce for generic environments.

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    • Zephro says:

      Because every dungeon, cave system, fort were build out of the same lego bricks as each other? Pretty sure that’s got something to do with it.
      EDIT: People denounce Dragon Age for having a slightly generic element to the whole thing. They just love it because it actually had 3 dimensional characters to cover over that fact. Oh and actual voice actors.

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  73. jackflash says:

    Looks better than Dragon Age 2, that’s for damn sure.

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    • Kdansky says:

      Considering DA2 looks really bad, that’s no surprise. The demo was incredibly ugly, with uninteresting textures, bad colour choices (reddishbrowngrey for everything that is not an iris), fire that looked more like black and white fireworks than flames and to top it all off, high res textures that look bad from a distance, because the details just become a soup of random pixels.

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  74. Spliter says:

    So… anyone knows if you’ll be able to fly the dragons?
    That would be the best thing ever if they did it well (contrary to almost all of the current games that let you fly dragons).

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    • thegooseking says:

      I played Oblivion the other week, just to reminisce. “Oh! Hey! A horse! I used to love riding horses in Oblivion!”

      A few seconds later… “This is boring. I want to play Red Dead Redemption.”

      The bar for mounted gameplay has been well and truly raised, and I’d rather Bethesda didn’t try to meet it than try to meet it and fail badly.

      That said, dragons are not horses, and maybe Bethesda could do for dragons what Rockstar San Diego did for horses, and totally define how riding them is supposed to be in video games.

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    • rei says:

      You won’t be riding dragon, which is good [source: GI podcast]. I can’t take a dragon seriously if they let some erect monkey make them a pet.

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    • drewski says:

      You’re not just any erect monkey though – you’re an erect monkey(elf/lizard/cat) that is the living embodiment of ancient prophecy, the most powerful mortal being on the planet, the tool of the Gods themselves.

      Compared to you, a dragon is just a big horse with bad breath.

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  75. RDG says:

    Ruined my pants. The king of RPGs is back.

    The engine looks great, especially seeing this is Xbox material. Will look even better on a proper PC with high resolution. Also a great sign to come for Fallout 4.

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  76. Jumwa says:

    More glorious than I had imagined. The footage looks amazing, and I feel a tinge of what I felt for Morrowind, as opposed to Oblivion. I think it’s the more exotic locale of Skyrim being a notch above Cyrodiil’s more typical fantasy setting. Certainly nothing as exotic as Morrowind, but still, nice.

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  77. Eggy says:

    The King is back baby!

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  78. Joe Maley says:

    Ugly water, and you can see that it has the persistent blood, as seen in dragon age.

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    • Urthman says:

      zero cheers for Dragon Age blood spatters. Bet the mod to remove those will be one of the first available.

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  79. JFS says:

    OH! HELL! F*CKING! YEAH!

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  80. uzihead says:

    It must be may slavic neurons that made me cry. Or maybe the fact that I was born at -30 Celsius… I am still crying and still listen this heavenly vikingly heroical music. And for me the engine is unimportant, since they kept the same aesthetic architectural style of the game.

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  81. blorg says:

    The music reminds me very strongly of morrowind.. In fact: compare 1:10 in the video to 1:10 in this video morrowind theme.

    Interesting!

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    • Maykael says:

      Damn it! That brought back some fucking nice memories.. I love Morrowind!:) Thank you, my good man!

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    • Nick says:

      Well, yeah, its the same theme they used in Oblivion only with chaps singing over it this time, which was a more upbeat version of the Morrowind theme.

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    • suibhne says:

      Oblivion reused/remixed the same theme, and this Skyrim version is closer to Oblivion’s. Still, you’re absolutely right.

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  82. Iskariot says:

    I’m a bit sick of the boring cliche portrayal of dragons as the greatest evil things in the universe and you, the player, being the only hero able to defeat them, blablablabla etc. etc. etc. I hope this game will feature a story a little bit more interesting and far more unpredictable than that.

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  83. mollemannen says:

    BEHOLD! you fight dragons in this one!

    so whats more?

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  84. Skystrider says:

    It does look mighty nice… But can it beat The Witcher 2?
    Looks to me like both games have their work cut out for them.

    Dovahkiin versus Geralt. Who would win a fight?
    Bets on the table folks. ^.^

    (of course, us gamers are the true winners regardless).

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    • Tei says:

      Choosing betwen The Witcher and this will be horrible. I think both are different games, so probably both will be worth player. Is just a matter to organize schedules, maybe delay one to a later time.

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  85. Soon says:

    I thought they were doing something different with the dragons, making them distinct. They look exactly like how I’d expect a fantasy dragon to look., which is a shame. But maybe that’s just Mr Boring Dragon and the others have some personality of their own, as they’ve done with the Gods and Daedra.

    Still, looking forward to actually play it.

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  86. neolith says:

    Pure black shadows when surrounded by the whitest snow. :( Doesn’t the gamebryo engine offer gamma 2.2 color correction?

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  87. Urthman says:

    Any one else crack up at the way he says “DRAGONBONE!” in this and the other trailers?

    It’s like his old buddy just walked into the pub. “DRAGONBONE! Great to see ya! How’ve ya been?”

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  88. MDS says:

    A countdown to a trailer… I like the TES series but isn’t this teasing getting slightly ridiculous…

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  89. GHudston says:

    Oh my… that looks gorgeous.

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  90. Aemony says:

    SKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM!!!!

    It’s great to see Bethesda still knows where’s the action at. I’m so going to buy this one!

    And damn, I want to build myself a new desktop simply for this game!

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  91. Vitruality says:

    The main thing that bored me about oblivion was that it was all so bland and characterless. This might still be a bit generic, but it does look like it has a bit more personality to it, so I’m cautiously optimistic.

    Also, given that Bethesda can only afford about four voice actors per game, for this one could they just make all of them Max Von Sydow? Even the women? That would be awesome.

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  92. Xercies says:

    Is that the morrowind music brought back and sounding a lot more epic?

    If so colour me excited.

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  93. Tei says:

    That music make me feel very strong emotions. Is a mix of nostalgia and wonder and awesomeness. My pockets are wide open. After about 4 seconds of such music, I have decided to pre-pre-pre-pre-order thing. I would happily pay 40€ for this game.

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  94. Huw_Dawson says:

    I’m sure glad that they didn’t HALT development of this series. There would have been many, many gamers seeking VENGEANCE…

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  95. Angryinternetman says:

    I cant wait to start modding this bad boy ;)

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  96. bill says:

    I like the daggerfall music best.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_MY0ihuJZc

    PS/ How long til this gets the best review scores ever and we can all start hating it for the next 4 years while talking about how great Oblivion was?

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  97. Vaerriek says:

    That looks fun. Hope you can jump on the dragon and stab it in the head over and over. (While it is flying)

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  98. yhalothar says:

    Yes! A new engine for Obsidian’s Fallout games!
    *fingers crossed*

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  99. bastronaut says:

    Bethesda just invented their own personal unlimited money printing press. Oh, sorry, these days it’s an ATM. Whatever. This thing will sell ten million copies. In the first month. Then John Carmack will have even more money to make rockets. Yay!

    Can I have a multiplayer version? Is that too much to ask?

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  100. SanguineAngel says:

    probable quote there

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  101. Nick says:

    you think that water looks like “total crap”? Really?

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