alexl86

It's been stated, but you can get all your skills to 100. You won't get all those perks though. You level by increasing your skills, but unlike Morrowind and Oblivion, there's no set number of skill raises to level up. If your Destruction is 71 and your One-handed is 23, it takes fewer skill raises in Destruction to level up than One-handed (and you'll have better perks available in Destruction since your skill is so much higher), so it pays to specialize.

You stop getting perks when you stop leveling, but I don't know what the actual cap is. You reach the cap when you can't increase anymore skills and it's the same for all races.

Well, a TV has borders at the edges that aren't present at a PC screen, which cuts of a good chunk of what you can see. Some TVs have support for that stuff, but if you have a very basic model, like me, it's not as simple as just hooking the PC to the TV with HDMI, though I did try.

I went from playing with a PS2 controller to playing with a 360 controller this generation. I was sort of eased into it by playing 360 games at a friend's house, it didn't take very long to get comfortable with it. While I think the 360 controller is a little better to hold (the PS3 controller always felt so light, like it was going to break), I will say that PS controllers in general have much, much better d-pads.

It's almost more annoying to go from 360 to the Wii classic controller, because of the reversed placements of the face buttons.

I'll try to explain the leveling to the best of my ability:

Unlike in Fallout where you get 50 experience for killing a Deathclaw, then assign skill points when you gain enough experience to level up, in Skyrim you become more proficient from using the skill. Striking a bandit with a one-handed sword will increase the one-handed skill. The skill increases determine when you level up.

When you level up you assign 10 points to one of your three attributes; Health, Magicka or Stamina. In addition, you gain a perk to assign. Unlike Fallout where you choose from a list, each perk is tied to a skill tree and each one, except the first, has a skill requirement and a prerequisite perk. You can't take a perk higher up in the tree without taking the perk/s below.

You level much more slowly after level 50. You can still keep leveling by increasing skills that haven't reached 100 yet, but once all your skills reach 100, it stops. You'll be around level 70 when this happens. You'll keep getting perks and attribute increases above level 50.

As odd as it sounds, dwarves were elves, with big bushy beards. They were engineers, they made all those yellow robots(well, no really robots) you fight in Morrowind, and their ruins seem to be several hundreds of years more technologically advance than the rest of Tamriel. They went extinct under very mysterious circumstances(well, not entirely).

I have no feelings towards spiders one way or another, but that may have to do with there not being any spiders that can actually kill you where I live.

I can't imagine it will be a common occurrence. It's annoying if it happens, but if it only happens once I'll look past it.

I'd suggest Lightsaber from the Jedi Knight series, the only problem being it stops being a shooter after you obtain it...

I dunno. Looking back, most of the spells I made were overly powerful destruction spells, or spells to overcome specific limitations of the game.

I think the new spell system should work out well. Instead of having 30 different spells that do one thing, with varying degrees of damage, you'll have fewer spells with a greater variety of effects that level up with you.

If you love Fallout and Fantasy, this is like a combination of those. There's a reason why people called Fallout 3 "Oblivion with guns". There are no story hooks from previous games in this, though there will probably be some reference to the events of Oblivion.