The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, In Motion

So here's a quick experiment: 
 
Mute the trailer.  
Watch again. 
Notice how most of it is laid back shots of animals running quietly across a forest and a calm river and people going about their business in a few towns. 
 
Go give the man that arranged the TES main theme for the trailer his first award already. 
 
This may be the best example of music making a small thing feel huge since Back to the Future. Kudos.

God, I love the music in this trailer.

OH GOD GIANT SPIDERS. 
 
Now I can't play this game.  
 
Just kidding - I'll play it while looking out of the corner of my eyes since I hate seeing spiders so much. 
 
Looks good - environments look good, animations are reasonable, lighting and movement seems alright.... but I still see a hint of Gamebryo in this. Especially in the First person fighting scenes. I could be completely wrong though, but I think they've carried a bit of that Gamebryo "magic" into this game. 

I want to stomp around on those mountains so badly.
 
Good trailer, it gets across: Yo, there are dragons, you can be a Frazetta/Conan lookin' barbarian, or you can sneak around and throat-stab folk, or shoot magic at them, also arrows.  And yo, there are different landscapes and biomes an' shit.
 
Jeremy Soule is so effing great.  The music is like 50% of the trailer's impact.
 
It looks like they read my mind when they made Skyrim - my favourite area was the Jerrall mountains around Bruma, were it was rocky and snowy with forested valleys, so they set a whole game in such an environment.  
 
Super stoked.

I can't believe how much better that looks than oblivion.

The music is great, the actual gameplay still looks as janky as ever.. meh.

That looked great! This saddens me, way too many good games coming out so close to each other :(

omg can't wait

This is truly the Age of Dragons!
 
also, I understand that putting the helmet on the dude let players imagine their own character, but it looked kinda awkward, would've been cooler without hishelmet

Chills... But that may just have been the music.

Oh, man. I can't wait.

"
Titty Fucking Christ  
this is awesome "

" Dragon age marketing team take note THATS how you do a fantasy RPG trailer  "

I never got into Oblivion, but this really is something else.

I never played much of TES games, but this does make me very excited if the next Fallout game uses this engine.

" Is it just me, or does the game look a lot less open-worldy than Oblivion? "

" The music is great, the actual gameplay still looks as janky as ever.. meh. "

Looks super nice.  I don't see the tech actually being more impressive than anything we haven't already seen, just looks like it is more optimized for the whole open world thing. 
I don't know but I didn't see anything resembling city walls so maybe that was a small town or they are doing away with separating cities and the world. 
But what is most important for me and not having city walls may play into this is please Jesus, Please Bethesda, please Superman, do something about the FUCKING LOAD TIMES!!!

I am so excited about this. I need to go back and finish Oblivion now.

I love the music, so majestic! =)

Looks good. I didn't really like Oblivion, but I will give this a shot because I like both Fallout 3 and New Vegas, which means I most likely got over my rpg in first-person hang ups.

Giant Bomb has to introduce trailer of the year award as this kind of stuff shouldnt go unnoticed no matter how good or bad the game is. Epic!

That just made my day...
 
the moment i recognised the song gave me chills.
 
...also my pc just tried committing suicide

I'm glad I got a full time job a few months back as I was unhealthily addicted to trying to get achievements and now I feel like I don't care enough about them anymore. Which makes me happy because ahcievements used to be a big factor in my decision of Pc or Xbox 360 version. PC ALL THE WAY! This game looks amazing both graphically and gameplay wise.

This looks like it could potential one of the best things ever

Hells yeha

" I NEED A TIME MACHINE. I want this game so bad. "

I showed this video to your grandma and she crapped herself silly. GOTY fo sure.

Fuck yeah.

When the truth finally dawned, it dawns in FAI-URRRRRRRR!!!!

When they said "Dragonborn" and the guy screamed and the main theme started up.
 
I got chills man, CHILLS!

oooo....i've got that cold chill goin down my spine

I for one am stoked for this one.  I just hope being a Thief type is as viable as it was in Oblivion.  I plan on fencing my way to the top.  The quests are what really made Oblivion shine so I look forward to seeing the superb Betheseda writing at work.

" When they said "Dragonborn" and the guy screamed and the main theme started up.  I got chills man, CHILLS! "

Fucking AMAZING is what it is.

" First day pickup! "

the music is so awesome hope they release a soundtrack

*looks at Dragon Age 2*
*looks at this*
...
King back

god dammit im such a elder scrolls slut, this game looks so good

Stunning music, the moment he shouts is.. well stunning. 

dude fuuuuuuuuuuu    *eyes roll back*

" Stunning music, the moment he shouts is.. well stunning.  "

Bonerrific.

Max Von Sydow....nuff said.

I didn't want to say this because I love Bioware games too much, but move over Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2, because Skyrim is my most anticipated game of 2011!

1:30 Guys! Guys! Did you see that diagonal walking animation!?Holy....that's it DAY 1 PURCHASE!