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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, In Motion

Here's your first look at the gameplay in Bethesda's next role-playing opus.

Feb. 24 2011

Posted by: Brad

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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Tennmuerti

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Can't deny that music in the trailer is insanely good.

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Made me teary-eyed, no joke.

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Edited By ch3burashka

People constantly talk about graphics. However, there's something... else about TES V and Rage. They look better, sure, but they also look different. Everything has a weight to it, a presence. There's a ton more "things" to see, and it all looks fleshed out. To use a cliche (a relatively new one), every screen looks like a painting in terms of attention to detail and detail itself. 
 
Actual gameplay this early on is very promising - it means that there's even less of a chance of a delay. Granted, the chance goes down from 95% to 90%, but even that is exhilarating. Hopefully we'll be able to use Xmas break to play TES, as opposed to getting it two months later and being forced to find time.

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This has been up for hours already.

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@wewantsthering: 
Yeah, hopefully this means that they will borrow some other things of Morrowind as well :)
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GOODBYE MAH, GOODBYE PAH AND GOODBYE GIRLFRIEND'S BREASTS.

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God Damn! I want this game so much.

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I just wet myself.

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Best of 2011.

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FUCK YEAH.
 
This is what I've been waiting for.  I just want to mainline everything I see in this video.
 
I can't wait for more information.

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I hope it still has at least some of Bethesda's trademark open-world jank.  Wouldn't be any fun if it was all gone.

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Edited By jmrwacko

Here's to hoping they fix the major problems Oblivion had - the terrible skill-up system and glass-armor wearing bandits.

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The trailer looked really cool, but I don't think I should get my hopes up. 
 
I have both Morrowind and Oblivion and finished neither.  So I don't have a good track record with the series.  Plus it is Bethesda and their games aren't exactly bug free at launch. 
 
But it looks good....maybe I should actually try and play more than a couple of hours of Oblivion.

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Hopefully it doesn't play exactly like Oblivion, because I didn't like the way that played. 
 
Looks great though.

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This trailer should carry a warning--I just peed my pant's!

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Don't care much for this, but I think Fallout 4 is gonna be awesome with this engine.

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before this trailer I was going to pationtly wait for Skyrim... now I might be willing to scalp myself to have the full game right now
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Incredible.

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Love love love that theme.

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One thing I will agree on, though - Jeremy Soule is still the fucking man.

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@WEGGLES said: 
" Great. Now I have to explain why I'm late for dinner and pitching a huge tent.  "
Just imagine all the dinners you'll be late for after 11.11.11!
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Are we there yet?

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Here be f*cking dragons!

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No motion controlled multi-player spanking.  LAME.

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Dude must have a Weirding Module on that suit of armor :D

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My eyes actually teared up when that choir kicked in, and I couldn't stop smiling for a few minutes. I don't know if that says more about the game, the music, or me as a person... The Elder Scrolls theme is amazing, though. Jeremy Soule is brilliant!

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At first I was like whats the hype about. 
Then I was like infinite boners.

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DRAGONBONE!

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FUCK YES!!!

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Amazing... There is not enough time in the day to play the goodness coming out!!!

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Dragon Shouting is about as doofy as I expected. 
 
It looks good. That's about all I can say. 
 
I mean, the trailer is awesome, but I can't actually get excited about this game until I'm sure it doesn't fuck around with Elder Scrolls too much. No boners until I play it.

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11.11.11....i aint gonna make it.

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Looks okay.

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That water looks TERRIBLE! hope they're gonna fix that up.

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Edited By Claude

I wonder how it will look on the Xbox 360? I'm sure I won't have a PC that will handle this thing when it comes out.

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Edited By selbie

Dear Giantbomb,
Please invite Greg Kasavin in to do a gameplay marathon.
Sincerely,
The Internet

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I'm in the position to get vocally hyped for this game. As long as Bethesda finally got faces that aren't horrendous then Yeah! A new Elder Scrolls game, I'm gonna play as a Breton.

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Truly...this is the Age of....RIMS!

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2011 will give me enough RPG's to last me at least 2 years: DA II, ME III, Witcher II, Dark Souls and this...
What am  I forgetting?

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@Einherjar said:
" @weegieanawrench said:
" Sexy.  2:10 - 2:40 sounds an awful lot like Howard Shore. Anyone know if he's composing the music for the game?  "
Jeremy Soule is the composer.  And this looks pretty sweet, here's hoping they make something more than Oblivion 1.5 "
Jeremy Soule eh, thanks for the quick reply! 
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DRAGONBORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111 
  
Link to official wallpaper released by Bethesda

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@weegieanawrench said:
" Sexy.  2:10 - 2:40 sounds an awful lot like Howard Shore. Anyone know if he's composing the music for the game?  "
Jeremy Soule is the composer. 
 
And this looks pretty sweet, here's hoping they make something more than Oblivion 1.5
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@Riboflavin said:
" Got goosebumps when it broke into the dude yelled a thing and it broke into the main TES theme with sick made up word chanting. Also, facial hair rendering looks much better than in previous games, but it still looks like its just a texture, I guess they aren't going to reveal the extent of the beard tech they have developed for this game yet. "
I'm sure the facial hair will be just as good as Fallout and New Vegas, if not better.
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Sexy. 
 
2:10 - 2:40 sounds an awful lot like Howard Shore. Anyone know if he's composing the music for the game? 

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Awesome! Here's me hoping melee combat's gonna be more fun and less loading screens.
 
Dang - that'd be snazzy! A Bethesda open world game without loading screens!

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Great. Now I have to explain why I'm late for dinner and pitching a huge tent. 

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Got goosebumps when it broke into the dude yelled a thing and it broke into the main TES theme with sick made up word chanting. Also, facial hair rendering looks much better than in previous games, but it still looks like its just a texture, I guess they aren't going to reveal the extent of the beard tech they have developed for this game yet.