I told myself I should not have read this, but I did, and now I think I'm going to die if I don't play it soon.

Get hype!

admit it dude, fantasy still sucks

I want to play this game bad but I am going to have to wait until the game of the year edition comes out, so I get all the expansions without breaking the bank. I mean 10-15 bucks for dlc is crazy especially on top of paying 60 dollars for the game. . I waited for a couple years and found fallout 3 game of the year for 20 bucks so I will just wait and spend my time with Zelda.

I need this game so badly! It looks fantastic!!! but ive gotta wait till december because thats when i get back from uni :(

Is this the new game from Mojang?

#joke

at the bottom album of pictures 3rd one in.... DAT Bow >:B and the bear as well. Game looks amazing.

@Koshka said:

I don't mean to be nitpicky as I loved the article...

but why so many grammar errors?

^This.

Was Patrick drunk when he wrote this? This is probably some of the worst writing I've seen posted on GB before. Not trolling, just being truthful. Otherwise, an interesting read. Thanks Patrick!

As long as it's more like Morrowind than Oblivion, I'll be happy. Medium armor please.

@DoctorWelch:

*grammar

Do you forget grammar class, Klepek?

I would too, but I'm still in high school.

Good read, though. You just increased my hype for Skyrim.

I finish my entire university degree sans one exam when this game comes out. That one exam won't stop me from playing it Day 1!

Like Patrick, I spent more than a hundred hours on Fallout 3 but never really got into Oblivion. Hopefully Skyrim will make me love Bethesda's main flagship franchise.

this game will most likely be great but the screenshots in this post make it look like a ps2 game

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/9/93384/1989704-boundbow01.jpg

The hype is getting overwhelming...

The hype is getting overwhelming...

@atomic_dumpling said:

@Aristides said:

The hype is getting overwhelming...

This will probably end uplike RAGE with lots of broken hearts.

Yeah no shit, Oblivion burned me pretty bad with all the "Radiant AI" talk.

I think a lot of the upset about Rage is that it's a shooter, not an rpg, and people expected an rpg. At least with Skyrim we know what to expect

SOLD!! Going to wait a couple of months though by which time there will be a massive patch to straighten out all the bugs.

FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU i want this so much.

You'll get that asshole dragon next time, Patrick

Same same but different?

Maybe it's time western developers got a good shake up. It seems to have worked well for Japan.

@notha said:

this game will most likely be great but the screenshots in this post make it look like a ps2 game

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/9/93384/1989704-boundbow01.jpg

Are you blind or just trolling? I suggest you play some PS2 games and then tell me this looks bad in any way. It may not be the best looking game of all time, but that has never been the point of any TES game. It still has very nice graphics, especially for 360.

And Patrick: How is finding quest related stuff ahead of time "weird"? I always find the opposite to be true. In an MMO the objectives/items and monsters are almost always spawned AFTER you accept the quest.. that´s weird. There is no reason that they don´t exist in the world before (most of the time).

I'm glad it looks so much better than Oblivion. While I'm not usually a graphics whore, for this game a lot of the appeal is the immersion of feeling like I'm actually there exploring the world.

Can´t wait to play this; but then again i'm playing Gears 3, Forza 4, Batman Arkham City and Battlefield 3 before this even comes out!

Stop right there, criminal scum!

Looks great! Now if we can just get some more Fallout on the way...

"If I walked up the stairs, there was an screen-filling demon happy to stomp my face in."

"Tap LT to equip on the left, tap LT for the right."

Perhaps give it a read through before posting? Just saying.

Other than that, this is the first game in ages that I have been so desperate to play. One issue I am worried about which you didn't address is, what about that Open World Jank we all love so much? I adored Oblivion but the jank in Fallout 3 left me incredibly sour.

Skyrim, get released, now.

I will wait for the GOTY. I will wait for the GOTY. I will wait for the GOTY. I will wait for the GOTY.

Looks like a very fun game, hopefully not as boring as Oblivion tho. But will be good to mess around with, explore and all that goodness. At least until SWTOR comes out. I'm also way more excited about Kingdoms of Amalur then this as a single RPG... is that weird?

I can't wait until someone unearths the first duplication glitch, lol. I wobt be updating at first seeing there really is no online incentive to do so. :P The jank is half the fun. Maybe we can kill quest givers this time, Haha.

@AtomicEdge said:

I will wait for the GOTY. I will wait for the GOTY. I will wait for the GOTY. I will wait for the GOTY.

That's what I kept telling myself. Then my ship date for boot camp got pushed back a shit ton. God damnit.

I will probably buy it buy not at launch...

I've spent a good 1000 hours in the Elder Scrolls series and I'm hoping to spend another 1000!

Oh man.. I am actually getting pumped for this game, and the funny thing is, its kinda due to the fact that I'm playing through Dark Souls right now. I've played previous Elder Scrolls games (specifically Morrowind), although never long enough to immerse myself in the game, which is the same thing I did with Demons Souls. But now I'm totally hooked on Dark Souls and can't wait for Skyrim (and yes I realize that these games are similar, yet totally different at the same time). I love the new Fallout games and think that Skyrim will be a blast to get into, especially with the improvements Patrick has mentioned.

Maybe this will be better for me than Oblivion.

I guess it sounds alright, but I'm kinda burned out on fantasy RPGs and Bethesda... Might pick it up at a later point.

why not indeed kill that dude, his helmet looks over hammered

Getting ready for the PC port and boxes of tissues....either for crying or...

This kind of fawning over a game before it even comes out is kind of uncomfortable for me.
The fact that the person writing this has not even played any of the previous games in the franchice properly decreases the value of this peace even further.
 
I like Partick and hell I got Skyrim preordered a long time ago.
But this reads like too much googly eyed adoration.
 
It's a cycle that has repeated with Bethesda several  times now.
First the press is sucking Bethesda's collective privates before the game comes out.
It comes out we play.
Then when we start hearing about their new game and the press starts bitching and moaning and remembering how much was actually bad about that game.
Start singing praises for the new game while berating all the faults of the previous one.
Repeat.

Good description of your experience with Skyrim Patrick. I've been looking forward to this ever since it was officially announced last year and it has been my most anticipated game of the year since then.

Will be playing a lot of it for sure since I have booked the week off work solely to play this gem. The fact is I put 150+ hours into Oblvion and to this day it is still my favourite current-gen game shows that Bethesda knows how to get me gripped.

oooooooooooOOOOOoOOOOooo!

24 days is just too long

did you guys see that bow

hot damn son 11/11/11 comith

@Tennmuerti: Why is a positive preview "fawning?" If he enjoyed his experience why shouldn't he say so? It's not like he's regurgitating a press-release for a game he didn't play himself.

How does not having played any of the others make the article any-less meaningful? If anything, it's better to have a "blank-slate" approach, it lets the game speak on it's own merits.

Do want. NOW.

Though I admit I kinda want to play Oblivion first to see what that game is like. I fear going back to Oblivion after playing Skyrim might make Oblivion seem like a lot worse than it really is (or was, perhaps).

@Tennmuerti said:

This kind of fawning over a game before it even comes out is kind of uncomfortable for me. The fact that the person writing this has not even played any of the previous games in the franchice properly decreases the value of this peace even further. I like Partick and hell I got Skyrim preordered a long time ago. But this reads like too much googly eyed adoration. It's a cycle that has repeated with Bethesda several times now. First the press is sucking Bethesda's collective privates before the game comes out. It comes out we play.Then when we start hearing about their new game and the press starts bitching and moaning and remembering how much was actually bad about that game. Start singing praises for the new game while berating all the faults of the previous one. Repeat.

You erroneously writing "peace" when you should say "piece" decreases the value of your comment. But seriously dude, chill out. It's him giving impressions of only three hours that he got to play. THREE hours. What else is he supposed to do if not speak the praises of the game? This is what we want to know: what's good about the game, what sort of improvements have they done to streamline it and make it play better, what we have to look forward to, etc. It's not a review. Three hours doesn't even begin to touch the surface of these sort of Bethesda games so of course he isn't going to be able to speak on every aspect of the game, good or bad. He thinks the weather effects and overall look of the game is amazing so he said so; he thinks the favorites is a super convenient addition so he speaks about that. Everything he said in here is exactly what he needed to talk about. You're acting like he said "THIS IS PROBABLY THE BEST LOOKING GAME I'VE PLAYED IN SO LONG AND IT'LL PROBABLY BE GOTY." And what does him not playing Oblivion have to do with this? Absolutely nothing seeing as how he said outright he's coming from the perspective of someone who doesn't have Oblivion knowledge to compare this to and you can see it in the write up.

@Tennmuerti: Is that long form poetry you're trying to write there? Are you making a comment on the preview or a new "The Iliad"?