Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced

gambrinous · 2011-10-25T09:01:35.000Z

Bethesda clarifies Skyrim's enemy level-scaling feature - VG247

Most RPGs have a built-in reward for your painstaking efforts to grow stronger than the fierce, two-foot-tall sewer rats of the world: you get to beat the stuffing out of the baddies who hung you from flagpoles and gave you swirlies back in the day....

Enemy level scaling more like fallout than oblivion apparantly. I guess that’s good; never realised it happened in fallout 3 / NV

Contrai · 2011-10-25T09:31:58.000Z

Pete Hines (Bethesda PR) just tweeted this as PC requirements:

Recommended PC Specs
•Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
•Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
•4GB System RAM
•6GB free HDD space
•DirectX 9 compatible NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with 1GB of RAM (Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 or higher; ATI Radeon 4890 or higher).
•DirectX compatible sound card
•Internet access for Steam activation

Minimum PC Specs
•Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
•Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent processor
•2GB System RAM
•6GB free HDD Space
•Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512 MB of RAM
•Internet access for Steam activation

Also his tweet:

The Min specs get you playing,. The recommended specs let you play on High, not on Ultra. You’ll want beefier rig for that.

I meet all the recommended requirements, except for the video card.

Telefrog · 2011-10-25T09:33:48.000Z

Yup. Right where I thought the requirements would fall.

Matt_Bowyer · 2011-10-25T09:35:52.000Z

My processor is above the minimum, everything else is above the recommended. Woo!

TimJames · 2011-10-25T09:38:35.000Z

What the fuck, 6 gigabytes of hard drive space? I hope there’s a texture pack coming. Jesus, my Oblivion mods folder takes up more room than that.

KWhit · 2011-10-25T09:41:55.000Z

kerzain:

I dunno, but you seem so determined to avoid the game, you were acting as if you already knew all you had to know about it. And since all we had discussed at this point was a multi-player game in a TES universe, your adamant refusal to consider playing it felt premature.

EDIT: Oh, I see. You would want to play it, just not co-op. And you’d rather the game ship with less features than different content.

Yeah, basically. I love these types of open world single player games. And I know that the things I most love about them would have the potential to be neglected or modified somehow to support co-op.

So I was just expressing a little bit of relief that Skyrim sticks to the gameplay of the previous ES games. And also expressing my hope that any hypothetical future games do the same.

Relayer71 · 2011-10-25T09:43:01.000Z

This…

kerzain:

I’m not expecting the world or anything. I would like it if it were at least or on par with Fallout 3.

I was looking forward to Oblivion after Morrowind and was disappointed. Fallout 3 I was avoiding because I love the original games and didn’t think Bethesda could pull it off, especially after Oblivion but it turned out to be a pretty enjoyable game and much more than “Oblivion with guns”.

Mirriam · 2011-10-25T10:17:01.000Z

Contrai:

Pete Hines (Bethesda PR) just tweeted this as PC requirements:

Minimum:
Win XP/7/Vista (32 or 64 bit),
dual core 2GB, 2GB RAM,
DX9c video card w/ 512MB RAM,
Internet Access for Steam activation

Recommended:
Win XP/7,
quad-core Intel/AMD CPU,
4GB RAM, 6GB HD,
DX compat snd card,
DX9 vid card w/ 1 GB. GTX 260/Radeon 4890 or higher

Also his tweet:

I meet all the recommended requirements, except for the video card.

Thanks for posting that. I don’t meet the recommended specs, so 360 version it is then. I’ll pick up the PC GotY version cheaply from Steam in the future, when I’ll have a PC that can do it justice. By then most of the good mods should be out too. That way I can have the best of both worlds.

Zeitgeist · 2011-10-25T10:30:10.000Z

Pretty beefy specs considering this game runs on PS3 and XBOX.

Concerning multiplayer: It’s nice to see this discussion resurfacing everytime a new Elder Scrolls comes out.

Papageno · 2011-10-25T11:24:50.000Z

Hmm, I have a C2 Duo at 3.0GHz and a GTX260 Superclocked from EVGA w/896MB, so I suppose I technically could run it.

My laptop has a first gen Core i5 and a Mobility Radeon 5650. Wonder how that would work? Of course the screen res there is ridiculously limited (1366x768).

All moot anyway, since I’ll never have the time to do it justice.

Contrai · 2011-10-25T12:01:55.000Z

So, is it wierd that the minimum (7GB) hard drive space requirements are higher than the recommended (6GB)? Nevermind, someone said it was because with lower ram requirement, the game would use a bigger HD space swapfile.

kerzain · 2011-10-25T12:06:44.000Z

Contrai:

So, is it wierd that the minimum (7GB) hard drive space requirements are higher than the recommended (6GB)?

Maybe swap file space to make up for having half the ram.

TimJames · 2011-10-25T12:15:10.000Z

Someone on RPS thinks there’s no reason to panic about the 6 GB hard drive space because Bethesda may have gotten better at texture compression. We’ll see. (harumph harumph)

Contrai · 2011-10-25T12:25:29.000Z

kerzain:

Maybe swap file space to make up for having half the ram.

Yeah, someone stated as much on the Elderscrolls forums, and I edited as such, but now they’ve updated the specs to list both suggested requirements as needing 6GB of free hard drive space now.

Sir_Digby · 2011-10-25T13:04:56.000Z

Papageno:

Hmm, I have a C2 Duo at 3.0GHz and a GTX260 Superclocked from EVGA w/896MB, so I suppose I technically could run it.

My laptop has a first gen Core i5 and a Mobility Radeon 5650. Wonder how that would work? Of course the screen res there is ridiculously limited (1366x768).

All moot anyway, since I’ll never have the time to do it justice.

It will run “fine”; I have a laptop with very similar specs and it can run BF3 pretty good, no input lag or anything similar whatsoever so you’re good to go.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2011-10-26T07:30:01.000Z

Not sure how interesting this will turn out, but X-Play (tonight on G4 @5:30pm CST) there will be some Skyrim footage and information on towns and cities (and more?), so might be worth checking out.

For those interested in seeing it that don’t have access to G4, it’s supposed to be on the G4tv.com website sometime after it airs.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2011-10-26T16:02:51.000Z

…and here is the new footage. Public excecutions! :)

http://www.g4tv.com/videos/55976/the-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim-exclusive-preview/?quality=hd

Enjoy!

Blips · 2011-10-26T16:18:35.000Z

Jesus fuck. Forum is preventing me from quoting you Bleed and posting.

In that video, were those vamps? “I still hear the call of the blood.”

Scotch_Lufkin · 2011-10-26T16:20:55.000Z

I didn’t catch the vampires, but I know vampires ARE in the game, so yeah, very likely that’s what that was. :)

kerzain · 2011-10-26T16:48:33.000Z

That first npc speaking almost sounds like Sylvester Stallone.