The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

1. Scale
-Skyrim is a world with five large towns and dozens of scattered villages, each with its own economic system, way of life, neighbors, folklore, legends, likes and fears.
-Thousands of characters populate these municipalities, and carry out their lives every morning beyond the civil war that is occurring in the province.
-Each village has one or two sources of raw materials, according to its ecosystem and customs.
-Cities are devoted entirely to trade in timber or steel and other areas of self-sufficiency in farming sufficient to support an entire population.
-The people will be accustomed to a way of life, and alterations can bring chaos and are much deeper and complex than any other game has ever shown us where religions and beliefs also play a role.
-All these cities can be attacked at any time by a dragon, also because of our challenge to one of these huge creatures from the streets of any of these areas, for example.
-You may suddenly find yourself with one of these terrible attacks from the sky-wrecking the economy and killing the people in this town by accident.
-Or an entire village faces another before a misunderstanding occasionally or engaged in a pursuit of mammoths or witnessing a huge fire, all without initial premeditation, simply by the mere course of events in very, very marked way by what we do. It is the "butterfly effect" presented better than ever in a video game.
-There are so many different environments, races, jobs, types of NPCs, accidental elements, aesthetics, history ... that Skyrim has reached some levels never seen in a game and makes it difficult to believe that Oblivion, belongs to the same series and the same generation of systems, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
-In Skyrim you can touch and pick up more items and objects in Morrowind and TES IV.
For instance, the flowers of the field and ingredients of alchemy have now been multiplied by five.
-The interiors are more decorated and full of objects and open spaces outdoors, where you can almost start to the supports of each fence.
-More of the same with number of equipment of the enemy, is far more substantial.
-Skyrim is set in an extremely rugged area with caves, valleys and mountains everywhere that give rise to rivers, clouds, damp places, lights and amazing ways. Just look at the sky and see a flock of dragons flying leisurely overhead.

2. Radiant Freedom
-Each step is marked, every word is recorded in memory, each theft is punished, every win lifts us up.
-Nothing is pre-written in the Radiant Story, and our own style of play will give a public face and personality to Dovahkiin, which will , for example, alone in his first outing in a new town he becomes the target of threatening looks or all of the applause and praise from neighbors shouted from the balcony.
-It is measured very well what kind of person / character and with whom we interact.
-With all this on the table and having already seen in motion, I must say that Bethesda's work with the game's AI is sublime, without damage.
-Develop a similar round to unpredictable characters and apply it to thousands of these results in a unique experience, able to get at the controls of the game again and again, and explore all its dramatic possibilities, then, of course, it will be conditioned by Radiant Story, conducting all the tangible correlations that and triggering events, turning even the future of military conflict in the province to either side, using the power and unity of the dragons to our benefit, not always ethical and respectful of others.

3. Full consistency
-The third jump of enormous length that separates Skyrim from Oblivion lies in all the loving care that their developers are paying to the game's realism, believable and credible as possible.
-From the changing attitudes and conditions of the characters now commented to the behavior of wind on water bodies, Skyrim's world and everything in the game is specially designed to transfer a sense of reality to the player and will not neglect any detail in this direction and the resulting full product promises to be overwhelming, a mock epic.
-Starting with the non-human creatures, where Oblivion and previous animations were some odd-looking flaws and Skyrim fixes all errors.
-The Havok physics engine has bathed the entire project, from the tinkling of the grass now dynamically in a gust of wind to creatures and weight of the dust particles that can lift the greatest collapse in sand or snow is not treated equally.
-This also affects the monstrous enemy animations, such as dragons, giant spiders, which move with absolute ease, smoothly and without predetermined routes, responding faithfully to their bodies as they would in reality.
-The horses on which to mount, with greater presence in Skyrim, also behave more consistently.
-And on stage, climatic phenomena dynamically affects them.
-A storm of wind and rain can change the course of a river or overflow, which can stop for a while the water system that people depend on.
-Or a sudden snow storm can bury roads and even trees, hindering access to the high peaks, blocking doors to underground caves ... Watching the snow fall down and go white staining the pavement is a spectacle that only this allows us to play.
-There are limitations as well. Too bad if we throw a ball of fire, ice does not melt. What we said, limits imposed by current technology.
-All this makes the game play much, since one of Dovahkiin's draconic powers, for example, trigger weather effects.
-In Skyrim NPCs also interact with the scenery. In the demos we've seen, all in Riverwood, we saw loggers cutting down trees that fell, other wood chopping and stacking logs.
As another example, there will be criminals who steal or set fires.
-All consistency achieved by the game also comes here, to the vividness of the stage with characters that take advantage, destroy it, transform it or move it.
-We must always bear in mind the time to take advantage of these thousands of dynamic changes unrelated to our game, knowing when to go to a particular area, when to talk to X or when Y your request your help.

5. Artificial Intelligence
-I mentioned earlier when talking about NPCs that there is much change between the really not too remarkable AI of Oblivion and the incredible effect that we managed to see in Skyrim.
-The game seems to want to test us at all times, measure our moral and facing of the other characters, entirely consistent in their actions, phrases and ways of thinking.
-Now all these characters in the game, thousands, are connected together and move around the map by keeping the memories of their experiences and knowledge.
-We reached a village and the priest knows us as thieves a few days ago in another municipality, he was a witness. And this will lead to the bad image of us, with all citizens of this new people.
-Or, in another case and explained by its quest giver, find a traveler who goes by carriage from one location to another, confront and kill him, and return to your destination to see that everyone is talking about his disappearance, strange legends and even why he does not come around.
-If we had stolen to sell or deliver an object he was carrying, or even equipped it, the whole village would harass us with questions and suspicion. The Radiant Story is responsible for realizing this and changing situations in dialogue that makes us think twice before each act of doing so.
-AI also works on hostiles, like wild animals or enemy bandits with little conversation and quick attack.
-From dragons to wolves, attack combos and various unpredictable offensive will set the tone of the game, we were exposed to even more difficult encounters.
-As a descendant of dragons, Dovahkiin will not alway cause others to be so annoyed and sometimes huge creatures will behave more friendly with authentic joint exploits with the characters to end unexpected dangers also.
-It has a special understanding for them, we will see them as pets or half threats. It is an interesting character/PC relationship with the dreaded creatures, encouraged by the strong AI implanted on them.

6. Starring nomads
-Following the huge flying creatures, co-stars of the game, the dragons are never static or shown on the map with their own and become able to turn a lifetime of a population and plot.
-To harden the game play, there is a clear dominance of these winged monsters of the protagonist, who we will have to deal with and destroy each one, using only factors such as poor mobility or agility of such giants and the slowness of some charged attacks such as flares, which can bring down entire villages.
-A dragon on the scene automatically means absolute terror of almost every NPC, although there will be some brave or delivered who opt for the help.
-The game will eventually teach us that not so much the aggressiveness of these creatures from which it comes Dovahkiin and which try to connect to his ferocity when they are provoked.

7. Deep Battle
-Each race will have a style of fighting, now more marked between weight and strength of character, culture and attribute variables.
-Also, each race will have some specific skills more accessible, to acquire level rises through the constellations of stars that will inspire the character of new disciplines.
-This does not mean that a race will find it impossible to learn a particular perk or spell, but the stars of your sign will be more united among themselves in the skills that fit your profile, which guides development in part but not inquisitive and do it one hundred percent free if we have the patience to acquire complex skills of constellations and stars too far apart.

8. Dramatic Significance
-Oblivion was a disappointment to many. Its plot was not as strong as expected and deflated rapidly in the early hours of the game, leaving many users feeling that the side missions were better, more fun and worked, the main thread.
-Even the end of the game was much debated in some communities of The Elder Scrolls fans, doing honor to the breathtaking epics used to enjoy these deliveries.
-As with the combat system Bethesda quickly picked up these suggestions or feedback from the players before Skyrim got a long way to go back and would not work to implement improvement related complaints.
-TES V: Skyrim according to their elections, several including the end of the main plot, which now has over 200 different formulations, a new record retrieved from the alternate endings and Custom Fallout 3. The title promises turns, life decisions, disappointments, surprises and unexpected deaths, with missions that are really going beyond fulfilling errands and serve the narrative events of history, the most significant and important in the saga.

9. Missions curves
-In relation to the plot more complex and far-reaching as we mentioned, missions, minor and major, will also gain these two attributes. Now there are so straight, it will only be three or four different ways to solve every message that we do or problem faced by Dovahkiin in crescendo until the eradication of the wars of his province, Skyrim leave us completely redefine what to do, even change the objectives to be achieved by linking a few missions with others as we act in certain directions.
-The Radiant Story's new lot to say here, and full implementation of freedom to the player takes the concept of a role in video games as we've known a new step. TES V will revolutionize this as well.
-Since the assignment of tasks from NPCs, you notice the conceptual leap with respect to Oblivion.
-Gone are the "go here, kill it and bring it" in the most basic work Skyrim we have to do is to "infiltrate, steal, find, kill, bring, carry and kill", for example, which makes complete certain side orders can take us just a couple of hours or three. And that's not to mention the main missions, now finally worked and related very fully with the plot, which can turn certain acts, but again, at best, just let the characters unconscious life.
-A good trick used by Bethesda for items not clog any mistake in execution.
-And not just the approach and resolution of more complex assignments the new gameplay, so will the very location where they have to implement them and the parties involved.
-The dungeons of the first game were created by a single developer, using certain models for all clones and automatic stays. Now, Skyrim, eight persons have full over three years to the design of new, totally manual, so that the game is perfectly reflected as we go and see the whole difference between the irregularity and over 120 have mapped the vast.
-In this work hand gameplay, varied and overall results in different challenges, puzzles of all types and architectures witty, never valued in other teas. Add to that the ability to analyze very closely each inventory item to solve certain puzzles, or get data from these objects, NPCs and out of employees, or changes that can lead to severe weather or an attack of the dragon, the variety and playable depth are served on a platter.

10. Music to our ears
-The music, now with more unreleased tracks and remixes of the original melody again by Jeremy Soule, the incombustible vital and responsible part of the great musical results obtained by the last two games-win role in Skyrim, coordinating better than ever images and back to give us those harmonies that can not be removed from the head.
-More than 300 people have given final shape and sound designed by Soule scores for times of combat, cool, different villages, cinematic or discoveries.
-The result promises to be spooky, as the serious voices heard and we all interpret the main theme of the game, review the melody of the license.
-Not far behind the sound effects , much more rich and distinguished than any other TES game.
-First the star will be over 30 different sounds to footsteps, depending on surfaces, or each mixture spell FX will have some concrete, we will even identify what we are throwing a flash just by hearing its release.
-The water falling into a waterfall, the wind and rain are other dynamic elements that will sound spectacular materialization And, of course, we do not forget the hard work of dubbing a game of this size, with hundreds of characters that make voices, even in our language, as it did more than acceptable Fallout 3 three years ago.