[General Battuta]

That trailer was cheesy as hell but...oddly appealing. MEN are grunting and singing about ME and DRAGONS

unfortunately gamebryo.  - EDIT: allegedly not gamebryo!

I wanted to love Morrowind but I was young and bounced off the opacity of its sandbox and the cliff racers. Oblivion felt plastic and cheapened. What d'you reckon the odds are on this one being decent?

edit: oooooooooooooh 'skyrim' is 'sky rim' i never KNEW

[TrashMan]

Some of the stuff that narrator is saying is hard to understand....hrm..

[General Battuta]

Some of the stuff that narrator is saying is hard to understand....hrm..

His accent is funny. Basically he's all 'There were dragons, we forgot about them, now they're coming back, there's some kind of civil war too. Fortunately the dragons are scared of some badass called 'gubulubuab' in their tongue, it means 'The Dragonborn.'

fantasy plot hoooo

[SpardaSon21]

I thought Bethesda was using a new engine for Skyrim instead of Gamebryo.

[General Battuta]

I thought Bethesda was using a new engine for Skyrim instead of Gamebryo.

Nope, we'd all hoped but it's still a modified Gamebryo. Id Tech 5 will not be involved.

[Ransom]

skyrim more like snorerim

i want a sequel to nehrim

[SpardaSon21]

I thought Bethesda was using a new engine for Skyrim instead of Gamebryo.

Nope, we'd all hoped but it's still a modified Gamebryo. Id Tech 5 will not be involved.

Bah.  This rumor was a lie.  Less Gamebryo, more something, anything new.

[mxlm]

Seeing lots of speculation about #tesv game engine. It's brand new... and it's spectacular!

We'll see.

[General Battuta]

Seeing lots of speculation about #tesv game engine. It's brand new... and it's spectacular!

We'll see.

Yeah, I saw that linked too, but I think by 'brand new' they mean 'modified Gamebryo.' I'll be overjoyed to be wrong, though.

[Scotty]

Anyone else really like the music for the trailer?  It's obviously similar to the Oblivion menu theme, but the differences are enough to make it easily distinct, and much more interesting.

[General Battuta]

Anyone else really like the music for the trailer?  It's obviously similar to the Oblivion menu theme, but the differences are enough to make it easily distinct, and much more interesting.

The Oblivion theme was a watered down version of the Morrowind theme, but yeah, it's the Elder Scrolls theme with a choral overlay. It was good in a cheesy way.

[mxlm]

Yeah, I saw that linked too, but I think by 'brand new' they mean 'modified Gamebryo.' I'll be overjoyed to be wrong, though.

I suspect what we'll learn when Bethesda adopts a new engine is that, well, it ain't just the engine that's the problem.

Overjoyed if wrong, of course.

[MR_T3D]

if they manage to make people move around like people instead of what we saw in fallout games, and the textures/lighting look nothing like fallout, then sure, gamebryo is great, it has polygons 'n' stuff

[BloodEagle]

Fallout wasn't made with the Gamebryo engine. 

[Ransom]

So apparently they are using a new engine.

http://www.ripten.com/2010/12/12/all-new-engine-for-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-sam-n/

[General Battuta]

YAY

although I suspect mxlm may be proven right.

Fallout wasn't made with the Gamebryo engine.  

FO3 was.

[Hades]

As is New Vegas. Ugh, thank god they aren't using that engine anymore, or at least not for this game.

[Turambar]

Everyone trashes Gamebryo, but using Gamebryo is the reason the game is so highly moddable, and why the game is actually playable today (if you have it on PC)

[mxlm]

And it's not as though people haven't made rock-solid games with gamebryo. Or at least Civ IV was rock-solid by the time I picked it up, two expansions down the road.

[BloodEagle]

Fallout wasn't made with the Gamebryo engine.  

FO3 was.

Er.... And?