I may make my first character a paladin-type just for that specific reason. :p

Of course, this game has no classes per se, so that requires a bit more dedication and focus than it would in other games. Which is kind of cool, I think.

That's three games so far where prison comes into play in some way at the beginning. Anyone recall how Battlespire or Redgard started?

No clue what I would be. I'll need to thouroughly explore the character creation details first. The Elder Scrolls games are one of the few with instruction books that I actually bother to read.

I don't think you actually get to create your character in this one. It's all reflective of how you play the game. Apparently, leveling will be a bit faster, because of this.

Sort of like Fable then? Become what you do, in a way? Or do your skills just get better as you use them and yoru character sort of grows according to what you do with it?

Well, it'll basically be like Morrowind/Oblivion except without any primary skills, and the current rank of skill that gets increased will determine how much experience towards leveling up it's worth. I think there'll still be archetypes, but I'm not positive.

Ah. That's neat, and pretty much what I used to do with theh game anyway. I used to always start Daggerfall with a short blade (ebony dagger) that was an item one could get by filling in the special background options. My short blade was always 2% or so. Couldn't hit the broad side of a bard for several hours but did eventually get lethal with it. Call me persistant ;).

You just made my day. :D

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Meh. that works. Enjoy! :D

That made me giggle a lot Quiet XD

Though "bard" is what I gravitate to in video games that have that choice because musical abilities enthrall me o.o

Instruments would be a curious edition to the elder scrolls games. We already have random glass cups and silverware that don't really get used, and candles and spoons and such.

I've never tried holding a spoon actually. I wonder if that would work. I've accidentally attacked bad guys with my lockpick on occasion.

In a general note, anyone ever tried to use torches or lanters in the games? I don't think I've ever used anything mundane beyond stuff to wear.

Oh, yes, that demo was delicious looking.

I do hope they make the main quest more rewarding in this one. That dragon armor in Oblivion was pathetic past level 10 or so.

I'm 99% positive that most, if not all of the old races will be back. That would be incredibly stupid, from a marketing perspective, of Bethesda to do, unless they introduced different races to replace them.

I had a really hard time adjusting to Morrowind, coming to it from playing Oblivion, but once I got into it, I really enjoyed it. There were definitely some aspects of it that I thought were done better than in Oblivion, namely level scaling.