So we are very excited about the new look armor of "Skyrim". there have been a few changes to the programing since Oblivion. Matt Carafano the lead artist for the game had this to say;

" The armor system is very similar to oblivion's. the main difference is that the upper and the lower body armors, the cuirass and the greaves, have been combined into one piece. this helps create armor styles that have the look we needed for skyrim. in most of the Nordic designs we created, the upper armor would completely cover the lower armour, making it unnecessary. we get much better visual results combining those pieces, and it renders a lot faster too, so we can put more people on screen, so that was an easy trade off for us. we can also make a lot more armors now so the number and variation types and more than we've ever had."

Well i guess this is good and bad news, sounds like gone are the days of epic 7 people wars of "Oblivion" due to the ability to have more people on screen but the news that the armor will now be a one piece makes me fear for the immersive element to the game one of my favored parts of the old games was the huge amount of customization to you avatar.
also its difficult to find much information about the clothes of "Skyrim" if your like me then you will spend most of your time sneaking around putting an arrow into someones back 3 miles away so  it is important to know that my huntsman moccasins wont be letting people know im in the shadows, but i will do my best for you so keep an eye out for future posts.

so to some up who knows if this armor situation is a good move or not but i would imagine the boys of Bethesda know what they are doing. let us know what you think?

P.S the Elven armor look AMAZING!!!

I speak Dragon

Here is a bit of ruddy draconic text for you to try and get your head around

we have already translated it into English characters underneath for you so using the translation key below it should not be to much of a challenge but at the end of the day you will of just learnt some dragon and that is pretty cool by anyone's standards

DOVAHKIIN DOVAHKIIN / NAAL OK ZIN LOS VAHRIIN / WAH DEIN VOKUL MAHFAERAAK AHST VAAL / AHRK FIN NOROK PAAL GRAAN / FOD NUST HON ZINDRO ZIN / DOVAHKIIN FAH HIN KOGAAN MU DRAAL /

AHRK FIN KEL LOST PRODAH / DO VED VIING KO FIN KRAH / TOL FOD ZEYMAH WIN KEIN MEYZ FUNDEIN / ALDUIN FEYN DO JUN / KRUZIIK VOKUN STAADNAU / VOTH AAN BAHLOK WAH DIIVON FIN LEIN

Creatures SKYRIM/DOG companion pic.

A sample video of creatures found in skyrim, I'm loving mammoths by the way.

     loving all of these!!

This is a very interesting pic, hopefully dogs will be more helpful in skyrim than they were in other games, fables III dog ended up being a pain.

A little taste of vampirism.

As in Oblivion there will be chances to become a vampire not the hollywood blockbuster sexy twilight vampire, a proper scary bad ass vampire, becoming a vampire has its pro's and cons as you can imagine. Todd Howard confirmed to G4. Being a bloodsucker will completely transform how the game is played, and features progressive vampiric levels (PrO), receiving damage from sunlight (con), and sneaking up on sleeping victims for a midnight feast (Pro).


Just wondering what sort of quest you could do as a vampire, I did enjoy playing oblivion that way for a while.


Are you guys for or against vampires?


Hopefully the vampires will suck, but in a totally different way to this one!

Have you heard about the Legions?

The other day i was reading through a PAX play through article which is actually of some interest of mine. It was called 'my hour in skyrim' and in which a little snippet of information was released, and that information is as follows (contain your self) and I quote:

"What we had come to was an ex-fort that acted more as a military town of sorts. Even after contributing to the locale’s economy by doing a spot of milling – basically just a series of button clicks at various places on the wood mill – the locals looked down on our reptilian warrior and treated him as an outsider. We were offered a quest to join the Imperial Legion here though, so it’s not all doom and gloom."

Now I didn't play Morrowind, but I know people who did and many a time i've heard them say "I really do hope skyrim lets you join the legion again like in Morrowind."  Apparently they'd give you quest and get a little touchy about wearing the correct armour.

And as we know, a Rebel faction known as ‘The Stormcloaks’ will be gracing our screens. It seems now that we'll be able to play either side or even both, and maybe it wont be in vein. Maybe the world will change according to your chioces, who knows? We can only hope.

What would you do, play two sides against each other? Or stay true to the empire?
The choice is YOURS!

Rating (15).

After some searching and pondering over whether or not the rating (15) was correct, I stumbled upon a website called TheEscapist.com and I read skyrim has been given a (15) rating here in the UK, and unlike other parts of the world it is enforced by law, so anyone under the age of 15 wont be able to rock up on the 11/11/11 and collect the most treasured title to date. The reasoning behind this is that unlike oblivion, which was considered to be moderately violent, skyrim has been considered as strongly violent.

So far I've not heard any news on USA ratings, and i'm not totally sure on how things work.

I for one am glad of the higher rank, maybe we can expect to see a little more blood & some other obscene stuff.

What would you like to see??

Nords are being made in the thousands!

It's a scary prospect, thousands of purpose-built warriors made only to keep riots at bay in game stores all over the place. These pictures from BethBlog, show the life-sized Nord statues that are part of the promotional build-up ready to be shipped shortly!

Having these guys as your personal army would be pretty cool though, just imagine the mischief you could get up to, i'd invade the isle of white I think.

What would you do with your own personal army of Nords??

Skyrim Introduction

Sure, there's a lot of people that are all too familiar with the Elder Scrolls series and i'm sure most are up to date with the basic history, but lets take a step back for those who maybe haven't played an Elder Scrolls title yet - God knows there must be some. Let me explain what your letting yourself in for before your run out into the world get captured in role play and forget what is reality.

Skyrim is a province, a kind of state if you like, in total there are 9 seprate provinces and the inhabitants vary race a bit depending on location.

                              

The Continent in all its glory is called Tamriel. A beautiful a varied land, the provinces are as followed, check out the map above.

• High Rock – Home of the Orsimer (orcs) and Bretons 
• Cyrodiil – Home of the Imperials and is also the Capital. Home to the Emperor.
• Summerset Isles – Home of the Altmer (High Elves)
• Hammerfell – Home of the Redguards
• Blackmarsh – Home of the Argonians
• Valenwood – Home of the Bosmer (Wood Elves)
• Elsweyr – Home of the Khajiit (Kerra or Cat Folk)
• Morrowind – Home of the Dunmer (Dark Elves)
• Skyrim – Home of the Nords (Large Humans / Barbarian)

So we've got to grips with Skyrim being a province and that the Nords are the native inhabitants of this land. Nordic people are hard and strong and for the most part simple, chisseled fellows and have almost been reffered to as barbarians in previous games. They feel at home in the cold mountainous terrain of Skyrim.

As you can expect, the landscape here is varied, not in a 'tropical paridise' sense of the word, but in the way of forests, mountains, rivers, and of course lots of snow. Don't be suprised if your walking along one day and find that you've bumped into a herd of mammoths or even a sabre tooth tiger. Perhaps even a dragon or two. 

Skyrim is almost exactly the size of the Cyrodiil map in Oblivion, about 16miles squared, but  has only five major cities - which is a few less that Cyrodiil. Expect the cities in Skyrim to be larger than the ones encountered in Cyrodiil and with stunning graphical landmarks, we should be in for a treat or two.

On your travels around Skyrim, be sure to vist as many places as possible because when you've been there once you can fast travel there in future; a big time saver with a map this size. Here's some major places of interest to get you started.

• Windhelm – Northeast Skyrim

• Dawnstar –  North Skyrim

• Whiterun –  East Skyrim

• Markarth Side – West Skyrim

• Falkreath – South Skyrim

• Winterhold – a county of rich individuals

• Solitude – the most influential and richest county in Skyrim that competes with Winterhold

• High Hrothgar – a famous mountain where Greybeards speak and teach the dragon language.

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20 mins of super HD gameplay

Videos

Here we go, just about 20 minutes of breath taking gameplay with commentary from legendary Todd Howards. Take a look at the videos split into three.

We're all grown ups here, I know sadly its nothing new, but to have it in HD is a small treat and also we dont have any terrible journalist types ranting on, let us know your favourite bits - what do you think??

Hello and welcome to "Skyrim Diaries"

.We have searched the Internet scanned the books and even translated one or two elder scrolls.

all in the soul search of Skyrim

anyone who has ever played any of the "elder scrolls " previous offerings will remember them for

their huge landscapes breath taking graphics's mind blowing attention to detail and above all charm.

and we are fairly positive that the newest instalment will be no different

we have all been waiting 5 years since oblivion took over our lives.

During which time many weeks and months have been spent research and hoping for "elder scrolls v" but finally the 11/11/11 is nearly upon us so we thought it was about time we shared some of our findings with you.

we are just two fans but we know just as well as you the importance of that new blurry screen shots or the sketchy leaked YouTube clip and all those little nuggets of information hidden on forums, so consider this your one stop shop for any and all things "skyrim"

You join our blog and in return we will try to keep you posted on all new details we can find,

and once the blessed day actually arrives we will be keeping virtual diaries on both our avatars giving you all the hints and tips we can.

please feel free to comment on anything you see, or just let us know of any rumors you may of heard of, we would love to get any opinions you may have on the up and coming game of the year (life time)

watch this space

Will & Lloyd