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Presto

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Not afraid of them as much as I'm afraid of what they may do if they are TOO random. I guess its a little to early to be concerned about it because we still don't know how they'll act in the game and when they'll show up but I have a fear that they may make a mess of escort quests and especially be a burden for modders.

 

Oh you made a mod with a swimming pool surrounded by a dozen gorgeous women in bathing suits? BAM, dragon swoops in to eat them all the moment you show up.

 

Hopefully they only start to show up and randomly spawn with some degree of control and that modders will be able to reduce/prevent/protect how they interact with their mods.

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Skyrim’s Todd Howard Reveals More Dragon Details

 

In a recent online interview, Todd Howard, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s game director, has been talking dragons, with juicy information as to where and when the beasts will appear in the game.

 

“You have to do a little bit of the main quest – just the initial stuff – for the Dragons to really start appearing, because it sits in with the story,” says Howard. “After that point, the more of the main quest you do, the more Dragons you’ll run into. But it’s hard to quantify it, they appear every once in a while. Not at a rate that is annoying… it still feels special.”

 

“It’s hard to know how people will play the game and it’s a little bit random, so I don’t want to say if it’s once an hour or…”

 

Elder Scroll V: Skyrim

 

Howard also explained that players who forsake the main quest for old fashioned exploring will not be overrun by dragons on their exploits.

 

“when one of them arrives, it changes whatever you’re doing at the time. You could be on a different quest, going to a town, and a dragon shows up, so you’re going to have to find a way to kill the thing or work with the townspeople or run away. So we spent a lot of time on that, and I think that the balance on that is pretty good right now.”

 

 

found it here

http://blog.gadgethelpline.com/gaming-weekly-3/

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Presto

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So will the dragons be Skyrim's Oblivion gates?

 

Sounds like it. I'm a fan of the dragons over the gates becaue the gates always felt tedious and whenever I saw the sky getting dark in an area I just ran in the opposite direction.

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Sounds like it. I'm a fan of the dragons over the gates becaue the gates always felt tedious and whenever I saw the sky getting dark in an area I just ran in the opposite direction.

 

Same, and it sorta makes me fear how Skyrim will be structured. The dragons look really nice but it'd be a real shame if I as the player just sigh and become annoyed whenever a dragon shows up. Kinda fear that will happen as it did with the Oblivion gates. I'm sure the first fight will feel epic enough but when you run into your 50th dragon... how will it play then?

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From what I have read / seen, there are many different types of dragons so the fights will feel slightly different from time to time. I think my biggest issue with the oblivion gates was the fact they all had the same feel. I'm one of those "perfectionists" that completely levels up their character before going in to the major quest lines and then I basically just tear through it in no time flat. The gates became so, for lack of a better word, "basic" as to what needed to be done that I decided to only only attack the gates that served a purpose and skipped every possible gate I could.

I am hoping that dragons will replace that stale feeling that the gates had in the fact by nature a fight can swing in any general direction with uncertain outcomes.

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Presto

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Sounds like it. I'm a fan of the dragons over the gates becaue the gates always felt tedious and whenever I saw the sky getting dark in an area I just ran in the opposite direction.

 

Same' date=' and it sorta makes me fear how Skyrim will be structured. The dragons look really nice but it'd be a real shame if I as the player just sigh and become annoyed whenever a dragon shows up. Kinda fear that will happen as it did with the Oblivion gates. I'm sure the first fight will feel epic enough but when you run into your 50th dragon... how will it play then?

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Well there will be some advantage to it since you will get a dragon soul out of the deal which will help you gain more skills so that's a bonus. I wonder if there will be some kind of loot (gold, scales, teeth) that will help you creates specific upgrades or complete certain quests.

 

I just hope that the dragon battles never degrade to a point where you are hitting them with a few swipes of an unmodded blade and beating them. I dont want to be griefed by them but I also don't want to be able to run around and one shot them.

 

 

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Sounds like it. I'm a fan of the dragons over the gates becaue the gates always felt tedious and whenever I saw the sky getting dark in an area I just ran in the opposite direction.

 

Same' date=' and it sorta makes me fear how Skyrim will be structured. The dragons look really nice but it'd be a real shame if I as the player just sigh and become annoyed whenever a dragon shows up. Kinda fear that will happen as it did with the Oblivion gates. I'm sure the first fight will feel epic enough but when you run into your 50th dragon... how will it play then?

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Well there will be some advantage to it since you will get a dragon soul out of the deal which will help you gain more skills so that's a bonus. I wonder if there will be some kind of loot (gold, scales, teeth) that will help you creates specific upgrades or complete certain quests.

 

I just hope that the dragon battles never degrade to a point where you are hitting them with a few swipes of an unmodded blade and beating them. I dont want to be griefed by them but I also don't want to be able to run around and one shot them.

 

 

 

I feel the same way. When CS comes out for Skyrim the first thing I'm probably gunna do is mod the dragon health and armor. By the looks of the demo they are rather weak for all that armor and badassery. However being a demo, things aren't always what they seem when the game comes out.

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Keep in mind that dragon fights in this game are dynamic and realistic. This isn't one of those lame RPGs where you pick at the dragons toes while you both stare at each other. You have to be moving around, dodging flames, using your terrain, using spells, ranged, dragon shouts and more. I'm pretty positive that Skyrim's dragon fighting will be the best of any game to date. And I'm pretty positive that skyrim's dragons won't have your exact game coordinates and location all the time so that they can easily track you down, Todd said that they're like any other mob, so hopefully most encounters will be random and not like having to deal with dragons at every certain interval.

 

@TheOtherGuy

In any demo the devs always beef up the character. That's why Dovakhiin could get attacked by 5 draughers, kill them, and take minimal damage. The character could withstand dragon breath pretty easily as well.

 

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There have been people who've played the leaked version on streams and the dragon fights did not look particularly difficult in there either. Of course there are difficulty levels but if it's the same as Oblivion and F3/F:NV then it will just make things into bullet-sponges (or sword-sponges I suppose).

 

I don't really want to be a negative nancy but there are quite a list of things that Bethesda has claimed prior to the release of their games. Most notably in Oblivion but in Fallout 3 as well (200 endings, whoo!). Stuff like the dragon fights are exactly the type of thing which would be hyped to hell and back.

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Nine more days to find out just whether dragons own or get owned......

 

 

......are you getting excited yet....:)

 

Yeah. I'm excited. I was out west in the middle of nowhere northern alberta until about a week ago, wondering whether or not I'd be downloading this to my sisters PC to play off her 1.3meg DSL connection. :P

 

This might, maybe, seriously be enough to get me back into some serious modding outside of crappy stuff(like fixes and tweaks).

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There have been people who've played the leaked version on streams and the dragon fights did not look particularly difficult in there either. Of course there are difficulty levels but if it's the same as Oblivion and F3/F:NV then it will just make things into bullet-sponges (or sword-sponges I suppose).

 

I don't really want to be a negative nancy but there are quite a list of things that Bethesda has claimed prior to the release of their games. Most notably in Oblivion but in Fallout 3 as well (200 endings' date=' whoo!). Stuff like the dragon fights are exactly the type of thing which would be hyped to hell and back.

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The thing is, we can actually see how dragon fights are (and they look fucking awesome) but we couldn't see the "200 Endings".

Plus, mods can fix almost any problem out there. Their is now legit reasons why anyone would get the console version over the pc version except:

1. Their pc sucks ass or they don't have one (lol)

2. Achievement addict

3. They are a console fanboy

4. They are an idiot

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"""dragons are the replacement for oblivion gates"""

dont know why but i felt little angry when i read this.

 

1st. there are many different classes of dragons, so every fight its different. every fight its cool. i dont know who mentioned about easy fights, maybe they changed the difficult to novice.

2nd. ull encounter dragons even in the middle of a town. so THEY WILL RAPE VILLAGERS. yesterday i lost a merchant/smith who was very important becouse he always had nice items.

 

if u get out to xbox dashboard and return to game the store keepers will change items.this is usefull, beleive, ull know why.

 

3rd. sometime ull see and hear a dragon flys over in the distance. but hell not fight u. this gives the game suspense and intrigue. if ur fast enough u can try to follow him and shoot him with ur bow, its quite difficult but possible. then, hell fight u.

4th. ull get the dragon scales, money, items and bones from the dragons. also the dragon souls wich its better than the lame item u got in oblivion gates.

5th. dragons arent cool... u have to be an obtuse to think in that way.

 

ps. u can become a werewolf. confirmed.

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Funny how I read "Concerned about dragons and what they might do..." and I immediately thought "they might rape my char!".

 

Yes, anyway. I'd assume they have spawn points that can be altered in the CS to mitigate this. Of course if they roam around that might be a problem.

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Presto

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I'm quickly getting over my fear of what dragons will do to the game world and expect them to pop in unexpectedly a number of times. I can guarantee that I'll be laughing the first time I see the inevitably "sex with a dragon" mod. Even funnier if its happening to a town guard and not you

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I'm quickly getting over my fear of what dragons will do to the game world and expect them to pop in unexpectedly a number of times. I can guarantee that I'll be laughing the first time I see the inevitably "sex with a dragon" mod. Even funnier if its happening to a town guard and not you

 

Hahaha

 

"WHAT THE HECK HAVE YOU INSTAAAAARRRGGHHHH"

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