Which New Features Are You Drooling Over?

[BootySweat]

There has been a flurry of new info and features revealed in the past two days.

Which new info or features are you most excited about?

Here are 25 things that that have me going :drool: :drool: :drool:

1. - joinable Rebel faction
2. - pickpocket skill provides greater RP opportunities and much more realistic thievery for thieves
3. - myriad options for facepaint
4. - char gen remembers your settings when switching to different races
5. - even minor NPCs have much more complexity and depth compared with Oblivion
6. - you can persuade various random NPCs to accompany you and they feel like fleshed out, interesting companions
7. - there are six different stages to crafting items (refining crude ore, assembling materials, not sure what the other 4 stages are but it sounds a hell of a lot more complex than Oblivion and Morrowind crafting)
8. - more realistic alchemy labs instead of spamming health potions in the middle of a dungeon
9. - in addition to alchemy ingredients there are also reagents (more complex alchemy system than Oblivion)
10. - some spells you find as spell tomes and others you purchase from merchants, but spells definitely not perks
11. - hand to hand attacks have a much improved gravity and physicality
12. - the first encounter with Rebel soldiers (Stormcloaks) escorting a prisoner sounds AWESOME - you can choose various options, like setting the prisoner free, giving him a sword, etc. Quests in general sound like there are more ways to complete them
13. - Bosmer look better than in Oblivion
14. - traveling merchants camp beside rivers
15. - you can learn Alchemy by trial and error, tasting unknown ingredients or making potions with unknown effects
16. - lockpicking mini-game improved
17. - Bards confirmed in Falkreath
18. - MYSTERIOUS BLACK DOOR!!!!
19. - you can hold onto your perk slots instead of choosing a perk at each level up
20. - you can add laugh lines in character generator
21. - you can give a Dunmer one red and one gray eye in the character generator
22. - loading screens look cool
23. - after murdering innocents in Falkreath Hold, the PC in one of the demos crossed the border into White Hold and no one bothered him
24. - there is a Two-Handed perk called "Barbarian"
25. - "DOZENS" of sliders for character creation

[Arch-Mage Matt]

Anything to do with character creation. I'm planning on creating a keeper on my first go.

[Minish]

I am really looking in to the thievery upgrades, I love being a thief but Oblivion was always 'No, people can see you, you are behind a DOOR and people still see you. Detect Life much ?'
;3

[Mac of Four Winds]

Black Door! But really there is just soooooo much! November is too far away. I can't wait for that first moment when you step into the open world. Like coming out of the sewers in Oblivion or out of the Vault in Fallout. That feeling of "wow...so where do I wana go". It's the best.

[Fajita!]

That black door encounter seemed awesome

[Generalno1]

Didn't you male a similar thread already?

[-Dovahkiin-]

Bootysweat, everytime you make a new thread you get me all excited again, damn you. Anyway i'm looking forward to duel wielding daggers with my Assassin Character, and everything in that list, i just have one question, how will duel blades be holsted/sheafed?

[DerangedPickle]

Dual weilding a staff and sword, definitely making Gandalf.

[BootySweat]

Didn't you male a similar thread already?

Previously I made a thread for discussing all the features that we know are different from Oblivion.

This thread is completely different, actually - we are discussing only some completely brand new features that we learned about in the past 2 days.

[xopsi]

equipping my destruction spells in my hands, instead of being an accessory to warrior style combat, as just an addition, its a full blown weapon now. also, dual wielding spells, and being able to combine them for greater effects. i can't wait to be a destruction/restoration battlemage with blade/block/blunt weapons. i am excited!!!

[lostlast]

Anything to do with character creation. I'm planning on creating a keeper on my first go.

This.
I don't care if it takes me hours... I ain't leavin character creation till I have my keeper set up perfect. Get it right the first time.

Oh and Archery.... and duel wielding.... oh and perks...... wait, wait I know, that it's set in Skyrim.

[MrPuddings]

Well apparently the gruff, smoker Dark Elf voice is back. Then again, it was also there in the Oblivion E3 demo.

[OblivionDuruza]

Thanks for sifting through all those articles for us Booty .

There's just one thing I'm confused about.

Didn't you male a similar thread already?

Previously I made a thread for discussing all the features that we know are different from Oblivion.

This thread is completely different, actually - we are discussing only some completely brand new features that we learned about in the past 2 days.

There has been a flurry of new info and features revealed in the past two days.

Which new info or features are you most excited about?

Here are 25 things that that have me going :drool: :drool: :drool:

1. - even minor NPCs have much more complexity and depth compared with Oblivion
2. - more realistic alchemy labs instead of spamming health potions in the middle of a dungeon
3. - Bosmer look better than in Oblivion
4. - lockpicking mini-game improved
5. - loading screens look cool

Here are 60 random details we have learned from interviews and articles that I'm looking forward to, in no particular order

Wouldn't it be easier to access all this great information in one thread?

[BootySweat]

I don't see why this thread should be combined with any other threads.

We are discussing the recent flurry of brand new information and which new features are most exciting. This thread is not a comparison of all the thousands of differences between Skyrim and Oblivion.

[BootySweat]

I have to add another new feature that is now making me drool

AURORA BOREALIS CONFIRMED

LINK

Night falls and the spectacular aurora borealis lights up the sky, glow-worms and white butterflies flutter around us.

[POMC S117]

Isn't the Aurora Borealis to do with the magnetic field? Does Nirn have them?

[Eltee]

It isn't being sandblasted by solar wind, so I'm guessing...
Oh, and on the cover of Redguard there's a compass.

[BootySweat]

Isn't the Aurora Borealis to do with the magnetic field? Does Nirn have them?

Honestly I have no idea but I'm dying to see it in all its technicolor glory on my 1080p projector!

[soda popinski]

Im planning on spending the 1st hour or so just browsing through the perksa and planning out how i want to progress

[POMC S117]

Me too! Like others, I'm not going to go out of Character Creation until I have made my guy perfect, right down to the last pimple.

[Argonanza]

When I booted up Oblivion for the first time and had watched the breath-taking intro I spent over an hour experimenting with the sliders to make my Argonian look as I wanted. It was so ambient and I was enchanted. I know I'm going to spend atleast 2 hours tweaking my Skyrim character to perfection.

[POMC S117]

With the amount of detail in character creation for Skyrim, I think I'll spend the first day making it, choosing perks and all the other stuff.

[Rhcpftw]

I'll be trying to learn how to control an Elder scrolls game on my Xbox, since my computer would implode and explode (at ONCE!) if I installed it here.

Then, I'd travel to a city, earn some money and talk to the people to see what's going on. Oh, and magic, lots of it.

[Da_BossMaN69]

im going to slaughter every rebel,dragon, giant, undead, mammoth, anything I dont like really, that I see.

[-Dovahkiin-]

I'm going to groom my kajhiit slave.