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Gone Gold - Skyrim

[Nov 04, 2011, 3:43 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Bethesda Blog announces that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is now gold, with the completion of the RPG sequel coming just in time for its planned release a week from today. Word is:

It’s done!!!

We’re pleased to announce that after more than three years of hard work, the team at Bethesda Game Studios has completed over 20 versions of Skyrim — across multiple platforms, languages, and countries. That’s right, Skyrim is officially gold!

The team celebrated last night with sweet golden mead brewed by Kurt Kuhlmann, Ryan Jenkins, and Shane Liesegang.

For more pics, check out the slideshow below…

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69. Re: Gone Gold - Skyrim Nov 5, 2011, 02:21 Jerykk
 
And for every one of you there is someone on an RPG forum talking about how inventory limits are necessary for balance and roleplaying. You can't make everyone happy.

Personally if they removed weight limits I would complain about yet another example of dumbing the game down.

There are a lot of good reasons for weight limits. For one, it makes it much harder to get rich, since you can't just take everything you see and dump it all off at the local merchant. That said, fast travel seriously undermines that, as it lets you fill up at a dungeon, teleport to the local merchant, dump the loot, teleport back to the dungeon, rinse and repeat. That's why I generally avoid using fast travel until I've explored the whole map and looted all the dungeons. If Bethesda wants to make encumbrance more meaningful, they should remove fast travel.

That said, you can make an unlimited inventory system balanced. Simply have merchants pay less for stuff they already have. If a merchant already has 10 steel daggers, he shouldn't pay as much as a merchant who has none. If a merchant has tons of any one item, he should refuse to buy more. You could also have item values vary per region. A flask of water shouldn't hold any value in snowy northern regions but should be very valuable in southern desert regions.

As always, it's all about implementation. A seemingly tedious or annoying mechanic can add a lot of depth to a game if it is implemented correctly. That goes for time limits, escort quests, encumbrance, item degradation, fetch quests, etc. 		 
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