Skyrim to Offer "Infinite Quests"

Wired spoke with Bethesda's Todd Howard about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and he described for them how in addition to scripted quests, the Radiant quest system in the imminent RPG sequel will offer an infinite supply of procedurally generated quests. "The vibe of the game is that it’s something that you can play forever," says Howard. He stresses this will not just be random chores, but rather an extension of lessons learned from development of Fallout 3, as they worked on motivating players to explore a vast game world. "With Fallout, it’s not as beautiful a world to everybody. We had to find ways to make exploration of [a destroyed wasteland] interesting," he says. "The world is probably the one thing that sets [Skyrim] apart from other games. It feels really real for what it is … It’s just fun to explore."
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yonder wrote on Nov 9, 2011, 11:09:
*IF* this is done right it'll be incredible. It'll take me 200 hours to find out tho. You know the most alarm-raising aspect of this? The fact that they're announcing it *NOW*. Remember how Radiant AI and all of its promises were talked about a friggin yearandahalf before the game was out (closer to 2 years actually)? With highly suspicious anouncements I *expect* there to be plenty of time between the announcements and the game. Bethesda doesn't need hype for Skyrim. If this were a hype announcement, it would have been made a year ago.

I'm taking the opposite view. It raises alarms for me when they're tooting some revolutionary feature well in advance of the launch, because that suggests they're either hyping it ridiculously because they know nobody will know they're bullshitting for a year or are far too optimistic about how it'll actually turn out. Much like Radiant AI in Oblivion was massively hyped yet they could never get it to work as they planned.

On the contrary when they've actually shipped it I'd expect it to be more likely that any hyped feature would be complete, as they know exactly what they've got at launch and any blatant lying would become obvious within a week or so of making the comment.
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