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Stuff That Might Be Added To Skyrim

After the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim shipped, the team at Bethesda took a week to do whatever they wanted and create content they could add to the game in the future.

As revealed during Todd Howard's keynote speech at DICE, the team designed all kinds of content, including dragon mounts, house building, and spears! Howard prefaced this reveal by saying none of this content is confirmed, and that it may or may not ever come out for public consumption.

The video shown during the keynote can be seen archived on GameSpot. Check it out below. It begins at around the 41:00 minute mark. Here is the list of features that could be added down the road:

  • Spears
  • Seasonal Foliage
  • Flow-based Water Shader
  • Kill Cams for Magic and Ranged Combat
  • Stealth enhancements such as water arose and Assassin's Vision
  • Guards can re-light darkened areas
  • Paralysis Runes
  • Dungeon enhancements like hanging structures and moving platforms
  • Water currents in dungeons
  • Dark dungeons
  • New follower commands for combat style, training, distance, equipment, etc.
  • Set favorites for followers
  • Adoption
  • Build you own home…complete with skeleton butler!
  • Spell combinations! Flame + Raise Zombie = Conjure Flame Atronach, Fear + Healing = Drain Health
  • Goblins
  • High Level Draugr
  • Waygate fast-travel
  • Epic new mounts
  • Mounted combat
  • Dragon Mounts
  • Soulbug Familiar
  • Kinect Shouts
  • Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
  • Enhanced Underwater Visuals
  • Snow Footprints
  • Verlet surfaces for non-rigid objects…like the Fat Giant
  • Ice & Fire Arrows
  • Werebear!
  • Lycanthropy Perk Tree
  • Vampire Feeding
  • Become a flying Vampire Lord
  • Vampire imp minions
  • Mudcrab animation tweaks

Comments
  • What I want to see more than anything else is a Fallout New Vegas style Hardcore Mode for console DLC.

  • ***! This video is private. Now I will never know...

  • Video's private...?

  • Holy crap riding your dragon mount while taking out a werebear!!! Yes please.

  • All of those ideas are fantastic. Here's hoping that all of them will be implemented!

  • If they don't at least add spears then Bethesda is lazy.

  • Epic new mounts? Does that mean I can ride a bear? Because I want that, I really want that.

  • All of that sounds amazing besides the "darker dungeons" idea. I don't know about you guys, but there are some dungeons where I have to turn the brightness all the way up on my television set just to see without using a candle light spell. I thought it might be my television because I just bought the PlayStation 3D display, but no other games are extremely dark like Skyrim is when inside most dungeons.

  • yes please!


  • Lycanthropy Perk Tree, YES PLEASE! I knew becoming a werewolf was a good idea.

    Edit: Video won't play, it says This video is private.
  • Video Private?????

  • Video Private?????

  • Video Private?????

  • I traded my Skyrim in to fast. Oh well I got Mass Effect 3 payed off with it anyway.

  • that's a pretty effing epic list

  • no manbearpig?

  • I like Skyrim a lot, loads of fun if you ask me. At the same time Skyrim is a perfect example of the "bummer" side of gaming. Honestly I'm sure Bethesda would've loved to have cleaned up the game and add some of these features upon release. But as I'm sure most people already know, they rushed to make that holiday release date. I think business execs put to much emphasis on meeting specific quotas within a set time period, or rushing to meet a holiday deadline. Most of us who bought it during the holiday season I'm sure would have still bought it if released several months later. I know I would have; and I would have had more respect for the company in putting gamers first over the "4th quarter sales bottom line." In my opinion, over the long haul the same amount of copies are going to be sold.
  • It'd be nice if you could craft arrows. Another thing is I wish when I had a flame spell equipped when in a dungeon that the spell would actually illuminate my surroundings a bit. I realize Arcania Gothic 4 is not Skyrim but even that game got it right.

  • bro, the video is apparently private

  • For those who want to watch the video, you can go right to gamespot and watch the video off their player.

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