indeed, im getting 4 games in november, and 0 games in october. shows how good the november line up is.

i think this is the rpg to get me back into rpg's for awhile. After playing WoW i haven't been able to play an rpg and have fun, not cause WoW was so awesome, but by the end of it it felt like a job.

Iam happy about your dedication.

I spent roughly 700 hours on Morrowind and between 1500 - 2000 hours on Oblivion (lots of goofing around like you describe, especially with the PC version and mods. I spent hundreds of hours on Alchemy and ingredient picking alone. And I will pick up the PS3 version of the 5th Anniversary edition of Oblivion next week).

I estimate I will spend at least 1000 hours with Skyrim, but if the new dynamic quest system in Skyrim increases replayability even more and if it draws me in like Oblivion did it might become double that. My social life will definitely suffer in the coming year but hopefully I will be able to stay sharp at work.

wow, 2k hours, that is insane. ive been playing dota for 6 years+ and im at 5k hours+.

The radiant quest system can increase replayability, but to make that happen you must start a new game, and play it diffrently then your other playthrough.

Also radiant story is just for side quests and possibly guild quests. but i skyrim this is going to be 5/6th of the game.

Here is an explantion of radiant story:

"This latest deluge of info focuses primarily on the swanky-sounding Radiant Storytelling feature, which churns out random encounters that ultimately lead to quests specifically tailored to your character’s experience. 

"Traditionally in an assassination quest, we would pick someone of interest and have you assassinate them," revealed Bethesda’s Todd Howard.

"Now there is a template for an assassination mission and the game can conditionalize all the roles - where it happens, under what conditions does it take place, who wants someone assassinated, and who they want assassinated."

"All this can be generated based on where the character is, who he's met. They can conditionalize that someone who you've done a quest for before wants someone assassinated, and the target could be someone with whom you've spent a lot of time before."

Design director Bruce Nesmith further expounded on the system, revealing many of these encounters are highly interactive, though a few of them aren't. He also offered a few examples in regards to what players can expect from random events.

"There are a wide variety of these random encounters," he commented.

"Many of them are things the player can interact with, some are not. You might save a priest who then tells you about a dungeon where there are people trapped that need saving. You might run across mammoth beset by a pack of wolves."

And another explanation:

"Every person and location in Skyrim has been sorted into categories, and the game will rifle through these categories when coming up with new quests, so each and every player gets brand new content. 

Here's how it works: you might stroll into a town after a specified number of pre-requisite events have taken place; the Radiant Quest dynamic will grab a nearby character who fits specific mission giving criteria - say, a mother whose child has been kidnapped - and you'll be asked to journey to an unseen grotto to complete the task."

here is a live action trailer and a link to the latest episode of gt-tv which has lots of new footage for skyrim

http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/gametrailers-tv/137?ch=1

Pre-orders now suggest an opening week of well over 2 million copies on PS360 worldwide. That typically means at least 8 million lifetime and best selling RPG of this generation by a large margin (Final Fantasy 13 and Fallout 3 are both at slightly above 6 million. Oblivion is at 5.6 million and counting).

Less than three weeks left.

i only want skyrim to sell well so the next instalement can be even better.

yeah 3 weeks is going to be an enternity. thank god i have my copy of oblivion, i have to become champion of the arena this time by being a mage!

some funny footage by ign. ahh its nice seeing two dragons fight if off

Hopefully it's better than morrowind, I don't expect it to be. Goty contender no doubt.

I love live action trailers for games...makes me wish they would make actual movies.