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Todd Howard, lead game designer at Bethesda, gave the opening keynote at the 2012 DICE Summit this evening. Among his slides, he included a number of videos, one of which showed off what the developers refer to internally as the Game Jam 2011.

After the development of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim wrapped last year, the team was given a single week to throw whatever they wanted inside and mess around. The experiments ranged from humorous to “OMG why the F wasn’t that in the game?!” so it’s definitely worth a look: new weapon types, kill cams, elemental arrows, and even a lycanthrope (werewolf) skill tree!

Players have been requesting a dragon mount since before the game came out, and that (along with any other features seen in this video) may eventually become a reality, as Howard stated they all have the possibility of being released as paid downloadable content or in free updates.

Note: A smoother version of the video is being uploaded and will replace the one above shortly.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/08/bethesda-reveals-skyrim-dragon-mounts-house-building-kinect-shouts-and-more/

I really wish they would have put some of this stuff into the game. The build your own house feature could have been really cool and it would have added hours of gameplay. Most of the other ideas were either just cosmetic or silly.

I did like the "giant enemy" mudcrab though lol.

All of the ideas were great. Would like all of that in future updates/DLC.

Seems these things would fix most of the things I disliked about the game. Like how you can't do any sort of combat on a horse and how repetetive the dungeouns got after a while.

I expect all this and more on PC now the Creation Kit is out. I guess for console the hope will be DLC at some point with some of this.

So much good and meaningful stuff they made in just a few weeks. Shows how professional and effective hired game developers are compared to amateurs.

I would love many of those features, especially custom houses. It's nasty to tease us like this by releasing this video without promising those things to ever be released.

Home building would be incredible for consoles!!!

i liked making the vampire play more interesting....since its garbage and useless currently. in morrowind there was branching vampire quest lines, which would have been nice to have at the least.

lol I actually think that the create your own home mode is one of the least interesting things. Would still happily take it.

Hopefully some DLC comes out soon. Horses could really use some fixing and I always wanted combat on horses as well as allowing your slave/follower to ride as well. Seasonal changes also seem appropriate. So many good ideas really it is amazing what cool things can be done when people are given full freedom to be creative.