Skyrim - Interview @ AusGamers

Stephen Farelly from AusGamers talked with Todd Howard about this game.  Their talk covers  unscripted dragons, the plans for dlc, Creation Engine being used for this game and much more. Here's a bit on the Creation Engine:

AusGamers: Now let’s step it back a bit, I want to talk a bit about Creation Engine. You guys have been demoing the game on Xbox 360, is there any particular reason why you haven’t shown the PC version? Because clearly that would be the higher end.

Todd: Yeah it does, obviously the PC version looks better. It has higher textures, it can run much higher resolution and a lot more graphic features. We tend to show it on 360 so that it’s a good baseline for people to look at. So when they then see the PC version it’s going to go up. We’d rather do that than have people see the 360 later and it takes a step down.

Here's a bit about the possibility for user made mods making it onto consoles:

AusGamers: Is there any opportunity going forward to actually take some of the PC mod stuff and port that to console for console players?

Todd: It actually works. If you have a devkit console you can take the PC mod files, put them on your Xbox and they work. They actually worked in Oblivion, Morrowind and Fallout 3. For all of those games, I can take the PC mods and put them on my Xbox. We have one system so we just need to figure out the logistics of: How do we get it there? How do we secure it? How do we make it safe? It’s something that we would really like to do.

In other Skyrim news a German site called PSInside has given us this list of new details in the game. There's an English translation over at Media Minefield.   And here's some of the new details:

 Players can earn a few coins by chopping wood finding objects or forging weapons.

- The highest mountain can be climbed, the higher you go the heavier the snowfall will get.

- 150 dungeons are available, which are all different. Those who are particularly interested in the backstory can collect over 300 books with information in them.

- The level system is pretty much the same, with 18 different skills to increase, including various weapon and magic skills.