You have to hand it to Bethesda, they certainly know how to grab a gamer’s attention. While we all eat up talk of graphics and gameplay, every one of us is just a giant kid at heart, and Bethesda knows exactly how to appeal to this inner child: dragons.
Of the little we’ve seen of Skyrim, we’ve mostly seen dragons, so two things have been clear for some time now – 1: dragons will form a central part of the game, and 2: we can’t wait to kill every one of them.
PC Gamer caught up with Todd Howard, game director at Bethesda, to slake our thirst for dragon blood by asking the question on everyone’s mind – just how often are we going to see these mythical beasts?
“You have to do a little bit of the main quest – just the initial stuff – for the Dragons to really start appearing, because it sits in with the story,” said Howard. “After that point, the more of the main quest you do, the more Dragons you’ll run into. But it’s hard to quantify it, they appear every once in a while. Not at a rate that is annoying… it still feels special.”
“It’s hard to know how people will play the game and it’s a little bit random, so I don’t want to say if it’s once an hour or…”
Don’t get any ideas about blowing off your questly duties to become a rogue dragon hunter either, (because I called dibs on it first); Howard is a step ahead of us all, saying that if gamers “don’t want to proceed in the main quest, they’re not going to get spammed with dragons.”
If you don’t do your chores, you don’t get your dragons. When one does appear, however, you best be ready for a fight (or a shameful sprint to cover).
“When one of them arrives, it changes whatever you’re doing at the time. You could be on a different quest, going to a town, and a dragon shows up, so you’re going to have to find a way to kill the thing or work with the townspeople or run away. So we spent a lot of time on that, and I think that the balance on that is pretty good right now.”
Dragons descend on November 11th, so start sharpening that peripheral vision.
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