Along with Mass Effect 3 and Brink, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of my most awaited title this year and with some of the nuggets information NeoGAF (using the latest edition of Game Informer) has compiled, I wouldn’t be surprised if it leaps up your pre-order list.

One major change will be that there will not be a class selection when the player creates their character and each skill you level contributes towards your overall level. Every time you level up, you will automatically gain more health and then have the option to gain more health, stamina or magika. Players will not cap out at level 50 either but will instead level at a much slower rate. Mysticism has also been cut from the skills list.

The story will take place 200 years after Oblivion where dragon have returned to Skyrim and it is your duty to slay the dragon king as you are one of the only dragonborn and are destined to return Skyrim into peace and order. Through your quest, you will have to endure combat with were-yetis, giant spiders and of course dragons.

Here are some of the other changes made to the game:

• Third person view has been improved
• 5 massive cities, more variation in caves and underground stuff.
• There is an option for no HUD.
• On conversations: Conversations aren’t done in a zoomed in static shot anymore.Start a conversation with some and they will act like someone would in real life, looking at you occasionally and walking around a bit and also continue doing a task if they were doing one while talking.
• On weapon smithing: Go to a forge and carve a new weapon out of red hot metal.
• Dual-wielding: you have two hands now in combat and you can wield anything to both hands. You may assign a dagger on left hand and use a mace with right hand. The choice as they say is yours.
• Duel: You may duel any NPC on the streets western style.
• Inheritence: When you kill a shopkeeper, his/her family member will inherit the shop and will be angry about you, but stil give you missions.
• Level-scaling: It is coming back
• 18 skills: supposedly even less skills to play with?
• No mysticism
• Perks: Rumored to be in Skyrim. I may have understood it wrong.
• Boosts: Pick stamina, health, magic boosts on level up.
• Enchanting: This skill makes a return.
• “Radiant storytelling” or Level Scaling 2.0: “The game eventually logs a huge storehouse of knowledge about how you’ve played, and subsequently tailors content to your capabilities and experiences. Entering a city, a young woman might approach you and beg you to save her daughter from kidnappers. The game will look at the nearby dungeons you’ve explored, automatically set the mission in a place you’ve never visited, and designate opponents that are appropriately matched to your strengths and weaknesses.”
• Fast-Travel: As you probably expect, you can instantly travel to previous locations with a tap of the button
• Sprinting: You can now sprint about!
• Town visiting: You may do more in towns, like tailor weapons, cooking, farming or mining. Not much details about this or how detailed they are as jobs.
• Dynamic Shadows
• Improved Faces/Improved Models Example: Faces have been dramatically overhauled. Characters now exhibit more emotion show of distinctions between different races and just plain looks better.
• Radiant AI
• Updated Engine Snow falls dynamically (not as a basic texture on the ground)
• Trees and branches move independently with the wind
• Water flows
• Randomly generated quests
• You can’t run backwards as fast as you do forward.
• 10 races to choose from (Holy crap thats a lot of races)
• Confirmed creatures: zombies, skeletons, trolls, giants, ice wraiths, giant spiders, dragons, wolves, horses Elk, mammoth, saber-toothed cats
• Presumably open cities (as dragons can attack)
• Hud-free first-person view and improved third-person perspective
• Very unique landscapes! Also unique dungeons! In other words, lots of uniqueness!
• Character creation improved, body features customizable
• 2-handed weapons and duel wielding confirmed.
• Finishing moves, unique to each weapon and enemy you fight.
• Kids
• Dialog will pop up when you approach an enemy
• cooking/farming/mining/woodcutting/blacksmithing
• Perk picking at every level-up
• 5 Magic Schools Destruction Alteration Conjuration Restoration Illusion.
• And most importantly, beards.

Skyrim is due out on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 November 11^th.