http://www.bethblog.com/2012/02/08/watch-todd-howards-dice-keynote-live-on-gamespot/

Watch from 22:00 minutes

Looks like someone at bethesda already made spears and the mechanics for them, but it just wasnt put in the game. Future DLC for sure I think. Also im a console player so it would be great for console players to get this!

Little late to the party.

Yeah I know bit late Oh well

1st: There's already threads on this http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1345096-skyrim-game-jam-2/ and http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1345002-jam-dlc-poll/.

2nd: That was made after Skyrim was released, when the devs had a break and a week to work exclusively on that stuff without distraction.

actually they try to keep the provinces influences seprate the only reason morrowind had spears is because the huge ammount of argonians there (slaves)

Would it be one handed or two handed though? And what about perk trees and stuff?

Obviously you can have a spear be in the game. There are legitimate questions about how useful a spear would be for a one-on-one fight, if you had any concern at all about them having any relation at all to how spears actually work.

I saw it in the video, and I have no objection to it being in the game - but what I do find silly is this sort of combined spear/bo staff. A real, lethal spear is long and heavy. You can't swing it around speedily like a bo staff to hit somebody in the head and daze them. And anything as light and quick as a bo staff, you can't just stick a pointy end on it and make it a lethal spear. Real hand-to-hand melee spears were like what hoplites in ancient Greece carried - long and heavy and thick. Throwing spears like the pila the Romans carried were a little shorter and lighter, but still had to carry enough weight to penetrate shields.

So basically, go ahead an put spears in the game, but not this combined spear/bo staff business. I never have understood the lust for spears that some people seem to burn with, but by all means, create a reasonable spear mechanic and add them in.

I know why many of the coolest of those will never be officially added to the game. Its a shame because its amazing what they could have done with fewer limitations.

If they implement this as DLC, they need not only provide them in different materials, but also add them to various NPCs in Skyrim, and add some spear artifacts like the Spear of Bitter Mercy and the Spear of the Hunter.

Man it sure is cOLD in here.

I can see the complaints already.

Why can't I throw my spear.Thats what you get when you only spend a week on something.

or

I threw my spear and now I can't find it.Thats what you get when you only spend a week on something