User blog comment:Kaminoman/New Skyrim Info!/@comment-3359602-20110123003015/@comment-76.179.212.33-20110123143717

No, you can certainly select your own class. The last recap states that there will still be 10 races, and even if that'd have never been said, it wouldn't be TES if you couldn't pick one of those - don't worry. As for character customization, it will be much better, and put oblivion's customization system to shame. You see, Bethesda is awesome to the players. The make amazing games and all that shit, but if they know something works, like making classes and what not, they won't delete those kinds of features, and they'll implement them into future games. All in all, i know for a fact we'll see all of this in the final game, and some.