They said they have about 120 dungeons of which at least half are small dungeons that take about 15 minutes to finish, and the rest range from that small dungeons to epic 1 or two hour ones.

All of them hand crafted, filled with traps and puzzles, and the like.

I would say I hoped for more of the larger ones, but the uniqueness of them all compensates that for me.

Didn't they say that they were not done adding dungeons yet? That 120 to 130+ was simply the current # and that there would probably be more than that?

Last time Todd spoke on the dungeons he said 140+ and they still making more, and no there can never be to many, what game are you playing ???

As far as I'm concerned, there could never be too many dungeons.

no thats what they did in OB i hated it

I don't want to hurt your feelings, but someone hast to redo his math.
130 dungeons, half of which 1-2 hours(aka, 65 times 1.5 = 97.5)
and half of which are 10-20 min(aka 15 min times 65 which are 16.25 hours)
So, we actully have 113,75 hours, and well, it is still going up. (Then there are points of interest, cities, and whatnot... So yea, I think it will come up to at least 200 hours, and 200 creative, not repetetive hours.(I never got past the 100 hour mark in oblivion to be honest)=

I almost never explored the 200+ dungeons, but that is mostly because of the fact that it was almost always lacked a reward(hidden unique stuff, even something weak would give a reason to explore more). If they make exploring more fun this time I still think 130+ unique, hand-crafted dungeons will be enough. IMO at least.

It would make me so happy if every dungeon had at least one unique item. More so if each of those unique items has a unique mesh or at least texture.

Rather a few quality and distinguishable dungeons, than lots of lookalike dungeons.

I hope they revamped the encumbrance system, because in OB after fifteen minutes in a dungeon I had to start dropping things in order to get back out. If the encumbrance system isn't considerably different, One to two hours is gonna make another three hours of just going back to town to sell.

I am way excited to explore 140+ unique dungeons, though! I sure hope they're darker than they were in OB, all that ambient light kinda put me off
What are torches for, anyways? Goodness.

You can never have too many, you can only come short.

That being said, quality is important. I think 130 quality dungeons is a fantastic number.

140 dungeons. 50% 15minutes, 50% 1 or 2 hours.
70 x 15 = 1050 minutes
70 x 90 = 6300 minutes
Total = 7350 minutes

7350 = 122,5 hours.
60

Sounds good, eh?

Personally I'm glad they reduced the amount of dungeons (and increased the amount of dungeon designers at the same time) because:

1. I felt that Cyrodiil was too cluttered with dungeons. You couldn't walk for more than 30 seconds before the next 'You found dungeon XYZ' message would pop up.

2. The dungeons in Oblivion were incredibly boring (at least 90% of them). Why do you even need that many dungeons if one dungeon looks like the other except for a few layout changes? I'd rather have 100 interesting, unique dungeons than 200 boring dungeons that all look and feel the same.

I really hope the dungeons will have interesting puzzles, unique visuals and maybe small background stories (not necessarily quests) tied to them. If that was the case and if the dungeons were large enough I wouldn't even mind if they only had 50 dungeons.

100+ unique dungeons (some being an hour long, supposedly) appeals to me way more than 200+ generic, copied & pasted dungeons, so to be honest I'm pretty happy with what's been done so far.

I don't know how their team is set out, but perhaps these 8 "dungeon designers" will still be working on them for sometime; may end up with more by 11 - 11 -11.

Still too many. In Oblivion they were ridiculously many. For the Oblivion size of the map I think 60-75 handcrafted, unique looking and long dungeons would be fine.

Haha I haaaaate that feeling. If I'm done in there, I want out. Most of the time I'm hoping so badly that there's a rear door so I can get on with my life and not have to backtrack. If I can't find my way out, it's more an annoyance than a sense of exploration.

That sounds like more than enough, if you ask me. That's over 100 hours of just dungeons. If you add that to everything else in the game, that's quite a lot of content.

by dungeons is that everything like caves and alyeid ruins and forts or are they a different acount or are they gonna share the 100 plus dungeons :confused:

i hope we dont have to walk all the way back to the start to exit


ship wrecks are great too

and i think around 120 is a perfect number

I heard around 120.

No amount of dungeons can ever be too many

Assuming they are done properly of course...

Anything over 100 is easily enough for me.

I think this might be a problem, 130 had been enough in Oblivion as all dungeons was level scaled, you could keep exploring new ones and they all would be fitting.

However in Skyrim the you need dungeons that roughly fit your level. If they have level 1-10, 10-20 up to 40-50 type dungeons you end up with around 25 dungeons fit for a level 50 character, now many perhaps most of them are small, the lower level ones will be a walkover and pretty boring then you are maxed out.
So I hope we get many high level dungeons, also hope we get respawing, and a smarter one than in Oblivion.

First off, thanks for posting Todd Howard's original quote, Sphagne. Appreciated.

Secondly, read the quote again, folks. He said they currently had around 120 dungeons, he didn't say that was all they're making (we're still 6 months out remember?)

And he said they had over 100 world's largest balls of twine.

He also said he lost count. So he's not entirely sure of the exact number.

I'd rather have quality than quantity
I'm also not a fan of huge sprawling dungeons especially when they make little sense in terms of layout, composition of inhabitants etc