NO BANANAS?! : V

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:24 pm

http://nerdtrek.com/skyrim-answers-bethesda/

At the end of the page.

"No joke, the Devs gave it some serious consideration. The team debated many foods, however the age old topic of appropriate climate and environment kept coming up… It is way too cold in Skyrim to grow something tropical like a banana. Some Devs would really want to include a food item and others would fiercely debate how unrealistic it would be to include that piece of food. The attention to detail is phenomenal.

I hope we’ve been helpful! Thanks everyone for such great questions and impressing THE guys that are putting out what looks like a lock for Game of the Year…"

My opinion on bananas: I agree that it would not be possible to grow bananas in such a climate. But I believe in some of the southern towns or villages they may import bananas from places like Cyrodiil(Originally supposed to be a jungle like environment). So it wouldn't be to difficult to trade.

Also it may be possible so that bananas could reach there destination preserved they may have used certain restorative spells to keep them from decaying until it reaches some noble's or Jarl's place.

Also what other foods do you think would be current in the Skyrim area?

I expect alot of mutton.

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:12 pm

Do coconuts migrate?

» Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:44 am

Using restoration to preserve? Interesting. I wonder how that would work. As for food in Skyrim, you could be the hunter type and eat whatever you kill. I wonder if they will have cheesecake.

» Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:07 am

Do coconuts migrate?

If they were the Summer Island Jumping Coconuts, it is possible.

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 11:48 pm

It's a fantasy world. I say make a kind of Banana thats red and have them only grow in caves.

» Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:36 am

It's a fantasy world. I say make a kind of Banana thats red and have them only grow in caves.

But then a new question arises....is it still a bananna?

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 3:22 pm

http://nerdtrek.com/skyrim-answers-bethesda/

At the end of the page.

"No joke, the Devs gave it some serious consideration. The team debated many foods, however the age old topic of appropriate climate and environment kept coming up… It is way too cold in Skyrim to grow something tropical like a banana. Some Devs would really want to include a food item and others would fiercely debate how unrealistic it would be to include that piece of food. The attention to detail is phenomenal.

I hope we’ve been helpful! Thanks everyone for such great questions and impressing THE guys that are putting out what looks like a lock for Game of the Year…"

My opinion on bananas: I agree that it would not be possible to grow bananas in such a climate. But I believe in some of the southern towns or villages they may import bananas from places like Cyrodiil(Originally supposed to be a jungle like environment). So it wouldn't be to difficult to trade.

Also it may be possible so that bananas could reach there destination preserved they may have used certain restorative spells to keep them from decaying until it reaches some noble's or Jarl's place.

Also what other foods do you think would be current in the Skyrim area?

I expect alot of mutton.

Except Cyrodiil has probably stopped trading with Skyrim due to the war.

» Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:16 am

After the empire fell, international commerce went to hell.

Also, I'm not sure bananas would grow anywhere. Cyrodil was transformed into a temperate paradise by Talos, elswyr is a desert, Black Marsh is wild (bananas are an artificial hybrid), the Bosmer don't eat plants, Hammerfel, Skyrim, Highrock, and Orsinium don't have the climate, and Morrowind (the climate of which I don't absolutely know off the top of my head) was destroyed. The only place that could possibly grow them is Summerset.

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:24 pm

What a load of BS. No bananas?! What the hell, Bethesda?! Way to dumb the game down! Skyrim is a full-on action game now! SCREW YOU, TODD HOWARD! This just proves how much they love consoles and hate PC! Oblivion svcked!

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:03 pm

What a load of BS. No bananas?! What the hell, Bethesda?! Way to dumb the game down! Skyrim is a full-on action game now! SCREW YOU, TODD HOWARD! This just proves how much they love consoles and hate PC! Oblivion svcked!

OBLIVION DID NOT svck UR JUST AN ELITIST WITH NO LIFE DOGS ARE CUTE

» Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:11 am

What a load of BS. No bananas?! What the hell, Bethesda?! Way to dumb the game down! Skyrim is a full-on action game now! SCREW YOU, TODD HOWARD! This just proves how much they love consoles and hate PC! Oblivion svcked!

i c wut u did thar

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:22 pm

Not to mention bananas as we know them today are actually a rather recent human invention. So not having them in Skyrim would make sense regardless of the climate.

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:04 pm

Not to mention bananas as we know them today are actually a rather recent human invention. So not having them in Skyrim would make sense regardless of the climate.

Really? So the monkeys and apes started eating them after it was invented by humans?

» Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:35 am

Southern Morrowind seems to have sort of a tropical climate, look at Mournhold and the sort of plants they have there. The Dunmer also have the slaves for the authentic banana plantation experience! If they've recovered from the meteor strike and driven back the Argonians that is.

The original wild bananas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Musa_acuminata_in_india01.jpg. They probably don't taste that good, unless you cook them maybe, but they're definitely bananas.

Of course the question remains why you would go through all the trouble of transporting them to Skyrim and keeping them fresh. They'd probably be a luxury item for the rich.

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:44 pm

Really? So the monkeys and apes started eating them after it was invented by humans?

Yes. It's a common cliche that monkeys are always eating bananas. They do eat bananas, but mostly feed on a variety of fruits and nuts.

» Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:19 am

Dovahkiin needs potassium! :swear:

» Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:15 am

Do coconuts migrate?

They could be carried!

» Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:22 am

Really? So the monkeys and apes started eating them after it was invented by humans?

Modern bananas as you know them now didn't exist before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Cavendish

The first kind of bananas (which dont exist anymore they were wiped out by disease long ago) were not really edible by humans as they were riddled with seeds and had quite unpalatable flesh. Bottom line they looked and tasted nothing like you have had bananas today.

» Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:37 am

Do coconuts migrate?

No but swallows do...and they can grip it by the husk

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:43 pm

What a load of BS. No bananas?! What the hell, Bethesda?! Way to dumb the game down! Skyrim is a full-on action game now! SCREW YOU, TODD HOWARD! This just proves how much they love consoles and hate PC! Oblivion svcked!

:clap:

» Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:30 am

Some Devs would really want to include a food item and others would fiercely debate how unrealistic it would be to include that piece of food. The attention to detail is phenomenal.

And this is supposed to be encouraging when other aspects are being removed because there isn't enough time/resources to include them?

Maybe if they stopped arguing about bananas...

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 11:09 pm

Do coconuts migrate?

with the help of sparrows, yes

» Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:10 am

What a load of BS. No bananas?! What the hell, Bethesda?! Way to dumb the game down! Skyrim is a full-on action game now! SCREW YOU, TODD HOWARD! This just proves how much they love consoles and hate PC! Oblivion svcked!

YOU FORGOT TO TYPE -SARCASM- AFTER.

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:58 pm

No bananas? *cancels pre-order*

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:54 pm

THANK YOU for the few who actually got my 'coconut' reference... Started to feel 'out-dated'