I was thinking, now that they have made dragons that fly into cities and attack I was imagining a dragon being like two stories tall. Then they have Ice giants, tree giants, and giant spidersI think they said in the GI Coverage, so will those be "giants" as well or will they be like Ogres in Oblivion? When I say giant I mean about 7 feet tall and the spider I dont think is going to be that tall but really wide. Would you guys like bigger monsters?

Yes I want some of the baddies to be really big, but not like I'll step on you big.

Nope. After Super Mutant Behemoths in Fallout 3, I've seen all I want of huge Bethesda creatures. The current dragons and giants should fill the bill just fine.

Skyrim will finally be an open world rpg with some big beasts, giants,dragons,mammoths. Finally. In other open rpgs only a few(very few) boss battles had very large beasts. And perhaps like one other large beast, like the big mutants in Fallout, those were awesome.

Well a wolly mammoth was larger then an elephant so they might be rather large. I would like to see abnormaly large and even huge variants on common critters just to add a bit of fun to wandering around much like albino radscorpians did in fallout only more so.

So you don't want Dragons,giants and Mammoths? You said you have seen all you want of them, so you wish these large beast were not in the game?

@ Wintermane: Some Mammoths/mastodons were smaller some larger. But even the largest was only a little larger than an African Elephant.

Smaller Bipedal creatures look fine with Bethesda's animation system, with larger and quadraqedal creatures you can really see how they slide all over the place, get stuck and have one foot above the ground on a slope. If they can pull it off, great!

I wonder if we can wield the club in the giant pic though?
http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/114/1149185/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-20110211094604627_640w.jpg
Or will it be just too big?

:facepalm:

It really depends on how well done the combat with them is, I'll reserve judgement until I see a gameplay video, because big enemies in ES style games are usually cheesy (ES style being, not Diablo style or RTS)

Absolutely. But with giants, mammoths, giant spiders, sabretooth cats, and dragons all seemingly confirmed so far, I'm already pretty satisfied with Skyrim's monster line-up. I think the Skyrim province as a setting lends itself to bigger, more imposing foes in general.

Then again, I consider "bigger monsters" to be anything significantly larger than the PC, so maybe I'm easily pleased.

aside from dragons, giants and mammoths- no, we need HUGE MONSTERS


giant see serpents

water dragons http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQiev-5ooI-g_ioJq7LamFbXJGNyA7NYKo3tFZC8NnuEnd0who

giant giant spiders

ogres should be more like the lotr troll

giant turtles



prehistoric animals

Quality>Quantity.

Would also rather completely original, Bethesda made creatures than prehistoric etc.

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But I don't want every animal I find to be huge. Lets keep deer deer-sized please.

Would like to see a few "legendary" versions of some normal cave trolls, or what have you. Just in those "special" dungeons.

I voted NO! Hard to kill Dragons will be bad enough as boss monster, along with giant spiders, bears, ice trolls and hungry wolf packs and any other suprises BGS will throw at us. There will be plenty no doubt. I do not want to be hunted by herbivores, deer, elk, wild horses or wooly mammoths. I saw concept art of lions on one of the videos, bushy mane and all.

Because "Do you want bigger creatures?" TOTALLY MEANS "Do you want things that eat plants to attack you?" I have seen post skimmers, and people jumping to conclusions, but this... just wow...

That being said I do think that the current amount of large creatures fit the bill nicely. If you always have to fight giant monsters it could lose it's 'Wow' factor quickly. Better to wander around and hunt some deer, maybe a wolf or bandit, then get attacked by the HUGE ****ING ICE TROLL!

I read a magazine somewhere and the guy talked about a dungeon he explored in Skyrim. It seems that he was walking through killing those undead creatures we have seen pics off when a giant frost spider descended from the ceiling and started attacking him. So I think it is a safe bet that we will not only see more creatures other then just rats, but we will see large ones too.

Depends how big - I'm all for creatures/enemies being big, but if a giant is as big as how I imagine them from fairytales, I doubt I'd ever beat one. Although I would be able to see it from ages away poking out from above trees so I could avoid them I suppose.

Really not bothered about large creatures. I always prefer to fight normal sized humanoid enemies anyway (bandits, guards etc)

I want huge creatures, but they should be rare and feel extremely strong imo.

And how can you kill a hude creature with just a sword or axe
It will not be realistic so i vote "Meh "

Clearly you haven't seen a midget bring down a 7 foot tall guy by kicking him in the shins and then pounding him once he has fallen to the ground. It was both an amusing fight and dramatic one at the same time, but I assure you little people can bring down big people. Its all about weakening their structure or in better terms cutting their legs up till they fall. It is an easily doable fight between a pc and giant creatures, would just take more *gasp* strategy then hack, block, down potion, hack, block rinse and repeat.

To think for once you would have to make your hits count, attack body parts instead of just a person and move around dodging attacks instead of standing there. No game could ever pull that off, its beyond our capability....

It depends really on how well the physics and graphics are in game.
The bigger the creature the more block details get shown, and the movements are more visable.
So even a beautiful game may end up looking shoddy with lots of large creatures.

Also by and large RPG's have left big guys as high level and boss foes, big, strong and tough.
Having lots of them, and a certain project plan to make the game challenging by making them good at everything ( combat, magic, attack, deffense, range, stealth. )
Would make me frustrated as I personally dislike power gaming and building, and dislike NPC's and creatures that have been designed to do it automatically.

That said dragons are in, it's based in Skyrim so big'uns should be in the game world somewhere.

I agree, the rats should not be much larger than deer unless you can mount them.
I made another tread about this, rat increase in size from Morrowind to Oblivion to Fallout.

Yes I want. I was actually disappointed that there wasn't an epic final battle with a huge creature in the center of the earth.

So yeah, as long as I won't encounter them as much as your regular goblin.