I Don't have it yet

It's around 9,123.114. Anyway, I think the real problem here is that so many elements go into different fantasy settings that it's actually quite hard to distinguish between high and low fantasy. Sure some works are clear, but many are so mixed that they don't fit nicely into either category. One could have a high fantasy story set in a low fantasy world, this kind of difficulty in definition is all over the place, yet we insist of forcing everything we see into our predetermined ideas of genre. Quick example, nowadays 'science fiction' is used to encompass everything from Moon to Starship Troopers (book) to Star Wars, but really these all fall into a monstrous network of subgenres, Hard Sci-Fi, Military Sci-Fi, and Science Fiction Fantasy respectively. In fact Star Wars, ever popular and oft touted as one of the great works of Science Fiction (in film) was advertised as a 'Space Fantasy.'

Okay, enough of that, basically what I'm saying is since nobody seems to know the definitions of low and high fantasy, and indeed I doubt there IS a fully formed, official definition, we're just going to have to see it and judge for ourselves.

What low fantasy means is unlike morrowind where you had giant msuhrooms and such.. clearly didnt look like it could be a place here on earth skyrim looks very much like somewhere on earth.. this is just talking about the area not game elements....

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I'll get my magazine on Thursday and post any new data here....but it'd help if someone makes a compilation of sorts...

That Nord on the cover is totally gone Viking furious. Thankfully, I am a descendant of Vikings from Finland. Skyrim will be like a return to the Motherland.

Yes!
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No.
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did the pu magazine have new screenshots in it?

This again? How original.

Will never happen.

On people freaking out about map size.... the last 5000 times they said game x was about as large as game y all they ment was if you played game x for 400 hours very likely you would play game y for that long.

Its how they answered the qyuestion on how big fallout 3 was....

If a game map is the size of a vw bug but you play it for 400 hours how big is the GAME?.. answer 400 hours.

But but but, game informer said the 5 cities were going to be massive. How is a carnival-sized city "massive?"

There were no vikings in finland, except that swedes who invaded Finland were probably descendants of vikings. Vikings were a germanic people, and finns are mostly finnish-ugric people.(But finns are hardcoe anywayz)

Looking forward to the scandinavian cover story.

So... that argument was entertaining.

"So, they're going to use a single Nord character for the screens"
"It's no biggie, Morrowind used a dark elf, Oblivion used an imperial"
"No, that was an imperial guard"
"Yeah, exactly, an Imperial protagonist, but just for advertising"
"No, that was an imperial guard!"
"No, they aren't locking you to one character in-game. They're just using the Nord hero for ads, like Oblivion"
"But Oblivion used an Imperial guard"
"Right, they used an Imperial protagonist in Oblivion, so what's the big deal?"
"You don't understand, I'm saying they used an Imperial Guard in the advertising for Oblivion"
"Yes, yes, an Imperial hero. And the Nord is just for advertising too, I'm sure you can play as any race in the game. Don't worry."

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What the hell was the point of all that?

Thank you sir for the laugher!

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