First City revealed. : V - Skyrim

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:52 am

Well, if that's Markarth Side I could say it's an open city. Rather than an enclosed one in Oblivion...

It looks big, but not as big as I thought it would be, maybe it's because of the angle the picture was taken.

Gosh, Pete is making me mad.

Probably the angle. You look at the back, you see doorways and such carved into the mountains. Maybe half of it is in the mountain ?

Yeah, to me it looks like the tail end of a town wedged into a valley. Could be a lot more there, but who knows.

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:31 am

Silvade, apparently you're hard to please because you think that people should live in cities

» Sat May 28, 2011 2:51 pm

Silvade, apparently you're hard to please because you think that people should live in cities

:bonk:

Pete... <_<

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:40 am

:bonk:

Pete... <_<

Meh, it will probably look better populated. Besides, that is just one city, it could be Bravil quality for all we know lol. I'm guessing there will be one city that has amazing architecture.

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:52 pm

Meh, it will probably look better populated. Besides, that is just one city, it could be Bravil quality for all we know lol. I'm guessing there will be one city that has amazing architecture.

You're kinda hard to please too.

Loove the look of that city so much with all the stairs and crazy views. And bar Vivec, was there any cities that wasn't on the same level ?

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:29 pm

It's a bit tough to see the scale of it with no NPC's walking around but it looks amazing. It's funny in the way that it kind of cements the idea that the dwemer were normal height. I can see it now though, waterfalls rushing down, Nords walking around with a few other races mixed in making things and gathering supplies. This is going to be so awesome! :celebration:

lol, it actually kind of reminds me of that town in F3 that revolved around the bomb.

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:42 pm

Meh, it will probably look better populated. Besides, that is just one city, it could be Bravil quality for all we know lol. I'm guessing there will be one city that has amazing architecture.

The fact that it went from 8 major cities in Oblivion to 5 in Skyrim was already enough to make me a bit angry, now it looks like they are about the same size as in Oblivion and even less populated!

I am pissed!

...

I should calm down and stop complaining.

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:23 am

Perhaps that's just the "forbidden" Dwemer ruins that are shoved into the back of Markarth Side, which is humongous.

» Sat May 28, 2011 1:07 pm

Pete Hines tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/28963471538262016 It claims that http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim/TheElderScrollsVSkyrimMedia/Markarth01.jpg is a screen of one of the major cities. Obviously it is lacking in NPCs in that screen but it is probably not populated in the game at the time of the screenshot.

NO THAT IS AN ANCIENT RUIN

» Sat May 28, 2011 2:21 pm

NO THAT IS AN ANCIENT RUIN

Unfortunately no... you can read at the URL. Markarth Side, which is a city in Skyrim's map.

:(

» Sat May 28, 2011 3:24 pm

The fact that it went from 8 major cities in Oblivion to 5 in Skyrim was already enough to make me a bit angry, now it looks like they are about the same size as in Oblivion and even less populated!

But how can you know it's not populated ? :unsure:

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:08 pm

The fact that it went from 8 major cities in Oblivion to 5 in Skyrim was already enough to make me a bit angry, now it looks like they are about the same size as in Oblivion and even less populated!

I am pissed!

...

I should calm down and stop complaining.

No you shouldn't. If people wouldn't complain, improvements would never be made.
But some people have trouble accepting that and start whining about "whiners". :tongue:

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:45 am

Well, Todd told us that would be cities made by Dwemer, in which the nords have moved in now.

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:19 pm

NO THAT IS AN ANCIENT RUIN

Caps Lock is cruise control for cool...

The fact that it went from 8 major cities in Oblivion to 5 in Skyrim was already enough to make me a bit angry, now it looks like they are about the same size as in Oblivion and even less populated!

Well it's going from IC with 7 smaller cities to 5 ICs and lots of villages. I think it will be great. As for the lack of population. For all we know they haven't populated it with any NPCs for that screenshot. Or they could all be massed at some gathering somewhere else in the city.

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:53 pm

The fact that it went from 8 major cities in Oblivion to 5 in Skyrim was already enough to make me a bit angry, now it looks like they are about the same size as in Oblivion and even less populated!

I am pissed!

...

I should calm down and stop complaining.

You seem to have mixed up "massive" with "major." Skyrim has 7 Major cities, it's established in the lore. 5 of those cities are "MASSIVE" as described in the Game Informer article.

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:36 pm

The fact that it went from 8 major cities in Oblivion to 5 in Skyrim was already enough to make me a bit angry, now it looks like they are about the same size as in Oblivion and even less populated!

I am pissed!

...

I should calm down and stop complaining.

Well, we all know pete can be wrong, wait with the anger until we actually get a "real" reveal of one of the major cities, like with streets and people and stuff.

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:10 pm

The fact that it went from 8 major cities in Oblivion to 5 in Skyrim was already enough to make me a bit angry, now it looks like they are about the same size as in Oblivion and even less populated!

I am pissed!

...

I should calm down and stop complaining.

Oblivion has small citys. Skyrim's 5 citys are as big as the Imperial city.

» Sat May 28, 2011 8:33 pm

You seem to have mixed up "massive" with "major." Skyrim has 7 Major cities, it's established in the lore. 5 of those cities are "MASSIVE" as described in the Game Informer article.

Pete said 5 major cities... a bunch of articles mentioned 5 major cities. GI never implied 5 massive cities, unfortunately.

I'd say 2 of those Major Cities in the lore were destroyed by Dragons like Kvatch. But I would love to be proven wrong as these 5 cities being as big as the Imperial City.

» Sat May 28, 2011 2:46 pm

I don't know, I hope he's not pulling a fast one again :lol:

Pete Hines trolling? Nah........against Beth forum policy.

I hope it has plenty of NPCs, and it looks like its been carved out of a valley or mountain. Are these the Dwemer ruins that nords live in?

» Sat May 28, 2011 2:28 pm

I should calm down and stop complaining.

You should, yes. You're making up your own facts and then complain about them.

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:30 pm

You should, yes. You're making up your own facts and then complain about them.

Okay. Lemme just double check the GI article to see if they mentioned "massive" instead of "major".

I'm wishing for five cities as big as IC.

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:54 am

Everyone should calm down and think with cooler heads, you see only a part of the major city and there are clues that show us that there is much more to the city and seeing as how it is deep and multi-layered, it's going to be huge. Also we don't know why there are no people in the screen, it could just be that they didn't populate it with NPCs yet when they took that screen.

» Sat May 28, 2011 3:19 pm

Okay, confused again : I don't see how this is not a big city. I mean, Bruma, Anvil... You get around in five minutes, right. Just look at this pic : below you see stairs and a glimpse of architecture, up right more stairs and doorways... I might be wrong, but I can easily imagine a mess of tunnels linking all this in the moutain side, for one thing. :unsure: And that's only if the wall portion below your feet doesn't also sport doorways. Visible side of an iceberg and all that.

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:47 pm

Well, that's it, then. Time to "go dark" for me. I didn't want to see even an inch of any of the five main cities in the game before I got it. I shall not spoil myself further.

That said, very interesting if that is a Dwemer ruin adapted for Nord living. I like it.

» Sat May 28, 2011 10:30 am

Okay. Lemme just double check the GI article to see if they mentioned "massive" instead of "major".

I'm wishing for five cities as big as IC.

Well, that's extremely unrealistic. Wishing is fine but I hope you don't expect anything near that scale because you'll just get disappointed.