Apologies for making all of these threads, last question! How big is the map in comparison with Oblivion's? I think it looks slightly smaller, which hopefully it won't be.

There is no real way to estimate this right now. Cyrodiil is MUCH larger on the tamriel map than Vvardenfell, but Oblivion's Cyrodiil wasn't much bigger than Morrowind's Vvardenfell. It's all about how they scale it down. I'm sure it'll be big enough.

skyrim is about two-thirds the size of cyrodiil on the unofficial map, still i think bethesda will make skyrim barely larger than cyrodiil in oblivion

I hope it's too big.

I keep hearing it will be bigger but how much I don't know. :shrug:

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Its going to have to be pretty big seeing how skyrim is mountainous and has dragons so the scale should be pretty massive.

This is my answer too.

I would rather it be way to large than way too small. At least make it larger than Cyrodill was.

As Oblivion felt way too cramped up, I really hope Skyrim will be a lot bigger.

It's also been said that the draw/view distance is a lot higher. I think it was mentioned in the GI article.
So if that is a lot higher... then I think it would be really weird if you can see the whole map from a single spot...

In real size Skyrim is just a little bit smaller then Cyrodill but if you saw the interview at Gameinfomer where Todd showed them the studio and then showed them the map of Skyrim. In comparasion to Oblivions map it's larger by 20%.

I'm pretty sure they haven't said yet....my guess is it will be in the same vain as New Vegas was to Fallout 3....perhaps a bit smaller over all but with more content in it...or i could be wrong its still a bit early to tell.

In any event if you were to look at the actual world map of Tamriel Skyrim is pretty close to the size of cyrodil with the exception of perhaps the leyawin or blackmarsh corridor. But as we all know this is not an exact science to finding out how large the playable area will be.....just have to wait for more info.

You couldn't possibly know how big the in-game world is by looking at the development chart of their map

I hope it is as big as Daggerfall but realistically, 1.5x the size of Oblivion would be cool too. I like the size of Oblivion but it just feels good to get bigger each game (except Morrowind was a shrink from daggerfall but that is because of real 3D aspect)

how much bigger is it gonna get?

Over 9000!!!!!

I'm pretty sure I heard "almost twice as big" somewhere. For a square map, that's only about 1.25-1.4 times bigger in each direction though (considering the "almost"). Sqrt 2 = 1.4142.

Actually, I LOVE worlds which are so big that it seems it would take you months to explore every single corner of it. That's what I loved about Morrowing and Oblivion.

Dive Rock.

Actualy they got the scale between Vvardenfal and Cyrodill almost perfect. Vvardenfal just feels bigger because of the slow movement speed, mountains blocking direct routes to places, and no fast travel.
Skyrim will certainly be bigger than Oblivion, but how much bigger, nobody knows...

It's an estimate, for all I know it could very well be the same size as Oblivions map.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1158031-slyrim-map-discussion-2/

Here's what I said about size in the first thread:

Like stated before, since Skyrim's pretty much like a square, we'll get a larger area for the same amount of cells in Oblivion. I'll be happy if it's aout 15% larger than Oblivion, but it'd be awesome if they just make it huge. HUGE, like 200%.

There are four main reasons why Vvardenfell felt larger than Cyrodiil to me (one of them you've already mentioned):

1. Fog. Being able to see White Gold Tower from practically every square inch of Cyrodiil makes the game world look and feel as small as a model train layout in some kid's basemant.

2. Running speed. Running speed was increased in Oblivion, reducing the real-world time it takes to get from one end of the game world to the other.

3. Starting position. Oblivion places the player near the center of its game world. Morrowind places the player in a corner of its world. All Vvardenfell is in front of the Morrowind player at the beginning of a game - it is a long (and harrowing) journey to reach the northern coastline. It is not nearly as long a journey to reach a border of Cyrodiil.

4. Invisible barriers. The sea around Vvardenfell went on forever. Cyrodiil is surrounded by invisible walls. To make matters worse Oblivion announces that fact with repeated "You cannot go that way. Turn back," messages whenever the player goes too far in any direction. I believe that, psychologically, this makes the game world feel very finite, whereas Morrowind's infinitely-generating cells made that game world feel infinite.

I hope it's not that big. I'd really like a good game, not a stupidly massive game.

I Agree with all of that PW.

If they use the same scale as Morrowind, Skyrim would be somewhere between 1.25 and 1.75 x the size of Cyrodiil in Oblivion.