the only problem with all of this hunting thing would be -

quest? what quest? shhhhh... im huntin wabbits.

Fourthed.

This idea has been going round a bit, and it definately warrants merit in this post. Envision this feature, akin to Red Dead, but as a mobile location, as opposed to the interactive menu John Marsden spent his cold nights in. Several very cool possibilities open up:

-Types of camps. Aesthetics of the tent, what equipment is available, and what you are able to do here.
-Location. How it functions in game, setup/pack down time, once made becomes a permanent establishment till packed away. Perhaps if left alone for too long (abandoned), the camp gets wrecked from the environment, wildlife, bandits, etc... Hence the need to ensure you travel with it.
-New method of resting. Potential to be ambushed at night (!).
-Realistic. Would compliment a 'Survivor Mode' (oft referred to as 'hardcoe' mode), if in particularly hazardous environments, required you to take shelter at camp to weather te worst.
-Inventory. Could (should?) affect inventory capacity. Carrying a big tent, complete with a bundle of firewood, pots, sleeping rug, etc, can be alot.

This would be awesome.

Yes/no?

Better to die in this way than to a bullet or in a slaughterhouse... but damn killing a fox? isn't it just wrong to kill such an awesome animal? i'd worship a fox like a god, but i'd piss on a human.

i'm not one of those animal cruelty freaks who say poking your cat is animal cruelty, i'm not a vegetarian either but... i just like my own species less than any others. we are lower than insects. we kill and eat animals to feel that we're on top of the food chain. isn't that just a superiority complex?

Edit: in the old days people had to kill animals to survive sometimes. but they did so with respect. sheep used to be treated better than humans around some scandinavian countries (mine included) and if one sheep died, every body part was eaten, from the skin to the bones being chewed. (hence the tradition to eat http://www.skrudda.org/Icelandic/thorrablot/hrutspungar.gif and http://catnap.typepad.com/catnap/images/2008/01/25/svid.jpg, i never really put up with sheep heads, but the balls taste more sour and worse than rotten shark thats been buried for 12 weeks)

Good idea maybe not some of the smaller animals though, but I agree shooting a deer in the head while it doesnt now your there, then yelling BOOM HEADSHOT! was kinda fun.

It's a video game, now i'll want to go kill every animal in skyrim after i saw this post...

@ontopic: cant wait, i really wanna do some hunting in skyrim.

Interactivity = Runescape?

Jeez, zelda ocarina of time had fishing, if Skyrim has fishing will that make it ocarina of time?

Wait, does that make Runescape Zelda Ocarina of time?


OH my god, Fallout had guns in it, does that make it DOOM?

This is one of my biggest hopes for Skyrim! I think about Skyrim and i think sparsely inhabited with a lot of awesome creatures I want to hunt!

This has all been done with mods for Oblivion. If it's not done in Skyrim by Bethesda, than someone else will do it, trust me.

Well, unless you're a console player. :tongue:

I am a console player so i am hoping for something similar to Solsthiem in morrowind...

As long as the animals arn't too "normal". Like who cares if you can hunt an elf, whne you can hunt a giant Irish elk for instance, or a bear compared to a giant short faced bear. Or something unique like Morrowind, give me a giant-badger-lion or something insane like that.

And Woolly Rhino FTW!

I agree, this is a much-needed thing that Skyrim should have.

In Australia Foxes are a major pest. They kill native species and their offspring. Where i hunt i can get $15 Australian per fox scalp if i bring it to the pest control centre. I hunt Rabbits, Foxes, feral cats, and Goats. Also feral deer around in which case i use a rifle. All introduced species and out-compete the natives.

Edit: Wild boar on occasion too. I eat the Deer and Rabbit, the boar is dangerous to eat unless you know what you're doing.