First off and most important I love skyrim. It is one heck of a game. It's absolutely the meaning of perfection. Graphics, gameplay, eveything is made with love and is done just right, of course there are minor things that bug me but I'm not one of those that thinks the game was made for me, no reason to even bring them up.

One thing that I miss from Oblivion. It's not that it makes Skyrim a bad game it's actually what makes it good. I miss the feel and atmosphere of Oblivion. I know Skyrim is dark and dreary and Bethesda did a fine job at portraying that but I really loved the greenery and feel of Ovlivion, the morning you'd walk around and see the locals tending to their gardens and livestock, the music that made you feel like on a great adventure that's full of rainbows and unicorns(joking), except of course when you stumbled across one of damn gates but even then the enemy's even felt a little sunny and Zelda-ish. Now with Skyrim I get the feeling of being a little scared when in a dungeon or up on a snowy mountain, even the music scares me, I could almost feel the cold going through my body. Of course I'm being a little dramatic.
Skyrim's feel is perfect for Skyrim, it's how I would of imagined it. Oblivion's feel is perfect for Cyrodiil. If they would have mixed the two it would of worked. I have not gotten that far into Skyrims world yet so I'm hoping I see some of these places later on.

Anyone get what I'm saying. I almost want to pop in Oblivion just to get out of this dark mood. Once again not complaining just a down. The way that I feel means Bethesda did their job, thanks guys. It's funny how you can pay 60 bucks for a game and play it for 8hrs or you can spend the same 60 and play one for years and always find something new. Skyrim gets a 10 from me. My tens don't mean perfect because nothing is perfect, they just mean I'm having a blast.

To each his own and I understand what you're saying, even though I like the dark, brooding atmosphere a lot more than the prototypical medieval fantasy of Oblivion. But it all boils down to personal preference.

there should be a mod for that coming in a few minutes

I kinda only felt that when I went to Solitude ^^ A really beautiful city...
If I weren't a dunmer thief/assassin I would live there

I am sure I will get a house there when I make an imperial warrior...

I am the complete opposite. Oblivion offered no atmosphere but 16 km2 of copy/paste generated meadow with nothing interesting or life to be found in the world or NPC's. Skyrim offers me exactly that, something more grounded and 'realistic'.

I miss all the greenery of oblivion. Skyrim is a little too dull and greyish at times, it deppresses me. But I guess that's the desired effect.

Maybe there's a nice patch of greenery out there somewhere waiting for me to find it. Can anyone help me out in finding this greenery?

I actually hate how Oblivion butchered what Cyrodiil has been described as in the lore. The version of Cyrodiil we saw in Oblivion is exactly what High Rock is supposed to be like, lorewise Cyrodiil was supposed to be much more unique.

Hated Oblivion's overall feel to be honest. Highly typical fantasy settings have no place in TES.

This.

I have to agree with all of this. Oblivion was a lot of the same repeated copy and pasted environments and Skyrim seems to have Morrowinds uniqueness when it comes to exploration. I love the atmosphere, there are green forest contrasted by the brownish hues of the tundra and the white and grey mountains in the distance. The land is so far from what I've seen unique and varied that is what Oblivion missed, exploration is the heart and soul of the Elder Scrolls after all.

I absolutely love the feeling of looking in any direction and wondering what secrets lay in the peaks, canyons and valleys of the mountains around me. They got that part spot on, and the scale is overwhelming... like being in Riften in journeying on foot to solitude... it is no short distance.

I'm not a massive fan of the cold climate either. Hopefully there'll be mods that make the tundra a little more cheerful, but not too much ofcourse.

I very rarely venture further north than The Pale or Eastmarch. My favourite spots are around Riverwood and Ivarstead by far, love it there. And Falkreath Hold seemed interesting too when I briefly passed it.

Try the area's around white run or falkreath.. Have the most that I have seen so far.. I haven't explored the other 3/4 of the world yet :biggrin: ( The part of the game I've explored so far is Winterhold to whiterun to Falkreath.. Eveything in between those area's )....

Every game has it's own style. Skyrim has it's own, Oblivion has it's own, Morrowind has it's own.

I didnt like the athmosphere of Morrowind, too gloomy, and Oblivion was better but this game rules totally and is way more immersive I think

:D

World finally gone crazy
Someone misses the boring pseudo-Cyrodiil from TES4 :facepalm:
No really :facepalm:
And one last time :facepalm:
I don't understand this world anymore




Developers ever explained why they made Cyrodiil so generic?

Until a host of well done landscape mods came out I'd agree. And any gripes the general populace has with the skyrim world will also be worked out though the modding community.

I've always considered TES games to be more of a core world/canvas upon which the modding community fills in with details and adds uniqueness, which would be why I'd never buy a TES game on anything but the PC. No mods = missing 1/3-1/2 of what makes a TES game so amazing, imo.


Morrowind is still my #1 as far as overall atmosphere, though admittedly I have a lot more Skyrim playing to do.

I seem to recall an abundance of greenery in certain southeastern parts of Skyrim. Well, perhaps not abundant but enough to brighten my spirit.

I agree, the dull muted colors are the exact opposite of what RL Scandinavia looks like. It should be lots of dark greens, even in the snowy areas. With lush green meadows and flowers in the warmer season areas. The sweeping landscapses are spot on though. Even Iceland has more color than Skyrim would suggest. Tbh, it looks more like the desolate and arid forrests with pale "blue" tress found in the Sierra Nevadas.

Agreed. I'm really enjoying Skyrim, and for the most part it's a better game than Oblivion, but it just doesn't have the same charm or appeal in my opinion. It's all down to taste really. I loved the green forests of Cyrodiil, as well as the very traditional medieval fantasy theme... while others find that kind of thing boring.

I pretty much knew this was going to be the case from the moment Skyrim was announced. A bleak northern region was never going to appeal to me as much as somewhere with lush, green forests.

Oblivion felt abit generic to me.. prefer Skyrims feel much much more, this time around im actually tempted to just explore and especially not use fast travel.

Skyrim reminds me of Morrowind so much it's not even funny. And it's so ALIVE. The locales have actual depth and feel occupied. I'm training stealth HARD and I've yet to pick a single pocket because I feel like I'm actually there being watched. Going into an inn, and having a bard singing/playing and just sitting back and listening to convos that sound real and not about another fu*king mudcrab...delightful.

And you say Oblivion was better than this? I'm all for hearing people's opinions out...but nah.

Because Skyrim is supposed to be based off of real places. :facepalm:

Love the setting of skyrim.anyone else get a sence of overwhelming size when venturing into skyrim? I walk from whiterun heading south -west to the lake(not sure of the name) took about 20/30 minutes.that's just a small part of the map.feels bloody huge

I absolutely love the atmosphere of Skyrim. It certainly is more gritty, and the feeling of danger ever present, but I can see what you are saying about it too. Oblivion and Skyrim have different appearances; they are different provinces, and they are also during different times, perhaps one darker than the other, as I see it in Skyrim's case.





Frankly, I was expecting to see more pine forests, even further north in Skyrim. It seems that roughly 40% of it, give or take a few, is, but then there are so many plains and ice regions more north and in the interior.