With lots of beer and mead :foodndrink:

The streets should be pretty much empty, but I'd like petty thugs just standing in the darkness, mocking you, telling you to gtfo or they'll kick your ass or something, but then you reveal your huge axe >: D. Occassionally you might come across a robbery, but only in the worst parts of town.

I'd also like those green crocodile-men from Arena!

I agree that at night, the towns should be very peaceful outside, save for the drunks or revelers heading back home. Anything going on should be at the taverns or the castle halls.

Since I've always thought of medieval times when I think of TES, I was thinking about how the entertainment was back in those times. After dinner, the castles commonly had something going on. Not exactly for the peasants and commoners, but I'm sure exceptions could be made for the sake of gameplay.... or maybe your character would have to be in good standing with the crown in order to be allowed in after hours. At any rate, the castles would typically have music, dancing, masques, story telling, jugglers, acrobats, jesters, plays, etc. Traveling minstrels had a common presence as well, as I guess music was pretty big back then. And of course there were tournaments for sword play, jousting and stuff. Not at night, per se, but it was in the bucket of entertainment.

The taverns were taverns, but besides the ale and mead, there was entertainment as well. Music/singing and dancing, naturally, but I read that they played card and board games, and even a form of chess for entertainment. While y'all are out slaying dragons and stuff, I wouldn't mind sitting in a warm tavern swilling mead while playing some TES chess.

Just random thinking, but I hope there is stuff to do in Skyrim (besides the obvious), and more immersive atmosphere. Whatever can make the gameworld be more lifelike, I'm all for it.

Actually one of the cities actually has a night life about once a week they get together and burn an effigy of the old king I belive or the mayor cant remember and they party around the bon fire this has already been stated in like the Norwegian magazine I think

Are you talking about one of the cities in Skyrim or Oblivion?

Read up on medieval society like what? how thay shot electricity through there fingers or hurled fireballs at cliff racers?Or how thay had citys in the sky and armor mad of magical glass?ES is all about fantasy and with the way this games going to look what stright male wouldent like to see a hot little wood elf pole dancing?

Everyone should go home/ in tavern to sleep/ get drunk. If you go out at night, there a wraiths and ghosts wandering around town which you have to fight. These can easily slay a low level character one-on-one or even a high level character one-on-many, so you should probably go to sleep at night. However, if you are a vampire you are magically friendly with the ghosts and can get drunk with them instead of at the tavern.

so naturally because of the fact you can cast lightning spells there will be elf strippers...

this game is based off of a viking like medieval society. todd howard emphasizes that skyrim is a LOW FANTASY gameworld. that meaning it will feel like a realistic believable society to live in even though you can use magic and whatever. and about the way this game is going to look... i'm sorry, but my first impression when i heard we were in skyrim wasn't pole dancing elves. it is a perverted modder's responsibility to make that happen. there are plenty of them out there so i'm sure you won't be disappointed there.

that being said, i'm sure bethesda will put in enough for an adolescent gamer to get off on.

on that note, i wouldn't think pole dancing elves would be as crazy of an idea if the game were to take place in a more exotic setting. take morrowind for example. the dancers at the earthly delights place didn't seem out of place because of the exotic setting. it wouldn't have been crazy if it were in the shivering isles either.

so the elf stripper/nightlife idea isn't without merit. i just think that having them in a place skyrim is out of place.

Sorry to break it to you guys, but in back in the times of the vikings there were no strip clubs. There'd be a couple people at the tavern at around 8:00, but "Nightlife" (or atleast as we know it) didn't really exist. Most people went to bed.

A random encounter with a Wood Elf male who has "M.B was here." Tattooed across his lower back.

So you acknowledge that there were dancers in Morrowind,but you think it's a stretch that they would exist somewhere in Skyrim? Morrowind borders Skyrim if I remember correctly.I dont see how that's such a stretch.




Sorry to break it to you,but there were no dragons back in the times of the vikings either.
Also,what you described sounds extremely boring.If there are pubs open later than 8:00pm filled with people drinking,singing,playing games and having fun,it will not break immersion for me at all.Why do I get the feeling it would break immersion for you.You will give dragons a pass,but if the pub's open past 8:00pm the game will seem unrealistic. :facepalm:

I still think there should be thieves and murderers out at night.
might be one of those random encounter things

I started this thread to illustrate the idea of an active nightlife within the town's of skyrim somehow some people misconstrued a sliver of what i said and turned it into a strip club.I said nothing about striping,,,, how about this for the people who think an attractive wood elf pole dancing in a tavern late at night would just kill the realism of the game,,, take out the pole,,,would that be okay with you or is an attractive wood elf dancing in a tavern late at night to sleazy for you??Some people need to lighten up and remeber this is a game all about fantasy we should be having fun with it not becoming so strict with the realism of the game that a pole turns into a huge problem,,, not to mention the fact that poles in a tavern could be used to hold up support beams whats to stop attractive women from dancing with one?

Yes people are atracted by extreme boobs but nightlife can also mean romantic bonfires, celebrations, stories and drinks near the fire, dancing... of course some people will go to sleep but in the big cities especially the young people should do some night activities too.

Don't forget the sixy redlight district. The hos. :hubbahubba:

I'd rather Skyrim take a more medieval approach to night life. Most places would have closed down and everybody's gone home and locked their doors. The wayward guard can be found on patrol now and then, but it's mostly a very unsafe time to be outdoors with robbers and gatherings of the occult. Give my character some reason to stay in town a day longer instead of just hopping out into the wilderness at 3AM.

I think in... The outside if the taverns at night with 3 or 4 drunk people fighting (and they can be KO), if you drink too much you recibe some penalties and a shader effect in the camarera.

And the idea of the dirty dancers, i thing they have to be in a special location in every masive city

Some thieves and beggars

And guards in towers

Extreme boobs ftw!!!!

It depends on your monitor. Mine was dark enough for me. I hope Beth implements the contrast adjuster that many newer games now begin with so everyone can get the right brightness

Medieval nightclubs in the biggest cities complete with magical strobe lights, trance music and the obligatory Khajiit moon sugar addicts ODing in the bathroom.

If you have ever been to Olav's Tap and Tack late at night, damn that place is a huge party.

But seriously, celebrations, bonfires, festivals, bars, gentlemans clubs, all of that is completely acceptable. Just cause it was the medieval times does not mean people dont go out get sloshed, have big street celebrations and festivites, vist their special clubs, and back rooms, and try to get somewhere with the bar maidens.

I dont really care if its in teh game, but it would add more depth, and realism to the game, and I was alsmot sure that was what they were trying to go for.

I'm thinking that since the Empire has declined, the Empire's grip on skooma and moon sugar has declined. So I wouldn't be suprised if there are skooma dens ( like the one in Bravil), and also imagine skooma dealers on the streets. :thumbsup:

I remember my son cast "command humanoid" on the dancers in the "House of Earthly Delights " in Suran, escorted the ladies to his hideout, where they permanently became a fixture. I was none to pleased, but his father found it hilarious.

As for nightlife, I think it would depend on the location. A highly populated area like a city would likely have various forms of entertainment available. Whereas a rural, less populated area would probably only have a tavern.

There was a Mod in Morrowind that made Balmora have another upper tier on the far side of the water and there were all of these night clubs, and I remember the music was from that Nine Inch Nails guy and it was all very creepy and I couldn't help feeling I'd wandered into the dangerous night-life scene hiding in the hills of Balmora away from all the decent folk. And you could stand there, under the arching wall and see all of Balmora, and there were some bards and minstrels playing their harps and guitars out in the streets. And in one bar, there were a few girls dancing, and anyway, it didn't feel like fantasy anymore .. it felt like Gothworld. It was brilliant, very disturbing, and awesome to see it, but it just didn't fit with Tamriel.

That's what happens when you introduce night life to a fantasy game. But it isn't realistic with the way things were.