TES 5 location

Post » Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:16 pm

Everyone seems to be assuming that these games are to scale, complaining that certain provinces would be too small for a game and so on. Hasn't anyone seen a scale map of Tamriel? Cyrodill is supposed to be over 500 miles across (speaking of which, I have no idea how an area that big could form an empire with only 9 cities and keep contact and stuff). In the game, I remember reading that the map is about 16 miles across. So they could make the province High rock and have it 10 x bigger than Oblivion without it even being close to realistic size.

Personally, just going from this map:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y134/Trevor0/HF-1.jpg
Hammerfell looks like a very diverse environment, with areas of moor, grassland, rocky dessert, sandy desert, rocky mountains, snowy mountains etc. so I think that might be an interesting place to set it. Bt to be honest, all of the areas do and it's hard to choose.


in fact, vvardenfell in morrowind was bigger than the whole cyrodiil in oblivion :mellow:
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Post » Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:53 am

Another opportunity to retell the story about my dream about when I was in Skyrim and, to get away from some guys who wanted to kill me, I snowboarded down a slope on my shield.
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Post » Thu Sep 16, 2010 2:16 am

in fact, vvardenfell in morrowind was bigger than the whole cyrodiil in oblivion :mellow:


No, it just feels hat way but Oblivion is bigger. That said, Cyrodiil is much more scaled down compared to Vvardenfell, if you check maps, Vvardenfell isn't that big compared to the rest of Morrowind and half, if not less of Cyrodiil's size. Plus, High Rock/Hammerfell in Daggerfall is incredibly big, it takes 20 something hours just to walk across diagonally. So really, there's no such thing as province being too small and such, if anything smaller ones will only be richer.

I must admit that I haven't played Hammerfall yet, but I'd still like to have another ES game in the Iliac Bay area (High Rock/Hammerfell) as I'd love to see these provinces more detailed as well as smaller so you can actually explore the whole thing. Plus, I'd love to see some pirate action and factions around this.
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Post » Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:23 am

in fact, vvardenfell in morrowind was bigger than the whole cyrodiil in oblivion :mellow:


As someone else stated. Cyrodill is bigger than Morrowind without question. It just doesn't seem like it because of all the cliffs you have to go around but here's a way to put it into perspective. Get MGE and look around. Morrowind is tiny in comparison to Cyrodill. Vvardenfell so far has been the smallest in the series. Not bashing it. Morrowind is, in my opinion, one of the greatest games in history.
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Post » Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:14 pm

I'm not too worried where we are, though Skyrim seems like it could be a good place. I tried not to vote too much (I would love to see Valenwood and Elweyr, for example), because I'd end up voting for everything, so I had to vote Summerset and Skyrim as the places I wanna see. I love the whole prospect of both. I love Nordic culture in general, and the lake vampires really intrigue me. I also love to see corruption in games. I can imagine the homeland of the superioritist Altmer to be a very corrupt place, and with the fall of the empire that we all know is coming, slavery may even make a comeback. I also voted Morrowind, because I'd love to see the aftermath of Infernal City in an expansion, or something. I just wanna see a huge, smouldering, fiery wreck.

I would absolutly love to see Black Marsh, obviously, but I just don't feel we can give it justice right now. TESVII. VI, maybe. I can't vote for it.
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Post » Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:27 am


I would absolutly love to see Black Marsh, obviously, but I just don't feel we can give it justice right now. TESVII. VI, maybe. I can't vote for it.


Makes me think, I recently resumed playing my assassin dude in Oblivion and am going to do the Shadowscale quest of the Dark Brotherhood, it would be awesome if you could be a Shadowscale Argonian. Well, any Argonian can be a Shadowscale in any TES game but it'd be great if there were implications about that in a TES game taking place in Black Marsh.
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Post » Wed Sep 15, 2010 5:22 pm

Everyone seems to be assuming that these games are to scale, complaining that certain provinces would be too small for a game and so on. Hasn't anyone seen a scale map of Tamriel? Cyrodill is supposed to be over 500 miles across (speaking of which, I have no idea how an area that big could form an empire with only 9 cities and keep contact and stuff). In the game, I remember reading that the map is about 16 miles across. So they could make the province High rock and have it 10 x bigger than Oblivion without it even being close to realistic size.


Actually, it was about 16 sq. miles (4mi. X 4mi.), depending on how and what you measure. The game area in Morrowind, which was supposed to be nothing more than a medium sized island (Vvardenfell) within Morrowind province, was more than half that. OB also included a lot of "unplayable" area on the borders and some places in the mountains which you could not actually reach, and which makes the whole comparison difficult.
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Post » Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:36 am

IMO I want it to be set in a forest type map. And not any kind of forests... Central/Northern European forests. :)
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Post » Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:30 pm

Why not Akavir, or Pyandonea? Why is the poll restrictive to Tamriel?
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Post » Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:41 am

NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT THE RACIST HIGH ELFS THAT IS UNTHINKABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



MUAHAHAHHAHAH

long live the high elves, I would imagine they have some pretty nice architecture/cities :)
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Post » Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:28 pm

I would like to see someplace new, someplace fresh, I hear Skyrim is really cold this time of year.
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Post » Thu Sep 16, 2010 2:30 am

I voted for Elsweyr just because I always wanted to know what kind of world the Kahjiit come from. I loved the look of Morrowind and how a lot of towns resembled shells or mushrooms. I found oblivion's setting rather dull in comparison.. Pretty.. but visually it was all very recognizable. I want something unique and unrecognizable. It feels much more magical and mysterious when exploring.
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Post » Wed Sep 15, 2010 4:05 pm

I do not want to see flowting crystal balls that shine with blue/red/green/whatever color in a city in the magical southern cristmas land where elves are high...
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Post » Wed Sep 15, 2010 5:53 pm

Why not Akavir, or Pyandonea? Why is the poll restrictive to Tamriel?

Because that would svck.

Pyandonea, sure, we could probably get a nice expansion focused there, and the Maormer are pretty awesome, but Akavir could never be done justice in an expansion.

Neither are enough to merit a full game, either. I mean, Pyandonea is just too insignificant to most lore, and there's a non existent/near to none mer/man presence in Akavir (and I believe so in Pyandonea, too, somewhat, apart from the Maormer). Also, Akavir's mystery is just amazing.

I would actually like to see Yokuda. Perhaps as some kind of expansion, where Redguards are living on the remains (it is still minorly intact), with some sunken city-ruins in the seas. A lot of that atlantis sea theme.
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Post » Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:51 pm

And here's the pitch:

Instead of provinces, or continents, they're planets. Tamriel is the solar-system. Tamriel floats in a rift, in normal space, where magic exists; between perpetual creation and eternal death. Magnus was a human scientist which built the Starry-Heart, to enter a divide in space time, where mankind could stabilize after the Universe suffers a cataclysmic aneurysm. Thus magic from Magnus. The Yoku, Tsaesci, Kamal, Sload, etc exist within the rift, but in corners where the worlds are being eaten; they're swallowed by death, then reenter creation. It's very chaotic and static, in the corners (hence the weird forms [but no cat people!] as humans are exposed to God but don't die).

So, the Anuad.
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Without elves/orcs/lizards. The planets are inhabited by humans, and a couple alien species (Sload, Tsaesci, Kamal, and Imga). Which, as I said, are not really aliens, but humans further from the center of Tamriel, which sheltered a fraction of mankind from being destroyed in the Big Crunch. Mmm... and no species of human "owns" a planet. They all come from Earth, but Earth didn't survive. Boo hoo. They're spread out, in the solar-system of Tamriel.

Ok, lots of Tekumel influence, but whatever. That's a good thing.

There: TESV.
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Post » Wed Sep 15, 2010 2:22 pm

Lately we’ve been more lenient about TES V topics here but they have unfortunately begun to overrun this forum so we will be cracking down on them again. I've locked most of the recent threads about TES V or future TES games and redirected them to several official threads pertinent to the topic. I won't be locking this one, it is in no way official but it is an acceptable topic to keep separate and perhaps it's time we put together an official one (we have an official location thread for FO4).
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Post » Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:39 am

If they made Vallenwood and Elsweyr together in 1 game (which i hope they do) then add those votes together and they win beating Summerset Isle. Yay!! im so happy :D
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Post » Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:24 am

I think it should be the Summerset Isle but what ever they pick will be good either way JUST GIVE ME TES V!
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Post » Thu Sep 16, 2010 5:15 am

I voted for Elsweyr just because I always wanted to know what kind of world the Kahjiit come from. I loved the look of Morrowind and how a lot of towns resembled shells or mushrooms. I found oblivion's setting rather dull in comparison.. Pretty.. but visually it was all very recognizable. I want something unique and unrecognizable. It feels much more magical and mysterious when exploring.


Yeah, above all else, the setting should be feel foreign IMO. Morrowind achieved this feeling very well; Oblivion felt like the local Renaissance fair.
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Post » Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:32 pm

I'd like a Skyrim setting, if we are going to see a state-of-the-art nordic setting, far better than the one present in Oblivion. Otherwise other provinces i'd like are Summerset Isle or Hammerfell, but more the first one.
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Post » Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:31 am

Out of the sea, the Sload will slither. Summerset Isle, the first to wither!
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Post » Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:54 am

I would hope to see it in Skyrim, and with any luck the Snow Elves would make an appearance.
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Post » Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:17 pm

its in skyrim! that official!
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Post » Wed Sep 15, 2010 5:40 pm

Well its official now isn't it?
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Post » Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:43 am

its in skyrim! that official!

Yep, we don't need this old thread anymore. :ahhh: :twirl:
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