Skyrim is obviously snowy all year round but that is only in the northern part of
the province but would it be cool if there were fall summer spring and winter.
maybe most of the snow melts in summer and there is more wildlife about as well as the landscape
is much dryer. Fall would have a lot of the plants dying and the leaves changing.
Winter would be the most dominant season with snow across skyrim and much more of it.
lastly spring would be a very damp landscape with the wilderness reemerging.
What do you think?

FIRST!!!!!

would be pretty cool to have... cept for the fact that skyrim is always snowy...

No seasons, but there are different regions with seasonal themes.

Fall forests, taiga, and tundra will be present, as will dynamic weather, but those regions won't change based on the seasons.

now that that's out of the way that would be cool but i don't think it would work 2 good in skyrim seeing as how most of the area is pretty permanently snow covered anyway. Sure some of the lower elevated southern parts would change but alot of the other areas it'd just be a matter of winter = lots of snow, summer = less snow. Woulda worked cool in cyrodil tho

Uuuuhh....urrrrrr... siixff...

@OP: Seasons would be great. I wanna see blizzards and tornadoes too.

I think in future renditions of The Elder Scrolls it would be awesome to see weather effects. I think it will happen. I'd like to see migrating animals that are like the caribou in Canada. There's tens of thousands all in the same place and they run all the way across Canada every year. Over mountains and across marshes and plains. I'd like to see life in Elder scrolls like that. And the OP's ideas of plant life withering away and blooming with seasons as well. And real life graphics.

The problem with seasons is that they signify the passage of time. The team has already said seasons are out specifically because of this; while the games as a whole span hundreds of years, no particular game is not meant to traverse any particular length of time.

Would I like seasons and seasonal weather? Sure. But I'm content without them and the design decision makes sense.

I like diversity in weather, so I wouldn't want seasons to lock in only a few weather types for many hours of gameplay e.g. playing for hours with only sunny/overcast for summer, then playing for hours with only snow and rain for winter, it would get old for me.

No! There's already seasons in the different regions in skyrim why would you want to have everything be snowy I want diversity all the time!!!

A little FYI: if you're first on a thread, not really a big deal. At all.

Yes, seasons would be SICK! :thumbsup:

there have already confirmed to be no seasons because no one would notice them, think about it you would have to spend about 70 hours for one season to change and even then the change wont be that drastic

i would love it but its not in the game so we will just have to see if its in 6 whatever province its in. so it seems its modder territory

It would be pretty cool, I'd like to see plants grow. That would be a monster to program, though.

The problem with that is that we have days and months, which also signify the passage of time.

That being said, imagine how annoying it would be if you could only do a quest during summer. I can honestly say that no character of mine has ever reached the 9 in-game month mark. I always do whatever I want to do well before then.

I've seen some games with Seasons, though the only difference is a higher random chance of certain weather patterns. (IE certain months have a higher chance to rain per day).

I wouldn't mind it. Fundamentally it wouldn't be difficult for a basic level to be implemented. It's just adjusting variables since all the weather exists in game. What would be extremely difficult is adjusting the world to affect those changes. Trees changing color, shedding their leaves, rivers and lakes freezing over and then thawing again.

Considering such massive changes that, in reality, few people would ever experience (I think the average person only logs around 100 days in game) It's one of those "Mod it" situations. Something up to the few people who would appreciate it, to make happen.

Incorrect. It has been stated multiple times that Skyrim is not a complete tundra. If you keep up with the news and videos, you'd see that there are plains of grass spread quite far without snow nearby.

Tundra doesn't mean there is the presence of snow all the time.

I think eventually the game will get longer though. Maybe by scrolls VII or VIII the quest will stretch out to 70 -80 hours and be over 500 hours of pure content. It's pure speculation and all but they could do it if they wanted to once storage issues are straightened out. But when a game gets to that lenth seasons will be a no brainer.

I'd love this. But I doubt it and I hear that different parts of Skyrim will have different weather conditions. Maybe PC gamers could expect a mod.

ye ould be good if it had full seasons and u had crazy snow storms in the winter

id like better looking lightning

I agree with that.

Lightning
Morrowind=Powerful and Impressive

Oblivion=A bit feeble

oblivion=lightning bug flicker

:wink_smile: in this regard i think we are kindred spirits you and i ....
would that be impossible to build into a game does any1 know ? ? ? ?
i've often wished there was a 1st person game OUT THERE that has a changing world, vibrant and almost alive itself :wink_smile: