oh? I thought that was a rumor.

If the idea is to keep things in line with Oblivion, perhaps they should just simply make it DLC for Oblivion if that's the case, so everything's nice and tidy. In truth, Skyrim's a totally new production, and I expect as many sweeping changes as Daggerfall ---> Morrowind, or Morrowind ---> Oblivion. And that's how things should be.


And of course it's going to be after the Oblivion crisis. Oblivion occured after the crisis at Red Mountain. It has in fact been leaked that it's going to be roughly two hundred years after the Oblivion Crisis, due to a leak surrounding The Infernal City.

Actually, I'm living in a state of 32sqm and thats pretty much.
With a car you need at least 6 hours to get to the other end. If you walk you need much longer.
I don't want a game where I have to walk 3 days to get somewhere!

I want to spent 2 hours (maximum) to get from one end to the other; I don't have that much spare time.

To make Skyrim big is ok, but bigger than Morrowind? No, please, at least thats not good for me .

Big enough.

I hope the mountains are tall enough to feel like mountains... in oblivion they felt like steep hills.

what state is that? If you are refering to Austria, then its 32,000 square miles o _o

Probably a little bigger than Oblivion and FO3.

If the maps are anything to go by; http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/8840/tamrielmap.jpg then hopefully the map radius will be quite significant.

The city of London is 610 sq mi. and it'll take an hour or 2 to go from end to the other.... and traffic is a nightmare.

32sq mi is tiny. 6 hours to drive across it? it's either 1 huge mountain or you are driving a car out of the flintstones.

A little smaller than Oblivion I hope. Less boring, empty places that way. Hopefully they do away with the randomly generated terrain, too.

They probably won't make it as small as I'd like, but I suppose it won't be much bigger either. Well, in about two weeks we'll know.

I can't believe some people actually believe that oblivion is 1:1 representation of cyrodiil. Idiots :sadvaultboy:

I think the proper question should be something a long how big can all of it fit on one disc? Would it be more immersive it it were 16 square miles, like Oblivion but with lots more going on, or a larger landscape say 32 square miles with lots more going on.

I guess, what is reasonable to expect on current tech? Is multi discs an option?

must be bigger.....but more importantly it must have more unique areas. everything in oblivion felt the same cept for some snow textures in the north. in skyrim i want one area to by those high (and i mean really high) peaks that you see people crossing in all those fantasy movies all the time. in another location i want deep dark foreboding forests filled with giant conifer trees and dangerous wolves and bears. in the south you can have forests more suited for temperate climats since apparantley not all of skyrim is a snowball. i want deep canyons and of course we have to have fjords........lots and lots of fjords.

In my opinion, Quality is better than Quantity (just look at Nehrim for TES4)

Morrowind seemed bigger because of the difference in landscape and you couldnt run as fast.

I'd like to see it beeing a bit larger than cyrodiil, and lots more difference in landscape.

I think I measured the length of a Tamriel map on it's own scale and the Earth on it's own scale and found it to be roughly half the size of Australia horizontally.

Which would mean Daggerfall is double the size of the actual scale O_o.

EDIT: Yep, checked and it's 1250 miles across, which you can compare to this map of Australia.
http://www.greatdreams.com/australia/australia-map.gif

Regarding the size of places, i think AI CPU usage is a limiting factor. Even in Oblivion's miniscule IC market district the number of NPC's visible at a time (usually less than 10) becomes a problem. If you make a lot bigger places you need more NPC's. I assume they've improved the AI too, so we'll see.

Personally, i'm all for a lot more landscape. It would be great even to have the same size and number of settlements & other notable places as Oblivion, but with a lot more landscape between them.

I think people who give opinions would do well to make a distinction on whether they are talking about the amount of landscape with nothing special in it, or the size of notable places, or the amount of them.

Agreed. This is both a good and likely size.