How many fantasy adventures don't involve walking between towns or dungeons, with interesting events along the way? Jeez, both the Hobbit, and the LOTR were essentially tales of companions traveling dangerous paths - little of the books occurred while they were actually in a town. Frankly, I rarely used the striders in Morrowind unless I was in a hurry, because I liked walking. Nothing clears the mind like a good stroll through the countryside - and there were often interesting things along the way.

I'm hoping that Skyrim will have lots of long, windy roads to explore - though I have to admit, I would like some real fast travel options for when I'm in a hurry.

The crappy part is that it doesn't come with the Morrowind GOTY edition for PC, anymore. I didn't get one, but I somehow managed to find a beat-up one in the case of the used Xbox version I bought. :confused:

Your assuming the eye in the sky map shows where you have never been... that part of the land might be in shadow or covered by clouds or fog or david haslehoffs chest hairs for all we know...

Yes, I was about to say this, minus the Hasslehoff stuff.

I guess you're right, it's just that I pictured it as a huge model where you could not only zoom in on stuff but also rotate the camera and fly around like if you were playing the game, minus monsters and characters maybe, and that would make itr hard to implement fog in a smooth way. "You can explore it at your leisure, passing the towering [...] peaks, forests, cities, and tundra." I guess that "explore it at your leisure" might have made it seem more extreme than it actually is, fortunately.

I'd prefer the ol' paper map, but this might be really cool as well and seem a lot more modern provided they only allow one angle which is straight down, and have a fog feature of some kind. But fog would be kind of ugly, so I'd prefer just an invisible barrier for the camera, so that you simply cannot move towards unexplore areas, and maybe a gradual fade out on the edges.