I'd love to see it larger, but looking at the map it does appear smaller. So I voted that it needs to be similar in size. Although I'd want it to feel and seem larger.

If Skyrim's running on a utterly different engine, Skyrims size could be much larger than Cyrodill in oblivion, In FO3 it was stated the DC area was less then half the size of Cyrodill? when infact Cyrodill is some 200+ miles across? Skyrim could be made -far- larger and a -better- representation of Cyrodill, one larger than OBLIVONS Cyrodill and Skyrim could be arranged in Skyrims Fashion no?

I'm really hoping there will be no invisible walls on top of the mountains a la New Vegas. That was perhaps my only major gripe about NV.

not to mention the transition between the different regions will seem [censored] if they are too small in size.

oh I'm walking in an icy tundra..*one step forward*...wtf I'm in a volcanic landscape *one step back*... ice *step forward*... lava *step forward* ice, lava, ice, lava :teehee:

I agree with OP

As long as it's not smaller. I'd rather a larger landmass with more variety and a similar number of points of interest (spread them out more than in Oblivion).

I just hope the mountainous terrain doesn't equate to less actually traversable land on the map.

In before obvious Yoda joke:

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you?"

As long as Skyrim is fully detailed, I don't care how small it is.

Size is not important. Content is!

Morrowind was smaller than Cyrodiil, and yet felt much bigger and more interesting.

Agree. also hope they dont pull a FONV where a quarter of the map doesnt exist

If you look at the map skyrim is actually about 3/4 the size of cyrodill...but that's fine with me. Cyrodill was awesome, but almost too big. The world was so massive that there are lots of place I probably never saw. I would rather have a slightly smaller world with more detail and rich characters that a giant sandbox.

world is going to be detailed, morrowind block's was 35-38 and oblivion's block's are 44-48, but skyrim's should be 80 to 120 block's in size with great detail.

so it should be 2X to 4x bigger then oblivion's landmass.

The devs can scale it to any size they please.

Lore wise, the province in hundreds of square miles, but we won't get that in game.

Morrowind took place on Vvardenfell, which compared to Cyrodil, looks small, but the devs scale everything to the size that they want.


Besides, I'd rather have detail and depth compared to something like Daggerfall's map.

they have the tech to make the map bigger and detail to a pin point of what everyone want's.

Huh? Where is this logic coming from?

Unless I missed something from GI.

it come's from everyone's opinion's of guessing , but it should be bigger then oblivion.

They've had the tech to do it all along. It just takes much more time.

Amen to that.

It has to be bigger - Cydoiil was way to packed, anywhere you went there was at last two caves in sight from almost any point, no sense of wildness, just ruins upon caves upon ruins. With the same amount of dungeons the map has to be at least twice as big, better 3 times. And the areas need to be diverse - different flora, fauna and terrain in different regions.

While that's true, I think it should be noted that most of these looked VERY similar. They didn't feel like different places. Except the mountains.

The bigger the better I suppose. I care more about the detail than the size though.

I originally thought 1 and 1/2 would be perfect scale difference, but then I thought about it some more. I realised that it really didn't feel like a big place in Cyrodiil, at least not now, after I had played it for a while. I made a new character and it took me 5 minutes to run over to Cheydinhal, including some small fights along the way. I would like to see Skyrim at least twice as big, maybe 3 times. They've had larger game-worlds than that, easily. Fortunately, I think I am in luck on this account. The mountains that are supposedly a screenshot look HUGE on page 48 of GI, High Hrothgar is meant to be 7000 steps up and the draw distance is said to be greatly improved. I think this is evidence that if we have mountains that big, the rest of the map is going to have to correlate in size.

Where does it say that Skyrim will have the same amount of dungeons? Have you ever considered the possibility they may have cut the amount of dungeons drastically for the sake of uniqueness?

I just want this game to be HUGE.

They are saying that given that they will have the same amount of dungeons, this is what it should be. As in a size to no. of dungeons ration. Say Oblivion had 200 dungeons (probably way off but it's just an example) and took up 16square miles. They want Skyrim, if it has 200 dungeons, to take up 32 - 48 square miles, or if there are 100 dungeons, 16 - 24 square miles.

EDIT: I think.

It isn't the size, but the intricacy of the world itself that matters. Arena was huge, but it wasn't until Morrowind that the world could be said to be truly intricate. I will always prefer a highly crafted world to a massive, bland, empty one.*

*Not to imply Arena was bland. Merely that massive worlds without content tend to be bland.

it dosent 'need' to be bigger, but i would prefer it to be so. MW was smaller than OB but felt larger due to slower movign speeds, no horses a more limted fast travel system etc... If be happy with one the size of OB if it felt larger but actually being larger is much prefered