quote"Now the real issue with Skyrim is which would you rather have Summerset Isles with their supremely gifted wizards who have warped the landscape to be how they like it which could have then evolved to try to keep up with the large amount of magic floating around creating a very alien but possibly very cool place... the Valenwood forests with a lot of cannibalistic elves... Elsweyr which in addition to having a hilarious name (cause it's not here it's elsewhere... get it?) has a large population of nomadic cat-people set in a desert/ jungle... Black Marsh with cut-throat Argonian politicians and the potential for underwater cities. They all have various benefits, it's just which one you would prefer."
why pick and choose at all? as long as they can manage to do it right , why not have all those places available for travel to? the main quest doesnt have to be in them but why not have the whole continent? i think they can do it. you could cut resources needed for the engine to run such vast amounts of areas by only keeping active those creatures and weather patterns and npc's needed for quests and so on if need be. why not find a way to cut resources of creating the vast amounts of variety of lands and space fgor the lands by using existing real world topography maps and other such map resources and render a 3d world based on them for foundation then use one of the generator engines i read about in this forum for random forest growth etc? and as far as it all not being able to fit on one disc why not make it on several discs? or possibly even add an online host engine for a small fee? an example of this is the engine host that another website called secondlife uses. why couldnt a similiar internet host be created for the game? and people could access it for extra storage space if it is even necessary? also why not sell hard drive upgrades to accomodate any excessive storage of data needed to ruin the game? im sure there are solutions to creating such a vast world. as long as they did it right they would break sales records im sure. the immersability would be massive and the illusion of virtual world full of unknowns and adventure would be overwhelming.
You obviously do not get the reasons why Bethesda cannot integrate everything in Tamriel.
For one, your idea would be bland. If some provinces were just a walk through the park, why would you want to go there more than once?
And two, it would be too big. I mean, I want ONE province that is designed as over double Morrowinds landmass or more, especially if it is Skyrim.
Thirdly, How are you going to get from one place to another? Transportation would have to adapt for every province