Lock this thread if you must, I'm not trying to continue the flame war that was being started, but I do feel a warning rather than a lcok was necessary, especially considering the interest of the topic.



First of all, let me say I'm fine with TESV in Skyrim. I just wish they'd hurry up and announce it.

But second of all, let's assume that Skyrim is a healthy mix of Tundra, Taiga, and Temperate climates (snowy wasteland, snowy forest, and not-so-snowy forest. Let's say they even include the Temperate Rain forest climate found in some areas of the west coast of North America, which is indeed a very cool setting, especially for a video game.

While I'm not as opposed as Seti this kind of setting is all things that we have seen before, multiple times

Morrowind, it's expansions, and Oblivion all had temperate climates with occasional trips into snowy territory. So even if Skyrim is not ALL snowy...it's still something we've seen time and time again.

Give me a real rainforest. Give me the sandy desert of the Sahara, or the rocky desert of the Middlle East, with lush river valleys. Give me mountainous plateaus of scrub and stunted trees. There are a lot of ways to interpret a temperate climate. I'd love to see foggy boulder fields like in the Pacific Northwest, the rocky waterway of a fjord, giant pine forests. But we've seen very similar scenery already. While Skyrim could easily cover every temperate climate imaginable, it is hard to imagine it containing environments which are truly unique to TES, at least since the world was no longer procedurally generated.

So my question is this, would you really prefer Skyrim, as diverse as it can be, to some other province which in addition to a Temperate zones, has an area of equitorial climate rather than polar? We've seen the middle man, and most likely every game will have some version of a temperate climate, as that is the kind that covers the majority of our globe, and we've seen extremes in the colder regions. But we have yet to see vast deserts and tropical rainforests, both things that are unlikely if not impossible to have appear in a game set in Skyrim.

Dogsbody said drop it..best to do so..his word is law(l)..

Indeed. To go against the most powerful wizards of these forums may result in bad things happening.

I have come to the conclusion that Skyrim will be composed entirely of strawberry lollipops. It will be a huge divergence from established lore, sure, but it will be tasty as hell.

:rofl:
Don't forget the huge fountains made out of captain crunch, spewing out orange marmalade.

Well, I think his intention was to stop the arguing, and since both of you seem to agree that he has the authority here, I wish that he had simply said that rather than locked a topic which certainly could use a good debate. Obviously, if he chooses to lock it a second time I cannot argue, and I hope he doesn't take my opening of this topic as an affront.

However, what we should be discussing is what we COULD see in Skyrim, and what we COULD see in other provinces, comparing the two in a friendly manner. Basically we should have a contest, linking pictures either from the real world or from other games, showing how awesome each could be.

I will play the Devil's Advocate and take an Anti-Skyrim stance.

https://room42.wikispaces.com/file/view/desert2_OPT.jpg/33774373/desert2_OPT.jpg Desert

http://onipepper.de/wp-content/gallery/reddead_0402/RedDeadRedemption_01.jpg

I would suggest that you heed a moderator who says anyone who continues an argument will be warned. Reopening another thread after one is locked is against the rules of this forum as is discussion of moderator action or inaction.
Goodnight.

What summer said. I closed the thread because none of the parties involved were discussing the matter in the manner expected on these forums. The relevance and importance of the topic are only a secondary concern in moderation; keeping the peace is paramount.