» Sun Jan 02, 2011 8:55 am
I'm actually quite torn on this. As much of a fan as I am of Morrowind, I'm hoping Skyrim will feel a lot like Daggerfall when it first kicks off. Maybe it's simply because of all the iconic childhood memories we have of first venturing to High Rock in the dead of winter, but I'm hoping that the cities in Skyrim will be big and overwhelming, like Daggerfall. I want to feel the urge to lose myself in the cities knowing there's all kinds of different quests, shops, and interesting characters I can stumble upon. I had this feeling with Vivec in Morrowind and, to a lesser extent, the Imperial City in Oblivion.
Hopefully, Skyrim will have a lot more of this "sensory overload" once you finally make it out of the wilderness and arrive at civilization. As opposed to the "I've bought some stuff and finished that NPC's quest, time to go someplace else" feeling you'd get all the time in MW/OB. I really am hoping, especially with the revamped Radiant AI, that cities will be dynamic and interesting enough that you could abstain from adventuring for days at a time and still feel "at home" and with things to do.