We all know we would've just fast traveled after climbing those steps for the first time.

I think the biggest disappointment is that it's a no kinds of dangerous route at all. I was hoping for some inspiration from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlw6Yk4WT2I to make it truly awesome. And that's not even fantasy, but a real life path - makes me dizzy as hell each time I watch it . What we got felt completely bland and uninspired.

So yeah, I was disappointed by this. Many other places seems to have gotten more attention.

Oh well, maybe someday if they somehow manage to figure out a way to let us see our own damned feet...

So he really did just blatantly lie, and not even just a little lie, but off by a factor of over seven? Wow, just wow. It's not game breaking, but that's just shameful. I did enjoy the path up the mountain though.

I was bored too. So I decided to do my math to find out how high the Throat of the World really is. Now I may be corrected, but it is not really big. Of course I ignored the earth rotation and the air friction.

How did I do it? First I needed to find out if the gravity is equal to the one on earth (9,81 m/s2). So I used an Iron ingot and put it at the same high as my head. Then I dropped it. Within 0,99s it hit the ground. Now I got this nice little formula:

t = Root (2h / g) (h = High, g = Gravity)

I estimate my own high on 1,8m. Since I know the time and the high I can get the gravity:

(2 * 1,8) / 0,992 = 3,67 m/s2. (Well, this is some major difference from our world!)

Since I know the Gravity now, I can use the same formula to get the time of my character when he fell down the mountain (actually I used myself and the time the ingot hit the ground).

t = 9,66s

(t2 * g) / 2

= 171,23m

The mount Everest has ~8000m. So that's that.

Funny thing btw: my character hitted the ground earlier then the iron ingot (3s apart). This is a perfect example that this experiment cannot be taken seriously. In real life the volume determines how fast an object hits the ground (not the mass!). Since my body has much much more volume to interact with the air friction the iron ingot should have been there first.

(I do not claim that any of this is correct)

Some people have way too much time on there hands

Yeah, I was expecting it to take at least 20 minutes, not 5. >.>

Even without its 7,000 steps, it still got GOTY.

Maybe he meant 7000 steps as in paces?

Yeah...and did you know that the game is scaled? The guy a few posts before me even proved that the Throat of the World is only about 171 meters using game physics. In reality, it would be about 3400 meters considering you don't need an oxygen tank and yet it still is the highest landmark in the entire game. You can't use video game physics to disprove video game lore.

Lore is lore and the actual game is scaled. Sorry to disappoint you but Todd Howard doesn't exactly have a PhD in Physics. As such, Todd probably just copy pasted the stairs to the top, added some flair and some snow covered ones to make it look different (which it does) and probably couldn't fit them all.

Did you also know that in lore, the Staff of Magnus is supposed to be this grand amazing thing and yet it's not even that good?

Do you think this is the first time?

Maybe your parents are little [censored]es but mine aren't

Really?

You're going with the 'My dad can beat up your dad' argument?

What are you, five?