Skyrim Will Be Weird Like Morrowind
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Where would they put in weirdness though?
It made sense in Morrowind because the Dunmer motifs are highly insectoid. They armor themselves in carapace, we have the Silt Striders, the helmets have bug-like goggle-eyes etc.
Nords are vikings. Axes, wenches, ale, horned helmets, the works. Where do you find room for weirdness in that?
It made sense in Morrowind because the Dunmer motifs are highly insectoid. They armor themselves in carapace, we have the Silt Striders, the helmets have bug-like goggle-eyes etc.
Nords are vikings. Axes, wenches, ale, horned helmets, the works. Where do you find room for weirdness in that?
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Eleima said:
I take it from your comments that you haven't played the Bloodmoon expansion for Morrowind then. The expansion took place on the Nordic island of Solsteim, and featured creatures like Horkers, Grahl, Draugr, Rieklings and The Udyrfrykte which weren't exactly normal. Plus Skyrim had quite a long history of border wars with the Dwemer, so I would expect Dwemer ruins in parts of 'modern' Skyrim. Just sayin'.Optimystic said:
Personally I reckon the re-introduction of slightly alien cultural concepts is a good thing, it always wound me up that Oblivion got everyone into thinking that Tamriel is just like Medieval Europe.
You've got me there, it's true that I haven't gotten around to playing Bloodmoon yet (it's on my "to do" list, I swear). So I was mostly basing my comments on the knowledge I've derived from Nords in Morrowind and Oblivion. My point was that they shouldn't try to make it weird so that it's "like" Morrowind, just for the sake of making it weird.Grouchy Imp said:
And I completely agree on your remark concerning a lot of people thinking that all of Tamriel is Medieval Europe. From what I've read, the Black Marsh, for instance, is not even close to Medieval Europe. Not by a longshot.
They may not be timberwolves but they're nothing on Morrowind either. Horkers are glorified seals with jazzy dental work. Draugr are slightly more heaavyset skeletons. Riekling are snow-goblins that ride pigs; not even tentacle-pigs, ordinary ones. Udyrfrykte is a yeti - so original!Grouchy Imp said:
The only semi-unique one is the Grahl and if I called it an ice troll nobody would bat an eye.Compare those to Dreug and Gnar and Kwama and Ascended Sleepers... yeah.
Instead of riding horses, people travel in the hollowed-out carapaces of 20-foot tall insects. There are entire villages which are made of giant mushrooms. People wear armor made from chitin. There are enormous steampunk ruins left by the dwarves, who all disappeared. There are wizard towers which can only be reached by levitation. There's a few more, but those are the really awesome ones.Merkavar said:
Oh, and there's a gigantic rock hanging in mid-air, where a living god (who you talk to at one point) stopped it from crashing into the city.
Yay!
The Elder Scrolls has a metric fuckton of lore and they would be mad to make it as dull as Oblivion again. Not that Oblvion was bad, but it was a little bland.
The Elder Scrolls has a metric fuckton of lore and they would be mad to make it as dull as Oblivion again. Not that Oblvion was bad, but it was a little bland.
I'm not sure what to think. This was obviously supposed to be an article about the design of the game, but it feels vaguely reminiscent of a love letter addressed directly to me.
Why are almost all fantasy settings in a place that's vaguely European? If they really wanna give us an original setting how neat would it be to base the concept designs on say, Africa, African settings, African art styles? That'd be kinda neat methinks. Obviously I know that the Elder Scrolls games have already more or less established at least a baseline style to the world, but I'd love a fantasy world with something different.
Thank you!! This is why I loved Shivering Isles so much. Oblivion was fun, but Shivering Isles was just...different and it drew you in by that. Every piece of news about Skyrim I see, it just makes me more and more excited for it.
Protip, use another one just before you land and discard the other. Then you can survive quite easily ^^Radoh said:
Also, fuck yeah, an Elder Scrolls game with the midfuckery that made Morrowind awesome, but more refined and less... Linux. You know, like, rudimentary and basic, buggy and console-based at times. I'm gonna fucking love this.
By weird, I think it means different to the norm. While vikings are not so weird to the world, they are not soooo common in RPG games as a main theme, and Im sure Bethesda will go beyond that. More interesting creatures will be around, like Draugr, Horkers, Mammoths, Grahl and Rieklings, as opposed to zombies, boars, minotaur, and goblins. Plus dwarven ruins will be features again, and those are fun.Eleima said:
