Which is bigger...Skyrim or Oblivion?

[endtherapture]

Which is the bigger game? I'm just wondering which is bigger in terms of land, dungeons and etc and stuff so I was wondering if anyone had an answer?

 

[Esotera]

Hammerfell apparently, but I haven't played it. I think they're roughly about the same size in terms of how long it'll take you to get from one end of the map to another, but they differ slightly in how large they are on the map of Tamriel. The size of the provinces isn't really conserved at all in Elder Scrolls games.

 

[Kimarous]

Hammerfell apparently, but I haven't played it. I think they're roughly about the same size in terms of how long it'll take you to get from one end of the map to another, but they differ slightly in how large they are on the map of Tamriel. The size of the provinces isn't really conserved at all in Elder Scrolls games.

Hammerfell? I think you mean "Daggerfall", which spanned the provinces of High Rock and northern Hammerfell. Yeah, Daggerfall is huge. Let me put it this way... this is what fast-travel looks like:

 

[Esotera]

Hammerfell? I think you mean "Daggerfall", which spanned the provinces of High Rock and northern Hammerfell. Yeah, Daggerfall is huge. Let me put it this way... this is what fast-travel looks like:

That'd be it, don't know where I got hammerfell from. The fast-travel looks awesome, I hope they implement something like that in the next Elder Scrolls, or the MMO.

 

[piinyouri]

I think the two are about the same...maybe Skyrim is a wee bit bigger.

What's more important is that it feels much bigger.

 

[Scrustle]

If you take a look at a map of Tamriel Cyrodiil looks slightly larger, but in terms of how big the provinces are in the actual games it's hard to tell. They're almost the same size. Oblivion has more dungeons in it though. There's around 200 while there's about 150 in Skyrim. Oblivion has way more cities, and I think they're bigger too.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

If you take a look at a map of Tamriel Cyrodiil looks slightly larger, but in terms of how big the provinces are in the actual games it's hard to tell. They're almost the same size. Oblivion has more dungeons in it though. There's around 200 while there's about 150 in Skyrim. Oblivion has way more cities, and I think they're bigger too.

Though most people will feel that Skyrim is bigger since Bethesda used the map space much better. In Oblivion you had huge swathes of the map that wasn't all that interesting to explore (north-west, "far" east) and even when you came up on something there you found nothing but disjointed dungeons. This meant that many never bothered going there, since very few quests also took you out into those areas. Skyrim did a fine job of spacing its' locations out and keeping the individual dungeon/cave/village interesting.

 

[Easton Dark]

Oblivion has more dungeons and a bit more land, but it's significantly more copy/paste.

 

[Soopy]

Cyrodiil was easier to navigate, Skyrim makes you take the long way, everywhere.

 

[Llil]

According to the Elder Scrolls Wiki, both Skyrim and Oblivion have about 41 square kilometres of land (16 square miles). Morrowind had 16 km[sup]2[/sup] and Daggerfall had 161600 km[sup]2[/sup], for comparison. The different areas aren't exactly in scale between all the games, as you can see.

Oblivion's world did feel more empty, though. Especially around the edges of the map. And Skyrim has the mountains always blocking your way.

 

[Irridium]

Size doesn't mean crap if you don't do anything with it.

Oblivion has more dungeons, more cities, bigger landmass, and more NPC's.

However, they're all rather bland and uninteresting. Skyrim has less of those things, but they're far more fleshed out. If you're looking for the better game, get Skyrim. After playing it... Oblivion just doesn't compare.

 

[endtherapture]

The thing is..after a while in Skyrim there is nothing drawing me into new dungeons and caves I find...much like in Oblivion.

 

[Aerosteam]

If you're going to exclude copy/paste dungeons, then Skyrim is bigger...

But if you're going to include DLC, then maybe Oblivion...

I don't even know anymore. =/ But I like to think it's Skyrim.

In terms of the entire series, Daggerfall wins hands down.

 

[Smeggs]

Hammerfell apparently, but I haven't played it. I think they're roughly about the same size in terms of how long it'll take you to get from one end of the map to another, but they differ slightly in how large they are on the map of Tamriel. The size of the provinces isn't really conserved at all in Elder Scrolls games.

Hammerfell? I think you mean "Daggerfall", which spanned the provinces of High Rock and northern Hammerfell. Yeah, Daggerfall is huge. Let me put it this way... this is what fast-travel looks like:

Oh, lord, if people want to complain about graphics...


OT: Don't quote me on this, as I'm lazy and don't feel like trying to reaearch every single one, but I believe there was plenty more things to discover in Skyrim.

 

[Woodsey]

Map size is about the same, but Skyrim is much more dense.

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

I think Skyrim. Mostly because I've spent much more time in skyrim than oblivion

 

[Typhusoid]

I recall the developers saying that from a top-down, map-like perspective both games have roughly the same map areas, but in practice Skyrim is far bigger due to the amount of mountains, which add vertical distance not obvious from a map. And as others have said, Skyrim is far denser and more rich, particularly around the edges.

 

[Rule Britannia]

Oblivion is probably bigger and certainly more diverse but...I don't know where I was going with this...Skyrim is newer...... :S

 

[Ruzinus]

Oblivion has the bigger cities... Skyrim has... well that's already been covered in this topic.

Oblivion GOTY will ultimately have a bit more to do and some more going for it, because Shivering Isles, but...

ignore all that. If you want a game to get into Elder Scrolls with, go with Skyrim. Both games have wonderful and awesome worlds to explore. However, Oblivion has this terrible level up system that you basically have to fight with and figure out how to trick before you can just enjoy the damn game world. In a lot of games that level up system would have just flat out ruined the thing entirely, but the stuff behind that in Oblivion was awesome enough to make it worth it. But in Skyrim the level up stuff just works, and you should be able to just go ahead and enjoy the world on your first character. Play Skyrim first. If you enjoy it, then later go back to Oblivion and just do some research on dealing with it's leveling beforehand.

On the other other hand, Oblivion is a lot cheaper, and if you have the patience to learn an annoying leveling system before you can really enjoy the game behind it then I guess why not?

 

[jollybarracuda]

I think Oblivion has more content, but much of that is repeated. Skyrim has much, much more diversity in what it offers in terms of city, cave, and temple design. And as far as map-size goes, I could have sworn Bethesda claimed it was only marginally larger than Oblivion. Still, a pretty hefty sized world.

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