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?
Which is bigger...Skyrim or Oblivion?
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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.
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.Scrustle said:
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.
Oblivion's world did feel more empty, though. Especially around the edges of the map. And Skyrim has the mountains always blocking your way.
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.
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.
The thing is..after a while in Skyrim there is nothing drawing me into new dungeons and caves I find...much like in Oblivion.
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.
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.
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.
Oblivion is probably bigger and certainly more diverse but...I don't know where I was going with this...Skyrim is newer...... :S