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This is a major port city in Tamriel
https://youtu.be/yvGXCisAaR4
And this is a minor port in Morrowind
>>339131397
Yes, and? Civilization simply exists on a smaller scale in TES
This is a miniature backyard pond in Daggerfall
>>339131397
>not playing with mods
loving every laugh
This is a puddle in Arena
Why have bethesda games degraded so?
>>339131972
Good environment designers/artists could still make significantly scaled-down environments feel like the intended thing at least at some level. What's pictured wouldn't do justice even to a fishing village.
Besides, even if what you say was the case, the game wasn't obliged to stick to mediocrity and could very well be less scaled down (or denser, such that the overall map size remains the same, but areas of interests are more detailed). For example, Novigrad in The Witcher 3 had pretty large harbour district. But then again, that isn't true in the first place, older TES games weren't nearly this bad.
>>339131972
Then why is Seyda Neen considered just a minor trade outpost in Morrowind?
>>339131972
Not true. The games are a scaled-down representation of the actual lore.
You didn't think a province with probably under 200 residents that takes 20 minutes to walk across would be having a civil war?
>Bethesda will announce a Skyrim remaster at E3 and people will buy it
>>339134151
That's been a thing only ever since Oblivion, Morrowind was still somewhat to scale considering that Vvardenfell is always described as pretty much an uninhabited wasteland even in lore
This is the problem with open world games. Other games you only get to roam and explore sections of a city, but you get the feeling of it being huge.
>>339131972
Other games can give you the sense of a grander scale despite technical limitations, however. Vivec, in Morrowind, seemed as grand and as important as it ought to have, despite not being that large, and not actually having too many NPCs.
consoles limitations, oblivion and skyrim where made with consoles in mind
>>339134767
Except Oblivions small cities are larger than Skyrims large cities. The Imperial City as implemented in Oblivion is about the smallest a capital can get without feeling obviously tiny, and the largest in Skyrim are like a third of its size.
>>339135129
>Except Oblivions small cities are larger than Skyrims large cities
but skyrim had better visuals and less loading times, shitestda sacrafised scale for fancy graphics
