Oblivion V: Your Guide To The Region Of Skyrim - (GameBlurb)

GameBlurb writes: When Bethesda came out to make the announcement for the next Elder Scrolls game, I couldn’t help myself from bursting out with excitement. Other than a CGI trailer it seems like there is little we know about Skyrim. Not so fast! There’s enough lore about Skyrim for you to feed yourself on and you can even find it in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

[MicrocutsX2]

Wow, didn't know there was already so much lore to the game.

[poopface1]

Dont they need oblivion 2-4 first LOL.

Elderscrolls V.

[MicrocutsX2]

LOL for some reason the submitter changed the title. Just realized...it's supposed to be Elder Scrolls V. Oh wells, still a good read.

[ultramoot]

Exactly. Amateur mistake on the editor's part.

[MicrocutsX2]

@ultramoot

Agree, but I guess we should give this submitter a slack. No one reported him and it is his first news post. Congrats! Welcome to N4G and thanks for that good read.

[norman29]

Is that the size of the map for Skyrim? It looks so tiny compared to cyrodil

[IaMs12]

Does look smaller but since it is a game, they can technically make it bigger just make a mile in game a lot longer :)

[femshep]

mhm the lore is how you make an amazing story line history about everything is key or it will fall apart

every province in Tamriel has history and current events going on even the ones they didn't make a game on

in oblivion there were a couple of people that talked about what was going on in Morrowin after the events of ES3

[tacosRcool]

Let's hope we can play some of the other territories since Skyrim isn't as big as Cyridol

[emekcrash]

According to Oblivion, Skingrad has only 17 houses. Nothing is true to its own size in TES games (Land-wise) becausen of the gameplay limitations. Skyrim could be x2 bigger than Cyrodiil.

[liquidxtension]

God dammit. This only gets me even more excited.

[junk3d]

I am just glad that they are finally abandoning gamebryo!

[jaidek]

ditto, hopefully with the internally built engine they will have better performance. fingers crossed.

[femshep]

i think they should if they haven't made one they haven't released but make a game that tests new engine make sure it doesn't bug out on them....ill cry if it turns into new vegas

[Deleting]

From looking at the map it dosen't look that big as cyrodil and I hope it's not just snow :/

[MicrocutsX2]

Morrowind was smaller than Oblivion but it felt just as big to be honest. I think they'll be able to do the same here. And I think the flat lands well have more tundra like vegetation according to the article.

[emekcrash]

That's a common mistake many people make: Nords? Vigings? North? That means only moutains and snow then. That's wrong considering that some images of Skyrim that came from the developers themselves (Really old images from like 10 years ago), show big fields of grass. Books in Oblivion speak of Skyrim farmers and big crop fields. I wouldn't worry much.

[Simco876]

Game should be a blast, really excited about the new engine

[Bay]

Yeah forgot to add The Elder Scrolls - can't edit now that its approved :(

Oh well, at least I think people know what Oblivion is...I think.

[JamestheScruffy]

Wow...a lot of depth to this story that I was completely oblivious to.

Get it? Oblivious? I suck.

[Pika-pie]

This is my most anticipated game of next year.. Absolutly cannot wait for this.

[palaeomerus]

I'm rather surprised that the article makes no mention of the island of Soltsheim from the "Blood Moon" Morrowind add-on. I thought the frozen barrow tombs you search for ice amor and the Icefreikt hiding under the lake were especially cool.

[bjh089]

imma check out the mod for oblivion and compare it to the final product when the game comes out just to see how modders do

[BongSmack]

Thank you Rahat. I can't believe how much I didn't know about Skyrim I should read more in game books, I remember I use to read books in Daggerfall but I guess I got out of the habit in Morrowind.
I hope Bethesda hold true to the current lore when the game comes out.

[RahatR]

Hey Bong,

No Problem! It was a pleasure to give you something that you found useful and entertaining. Here's hoping to see you around more often on GameBlurb!