{"id":11816,"date":"2011-05-19T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-11-15T15:25:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T13:25:54","slug":"skyrim-is-too-big-says-bethesda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11816-skyrim-is-too-big-says-bethesda","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim is “too big” says Bethesda"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re gonna interpret this as marketing hyperbole, because if Bethesda’s Todd Howard really believed that the The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is “too big”, we’re pretty sure they would make it, you know, less big.<\/p>\n

But that’s exactly what the game’s director told Norwegian gaming site Gamer.no.<\/a><\/p>\n

“At last count we had about 120 real caves, and more than 100 common points of interest outside,” \u00a0said Howard, going on to say “The game is actually too big.”<\/p>\n

Apparently Skyrim’s world map is roughly the same size as The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion’s, and I don’t recall many people complaining of that game being “too big”.<\/p>\n

Skyrim’s enviroments will, however, be far more dynamic and interesting than Oblivion’s. Howard told Gamer.no that “We also have grassy tundra, volcanic tundra, a forest with an autumnal theme and a glacier. There are about six or seven distinct types of environments,” and that environmental change will be far more noticable in Skyrim than it was in Fallout 3 or Oblivion.<\/p>\n

Bethesda has confirmed that the world of Skyrim will be populated by various wildlife, including wolves, deer, elk, rabbit and mammoths. Oh, and also giants.<\/p>\n

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is due out on 11 November 2011, and it will be available on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.<\/p>\n

How big is too big in your opinion?<\/a> << Share your thoughts in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although, if they really believed that they'd probably make it smaller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}