QUOTE(Agent Griff @ Mar 13 2006, 05:14 AM)
Oblivion is bigger than the landmass of GTA:San Andreas. San Andreas had an aproximately 9 square mile landmass. Oblivion's will be 16 square miles.
yea but san andreas also had water mass 'en mass' (like that?) and that means that land mass doesn't account for the whole area of the game.
More importantly, I haven't played the game for much over half an hour or two, if I had grabed a car I could have been from one side of the map to the other (three miles, according to the above) in about two minutes if I was speeding the whole way......maybe three minutes if I was going easy on it..... that doesn't seem right....
Lemme ask you this. Has anyone thought to think in terms of something along these lines:
1 human is averagely 6 feet tall, the number of times I could lay down and reach both edges of the map multiply that by six feet and use that number as the new squared or .5 power-ed number of miles that make up (insert game title)'s size?
....or
my car is about ten feet long(varies a good bit car to car...), so if I line up the cars on this street and count them multiple that by average length to get the distance across the land mass
just an artist thing that I learned years ago, not sure if it has a name but it works well enough for certain things.
(p.s. I am a lousy artist)