I'm Lost!, non-linear dungeons in Skyrim Options

[Lady Saga]

I am finding Skyrim's dungeons to be easy to walk through most of the time. Most of Skyrim's dungeons simply go one direction: in and out, with very few side passages. If there's a second or third way to go, very often it'll immediately dead-end, and it becomes very obvious which direction is the one we're looking for.

....This is one thing I like about dungeons in Cyrodiil: yes they are sparser, and aren't packed with stuff (as Skyrim's lairs are) but oftentimes Cyrodiilic lairs will feature areas with multiple directions to go in. They challenge us to remember which way is the right one!

We might come to a room for instance that has 2, 3, 4, 5... I've seen up to 6 or 7 exits! Which way is the right way? ... I used to wind up going in circles in some of Cyrodiil's: especially caves and Ayleid ruins. Forts aren't as hard, but also could offer some twists and turns, and if the player (me) was not using the map, all a sudden I could be seriously lost for hours!

This thread is going to be dedicated to those lairs in Skyrim that have the ability to get us seriously lost. Mycharonna the Ice Witch is in one such lair at the moment. It is called

Fallowstone Cave

There is a quest related to this cave but I won't spoil. Anyways, this is a big cave, with one very large main cavern. And it's not so much that there's multiple directions to go (multiple exits, that is) that the cave is just so large, with all sorts of ledges to climb upon. There are also some side exits here and there. I think I've found three so far. I won't spoil, but they do lead to some interesting little things!

Anyways, if anybody has other such places that they've found, I want to see what others have discovered.

Shriekwind Bastion

Fort Neugrad

Alftand

Nchuand-Zel

This post has been edited by Lady Saga: Mar 7 2013, 03:20 PM

[Lady Saga]

All of the dungeon layouts are fixed, but they were generated by a random process by Bethsoft, and then baked-in. If you go back to a dungeon a second time, it will be the same layout as before, although the monsters and loot will have re-spawned, with new random selection. You'd probably not notice, as the huge number of dungeons swamps your memory of their layouts.

This is interesting! There is a game on PS2 called Champions of Norrath that randomly creates worlds and dungeons, too. CoN is a game I was rabidly playing (and replaying) back before I got OB because every time I started a new CoN game, its world was a little bit different.

Saga, I had to go to the uesp to get Jensa out of Fallowstone Cave or she and Stenvar would still be in there. That was fun.

Fallowstone Cave is actually a surprisingly simple dungeon once the gamer figures it out! It's another in-and-out, really. The difference is there's all sorts of little niches and areas to get stuck on as we try to navigate "in and out". But once I figured it out, I was like OH...duh..! Took me over an hour (Earth time) to get back outside of Fallowstone to Skyrim, though.

I dont find oblivions dungeons linear AT ALL , granted the loot is tedious but every ruin is differant and has interesting unique features.

You talkin' to me? I never said Oblivion's dungeons are linear...that's the point I was trying to make in the OP. They often are not linear.

Yup im a harsh critic of skyrim , the game was a joke compared to the previous two titles , just my opinion .....

I disagree, but I'm tired of disagreeing with people lately, and then having to defend my point of view.