Cyrodiil a bit small? Options

[Olav]

I can't help but think that Cyrodiil seems quite small compared to Morrowind. Am I getting this impression only because it's possible to see that tall tower in the Imperial City from all over Cyrodiil, or is the game world smaller than it was in Morrowind?

In Morrowind I felt like I could travel in one direction for a long time, and my marker didn't move too much on the main map. In Oblivion however, I look on the map before doing a quest and think 'wow, it's going to take a long time to get there!'. But a few minutes or even seconds later I'm there.

Of course another thing that may give me this impression is that in Morrowind you never saw further than a short distance in any direction, while in Oblivion you can practically see 'as far as the eye can see'.

I'm not complaining or anything. After all we have the Oblivion realm to roam in too, as well as all the caves. And I truly love standing on a mountain somewhere in nice weather and see the tower and other cities and landmarks in the distance.

But I'm just wondering if anyone else have gotten the same impression as me?

[ghastley]

I hadn't thought about it much before you mentioned it, but I came to Oblivion from a game where you couldn't fall off a bridge, because there were invisible edges to the "walkable" parts of the landscape.

It took me quite a time before I discovered that you could swim in the water (previous games had boundaries at all shorelines) or walk down mountainsides that were too steep to climb back up. But then I spent a while drowning, and falling too far if I ran or jumped injudiciously. It's a completely different style of play, and I can understand people having preferences for one or the other.

With one exception (a game world that was topologically a torus, where going due north/south looped you around, and the same east/west) there aren't any that don't have a boundary somewhere. Even with the space games, the edge of the galaxy often was a logical boundary, as you'd stop going anywhere, and turning back instantly re-entered "known space".

But Oblivion's probably the only game where, on a clear day, you can see the opposite edge of the world. Maybe that's why I've added Valenwood and Elsweyr to mine! I don't like fog, which seems to be the standard view limiter used. The lack of it is one of Oblivion's plus points, IMHO.