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?

[Aki]

I think it only feels small becuase of fast travel and horses, and you can litterally run everywhere. Running no longer drains fatigue...

So you can move pretty fast and it makes things feel smaller....

Though I disagree on the dungeons. They feel far more different than MW's ones. I mean, go in one tomb in MW and you've been in 'em all. In the aylied Ruins I have to keep my wits about as the freaking things have amultitude of ways of murdering me most brutually.

Example, I HAVE actually run into this, BTW.

There is in this one ruin, a long hallway. The middle is obviously a ceiling crusher, as it has the characteristic blood stains and spikes in the ceiling. So I decide to set it off and jump off.

Bad idea.

The Ceiling crushers mounted in the ceilings behind and in front of the trap in the middle come down as that one goes up.



Needless to say, that hurt...

Another ruin had note written by a bandit leader of what was going on inside the ruin. It wasn't linked to any quest mind you, just...there. It was neat. I encountered a similar situation in another ruin with a necromancer who had written (but not delivered) a letter to a friend in Daggerfall.

etc.

I never reached an area where I could move no further, while in Oblivion I hit 'invisible walls' quite often.

Morrowind had endlesses expanses of Water. Oblivion couldn't have that, as Cyrodiil almost entirely landlocked.