Gaze ye upon the map of Skyrim and tremble

by Richard Mitchell on Oct 10th 2011 11:45AM

We know how you roll. November 11 and, thus, Skyrim, is coming up fast. You've been planning for weeks with Griswoldian fervor, deciding exactly how you will tour the vast countryside offered up by the latest Elder Scrolls. Something, however, was missing ...

... until now, that is! Bethesda has revealed the game's expansive map by way of the Igromir expo in Russia. Lucky attendees walked away from the event with a copy of said map and, fortunately for the rest of the world, a member of ElderScrolls.net was kind enough to post an image online. Said image was even subsequently translated into English. Now, gaze upon it. Gaze upon it and dream.

Via: GameSpy
Source: Lexmirnov.ru, ElderScrolls.net

Tags: bethesda, elder-scrolls-5, igromir, microsoft, pc, playstation, ps3, skyrim, the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim, xbox

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How much of that is a vast expanse of empty nothingness?

@Faceless Troll

You're not even trying! Rough night under the bridge?

@Nook Did you play Oblivion? You could spend twenty minutes walking and not stumble onto anything interesting at all.

@Faceless Troll

254 hours of it baby!!! (and counting) I always walk, everywhere - rarely fast travel, rarely use horse.

The world is still interesting enough for me that it does not bother me that I'm not running into something constantly.

@Faceless Troll

There'll be mountains.

And dragons, who may or may not pop out of nowhere and kill you.

@Faceless Troll How can you not run into something interesting? I have multiple playthroughs and each around at least 50 hours. I just avoided the planes of Oblivion after the first two times lol, that got old fast. but you always come across creatures or caves and other things. But they have specifically said that they are attempting to have less open space anyways.

@Faceless Troll
:...not stumble onto anything interesting at all"

Sort of like the comments on this site.

@Faceless Troll

That is one of my favorite parts of the game. Just open world to explore, watch a deer grazing, see some people walking along paths. It makes the world seem real and not like a Michael Bayovie where shit is exploding and fighting everywhere.

@Faceless Troll

I had the opposite problem. Every 20 feet I'd find something new to do or explore which totally derailed me from whatever quest I was originally heading towards!

@Faceless Troll
STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!
You have violated the law.

@Faceless Troll
If interesting stuff were everywhere, that makes them less interesting.

Finding something in the wilderness that seems out of place, and investigating it, and maybe being surprised by what you discover is what made oblivion so awesome to me.

@LinkRazr Deer grazing and people walking around? Have you ever been outside? I can get that right now. Give me the engagement of hand to hand combat!

It's beautiful :')

Oh my. And to think, I'll have a cloth version of it.

Cool. I can't wait to walk all over the new land.

One more month!!

Hopefully futureshop wont screw me around come the 18th or so, I would rather not have to argue with them over a damn map.
(AC: Revelations is bundled with Skyrim, so it'll be delayed till the 15th x.x)

Alotta mountains. Whooooooole bunch o mountains.

@xxMayDay31xx And wolves.

will it comes with normal edition or it comes with collector's edition.

@wandersnake
All preorders get a cloth map (standard or collectors).

Geez, I need some leopards for preorder.

I can't wait till I get to come up to invisible walls right in the middle of an open field. I do love just wandering around, discovering all the points on the map, but I wish they had better boundaries.

@garnsr

Yeah, that's a bit annoying. At least they don't give you like 10 seconds to get back into the gaming area (bfbc) or else you instantaneously die.

It would be a beautiful thing if one of these days, there's a Bethesda game that integrates all the land masses, and the only real boundaries are the open waters of the sea.

@kentuckyfried

You mean like morrowind? That game didn't have any boundaries that you couldn't get around or over.

Maybe I'm impatient - but what's missing are the PC hardware requirements for this game. I have some decisions to make before Nov. 11. Off topic, sorry, but there it is.

@Alpo I was lucky enough to be in a position to upgrade my PC just this past week. SLI GTX560ti's i7 quad-core, 8gb ram... cost a pretty penny, but I can run Shogun 2 at ultra high settings 1080p at 60fps, so I'm hoping Skyrim isn't too much higher.

I apologize in advance for those who had to witness my PC D*** measuring, its just been SO LONG since I've been able to do that :)

@Lolthien i would guess that with it being a xbox 360/PS3 game as well that it will run on most mid level rigs if not at the max possible specs

@Decanus That I'll grant you, but if Oblivion is any indication, the PC version will be MUCH more detailed (especially after modders, or even Bethesda themselves) release an upscaled texture pack or two.

@Lolthien

It's a DX9 game... Your system will eat it for breakfast and sh*t it out by lunch.

ST

GIVE ME THE GAME. Seriously please RAWRRRRRR. Only game I'm really looking forward to.

Has anyone else noticed that it's basically Cyrodill (from Oblivion) flipped? :P

My body is ready.

Looks like Northrend

But if I were to gaze upon the map and dream, I would have to close my eyes, and thus I can no longer gaze at it.

(mouth waters)

looks amazing
i wonder what those symbols are.

because they said that there was only going to be 4 major city's.

Translated into English? What was it in originally??

@whylekat This picture came from a Russian fansite. The one in the source bit.

Bah! I was hoping it was some fictional language from the world of Skyrim.

As long as it's good to look at while travelling, I don't mind walking across this vast expanse of a map. I'm only annoyed by long travels if there's nothing much to look at.

*cough*Fallout 3*cough*

Doesn't look that big, but I'm pretty certain it is :D

Does anyone know the physical size of the cloth map? Just wondering how it compares to the Oblivion map.

i cant really get an idea of the scale from this map not played an elder scrolls game before so don't know how big is considered a big map for this series. anyone played FFXI who's able to compare the likely size to that?

@lilfloppy
Think of it like.. La Theine/Konschtat/Tahrongi times 10

I can't wait for a mod to color it in. I like colorful world maps. Staring at so much tan is annoying.

In Soviet Skyrim, Dragon Eat YOU!

Tremble.

I am so gonna get lost, and I can't wait.

Everything I see about this game makes me more excited for it's release. I played Oblivion for almost 300 hours and got all 1250 gamerscore from it, and I plan to do again in Skyrim. Hope no one needs me this winter. :)

@DillonDoris36759610

Again? Ok look, your best friend's mom is a webcam girl. Deal with it.

I look forward to playing the hell out of this game until my wife kills me for not sleeping and eating or helping around the house. My future is set.

This is one of my favorite posts ever, entirely because of the word Griswoldian.

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