After being playing Skyrim (and Oblivion/Morrowind before it) for a while I googled a bit to find out about the whole world behind it – The bigger Tamriel or Nim, the whole fictional planet. There is such a massive world (size and story wise) that still needs exploring. I really hope/wish they (Bethesda) plans to have the rest of this wonderful world also made available to play and explore. In case you wish to see a simple map (fictional of course) of the whole place look here.
Apparently in the original Elder scrolls game the whole Tamriel was open to be explorable – but that game is ages old and I never got to play it (actually, I didn’t even know about it back then since it wasn’t the kind of game I would have been interested at the time). This got me thinking – wouldn’t it be wonderful if the whole Tamriel/Nim was playable using the Skyrim level of graphics/game engine. Perhaps this is a bit of wishful thinking as such a game would be huge (in about every way possible including disk space, story, quest count, complexity etc.). Skyrim already pushed the envelope for PC specs but a game like this could go even further. Possibly the whole map will have to come in sections that must be loaded separately as you venture from one region to the next. Crossing the oceans might require some kind of ‘fast travel’ since it would be too easy to get lost as ‘sea’. It is not impossible that there could be isolated islands with its own treasures or adventures. Since it is an fictional world there is even the possibility for an totally underground world as well (aka Middle Earth idea). In Skyrim there has already been something similar – the Falmer/Snow Elves and Dwemer.
A game like that could keep you busy for almost a lifetime in itself. You’d need a separate life to play it… This is probably close to impossible or improbable but still, one could wish and dream.
Oh, and happy new year to all… 🙂
Update: I just thought mentioning that since the original post above I’ve come across some other postings by Skyrim/Elder scroll fans that Skyrim (the game) seems to have maps included for the ‘whole of Tamriel’ – check here. Perhaps Bethesda is planning something ‘bigger’ at some point. Lets hope…
Update 2: There has been rumours and speculation about a totally MMORPG game that is based on the Elders Scrolls. Bethesda has now announced a game like that. Due somewhere in 2013. It will apparently cover the whole of Tamriel and be situated something like a 1000 years before Skyrim. Wonder if they’ll ever consider opening up the whole of Nim or what will happen if you play for too long and use up the 1000 years 😉 ? See this.