r/Steam • u/dabor11 • 4h ago

Fluff What game surprised you how long it was?

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u/Titanhunter84 3h ago

Would be great to discover the whole continent in one game but the game would probably be 500 GB big.

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u/RuafaolGaiscioch 3h ago

I like that it isn’t. There’s still some video game fuckery to condense the world but Velen being a region in Temeria instead of the whole country makes the country itself feel bigger. Skyrim diminishes itself by fitting the whole country into one relatively small map.

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u/dakupoguy 2h ago

But isn't Skyrim a region in Tamriel?

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u/RuafaolGaiscioch 2h ago

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure Tamriel is the continent.

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u/Evnosis 1h ago

You're correct. Tamriel is the continent, Skyrim is a country. There are no official figures for how big Skyrim is supposed to be, but our best guess is that it's supposed to be around the size of Scandinavia.

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u/Anon-Bard 1h ago

Ive heard it compared to Alaska in scale before, but the Scandinavian comparison makes sense if you're taking the map scale of Daggerfall as 1:1(ish).

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u/oprotunity 1h ago

I noticed on the compass that North East and South East are shown as NO and SO. Why O?

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u/Perryn 1h ago

Ost. German for east, as well as in other related languages.

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u/Titanhunter84 1h ago edited 1h ago

The map is in German, East is Osten in German so instead of North-East and South-East Nordosten and Südosten.

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u/oprotunity 54m ago

Thanks!

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u/prunebackwards 55m ago

The whole continent would be terabytes. The location in the witcher 3 is miniscule really, you can see velen and novigrad on this map in relation to the whole continent