u/mrsusandothechoosin

I want to be able to ask NPCs for directions, and they have certain standard responses just to give a rough indication.

"A bit east from here", "You're already here", "That's in Taneth", "That's way out west". "not been there, but I think it might be...", "Ask X, he'll know", "get lost", "I don't know, and I don't care to know", "It's very close, follow me", etc

Might make finding amenities more engaging, and brings back a little bit of daggerfall/morrowind. By keeping it to a formula, it shouldn't add too much to the voice acting

Say you're going on a journey from Sentinel to Gilane, and you're not using fast travel (either clicking on a map or using carriage equivalents)... how long should it take, in terms of good gameplay?

A day, a night, and a day in the desert? Or 3 nights? Or maybe even just a day? How many minutes irl?

Is the landscape fixed, or do the sands shift every time?

Hammerfell is hot. Or at least extremely sunny. I imagine a sweetroll with too soft or too much icing would prove impractical... or would that be the point?

What does a sweetroll in TESVI look like?

I hope the world is scaled so that the timescale is the same as the distance scale.

In Skyrim, the world was scaled at about ~1:90 distance, and time scaled at 1:20. I would absolutely love if both of these scales could match at 1:24 or similar. With Hammerfell having coastal cities and a large desert in the middle, and advances in procedural generation, I absolutely think a map large enough to accommodate that is possible.

I hope this matches in travelling and lore too. Say having inns spaced at most a day's journey apart on major roads, and locals being able to say X location is Y days journey away from Z location.

Add survival mode into that, and travelling around the game would feel so rich.

Edit: A few thoughts on timescale. Some games have it so that the timescale in cities is different to on the road, or different at night to during the day. Something like 1:20 in the city/dungeons/camps during the day, 1:30 on the road or cities at night, and 1:45 for on the road at night could work?

GTA 6 pre-order announcement here: https://x.com/rockstargames/status/2067594067030979053?s=46

Todd Howard saying GTA 6 would be first: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DRzIJQ-CGtt/

The pre-conditions of the prophecy are met. Now only Todd can fulfill it.

No way I'm reading his journal though. 2643 paragraphs is a bit much.

As someone who started with Skyrim and went into Morrowind, one of the biggest pieces of trivia I found that made the game easier to follow was that most players at the time would receive a physical map with the game, and would take physical notes.

Printing off a map and taking notes for interesting stuff I found really helped for finding my way through this strange land i was unfamiliar with. Trying to find Molag Mar on a map felt like I was working out the world rather than being taken out of it by checking the wiki.

I hope TESVI comes with a 'print at home' mini booklet that you're recommended to have with you while playing. Maybe even an offer that they'll post one for each game bought online. I think it'd be such a cool thing to bring back, now that games get downloaded so often.