21st July 2005, 9:52 AM
Quote:Um, quite the opposite. It's far more realistic to say "it took fifteen days of riding for you to get there" than to have you walk for ten minuites and say "it was a mile away and this "continent" is actually really, really tiny"... far, far more realistic.
What that does is set up isolated areas with little connection to one another that you walk around in for a few minute, get on your horse for a few "days", arrive at another town, walk around for a few minutes, repeat. Maybe it's more fun if you actually play it, rather than just talking about it, but I can't imagine it being more fun than having a large world that's free for you roam through at your leisure without breaking to watch you guy ride a horse. Part of the fun of Morrowind is finding all the little secret areas that are hidden between towns and out in the empty wastes. If you're looking at isolated towns and their immediate surroundings you lose all that.
I like Morrowind's one world, where you can travel to any point from any point. If they broke it apart into little segments it would simply ruin the exploration aspect of Morrowind. I've played Morrowind for many hours and I don't think I've been to HALF of the squares that make of the island.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.