You must make lvl design tutorials, not for free of corse. this is brilliant, everything hare is amazing water, Mountains, fog, sun lightning. architecture.
Just here to say this is magnificent, and the shot of Solitude in the rain with the waterfalls is one of the most amazing I've seen. If you ever want to make a walkthrough of the city, it would be spetacular.
man i would KILL for you to even just make a full render of the true size of skyrim and than even more so i would love if you let some mod team like skyblivion take that and than turn it into a ACTUAL skyrim remastered..... honestly ashes of creation being a mmorpg made in the unreal 5 engine and being a world which will have a total world space of 1200km sq AND 10000 people on a server at once AND all the systems like world bosses, dungeons, world events, seasons, and nodes all taking their piece of performance but still seeming like it running on less buff pcs is still a possibility makes me SO fucking wanna see and playthrough skyrim AS IT SHOULDA BEEN with also maybe even a fun removal of all the bs dragon cult stuff and turning the badass thu' um into just the dragons language with the civil war being the one and only main focus....
Indeed. You can mod the game to look like a 2020 AAA title, but the engine definitely shows its age. Also archaic is the loading screens between "Skyrim" and each location. These limitations are pretty much gone in contemporary engines.
yeah, and this is interesting creative angle of bird flight, unlike to any UE5 video that have fetish moment when birds are flying from left to right, like everybody just drag and drop standard asset/preset. And question to UE5 users: where are single and coupled birds flying like real birds above sea or city? Is it too hard to create?
If your renders and reconstructions of Skyrim cities doesn't convince a studio that a Skyrim movie would actually pop off I don't know what will. This far surpasses gorgeous and just may be the one thing I can truly describe as cinematically perfect.
@@samhouston1288 Modern "writers" don't care about lore. They actively disregard it because they feel it constrains their storytelling ability to crossdress and gender swap.
The first thing I thought was “this looks like a movie” you could definitely blue screen people into that scene... it looks better than most CG for movies tbh. First thing that came to mind was Harry Potter.
That’s what I loved so much about Beauclaire and Novigrad in TW3, those cities felt naturally because they weren’t as drastically scaled down as Skyrim’s city’s
@@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300the technology was there. Bethesda just makes crappy games. And I don't mean that in the way that probably reads. TES games are legendary and massive games with infinite replayability because of their A-tier exploration and roleplay potential. But they are all objectively crap tier in virtually every other category like graphics, voice acting, writing, performance and stability etc. Bethesda as a developer is very low to middle tier for their size and scope.
ok this is your best work so far. Everytime solitude is mentioned into any in game books or older game books, its always described as a city rivalising the imperial city in grandeur and size. Amazing work ^^ and now I cant wait to see Windhelm, my favorite city in skyrim ^^
In Vanilla Skyrim Solitude is actually just the size of a relatively large castle, as fellow TH-camr Shadiversity has pointed out. The capital of Skyrim is...a castle. It's a joke. Now don't tell me it wasn't possible for games to create somewhat believable cities. Ofc they will always be downsized, but they can still feel like cities. Novigrad in the Witcher 3 actually felt like a city.
The waterfalls created by the rain are a seriously amazing detail, and the birds flying under the arch are just phenomenal, now i envisioned the invasion of solitude by the stormcloaks, with battering rams breaching the gates and grappling hooks trying to scale the cliffside and walls 🤤
This is such a shame to see because this level of fidelity will NEVER be realized in a Bethesda title. What an excellent presentation of such a stunning location. Bravo!
Just imagine the hardware requirement jump they would have to do this in a game when really nothing is optimized. When optimized it seems to use all the features in UE5 for it to look good requires a 4060 16GB or better. So a mid end card but the part of 16GB is the important part as lots of unoptimized parts take up a lot in VRAM. Lots of UE5 games do not do by hand optimization and use the optimization tool that don't really understand what it does.
@@yumri4 It doesn't even necessarily need to be so high of fidelity. Just the scale in general is something that would enhance the experience ten fold in terms of immersion.
@@yumri4 I figure that you need way more to keep this level of detail on top of endless animations of countless characters (assuming they have they have the same level). This would not be a pre-render, but games need to be rendered on the fly.
The video showcases an environment and that alone needs a beefy PC to make it look like how it does. Also, it's pre-rendered. Add in scripts, NPCs, AI, a multitude of other systems a game like Skyrim is running in the background, all in real time, and you have a mess on your hand. I do wish we could have world spaces like this in games but unless there comes a massive leap in computing power for consumers, I think it's still just wishful thinking.
This could have all the same characters, questlines, story, etc., and I would still play the hell out of it purely because of how damn good it looks. Spectacular work.
Solitude is my favorite city in Skyrim. I would try and make it more... lively(?) by decorating the city. Things like bowls with flowers near the graveyard, a kettle with swords in the practice yard for soldiers, a book on a bench, ect. This vid represents what I want Solitude to look like. I love it.
This is amazing, it actually made me feel a bit emotional. When I was playing Skyrim as a kid in high school, walking into Solitude obviously didn't look like this, but it's what it looked like in my mind. For whatever reason I just can't do that with games anymore, but this just brought back some of that joy.
The Witcher 3 is good for bringing back the magic … I have recently played both final fantasy 7&9 and got a great feeling of accomplishment from completing them as it really felt like an adventure whilst playing those games. I’m currently playing Disco Elysium and it’s enjoyable so far… I have found the older I get the less I am interested in fast pace shooters and need a more relaxed approach to gaming.
Imagine what it smells like. That's a lot of people, all crammed together in a tight space. A lot of butts producing a lot of poop, and no indoor plumbing.
@ElmaXC Background in civil engineering. Nobody ever thinks about toilets. I guarantee in the real world, these towns and cities would REEK! I mean in the real world people would shit in a bucket and toss it out the window. Skyrim wouldn't be much different! How many toilets you recall seeing? Any outhouses? None. But buckets to shit in, those are all over even in the game.
The way it’s envisioned here with the draping vines and the waterfalls down the rock, the birds flying underneath the natural arch. You took the idea and made a masterpiece.
the game was sold in 2009 and was a project of about 6 years work, following on what was built up from Oblivion and Morrowind before it. The era came with restraints which limited things. In that era you either had big empty cities which were just essentially scenery, or a small city with more NPCS. Solitude was bigger in Arena, the original game... But... When you examine THAT game despite it being older, theres more city and less resources dedicated to each used asset in the cities. Arena could afford to be what it was because it was all show and no substances. One of the issues I have with this video is that Solitude... Looks bigger, but more "empty". A lot of the buildings are so similar that they haven't much uniqueness to them. You cannot tell from the first glance of the aerial shot what building "Sid the Imperial Baker" is living in from "Her Lady Sparsehead the High Elf"'s luxury mansion. They all "look" the same. Whereas in the actual game the lack of buildings means you can easily find locations such as the Bard's guild and even houses. If I were to go into deeper... Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption has a perfectly good example of the problem with displaying size of cities. Both in Prague and in London you are surrounded by buildings. But. You cannot enter most because their off limits. The original Thief game, you can wonder empty streets and walk past doors to buildings that are just fronts. Even modern games, they have issues like this. Dragon Quest Games, they either have small cities you can enter every building of or big ones that only have a few entered. Bethesda put a lot of effort into the original Skyrim... BUT... To say its not showing its age is an understatement. I think the only time Besthesda is disappointing with their city building from about that era is Fallout 3 and 4, lots of buildings you can't enter. For example, Concord is full of these buildings you just cannot enter. On the one hand, it does make their worlds larger but having them.
@@fdsaffwegf1892 Actually no. You think when you're playing a game that it has all of the level assets loaded in no matter where you are in the map? Assets and NPCs despawn when you get far enough away that's how it's always been done in games. Even now in the new Wukong game you can see it loading in models and stuff sometimes in the distance. Games don't just load in everything no matter if you can see it or not.
@@JohnDoeWasntTaken OKAY, IT LOOKS LIKE U WOULD LIKE TO RUN FROM 1 PLACE IN THE CITY TO ANOTHER FOR 182918497203891 YEARS BECAUSE THE LOCATION IS JUST TOO HUGE
Absolutely gorgeous. The waterfalls cascading down during the rain was breathtaking. The one thing I would change would be to scale up the Blue Palace, Castle Dour, and the tower outside the main gates so the city has more of the original's skyline. That said, this truly has the scale and majesty that we would expect from a nation's capital city.
It’s wild i just got recommended this video. Just yesterday I learned Skyrim is 1:10 the scale it really is meant to be. Meaning for every building you see in game there would be 10 in real life. For every distance you walk in game, in real life it would be 10x longer. Wild.
It is more than that. One tenth on each axis. This means the cities are 100 times bigger ! Plus think of all the rural villages and farmland that exists in canon but isn't in the game. The mountains must also be enormous. To me this allows to make sense of the ancient crypts for instance, that they would be bigger and lost in some remote location, filled with ferocious undead. Thus why they haven't been sacked and looted by the time we as the dragonborn come around, after they have existed for millenia.
@@akiraraikuit's not really more than what was said, which is "every distance in- game is 10 times longer in real life." You just rephrased what he said but in terms of area rather than distance.
I mean you technically can.....If you're like me who runs like 2500 mods, Its always an experience. One thing i love about modding is that it always enhances your experience week after week. The only is for me just getting them mods to work. Is why i am appreciative of Vortex mod manager
Imagine walking to Riften from Solitude. Or even just from Whiterun, as that's where the story puts you first. The run from Riverwood to Whiterun would already take you longer than crossing the entire map as it is now in game. I mean I wouldn't mind it but Skyrim would still be in development if they had scaled it like this.
It's said that Winderhold was meant to be on a grand scale like this before the collapse. I like to imagine this is what it was like. Amazing work as always!!
That's what I always wanted to see! The real size is according to the lore and not the game with its limitations. I hope there will be more videos about other Skyrim cities and provinces.
The scale, the detail the whole things composition just out of the world like I was mesmerized by it! One of the best artists out there. Thank you for sharing such a great piece ^^
God.... let me live long enough.... to see a video game that looks this good while playing it.... a game so wide, open and full of content.... just long enough.
Indeed, the swamps would be alive with life. You'd hear buzzing and birds and all types of strange sounds not allowed with Bethesda's engine. With UnReal animals would grow silent when you approached them, but in the distance, you be hearing life being what it is, life.
as someone who started a recent playthrough and rediscovering the wonders of this game, it definitely hits different than when you’re a kid how small everything actually is. i was always disappointed going to these main holds with impressive aesthetics and realising just how small they really were. i understand they only added the amount of buildings you actually need to go in for merchants and places for quests, but god i always wish of what it could have been. and THIS is what it could have been. such impressive videos, looking forward to the next!
Mouth dropping video this one, never have i been so filled with nostalgia and hope for the future of Elder Scrolls. Giving myself the same feeling as my younger self had a long time ago.
It wouldn't be this enormous, I can basically promise that. Once you have to make NPCs who live in those houses, each with their own personalities and stories, their own faces, outfits, relationships, inventories, many with quests that interweave with other NPCs and places, daily schedules for each and every one of them, complete house interiors detailed down to the nick-knacks in their cupboards, keep it playable at a good framerate, and then do the entire rest of the game at that level, too... It just becomes impractical. About the only way to do it would be to have most of it AI auto-generated, and then we get into debates about how much of our games do we want to just be AI-automated or procedurally generated just to have more stuff, vs. pairing it down so it can be hand-made and help ensure everything that's there is meaningful. . I love these videos, but I'm concerned that they'll set unrealistic (heh) expectations for the next TES game, because people don't understand the difference between a visual art piece and a complete, playable game.
This is absolutely amazing. I've always entertained the thought of a real scale skyrim, even though that'd be near impossible to make in a game. This is the closest I've ever seen and mayne ever will see. And it looks beautiful.
This video caused such an emotional reaction in me that i didnt see coming. My dad was a big fan of the elder scrolls games. Showed me everything sbout oblivion and helped me make choices that fit "my character" and the like. Was very much into history and the (at the time) unconfirmed viking history his family had. He wanted to see a game set in Skyrim or Hammerfell. Unfortunately he took his life in 2010 but when Skyrim first got announced in December 2010 i immediately ran and grabbed the phone to call and tell him about it, my excitement making me forget he wouldn't answer until I heard the voicemail Every time I play this game now, i feel like I've got him next to me and now its me explaining all sorts of tips and tricks. This video made me feel like i played skyrim for the first time all thise yesrs ago. So much nostalgia and pleasant memories I've now revisited. The timing is perfect as this past week has been incredibly trying for me mentally and emotionally. Thank you for this. I think I'll poke around sround to see what else you've created
On the whole, that's amazing work. The only thing that I'd say, seems a little off, is the sequence of protruding boulders in the middle of the cart road in the final scene.
Watching your videos got me back into Skyrim, 12 years after its release. A lot has changed in my life in 12 years, but I feel the same at 23 when I watch your videos and boot up the playstation once more. Thanks mate, you've made this married dad feel like a kid again.
Nice work man, keep them coming! I can't get enough of these skyrim creations of yours. My most favourite is Dawn Star. I would love to see more videos of you walking in these cities too. ❤
It's insane how far graphics have come. I remember having my mind blown when I played PS2 for the first time. The transition from 40 polygons to over 100 was astounding at the time.
personally I could care less about graphics and more about performance. It would never run good at that level of detail and it just blocks off low end gaming setups.
@@spikedpigeon5740 Then play it on lower setting. Wow, you are not very bright are you? You want all games to look bad so you can play them and to hell with the people that actually saved money and bought a good computer.
@@spikedpigeon5740 So are you're trying to tell us that you're sad about your computer sucking or that you prefer retro gaming? How much less could you care exactly?
@@spikedpigeon5740 On console you're absolutely right but on PC UE5 is very much possible to run. It's actually very well optimized for what it brings to the table, one of the biggest steps in modern gaming if you ask me. What constitutes a "low end gaming setup'' in 2023 for you? I'm fairly certain most adult PC gamers have 1070s/1080s and up (I've had my 1080 for nearly 10 years now) and as long as you have an i5/i7 from the past 5 years you're definitely capable of running a UE5 game. With many countries entering the market recently (china, south america, etc.) if we have to wait for everyone to have top gear, technology is gonna stagnate like it did for the past 10+ years.
BEAUTIFUL!! absolutely stunning! there are not enough way i can say how perfect this was. reading all the lore, reading and imagining the size, the visuals of what a true Solitude would look like and this captured it without a doubt perfectly. THIS is the true capital of skyrim right here. now all we need is markarth, morthal, riften, winterhold, windhelm, falkreath and of course high hrothgar / the throat of the world. absolutely beautiful work and never ceases to amaze me just how gorgeous they are.
Any Skyrim movie would pretty much fail. People love Skyrim because of what *they* get to play in it. And with the addition of hundreds of thousands of mods, no one's Skyrim experience is the same as someone else's. If you were to go to a movie and the guy had generic nord metal armor and used shouts to defeat dragons, you'd be asleep in the theater by the second act.
For me it's actually the other way around. This doesn't feel like the game to me. Wouldn't be the same thing. Have the same with Minecraft. I rather play it the way it used to be.
@@marhen4497I agree with you. Seeing these high quality renders kinda disconnects them for Skyrim in my head. Skyrim by my eyes is meant to have those poor graphics (by today's standards) otherwise it's a whole different game. Even those "2000 MODS SKYRIM" don't give me the feeling the original game does.
Back in 2003 people complained about the amount of slow traversing of water you had to do in Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire. How much fun do you think would it be to be handed the Pelagius Hip Bone to then take 1 hour (with enough stamina potions) to make it to the door of the Pelagius wing. You would need instant teleports for everything and at that point not enough people would actually walk around to bother creating that many buildings
This is absolutely incredible. If you are still working on this project please do Riften next! It is my favorite skyrim location!! You are so talented!
You won't. While this art is very well done, you have no characters, animation or AI involved. Spider Man 2 is about the best you can do currently, and the street level NPCs are mostly graphic fill with no true scripting.
One little thing, that doesn't matter much, that i wanted to mention. The mountains to the north-west of solitude, protect it from most precipitation. So a storm like the one shown would be incredibly rare, if almost impossible. It's also why there is little to no snow around large parts of hjaalmarch, haafingar, and the reach. While there's lots of it further east at the same latitude.
Climate I imagine. Though yeah, it doesn't make sense. I think it's probably because Bethesda wanted to have the look of Stormcloaks being in this icy land while the empire sticks to its own warmer territory as a form of metaphor.
I would be totally okay with a different studio doing an more linear elder scrolls story where certain parts of the game takes us to real city’s like this
Now THAT is a capitol! Stunningly good.The birds, waterfalls and the drainage rill down the centre of the street give it scale and bring it alive. Amazing work, man. As you say, it's big for an in-game city, but if it looked like this, I'd play Elder Scrolls VII: Solitude .... release date 2041?))
Just very nice work, a side question , the small flickering in the fabric at 0:07 , any idea how to solve it or smooth ? had some problems like that whit similar dense fence textures 😅
Thanks! And yeah - dunno about that - I actually ended up disabling nanite for that mesh - but still giving me the flickering. Possibly TSR based issue? Super sampling didn't do much to help either... Ended up just letting it go 😅
are the trees tiny or is the landscape big? Given unreal engines landscape performance im curious how you got it to display that much without running in like 10fps lmao
The answer is partly nanite - but also that it was running at about 15fps at 1080p on a 3060ti lol. No free lunch I'm afraid. When they say 'next-gen' they're not kidding...
Bro that's insane, extremely awesome and talented work especially the scene with the birds. If Skyrim looked like this I'd never put the game down lol.
@Bethesda - Please Please Please stop using shitty creation engine and having shitty animations with glitchy combat, and GIT GOOD with UE5. @Leo Torres - HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIII PLEASE SHOW US MORE OF SKYRIM AND MORE of the city of Solitude, and I hope you can do all the other cities, OMG THIS IS AMAZING -
Now, THIS is a real city to encounter and explore in the world! Wish we actually got something like this from Bethesda. Imagine all the interesting people, locations, and quests waiting to be found in a place like this?!
I have been on a gaming depression. I always looked forward to the next console because the next iteration of games were so mind blowing to me that I was so deeply immersed into games. After skyrim, there was nothing else. If the next ES looks like you've done, I will once again be in my happy place :) Leo you are a badass btw
I hope bethesda takes a shot with Elder Scrolls VI and stops their traditional small cities. At least since bg3 it should have become clear that large scale cities filled to the brim with content are absolsutely possible. I'd love to see a humongous map with incredible cities and landscapes like seen here, if they manage to pull of that sense of scale and stick the landing on the gameplay part, basicly making a skyrom that's better in every way, I see myself putting in thousands of hours.
Now this is a re-release of skyrim that I would ACTUALLY buy. something fully realized. Immersive. Beautiful. Holistic. Hell, for a game of this size and quality, I would pay $160 for one copy.
Its kinda funny how I just now started questioning the decision to build so much defensive wall including defensive towers on a cliff that can't be attacked anyway.
Imagine the Real Battle of Solitude, barricades, archers, shields at the ready to block the powerful swings of a nord's axe, gladius swords ready to meet them, war hammers smashing through, a pair of leaders unleashing the power of the voice ripping through the shielded legion forces, their bodies torn asunder or tumbling away into the wall as the flood of blue pours through.
For those asking, the soundtrack is: 'Winds of Winter' - Jo Wandrini.
ArtStation: www.artstation.com/artwork/RyQVrD
You must make lvl design tutorials, not for free of corse. this is brilliant, everything hare is amazing water, Mountains, fog, sun lightning. architecture.
Just here to say this is magnificent, and the shot of Solitude in the rain with the waterfalls is one of the most amazing I've seen. If you ever want to make a walkthrough of the city, it would be spetacular.
My man, you did not have to make me start drooling!
man i would KILL for you to even just make a full render of the true size of skyrim and than even more so i would love if you let some mod team like skyblivion take that and than turn it into a ACTUAL skyrim remastered..... honestly ashes of creation being a mmorpg made in the unreal 5 engine and being a world which will have a total world space of 1200km sq AND 10000 people on a server at once AND all the systems like world bosses, dungeons, world events, seasons, and nodes all taking their piece of performance but still seeming like it running on less buff pcs is still a possibility makes me SO fucking wanna see and playthrough skyrim AS IT SHOULDA BEEN with also maybe even a fun removal of all the bs dragon cult stuff and turning the badass thu' um into just the dragons language with the civil war being the one and only main focus....
What’s the best way to learn how to do what you’re creating here? How did you learn, and do you have recommendations for someone learning?
The funniest part of Skyrim is walking into Solitude and realizing it's just like eight buildings, and 5 people walking around.
Exactly, I mean Solitude is supposed to be the capital but Whiterun is way bigger and more beautiful. Whiterun is the symbol of Skyrim.
Indeed. You can mod the game to look like a 2020 AAA title, but the engine definitely shows its age. Also archaic is the loading screens between "Skyrim" and each location. These limitations are pretty much gone in contemporary engines.
Hence the name, they live in Solitude :)
@@julianfull280
In Switzerland Bern is the offical capital, yet Zürich is bigger.
Like almost every other "city"?
i think i would actually cry if skyrim got remastered like this, its so beautiful
nolvus is pretty damn good
It would put me in a coma and I wouldn't be able to play it!!
Sure. First you would cry at 2fps. Then you'd cry turning in another fetch quest.
id drop 120 for it ps5
Look up Skyrim Ultima. One of the best looking mods I’ve ever seen
I'd pay full price and some change for a Skyrim remaster like that
no this is what the next elder scrolls should look like.
@@teleportingpotatoe Well, we've all seen Starfield...don't get your hopes up xD
keep your eyes peeled for skyblivion, it looks amazing
in 2043?@@Opachki69420
Of course you would, hence why they keep releasing instead of making good games or even finished games
The birds flying under the arch gave me chills. Most amazing work.
Exactly the same thing with me, that was the spot! perfect.
Something straight out of Game of Thrones - just impossibly large medieval fantasy landscapes and structures that took thousands of years to inhabit.
That was the only part that gave the true sense of scale.
yeah, and this is interesting creative angle of bird flight, unlike to any UE5 video that have fetish moment when birds are flying from left to right, like everybody just drag and drop standard asset/preset. And question to UE5 users: where are single and coupled birds flying like real birds above sea or city? Is it too hard to create?
the birds do that too in the real game right?
Superbly done.
Those birds flying under the arch gave it a massive sense of scale - you done this perfectly.
Thank you!
my favorite part! I got chills watching those birds.
@@gremlinchet Thanks!
I got a primal sense of awe in that scene
I agree, until we saw those birds, just could not really judge the scale of what we were seeing.
If your renders and reconstructions of Skyrim cities doesn't convince a studio that a Skyrim movie would actually pop off I don't know what will. This far surpasses gorgeous and just may be the one thing I can truly describe as cinematically perfect.
Just as long as its an original story set in skyrim/tamriel and not another poor adaptation of the game's plot.
@@monkaeyes Honestly, there's so much lore around Skyrim that it shouldn't be hard to do that.
@@samhouston1288 Tell that to the writers of The Witcher tv show.
@@samhouston1288 Modern "writers" don't care about lore. They actively disregard it because they feel it constrains their storytelling ability to crossdress and gender swap.
The first thing I thought was “this looks like a movie” you could definitely blue screen people into that scene... it looks better than most CG for movies tbh. First thing that came to mind was Harry Potter.
That’s what I loved so much about Beauclaire and Novigrad in TW3, those cities felt naturally because they weren’t as drastically scaled down as Skyrim’s city’s
Skyrim was released in 2011. I don't think they had the technology to develop a full city.
Skyrim had more cities though. I wish at least Whiterun was a lot larger.
@@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300the technology was there. Bethesda just makes crappy games. And I don't mean that in the way that probably reads. TES games are legendary and massive games with infinite replayability because of their A-tier exploration and roleplay potential. But they are all objectively crap tier in virtually every other category like graphics, voice acting, writing, performance and stability etc. Bethesda as a developer is very low to middle tier for their size and scope.
@@christianrobloxserver7282 Bro I love Bethesda.
@@ThisChannelIsAbandoned300It was 2011 not 1989
ok this is your best work so far. Everytime solitude is mentioned into any in game books or older game books, its always described as a city rivalising the imperial city in grandeur and size. Amazing work ^^ and now I cant wait to see Windhelm, my favorite city in skyrim ^^
Thank you so much!
Amusingly I think it's The Imperial City that needs an upgrade now.
In Vanilla Skyrim Solitude is actually just the size of a relatively large castle, as fellow TH-camr Shadiversity has pointed out. The capital of Skyrim is...a castle. It's a joke. Now don't tell me it wasn't possible for games to create somewhat believable cities. Ofc they will always be downsized, but they can still feel like cities. Novigrad in the Witcher 3 actually felt like a city.
@@kooroshrostami27 Witcher 3 came out 4 years after Skyrim. And Skyrim was also very rushed just to get to the neat 11/11/11 date.
@@pelinalwhitestrake3367 wow you're right it was released November 11 2011
The waterfalls created by the rain are a seriously amazing detail, and the birds flying under the arch are just phenomenal, now i envisioned the invasion of solitude by the stormcloaks, with battering rams breaching the gates and grappling hooks trying to scale the cliffside and walls 🤤
Thank you so much!
This is such a shame to see because this level of fidelity will NEVER be realized in a Bethesda title. What an excellent presentation of such a stunning location. Bravo!
Thank you!
Just imagine the hardware requirement jump they would have to do this in a game when really nothing is optimized. When optimized it seems to use all the features in UE5 for it to look good requires a 4060 16GB or better. So a mid end card but the part of 16GB is the important part as lots of unoptimized parts take up a lot in VRAM. Lots of UE5 games do not do by hand optimization and use the optimization tool that don't really understand what it does.
@@yumri4 It doesn't even necessarily need to be so high of fidelity. Just the scale in general is something that would enhance the experience ten fold in terms of immersion.
@@yumri4 I figure that you need way more to keep this level of detail on top of endless animations of countless characters (assuming they have they have the same level). This would not be a pre-render, but games need to be rendered on the fly.
The video showcases an environment and that alone needs a beefy PC to make it look like how it does. Also, it's pre-rendered. Add in scripts, NPCs, AI, a multitude of other systems a game like Skyrim is running in the background, all in real time, and you have a mess on your hand. I do wish we could have world spaces like this in games but unless there comes a massive leap in computing power for consumers, I think it's still just wishful thinking.
This could have all the same characters, questlines, story, etc., and I would still play the hell out of it purely because of how damn good it looks. Spectacular work.
Cheers!
you would need fast travel points even from the gate to the shops as it would be too far away to just walk there everytime :)
Even with that graphics, you can't escape "I heard they're reforming the Dawnguard. Vampire hunters or something-"
@@spdzodzonever. Fash travel ruins immersion. And, when the world is that beautiful, I want to forget which world is the real one.
@@spdzodzothats why you have a horse
Solitude is my favorite city in Skyrim. I would try and make it more... lively(?) by decorating the city. Things like bowls with flowers near the graveyard, a kettle with swords in the practice yard for soldiers, a book on a bench, ect.
This vid represents what I want Solitude to look like. I love it.
This is amazing, it actually made me feel a bit emotional. When I was playing Skyrim as a kid in high school, walking into Solitude obviously didn't look like this, but it's what it looked like in my mind. For whatever reason I just can't do that with games anymore, but this just brought back some of that joy.
it only gets worse as you age. it takes a whole goddamn lot to tickle my fancy nowadays. even so called "goty" aren't doing it.
I totally relate to this man :( @@GraveUypo
Life was simple as a kid
The Witcher 3 is good for bringing back the magic … I have recently played both final fantasy 7&9 and got a great feeling of accomplishment from completing them as it really felt like an adventure whilst playing those games. I’m currently playing Disco Elysium and it’s enjoyable so far… I have found the older I get the less I am interested in fast pace shooters and need a more relaxed approach to gaming.
i haven’t played it yet, but i hope baldur’s gate 3 will bring back this feeling for me. none of the modern games feel as magical anymore
If they ever made a movie based in Skyrim I'd like to see Solitude look exactly like this
they forgat the blue palace
Ну да, жди))
Imagine what it smells like.
That's a lot of people, all crammed together in a tight space. A lot of butts producing a lot of poop, and no indoor plumbing.
@@adamb89I- why are you thinking about that?? Lol
@ElmaXC Background in civil engineering. Nobody ever thinks about toilets. I guarantee in the real world, these towns and cities would REEK! I mean in the real world people would shit in a bucket and toss it out the window. Skyrim wouldn't be much different! How many toilets you recall seeing? Any outhouses? None. But buckets to shit in, those are all over even in the game.
"Forgive me. I mistook you for Skyrim."
"I am Skyrim- the Skyrim that should have been."
The way it’s envisioned here with the draping vines and the waterfalls down the rock, the birds flying underneath the natural arch. You took the idea and made a masterpiece.
Thank you!
unfortunately in elder scrolls 6 we'll just get starfield with a fantasy setting
@numberonedad dude the games not out yet
@@FrankWest2006 yes it's a prediction in the future tense buddy lmk if you figure it out
@@numberonedad your from the future then
My PC: "I'm tired, boss."
that's the funny thing about UE5, it is much less demanding than you would expect due to the new technology of processing those polygons
@@Morfalath You're kidding
@@Morfalath what are you smoking bro
True, my gpu worked the hardest ever when playing Hellblade 2 on ultra.
@@Morfalath You're really stretching the use of "less demanding".
Now this is a Capital City worthy of the Cold Kingdom of the North. Excellent work.
This needs to happen. Skyrim on a real scale would be the game of the century. Truly outstanding work!
Agreed
sounds like a job for a 100+ dev team minimum
@@axlfrhalotry 1000+
Yes but… would still prefer elder scrolls 6 or an entire revamp of skyrim with bunch of new DLC for the story
Oh heck yeah.
The water runoff in the rain was great. I’d never thought of how the city would drain itself.
This guy puts in more effort than the whole Bethesda at this point.
REMEMBER THAT THE DEVELOPERS WOULD HAVE TO CODE ALL OF THIS SHIT AND FILL THE CITY WITH A TON OF NPCS.
the game was sold in 2009 and was a project of about 6 years work, following on what was built up from Oblivion and Morrowind before it.
The era came with restraints which limited things. In that era you either had big empty cities which were just essentially scenery, or a small city with more NPCS.
Solitude was bigger in Arena, the original game... But... When you examine THAT game despite it being older, theres more city and less resources dedicated to each used asset in the cities. Arena could afford to be what it was because it was all show and no substances.
One of the issues I have with this video is that Solitude... Looks bigger, but more "empty". A lot of the buildings are so similar that they haven't much uniqueness to them. You cannot tell from the first glance of the aerial shot what building "Sid the Imperial Baker" is living in from "Her Lady Sparsehead the High Elf"'s luxury mansion. They all "look" the same. Whereas in the actual game the lack of buildings means you can easily find locations such as the Bard's guild and even houses.
If I were to go into deeper... Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption has a perfectly good example of the problem with displaying size of cities. Both in Prague and in London you are surrounded by buildings. But. You cannot enter most because their off limits. The original Thief game, you can wonder empty streets and walk past doors to buildings that are just fronts. Even modern games, they have issues like this. Dragon Quest Games, they either have small cities you can enter every building of or big ones that only have a few entered.
Bethesda put a lot of effort into the original Skyrim... BUT... To say its not showing its age is an understatement. I think the only time Besthesda is disappointing with their city building from about that era is Fallout 3 and 4, lots of buildings you can't enter. For example, Concord is full of these buildings you just cannot enter. On the one hand, it does make their worlds larger but having them.
@@fdsaffwegf1892 Actually no. You think when you're playing a game that it has all of the level assets loaded in no matter where you are in the map? Assets and NPCs despawn when you get far enough away that's how it's always been done in games. Even now in the new Wukong game you can see it loading in models and stuff sometimes in the distance. Games don't just load in everything no matter if you can see it or not.
@@JohnDoeWasntTaken OKAY, IT LOOKS LIKE U WOULD LIKE TO RUN FROM 1 PLACE IN THE CITY TO ANOTHER FOR 182918497203891 YEARS BECAUSE THE LOCATION IS JUST TOO HUGE
Absolutely gorgeous. The waterfalls cascading down during the rain was breathtaking. The one thing I would change would be to scale up the Blue Palace, Castle Dour, and the tower outside the main gates so the city has more of the original's skyline. That said, this truly has the scale and majesty that we would expect from a nation's capital city.
Thanks!
I would also add cranes for unloading the ships below
Now this looks like Solitude, the seat of the High Jarl of Skyrim!
It’s wild i just got recommended this video. Just yesterday I learned Skyrim is 1:10 the scale it really is meant to be. Meaning for every building you see in game there would be 10 in real life. For every distance you walk in game, in real life it would be 10x longer. Wild.
It is more than that.
One tenth on each axis. This means the cities are 100 times bigger ! Plus think of all the rural villages and farmland that exists in canon but isn't in the game.
The mountains must also be enormous.
To me this allows to make sense of the ancient crypts for instance, that they would be bigger and lost in some remote location, filled with ferocious undead. Thus why they haven't been sacked and looted by the time we as the dragonborn come around, after they have existed for millenia.
Not so wild à all, the entire world of Skyrim is smaller in game than a little city in real life (approx 10 km)
@@akiraraikuit's not really more than what was said, which is "every distance in- game is 10 times longer in real life." You just rephrased what he said but in terms of area rather than distance.
Truly amazing, we can only hope to replay Skyrim on this scale one day. Would love to see Riften next.
Thanks!
I mean you technically can.....If you're like me who runs like 2500 mods, Its always an experience. One thing i love about modding is that it always enhances your experience week after week. The only is for me just getting them mods to work. Is why i am appreciative of Vortex mod manager
Any mods you would suggest for skyrim vr? For reference i have a rift s, i know i am a boomer, and a 4070@@colonelace2901
Imagine walking to Riften from Solitude. Or even just from Whiterun, as that's where the story puts you first. The run from Riverwood to Whiterun would already take you longer than crossing the entire map as it is now in game. I mean I wouldn't mind it but Skyrim would still be in development if they had scaled it like this.
@@khymaaren nay, with all of their remakes it would have been out by now.
It's said that Winderhold was meant to be on a grand scale like this before the collapse. I like to imagine this is what it was like. Amazing work as always!!
Thank you!
That's what I always wanted to see! The real size is according to the lore and not the game with its limitations.
I hope there will be more videos about other Skyrim cities and provinces.
The waterfalls during the rainfall was a nice bit of attention to detail.
Cheers!
The scale, the detail the whole things composition just out of the world like I was mesmerized by it! One of the best artists out there. Thank you for sharing such a great piece ^^
Cheers!
Meanwhile, Bethesda gives you starfield: black bureaucrats in space
Yet another masterpiece! I'm jealous I don't get to make a character and spend hours exploring this place you made. So cool!
Haha - thanks!
Man!! We really need an epic fantasy movie based in Skyrim. Breathtaking!
Thanks! And yeah! Wouldn't that be something?
God.... let me live long enough.... to see a video game that looks this good while playing it.... a game so wide, open and full of content.... just long enough.
It’s called real life bro
@@masonicperkins
>real life
Immersion ruined
Less than 5 years I guarantee you
act 3 of baldurs gate 3 almost feels like this, it fakes the size of the city really well
Skyblivion dropping next year
Turning a fortress into a walled city, as Solitude is described to be. Nicely done.
Beautiful, the scale of the whole thing is almost frightening. Definitely would love to see how Blackreach and Markarth would look!!!
Thanks! And yeah - Blackreach would be wicked!
If this is how Solitude would look like, imagine Windhelm! This beauty is beyond word.
I'd love to see Morrowind landscapes like this.
Vivec city would be awesome
@@nathanielpitts2788 It needs to be done now. Bonus points if it's ALL of Vvardenfel
@@nathanielpitts2788sotha sils city too
Indeed, the swamps would be alive with life. You'd hear buzzing and birds and all types of strange sounds not allowed with Bethesda's engine. With UnReal animals would grow silent when you approached them, but in the distance, you be hearing life being what it is, life.
just play tamriel rebuilt
If I didn't know the subject matter, I would have thought this to be a real place. Uncanny quality and vision, unreal realism.
If this is what Skyrim could look like, I’d never leave my chair
a truly masterpiece, makes me want a live action series of the elder scrolls
as someone who started a recent playthrough and rediscovering the wonders of this game, it definitely hits different than when you’re a kid how small everything actually is. i was always disappointed going to these main holds with impressive aesthetics and realising just how small they really were. i understand they only added the amount of buildings you actually need to go in for merchants and places for quests, but god i always wish of what it could have been. and THIS is what it could have been. such impressive videos, looking forward to the next!
Mouth dropping video this one, never have i been so filled with nostalgia and hope for the future of Elder Scrolls. Giving myself the same feeling as my younger self had a long time ago.
Alot of this looked real. I can't imagine how cool a skyrim remake in UE5 would be
Slow down bro, we need to see even one actual game using UE5 first. This thing has been vaporware for most of my natural life 🤣
@@MiltonRoe..everyone wants their game ran through it..i want DayZ
mgs3 remake looking good on UE5.. @@MiltonRoe
@@atrocious_pr0xy this is the correct response to this video. well done
It wouldn't be this enormous, I can basically promise that. Once you have to make NPCs who live in those houses, each with their own personalities and stories, their own faces, outfits, relationships, inventories, many with quests that interweave with other NPCs and places, daily schedules for each and every one of them, complete house interiors detailed down to the nick-knacks in their cupboards, keep it playable at a good framerate, and then do the entire rest of the game at that level, too... It just becomes impractical. About the only way to do it would be to have most of it AI auto-generated, and then we get into debates about how much of our games do we want to just be AI-automated or procedurally generated just to have more stuff, vs. pairing it down so it can be hand-made and help ensure everything that's there is meaningful.
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I love these videos, but I'm concerned that they'll set unrealistic (heh) expectations for the next TES game, because people don't understand the difference between a visual art piece and a complete, playable game.
Amazing!
Thanks so much!
The birds flying under the arch is pure art. Holy snap that was a great shot but also my goodness this whole environment and cinematic was gorgeous.
Thank you!
This is absolutely amazing.
I've always entertained the thought of a real scale skyrim, even though that'd be near impossible to make in a game. This is the closest I've ever seen and mayne ever will see. And it looks beautiful.
Thank you!
World of TES:Daggerfall was orders of magnitude bigger. Graphics is a little bit outdated, though.
TES V is about 5000 times smaller than TES II, when really the territories are about the same size.
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This video caused such an emotional reaction in me that i didnt see coming. My dad was a big fan of the elder scrolls games. Showed me everything sbout oblivion and helped me make choices that fit "my character" and the like. Was very much into history and the (at the time) unconfirmed viking history his family had. He wanted to see a game set in Skyrim or Hammerfell. Unfortunately he took his life in 2010 but when Skyrim first got announced in December 2010 i immediately ran and grabbed the phone to call and tell him about it, my excitement making me forget he wouldn't answer until I heard the voicemail
Every time I play this game now, i feel like I've got him next to me and now its me explaining all sorts of tips and tricks. This video made me feel like i played skyrim for the first time all thise yesrs ago. So much nostalgia and pleasant memories I've now revisited. The timing is perfect as this past week has been incredibly trying for me mentally and emotionally.
Thank you for this. I think I'll poke around sround to see what else you've created
On the whole, that's amazing work. The only thing that I'd say, seems a little off, is the sequence of protruding boulders in the middle of the cart road in the final scene.
Watching your videos got me back into Skyrim, 12 years after its release. A lot has changed in my life in 12 years, but I feel the same at 23 when I watch your videos and boot up the playstation once more. Thanks mate, you've made this married dad feel like a kid again.
Life goes by fast doesn't it?
I shed a tear when I saw this, oh the memories - very good recreation of one of the most iconic skyrim cities!
Cheers!
It's never too late to play skyrim again
I was waiting inline at my game store on 11/11/11 for this game, seeing this is something brand new. You've my undying gratitude.
Nice work man, keep them coming! I can't get enough of these skyrim creations of yours. My most favourite is Dawn Star. I would love to see more videos of you walking in these cities too. ❤
Thanks!
It's insane how far graphics have come. I remember having my mind blown when I played PS2 for the first time. The transition from 40 polygons to over 100 was astounding at the time.
For the love of God someone remake Skyrim in Unreal5. THIS is the hero the world needs.
Imagine if Bethesda had the ambition to do even a fraction of this.
personally I could care less about graphics and more about performance. It would never run good at that level of detail and it just blocks off low end gaming setups.
@@spikedpigeon5740 Then play it on lower setting. Wow, you are not very bright are you? You want all games to look bad so you can play them and to hell with the people that actually saved money and bought a good computer.
@@spikedpigeon5740 So are you're trying to tell us that you're sad about your computer sucking or that you prefer retro gaming? How much less could you care exactly?
@@spikedpigeon5740 On console you're absolutely right but on PC UE5 is very much possible to run. It's actually very well optimized for what it brings to the table, one of the biggest steps in modern gaming if you ask me. What constitutes a "low end gaming setup'' in 2023 for you? I'm fairly certain most adult PC gamers have 1070s/1080s and up (I've had my 1080 for nearly 10 years now) and as long as you have an i5/i7 from the past 5 years you're definitely capable of running a UE5 game. With many countries entering the market recently (china, south america, etc.) if we have to wait for everyone to have top gear, technology is gonna stagnate like it did for the past 10+ years.
@@monalisa5390 I spent $1300 on my PC a couple years ago, and I have no intentions of spending more on it. Maybe get some bitches loser.
BEAUTIFUL!! absolutely stunning! there are not enough way i can say how perfect this was. reading all the lore, reading and imagining the size, the visuals of what a true Solitude would look like and this captured it without a doubt perfectly. THIS is the true capital of skyrim right here. now all we need is markarth, morthal, riften, winterhold, windhelm, falkreath and of course high hrothgar / the throat of the world. absolutely beautiful work and never ceases to amaze me just how gorgeous they are.
Elder scrolls 6 really needs BIG cities like this and not just 5-7 buildings in a walled in area
This would make the perfect beginning of an Elder Scrolls movie!
Amazing work, absolutely stunning!
Thanks!
Todd would have hundreds of lies for PR from the trailer alone 😂
Any Skyrim movie would pretty much fail.
People love Skyrim because of what *they* get to play in it. And with the addition of hundreds of thousands of mods, no one's Skyrim experience is the same as someone else's.
If you were to go to a movie and the guy had generic nord metal armor and used shouts to defeat dragons, you'd be asleep in the theater by the second act.
I can imagine how much time this had to have taken. Absolutely beautiful.
I would pay a lot of money if this was a playable re-remastered version❤
These videos kinda ruin Skyrim for me, it's so difficult to go back to these locations in-game!
So true, these renders are awesome and them you go in game and they look like play dough compared to these
For me it's actually the other way around. This doesn't feel like the game to me. Wouldn't be the same thing. Have the same with Minecraft. I rather play it the way it used to be.
@@marhen4497I agree with you. Seeing these high quality renders kinda disconnects them for Skyrim in my head.
Skyrim by my eyes is meant to have those poor graphics (by today's standards) otherwise it's a whole different game.
Even those "2000 MODS SKYRIM" don't give me the feeling the original game does.
There's also the populations within Skyrim's towns. As good as this looks, Solitude and especially Whiterun seem way too big.
They’re lore accurate tho
Amazing work as usual Leo, can't wait to see more from this series!
Thanks!
if only they did a remaster where the size of skyrim was lore accurate
Skyrim logic:
5 buildings = town
10 buildings = city
Back in 2003 people complained about the amount of slow traversing of water you had to do in Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire.
How much fun do you think would it be to be handed the Pelagius Hip Bone to then take 1 hour (with enough stamina potions) to make it to the door of the Pelagius wing.
You would need instant teleports for everything and at that point not enough people would actually walk around to bother creating that many buildings
This is why the creation engine needs sequel, not an update
This is absolutely incredible. If you are still working on this project please do Riften next! It is my favorite skyrim location!! You are so talented!
Thank you! Working on Riften at the moment!
This is exactly how I imagined the city. I just hope we'll see sizes like these in TES VI (or at least Novigrad size).
My god, this is breathtaking
Thank you!
You won't. While this art is very well done, you have no characters, animation or AI involved. Spider Man 2 is about the best you can do currently, and the street level NPCs are mostly graphic fill with no true scripting.
@@mikew466 that's why I referenced Novigrad from The Witcher 3. If we get sizes like that, it will FEEL realistic, while still being very playable.
Oh absolutely. There is no excuse not to have at least one major city the size of the one's Assassin's Creed or Witcher put out.
@@mikew466Of course there is an excuse. The continued use of the Creation Engine.
"I wish they did this" now imagine walking an hour to get across the city
One little thing, that doesn't matter much, that i wanted to mention.
The mountains to the north-west of solitude, protect it from most precipitation. So a storm like the one shown would be incredibly rare, if almost impossible.
It's also why there is little to no snow around large parts of hjaalmarch, haafingar, and the reach. While there's lots of it further east at the same latitude.
Climate I imagine. Though yeah, it doesn't make sense.
I think it's probably because Bethesda wanted to have the look of Stormcloaks being in this icy land while the empire sticks to its own warmer territory as a form of metaphor.
Explanation: the Dragonborn used the storm call shout lol
I would be totally okay with a different studio doing an more linear elder scrolls story where certain parts of the game takes us to real city’s like this
No way is that you!! I love your videos and never knew you were a skyrim fan!
Now THAT is a capitol! Stunningly good.The birds, waterfalls and the drainage rill down the centre of the street give it scale and bring it alive.
Amazing work, man.
As you say, it's big for an in-game city, but if it looked like this, I'd play Elder Scrolls VII: Solitude .... release date 2041?))
The realism is off the chart. Feel like a movie.🎉
Just very nice work, a side question , the small flickering in the fabric at 0:07 , any idea how to solve it or smooth ? had some problems like that whit similar dense fence textures 😅
Thanks! And yeah - dunno about that - I actually ended up disabling nanite for that mesh - but still giving me the flickering. Possibly TSR based issue? Super sampling didn't do much to help either... Ended up just letting it go 😅
@@lion_towers3dusually it's the framerate
Sheeesh, those birds flying under the arch indicates just how massive the Arch is.
We'll never get a Bethesda game anywhere near this fidelity, but it's fun to imagine.
are the trees tiny or is the landscape big? Given unreal engines landscape performance im curious how you got it to display that much without running in like 10fps lmao
The answer is partly nanite - but also that it was running at about 15fps at 1080p on a 3060ti lol. No free lunch I'm afraid. When they say 'next-gen' they're not kidding...
Bro that's insane, extremely awesome and talented work especially the scene with the birds. If Skyrim looked like this I'd never put the game down lol.
Thank you!
Me after nodding my game for 72 hours just to log on and go. Ahh, nice. And log out to never play for another 2 years.
@Bethesda - Please Please Please stop using shitty creation engine and having shitty animations with glitchy combat, and GIT GOOD with UE5.
@Leo Torres - HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIII PLEASE SHOW US MORE OF SKYRIM AND MORE of the city of Solitude, and I hope you can do all the other cities, OMG THIS IS AMAZING -
now thats what im talking about. A real capital city of an entire province, and not just those 8 houses they made in the game
Now, THIS is a real city to encounter and explore in the world! Wish we actually got something like this from Bethesda. Imagine all the interesting people, locations, and quests waiting to be found in a place like this?!
I would love to see your interpretation of Morthal or Markarth! Both are very unique
I have been on a gaming depression. I always looked forward to the next console because the next iteration of games were so mind blowing to me that I was so deeply immersed into games. After skyrim, there was nothing else. If the next ES looks like you've done, I will once again be in my happy place :)
Leo you are a badass btw
This is exactly how we remember it looking 😭
How it looked in our hearts!
I hope bethesda takes a shot with Elder Scrolls VI and stops their traditional small cities. At least since bg3 it should have become clear that large scale cities filled to the brim with content are absolsutely possible. I'd love to see a humongous map with incredible cities and landscapes like seen here, if they manage to pull of that sense of scale and stick the landing on the gameplay part, basicly making a skyrom that's better in every way, I see myself putting in thousands of hours.
Jow. That's one big ass city. I would love that scale to be in skyrim.
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Great, but it really lacks people.
I don't know if anyone else got the same feelings, but it's look like Skyrim is a game who will never die.
Now this is a re-release of skyrim that I would ACTUALLY buy. something fully realized. Immersive. Beautiful. Holistic.
Hell, for a game of this size and quality, I would pay $160 for one copy.
I don't need elder scrolls 6. Just give me this. 😢
Crazy to think it's gonna take Bethesda another 3 years and 100 million dollars to get TES6 half as far as this...if we're lucky.
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If I were billionaire I would spend all the money for a remaster of Skyrim in this style.
Its kinda funny how I just now started questioning the decision to build so much defensive wall including defensive towers on a cliff that can't be attacked anyway.
Possibly Dragon but also a show of Power even city like Bromjunaar had massive wall fortification while being build at the top of a mountain
I would definitely pay the 60 bucks if we get a Skyrim at realistic scale like this, it's something that I always wanted: Real scale games
That's incredible. I still can't believe, with all the tech advancements we have with game engines, IA, graphics and so on that we got Starfield.
Imagine the Real Battle of Solitude, barricades, archers, shields at the ready to block the powerful swings of a nord's axe, gladius swords ready to meet them, war hammers smashing through, a pair of leaders unleashing the power of the voice ripping through the shielded legion forces, their bodies torn asunder or tumbling away into the wall as the flood of blue pours through.
I would quit my job and go on unemployment to play the game at this level of visual and scale. Amazing work