Curse you Bethesda and no book stores ! Please add them in D : V - Skyrim

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:03 am

I find the lack of book shops quite fitting. If they were to add one it should be in Solitude as it feels like the only remotely plausible location, and you should have to do a few quests for the owner first as business would be so terrible.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:34 am

What's a milkdrinker like you doing out here? Go home to your mother! :tongue:

And WATER?! You want to poison me?!

Anyway, they probably use all the milk to make cheese, seeing how much cheese there is ...
And I agree on a bookshop not fitting in Skyrim. We have a big one in the College, and that should be enough. Nords aren't known for being bookworms, if they're indeed even literate.

May I direct you to this link?

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Nords_of_Skyrim

Nords can be both literate and articulated. Imagine that! I agree that there should have been at least one bookstore in the game. Solitude offers the perfect setting for one, given that the city is supposedly the seat of Imperial power within the providence.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:24 am

illetracy is rampent in skyrum

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:14 am

The cities in Skyrim feel so functionally "Cookie-Cutter" because a lack of a legitimate market within them.

Take Balmora from Morrowind, having 3 General Stores, 2 general smiths, A bookseller, an alchemist, a tailor, Two inns/cornerclubs. This doesn't even factor in Guild merchants.
Even Oblivion's Imperial City was believable in that sense.

Compared to Whiterun? 1.5 Inns, 2smiths, 1 general store, 1 alchemist, and a handfull of market stalls. And this is supposed to be the Central "Trading hub" of the province.

I'm not saying Skyrim's cities couldn't have been made better, but it's not as bad as you're making it out to be.

As for comparisons to Morrowind, lets just be real here. Morrowinds cities had different varieties of buildings, but within each town almost all the buildings looked exactly the same from the exterior. Add in generally cookie cutter interior designs and NPCs that generally stood in one place, had no voiced dialogue, and could be given the same text dialogue as every generic NPC in the gameworld. Morroewinds towns were great for their time, but I don't think it's hard to see why it wasn't as practical to put 2-3 of every type of shop in every town in Skyrim like it was in Morrowind.

I agree that the Imperial city itself was larger and offered more variety than any city in Skyrim, but that makes alot of sense considering it's the capital of the Empire, while Skyrim is a less populated province of people who like to make a living for themselves in their rough surroundings rather than trying to form international trading hubs in their cities.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:05 am

I find the lack of book shops quite fitting. If they were to add one it should be in Solitude as it feels like the only remotely plausible location, and you should have to do a few quests for the owner first as business would be so terrible.

Nords can be both literate and articulated. Imagine that! I agree that there should have been at least one bookstore in the game. Solitude offers the perfect setting for one, given that the city is supposedly the seat of Imperial power within the providence.

No one have said that nords "can't be literate" of course - 'cause it will be only a poor generalization.

And if i have to choose i largely prefer more populated "cities" or more inns/blacksmiths to a book shop considered that you can find anyway and everywhere books in the game.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:11 am

This topic has just reminded me of how much I actually miss them. I suppose there is the Orc in the college of Winterhold, but they really should have included book stores.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:06 pm

Yes, bring back bookstores. Also, give me more bookshelves!

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:45 pm

Nords aren't exactly the most scholarly people. Besides plenty of normal sellers do sell books.