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

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:53 am

so I've found about 3-4 book series in game and I cant find the next books any where .-. I wish there was a book store in game where you could order books from them and have them stock like 3 weeks later or something or have the stock refresh every 24-48 hours .. why did beth decide against book stores in Skyrim ?

is there any 100% all the time gonna be there copy of the Argonian Account book 4 some where

i have book 2 and books 1 and 3 ive found across 3 different characters in the same book shelf at the College of Winterhold

id also liek to know if there any 100% placed locations for the Palla series and Mystery of Talara and teh black arrow

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:18 am

yes I loved the bookstores in Morrowind especially the one in Vivec each time the owner goes downstairs another 10 books go into the bag haha

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:33 am

There is just one NPC that sells books, and he's in the College of Winterhold library. This game severely lacks stores.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:48 pm

There is just one NPC that sells books, and he's in the College of Winterhold library. This game severely lacks stores.

its not lacking in stores just books stores

you got your bar/tavern your meat stall and your vegteble stall your jewlerry seller your smith and general good seller and alchemist all it needs is a book store (like in Whiterun did you know theres 3 smith that sell you stuff and two of them work at the same building and have diffrent inventories .-.)

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:37 am

Maybe the Nords are not the best bookworms, they prefer liquor :hehe:

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:46 pm

When I had visited all the cities and realized that there were no bookstores, I was shocked. I don't remember about Arena, but bookstores have been in at least since Daggerfall, and have always been one of my favorite types of stores.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:28 pm

Maybe the Nords are not the best bookworms, they prefer liquor :hehe:

Probably the best exlanation. They're not much for reading.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:10 am

There seems to have been many choices or deletions made from the last few Elder Scrolls games for culture reasons. I conjecture that it brings the differences in the Empire and the Nord culture into starker contrast to set up a more believeable civil war senario. If Skyrim cities looked like Imperial city with all the same shops we would be asking what the culture differences is are, no?

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:54 am

Exactly.

I suppose is a strict choice of Bethesda to leave out the book stores from the game.

They're misplaced - to say the least- in the nord settlement.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:37 am

Exactly.

I suppose is a strict choice of Bethesda to leave out the book stores from the game.

They're misplaced - to say the least- in the nord settlement.

There are enough books in Skyrim to make the lack of bookstores misplaced.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:39 am

So..there are cows in Skyrim..why we can't have some milk to drink ? :dry:

or better, WATER at least,well..no one is abstemious in the nord perhaps :biggrin:

You've to deal with such inconsistencies i'm afraid...

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:55 am

A true nord would rather use heavy tomes as improvised blunt weapons than for wasting hours reading

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:47 pm

Thank Talos we still have Magic at least :biggrin:

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:39 pm

So..there are cows in Skyrim..why we can't have some milk to drink ? :dry:

or better, WATER at least,well..no one is abstemious in the nord perhaps

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.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:41 am

All the book stores closed down because of the kindles :tongue:

just like in real life.
I honestly don't know of a book store that still exists within a 50 mile radius of where I live.
It really svcks :wallbash:

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:16 am

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.

This.

It was clearly a design decision, since they included open-air markets, and every other shop type from prior games.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:32 pm

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.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:48 pm

Well look at the positive side..at least we have farms and mills near the "big cities" :biggrin:

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:24 am

I like reading in-game books and lack of book stores/libraries/archives kinda bothered me, too. D:

I know there's one in the Collage of Winterhold but I don't really like the Collage so..
I'm trying to gather books and make my own library, lol.

Though, I also understand that the Nords are not bookworms..

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:34 am

So..there are cows in Skyrim..why we can't have some milk to drink ? :dry:

or better, WATER at least,well..no one is abstemious in the nord perhaps :biggrin:

You've to deal with such inconsistencies i'm afraid...

Nah, I've got mods that add both bookstores and milk.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:37 pm

I was talking about the vanilla Skyrim of course -and the developer's choices in that regard.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:14 am

Well isn't there a severely low number of new books introduced in Skyrim as well? I can only name maybe ~11 new books off the top of my head.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:41 am

And I know not all books from former games made it in.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:11 am

I'd like to not have to go to the College just to buy some books too. A book store or two wouldn't hurt. At least the books are everywhere, just gotta find which dungeon/camp/ruin there in. I'm sure you could find them if you really wanted to look for them.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:44 pm

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.

Exactly what I felt. Whiterun is supposed to be this major trading city or something like that... but almost no trading takes place there at all... :wallbash: