Mountains also do nothing for "boundries" in the TES series. You have the freedom to traverse mountains and reach the top of all of them as well as go down the other side.

Even if skyrim was completely encircled the nature of the game would render them useless in this regard.

Yes because we all know that Skyim is completely surrounded by cliff faces with no way out.

-Mr. Maric

There is a visible wall in Skyrim. It's called the map?

No, that would be an immersion breaker. It would have to be fire because obviously lasers haven't been invented.

Like what? I'm sure bethesda discussed this very topic for hours so if you have a better idea they'd probably like to hear it and so would I.

Skyrim isn't floating in mid air. Mountains are useless due to the free roam nature of the game, they don't actually provide much in the way of blocking the player since you can travel over all of them.

You can't just have some over powered creature come in and kill the player because that would be stupid and not fun.
Skyrim is part of a world geography so you can't just have repeating land textures for infinity otherwise it wouldn't make sense. If you know the geography of tamriel then it would be strange that You are clearly far into cyrodill yet...there is nothing there?

This is literally the only way to do it. A little text message is the most immersful way out of all of them. A creature would be completely immersion breaking and so would the travel forever approach with repeating textures.

Just give me a little message in the game that says "turn back" or something.

Let the trolling commence

I'd better go and cancel my preorder before the shops close!

No one here is even trolling lol.

Do you even know what trolling is?

I would have preferred Daggerfall-esque randomly generated terrain than invisible walls, myself.

Well I bought the game already so I am stuck with invisible walls and RPG fans on the bus will laugh at me daily as I go to work!

A massive shark would have been cool, yeah. Shame

I was wondering whether you could see the Imperial City from the Pale Pass

I have no problem with invisible walls on the edge of the map. I DO have problems with invisible walls on mountain sides that I SHOULD be able to climb. Don't know if Morrowind had them, but Oblivion did. They are the work of pure evil.

I once swam for like 2 hours south of Vvardenfell trying to reach the mainland. I held the W key down and left the house, ran errands, watched a movie, etc. When I came back I was miled off the shore but still over empty water.

There was supposed to be a mainland. Immersion breaking?

Invisible walls aren't that bad. Stop nitpicking everything and get over it. There's a level of immersion, sure, but this is also a video game, and we know it's in Skyrim. We know we can't leave to other provinces because they haven't been created. What do you expect?

There are only a couple of mountain passes that lead out of the province.
The passes can be locked down in a realistic way, but they still need to prevent you from glitching over the mountain ranges. And IMO they rather use collision boxes (aka invisible walls) than steep landscape-rises with ridiculously streched textures.

So what? We already expected that, did we not? How else would you do it.

Cant say I'm disappointed. If the whole map were literally surrounded by mountains I'd think it to be pretty ridiculous, as well as having the feeling of being in a bowl. I prefer invisible walls over something killing me/attacking me the second I go past a certain point.

its the best option really; a lot of awesome mods use the out-of-bounds areas, so it wouldnt do well to put mountains and cliffs everywhere to prevent us from getting there; it also wouldnt make any geographical sense. a simple, easily disabled invisible wall is the best option.

not that they couldnt have done something more immersive; im a big fan of the "quarantine" explanation... you know, the "if you go too far artillery or zombie hordes will instantly murder you" way of doing things. its always fun to see how long you can dodge the insta-kill and get as far as you can out of bounds... you know youre not supposed to be there anyway, so whats the harm in letting determined players run off the game space and fall forever? skyrim could have an invincible super-dragon attack you if you wander off too far. or given the situation, they could have made skyrim under martial law and have soldiers spawn and kill you (or just shoo you back).

there really is no excuse for not giving a better text explanation than "you cant go that way" though. why not "you see dragons in the distance; too many to handle. you should turn back." or "skyrim is under martial law, you cannot leave."? can the text be modded? i hope so.

I would have thought with the amount of work they must have put into the map, that the edges would at the very minimum, be disguised by unpassable mountains, rivers or a something along those lines. But to just have a glass wall seems a little unfinished to me, considering how great the game really looks on the PC.

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Mountains can be designed so the player can never get over them. I would of preferred and expected something a little better than invisible walls. To accept that invisible walls is the only viable option is lazy game design.

I was really looking forward to playing this game until I heard this SHOCKING news.

The 100's of hours of game play, new crafting systems, streamlined leveling system, better combat, amazing graphics, amazing sound and everything else that has been put into this game is sadly all for nothing because of these horrible invisible walls.

Regardless i still cant wait to cop this game, transisting from the fallout series to the elder scrolls here, peace.

Come to think about it, i cant even remember what the case was with Fallout in this aspect, my memorys a tad fuzzy at the moment.

P.S a simple message like one said above would be fine "Your instinct warns you not to leave skyrim" or some thing along them lines.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/File:Skyrim_map_Oblivion.jpg

It would have been cool if there were tall walls like on the US/Mexico border.

Geez, a fence would be nice..... personally I can't stand invisible walls.