There is not that very much snow in Skyrim is there?

Post » Sat Dec 22, 2012 2:16 pm

This is a minor thing really but I feel the need to express my thoughts.

I walk around in Skyrim and I notice that I don't even know if half of Skyrim is snow covered. I mean It would be boring if every inch of land was covered in snow and ice for reasons like players want a varied climate and different biomes. I understand that but does it really make sense that county Bruma was covered in snow but Flakreath hold and the Rift was not?
I'm just trying to with logic here, quite new to it though.

A lot of the Skyrims culture and geography is inspired by old Norse culture and Scandinavia(among others). I live in northern Sweden and heck, right now I could jump out my window landing in 2 meters deep snow. I know Skyrim is not Scandinavia... it's just "here it is the ice age, but there is a nice pine forest with no snow what so ever." :/

Meh... I am not that bothered with it actually. Any thought from you guys/girls? How much snow do you got were you live right now?
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Anthony Rand
 
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Post » Sat Dec 22, 2012 12:20 pm

The road from Whiterun to Dawnstar is very awkward, grass to snow in a second. Strange how some parts have snow and other don't.
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Post » Sat Dec 22, 2012 3:40 am

I haven't played many snowy games (I recently bought Assassin's creed 3 and I've seen snow pictures from that one) but yeah, I expected more persistent snow in Skyrim, snow that accumulates visibly in time and somehow makes the character move slower when it's thick, show footprints... avalanches...it's weird to have a frozen land of the North and the cold that everybody and their mother talk about has zero gameplay impact. I don't know what they meant by "dynamic snow", but all I see is a flat white texture painted on the ground that could be re-painted in orange and pretend it's Elsweyr.
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