The Imperial City should've been as big as Rome in AC Brotherhood
Oblivion and Skyrim, I think it's Imperial City>Soliltude>Whiterun>Skingrad>ect

Best Skyrim joke ever.

LOL

its funny how solitude is supposed to be the capital when its at the north western corner of the province, shouldnt the capital be at the middle of everything?

Like how Washington DC is in the middle of USA? Very few capitals are in the middle of their country.

The big cities in Skyrim are ALL smaller than ANY city in Oblivion in terms of housing count, but slightly higher in NPC count. However there are still less NPCs in Skyrim than Oblivion because there are only 5 of these major cities instead of 8 (one being about 4 times the size of any of the others), and the other "cities" have about 10 buildings and 15-20 NPCs. All the major cities in Skyrim have almost exactly the same number of buildings, about 20 including stables but not nearby farms. With the same standards, the average OB city has about 24, with the IC having about 100. The towns (any village/town that is not a hold capital) in Skyrim and Oblivion both have an average number of 4 buildings, but Oblivion has 10, while Skyrim has 6, not including the destroyed Helgen. Still, neither of these compare to Morrowind which has infinitely more buildings, settlements and NPCs.

Haha I found that quite funny.

But Solitude, Markarth and Windhelm are the biggest "cities" in Skyrim.

According to the UESP wiki, Skyrim has more named NPCs (1016) than Oblivion (855). Unnamed NPC's such as guards and soldiers, aren't counted. Morrowind's total (2675) is vastly skewed due to the large number of named enemies, rather than generic ones like Bandit or Necromancer, which arent counted in Oblivion's or Skyrim's numbers.

Interesting. I guess I will take back my statement on Skyrim having fewer NPCs than Oblivion then, I counted that myself based on the NPCs page which had them listed by settlement, and this was before the demographics for Skyrim were released. I got about 600. I'm not sure where they found they other 400 NPCs though.

I don't really mind

All elder scrolls games are scaled down, not just due to engine limitations but due to the free form nature of the game. A game like Dragon Age or Baldurs Gate can show you only one part of a city with all the residential and industrial areas being inaccessable. But in free roaming games they have to scale down the cities greatly so that you won't have to wade through blocks and blocks of homes, restaurants, candle stores, wheel makers, thatchers, etc.

I miss being able to ask people about what their job as a "commoner" consisted of, haha.

Though there are about 20 people living in each city.

There are more than 20 people per city.

Then again so is Whiterun, Winterhold may have been the capital once, Riften at least once during it's history tried to have the honor. Falkreath has been the capital as well. I'm not sure about the rest, but at one point or another each of the "mayor" nine cities likely held the "honor".

Solitude is the only city that seems comprable to Oblivions cities in terms of size and scale... which is fitting for the area... most of the towns and cities are not all that dis-similar to Bruma, although I think Riftin should be bigger... not necessarily of scale, but of area... and Windhelm... yeah that just feels too crampt and poorly designed.

On a side note it seems like every thing is smaller in scale in Skyrim, architeturly speaking anyway.

I have to disagree. Cities in Oblivion varied also in their presentation. Eg. Leyawiin, Skingrad or Bravil. They looked different and were influenced by the local region.

Althought i agree to call skyrim′s villages cities or main towns is crazy, it wouldn′t be better if there were bigger cities but not more inhabitants like it is in Oblivion′s Imperial City

Its a bit like medieval Norway, a land of small towns and no cities.

This post relates to my previous post and the post it was in reply to. I'm still not sure where about 400 of the NPCs on the total Skyrim population count on UESP come from. The 9 hold capitals (which appear to make up the vast majority of the people in the game) amount to 483 named NPCs. That's less than half the supposed total. Nonetheless, I counted (using the bar graph, no specific numbers available for Morrowind) the NPCs in only the 5 most populous cities, Vivec, Ald'Ruhn, Balmora, Sadrith Mora and Ebonheart, and got roughly 715. There are an additional 22 settlements I haven't counted, which have anything from about 5 to 65 NPCs each.

Cities have been small in all games past Daggerfall, even Morrowind's cities were really tiny - aside from vivec, where were the other "large" cities? Ald-Ruhn was small, Sadrith Mora was pathetic, Tel Vos tiny, Balmora had only 2 real districts and Mournhold was laughable as a capital.

Hell, the only reason vivec was at all large was because it was 90% interior and built on water so it wouldn't get in the way too much, and even then the interiors were heavily copy-paste.

Oblivion wasn't much better either. The IC was one of the lamest excuses for a capital of an empire ever, it hardly qualified as a village.

The only TES games with decent sized cities were Arena and Daggerfall, which did it by making them all very generic and randomly generated (once).

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o190/jmoxon/mediavel%20oslo/oslo_1300.jpg Recreation of medieval Oslo, circa 1300.

Give em a freaking break lol. The axe swingin, mead drinking, dragon punching , barbarians do their best to be civilized lol. Cyrodil was a huge metropolitan citty. Cyrodil was full of educated rich guys. Like priests, mages, merchants and the politically influencial.

The nords dont like books or magick. Which might explain why skyrims civil establishment isnt as strong as tamriels.lol.

I like the size of the cities, it's easy to find everything in every city. Like if I want to find a blacksmith, an inn, or a merchant I know where to go and don't really get lost. You don't really spend that much time in the cities when you're doing quests and whenever I personally go into the cities its either to enchant something, sell something, or smith something so It's convienient having everthing right there and easy to find. If I'm exploring I'm exploring outside of the cities.

Also I don't want to see what the lag would be like in a huge city in skyrim.

After seeing Hatmandor and Cheznaddar in Two Worlds 2, I think Bethesda should have tried a little harder with towns.

I guess you mean Balmora.

That's because Skyrim introduced families and clans, whereas in Oblivion it was either one or two people living in a house.