Game News Skyrim Pre-orders to Come With a Map

[Jaesun]

Tags: Bethesda Softworks; Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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<p>Bethesda Softworks <a href="http://bethblog.com/index.php/2011/06/23/get-a-premium-skyrim-map-with-your-preorder/">announced today</a> that preorders of Skyrim will now come with a map:</p>
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<p>Get a premium Skyrim map with your preorder</p>
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<p>Making real maps of our fantasy worlds is an Elder Scrolls tradition. As Todd Howard said all the way back in a Morrowind blog post, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s something about having a physical object in your hands that feels like it&rsquo;s part of this other world, that you are that person in the game, finding your way among the hills.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>With that in mind, today we are announcing that anyone who preorders Skyrim will automatically receive a premium quality world map with their copy as a no-extra-cost-to-you bonus.</p>
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<p>To guarantee your copy of your premium quality world map, please pre-order today.</p>
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<p>With in-game quest compass, are world maps needed anymore? Is this the incline of cRPG Gaming? What physical &ldquo;object&rdquo; does Todd Howard really have in is hand?</p>
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<p><em>Update: Had plenty of questions about the map. The map is a high-grade material that has a feel similar to burlap, and will be available in North America and Europe. There will be a regular paper map included in all copies of the game, but if you want to get the premium map, we recommend pre-ordering the game.</em></p>
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<p>Spotted at: <a href="http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/103614-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-pre-orders-to-come-with-a-map.html">GameBanshee</a></p>

 

[SuicideBunny]

meh. i bet it's not even a cloth map.

 

[thursdayschild]

But no quest compass

 

[Deleted member 7219]

meh. i bet it's not even a cloth map.

What the fuck is this obsession gamers have with cloth maps? What the fuck use is a map made of cloth?

 

[Reptilian Shapeshifter]

meh. i bet it's not even a cloth map.

What the fuck is this obsession gamers have with cloth maps? What the fuck use is a map made of cloth?

I doubles as a drool bib or cumsock for the Bethtards.

 

[Jaesun]

But no quest compass

But the quest compass is FREE Bryce. Even if you do not preorder.

That's how awesome Bethesda Softworks™ is!

I doubles as a drool bib or cumsock for the Bethtards.

 

[mindx2]

meh. i bet it's not even a cloth map.

What the fuck is this obsession gamers have with cloth maps? What the fuck use is a map made of cloth?

One thing is they last longer. Paper maps almost always tear at the seams while my Ultima maps still look like they were made yesterday .

 

[Johnny the Mule]

Cant wait.

 

[Luzur]

well, most Bethesda maps have been paper.

 

[DragoFireheart]

Does I get a real quest compass so I can find the power button to turn the game on? will it show me where to take a shit?

 

[Commissar Draco]

Morrowind was last Bethpizda game where you needed map mine has broken from over use Good old times , But now even Obsidian and CDPR install the horible quest compass even on small maps like in TW2 and DS3

 

[poocolator]

meh. i bet it's not even a cloth map.

What the fuck is this obsession gamers have with cloth maps? What the fuck use is a map made of cloth?

I doubles as a drool bib or cumsock for the Bethtards.

Get a toilet-paper roll; empty, naturally, by whatever means most convenient.
Cut it down its axis with scissors, so that it flops open like the ribcage of a cadaver under the scalpel of an unskilled forensic surgeon.
Slide the cloth map into it, so that one could conceivably fit their dick into it comfortably.
Use rubber-bands, or anything of that sort, to clamp the resulting tube. It must be freeform such that it adapts well to inserted objects of differing sizes.
Install a cum-dumpster of any sort.

Enjoy.

P.S.
This is not an admission of bethtardery.

 

[DragoFireheart]

P.S.
This is not an admission of bethtardery.

Yet you knew exactly what to do...

 

[Shagnak]

meh. i bet it's not even a cloth map.

The map is a high-grade material that has a feel similar to burlap, and will be available in North America and Europe. There will be a regular paper map included in all copies of the game, but if you want to get the premium map, we recommend pre-ordering the game.

Cool.

Edit: oh, NA and Europe only. Fuckers. Not cool. Or very cool, I guess, if you're a Beth hater and the very idea of a map coming to your shores is enough to tip you over the edge.

 

[adure]

Morrowind was last Bethpizda game where you needed map mine has broken from over use.

but only cos ingame map was shit.

 

[SuicideBunny]

What the fuck is this obsession gamers have with cloth maps? What the fuck use is a map made of cloth?

they last much much longer (my u7 map is still intact, and i bought that game when it came out), don't have shitty folding marks and you can usually clean them at least in some way.

The map is a high-grade material that has a feel similar to burlap, and will be available in North America and Europe. There will be a regular paper map included in all copies of the game, but if you want to get the premium map, we recommend pre-ordering the game.

Cool.

bet lost... ah well.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

I still have my Morrowind GOTY map and it hasn't fallen apart because I have it pinned to the wall. Of course folding it and unfolding it will wear down the paper.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

meh. i bet it's not even a cloth map.

What the fuck is this obsession gamers have with cloth maps? What the fuck use is a map made of cloth?

Because I get paper maps even with fucking Grand Theft Auto, so unless it's made of cloth or something I don't see how it's even something worth of note.

But I don't see how a map, cloth or not, could be useful when nowadays you have a GPS on the corner of the screen and the map on your inventory is interactive. So I guess it just leaves the map as decoration, and cloth at least looks nice. My Morrowind paper map doesn't really leave the box.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Well I found the map for Morrowind absolutely essential, because it has almost every ruin and cave marked on it. I remember how long it took me to find the Cavern of Moon and Star in my first playthrough of the game, until I thought to look at the map.

 

[Brother None]

They updated to note that it is, indeed, a cloth map

Update: Had plenty of questions about the map. The map is a high-grade material that has a feel similar to burlap, and will be available in North America and Europe. There will be a regular paper map included in all copies of the game, but if you want to get the premium map, we recommend pre-ordering the game.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

what, no authentic nord barbarian codpiece? maps are so last gen, gamers have moved on from incentives like that

 

[Gragt]

Lutefisk for the Lutefisk God!

 

[Rivmusique]

We’ve received plenty of questions about the map. So you know, it’s a high-grade material that has a feel similar to burlap, and will be available in North America and European territories.

Australia is a North American territory at this point right? If not it will be by November.

 

[Mastermind]

But no quest compass

But the quest compass is FREE Bryce. Even if you do not preorder.

There is no more quest compass you dumbfuck.

 

[Lunac]

Map for what? Few square miles, at best, of mountainous terrain, good part of it non-navigable (no matter what bullshit they showcase on pre-release videos).

Now Daggerfall, that one needed a fuken map! Hell, that one needed an Atlas!

I drive to work every morning for around an hour, I bike every weekend in the wildest of wildernesses for several hours. I don't need a map for either of those activities. How long do you think it would take a level 1 character in Skyrim to cross the landmass from one end to other? 6 minutes? 7 minutes? You could do it in Oblivion in like 15 minutes at most (or around there).

Like I said, map for what?!

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