Does Skellige suffer from a seriously faulty sense of scale?
I remember when I first saw a map of the area in which TW3 came out, and seeing how small it was compared to the rest of the Continent. I remember thinking to myself, "Awesome! Finally, a game developer that GETS it, that understands how big nations actually are, and how just a little part of a country (Like Velen or White Orchard).
Then, however, the game came out and I got to Skellige. Riding through towns and castles and looking at the map, I couldn't help but think to myself: "Hey, this is an ENTIRE NATION".
Skellige is simply TINY if you view it in that way. Reaching the end of the game, I couldn't even fathom how Hjalmar thought that he could put as much as a dent on Nilfgaard's defences; Nilfgaard could honestly invade all of Skellige with 5,000. Emhyr, in fact, seems to have realized this in-game, only bringing around a dozen ships to conquer the islands. And yet the game acts like Skellige can be so dangerous if all the clans work together under a strong king (Don't forget the fact that Geralt wipes out an entire clan's forces on his own).
Did anyone else feel this way about Skellige? I found it especially jarring, since CDPR always attained realistic scales in the past through several methods, such as by showing enormous army camps that, while they're inaccessible, actively gives an army of several thousand soldiers a presence within the game as opposed to having 'armies' of dozens of soldiers fighting each other.
I remember when I first saw a map of the area in which TW3 came out, and seeing how small it was compared to the rest of the Continent. I remember thinking to myself, "Awesome! Finally, a game developer that GETS it, that understands how big nations actually are, and how just a little part of a country (Like Velen or White Orchard).
Then, however, the game came out and I got to Skellige. Riding through towns and castles and looking at the map, I couldn't help but think to myself: "Hey, this is an ENTIRE NATION".
Skellige is simply TINY if you view it in that way. Reaching the end of the game, I couldn't even fathom how Hjalmar thought that he could put as much as a dent on Nilfgaard's defences; Nilfgaard could honestly invade all of Skellige with 5,000. Emhyr, in fact, seems to have realized this in-game, only bringing around a dozen ships to conquer the islands. And yet the game acts like Skellige can be so dangerous if all the clans work together under a strong king (Don't forget the fact that Geralt wipes out an entire clan's forces on his own).
Did anyone else feel this way about Skellige? I found it especially jarring, since CDPR always attained realistic scales in the past through several methods, such as by showing enormous army camps that, while they're inaccessible, actively gives an army of several thousand soldiers a presence within the game as opposed to having 'armies' of dozens of soldiers fighting each other.