No bathrooms in Skyrim (or: the treatment of bathrooms in games?)

[DSK-]

look for a bucket in the bedrooms.

Yep, nothing like a 'bucket and chuck it' to be honest.

 

[Robert Ewing]

I have seen 2 bathrooms in skyrim! Although very basic.

You need to remember that toilets were only introduced into Europe because of the Romans. And the Romans didn't really conquer much of Scandinavia in which the theme of Skyrim is based. They they would just use buckets, or holes in the the ground to fertilize crops maybe.

So next time you put a bucket over their head to steal shit, think... Is there a massive dukey in there?

 

[sapphireofthesea]

In door bathrooms are an invention of the modern age (only really coming into use around 1950). Before then, since I would guess around victorian times, it was outside toilets. Baths were taken in large tubs every so often and these could be placed anywhere in a house.
So, if you are using a mideval setting, then quite frankly, there is no bathroom. French history I know mentions shit being cleaned up once every few weeks from outside of peoples bedrooms (yes, in the corridors of the kings palace), and in london it is known that shit and piss was thrown out of windows in buckets onto the streets.

So there is your disgusting answer. And they wondered why sickness was so prevailent.

*However, bear in mind, in that age there was never any connection between human waste and illness. To them it was just like bad smelling dirt and as very few people washed themselves often (once a month was not unheared of) the smell was of little conciquence. Hygine (and smelling good) is more a result of changes in Vicotiran times.

 

[Major_Tom]

There were never any bathrooms in old Resident Evils either, although there were plenty of them in Silent Hill (for James to stick his hand in).

 

[PAGEToap44]

Do Nords use toilets? Do they know how? Buckets, trees and holes in the ground are the norm in Skyrim I think.

 

[Burntpopcarn]

I guess they just piss on the floor or outside or something. It's kinda weird that there are no toilets in games, i guess because the people who made the game thought you'd be too busy fighting things or whatever to notice how the hell the player character never needs to take a piss. it's pretty weird, yep. I guess they just hold it until the end of the game...

 

[Baneat]

Go dump your fancy wastage someplace else!

 

[Xaio30]

You see that tree, just outside of Whiterun?

You see that tree, just Inside of Whiterun?

So you're the reason that tree's dying

It's called "fertilizer".

 

[gideonkain]

I noticed there were no bathrooms also, but I just assumed it was because they had outhouses somewhere, but then I didn't see those and I couldn't remember if Fallout had restrooms because I was playing Borderlands simultaneously and that game has toilets all over the place.

 

[gideonkain]

There were never any bathrooms in old Resident Evils either, although there were plenty of them in Silent Hill (for James to stick his hand in).

That's incorrect.
http://residentevil.wikia.com/Bathroom

 

[Hookman]

There is a simple answer here. People just go on the floor and they all have really good cleaners.
EDIT:

I noticed there were no bathrooms also, but I just assumed it was because they had outhouses somewhere, but then I didn't see those and I couldn't remember if Fallout had restrooms because I was playing Borderlands simultaneously and that game has toilets all over the place.

Fallout had toilets aplenty. As far as I can remember almost every building had one somewhere and I made it my personal mission to drink out of every one.

 

[gideonkain]

Fallout had toilets aplenty. As far as I can remember almost every building had one somewhere and I made it my personal mission to drink out of every one.

Duh, I should have remembered that horrible "eager slurping" noise you make.

 

[Dragonforce525]

Why do you think Lydia never leaves your house? She takes care of the waste, kind of like how you hire someone as an "assistant manager" and they end up as a receptionist.

 

[EclipseoftheDarkSun]

I can guess about dragons not needing a device to poop in, but where do giants go for... their large ones, right?

Anywhere they want, but probably on the bodies of dead adventurers.

 

[Major_Tom]

There were never any bathrooms in old Resident Evils either, although there were plenty of them in Silent Hill (for James to stick his hand in).

That's incorrect.
http://residentevil.wikia.com/Bathroom

Oh, that's right, I remember it now (hardly enough for the whole mansion). Still I think there weren't any in 2 or 3. The RPD station certainly didn't have any.

 

[Odbarc]

As I recall, in the times of history where Skyrim likely resides, they crapped in buckets and threw it out their windows or doors, onthe the streets.
I've definitely been seeing chairs next to buckets in the corners of dungeons.

 

[DuX1112]

There are flushable toilets in FFVII. (RPG)

And sorry but: Dead Space 2, Duken Nukem Forever, Crysis 1 & 2 are not RPGs (FPS shooters they are). But in keeping with the theme they represent, there are toilets in MGS2 as well.

But honestly, I could give a crap if an RPG has a toilet...

I know those are FPSs (or TPS/action adventure games), I mentioned them in order to show for the contrast between RPGs and shooters in terms of bathroom placement inside games: there is hardly a shooter WITHOUT bathrooms (heck even Mass Effect 2 had them for their shooter element), but in MANY RPG sandbox games, no bathrooms whatsoever (Fallout 3 had them, chiefly as health refill stations). Hmmm... Just saying... Not that I give too big a damn, I just found this phenomenon interesting.


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[DuX1112]

"Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines" had restrooms in various buildings. The NPCs would occasionally stop whatever they were doing and go into one, and men would wander into alleyways to relieve themselves. They made an animation for a male model urinating, and made the most of it.

This was important to the game, as you need to get people alone to drink their blood...though, following people of either sex into their bathroom for the purpose of attacking them does add realism, but in a rapist/serial killer sorta way.

Yeah this is what I was saying, bathrooms and bathroom-going routines could really provide for interesting gameplay. Thanks for reminding me of Bloodlines, I was stalking victims in alleys and bathrooms, I remember the thrill of it vividly now. Seemed so realistic to do for a rogue vampire...