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

[Russian_Assassin]

Dwemmer had bathrooms, but they became violent, merged into single beings now called Centurions and killed them all (except for Yagrum Bagarn, because he used that contraption he has nailed to his body as a toilet, therefore it didn't become sentient).

All the other races saw what happened and decided to not keep a record on what happened and never to construct toilets again. And that's why there are so many buckets around.

Whatever happened to shitting out on the grass/snow anyway?

 

[Yopaz]

Yeah everyone, "not being invented" is a good... idea, I mean. But still, in the real world and real world history (us as humans on planet Earth) we didn't have magic. But, the races in TES (at least!) all have magic. So a mage can conjure a fireball, or raise a zombie, or magically heal, but can't, like, create a plumbing system?

[sub]Because magic and plumbing aren't related. I don't think being a mage automatically makes you an architect either.[/sub]
Its because Mages don't give a shit.

Both, I think. Not to mention nobody in Skyrim wants anything to do with magic. The mages are holed up in the College for a reason, ya know.

Also, doesn't plumbing require, like, continuous water and energy to make it work? I don't think any mage wants to be the guy sitting outside of a bathroom all day waiting for people to come out so he can flush it. "Beneath" their dignity would be an understatement. More like set in concrete and dropped into the Mariana Trench.

Sure, in this economy they wont, but when the bandits have to retire and there's nothing more to loot you'll see they are willing to take any kind of job.

 

[meow]

Games get their atompsphere down to the tiniest thing, then forget to add the sun in the skybox
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[Something Amyss]

Man, this is going to totally ruin my immersion.

 

[Knusper]

Well these are hardy nords of Skyrim who do their business out in the open. I think I do recall seeing a pit with some plank over it, as if it were a toilet.

 

[Treblaine]

Because what developer (other than Hideo Kojima) ever thinks:

"hmm, we mustn't forget to include a shitting mechanic in this game. Because defecation is a part of life people will miss in such an amazing fantasy world like Skyrim, who cares about swords, magic, nudity and dragons we need to give due attention to what gamers REALLy have the most interest in: stinky bacteria infested bodily waste!"

How fucking annoyed would you be if heading into battle and your "need to poo meter" gets to high. Wouldn't that be grand?[/sarc]

You literally should not have to deal with this shit.

 

[Agayek]

[sub]Because magic and plumbing aren't related. I don't think being a mage automatically makes you an architect either.[/sub]
Its because Mages don't give a shit.

I think his point was less "Magic means they'd have better sewage systems" and more "The reason we, historically, didn't have toilets was because lack of technology. Magic can account for that."

 

[minimacker]

Skyrim is one of the few games that actually has toilets.

Though rare, the elusive single-bucket-in-closet-sized-room can be found here and there.

 

[Rack]

I love all these people replying "There weren't any bathrooms back in medieval times! DUH!"

Yes, back in the real period of history where people shot ice out of their hands and dragons stomped around and trolls terrorized villages, there were no toilets. We know this from reading history books!

The word in question is "Verisimilitude". Throwing incongruous elements to a setting that isn't completely realistic still damages the sense of reality that setting has.

Normally I would agree, but I have two words for you:

Magic Toilet.

Considering magic items are powered by souls I find pretty entertaining.

"Honey, are you going to fix that shelf in the bathroom today?"

"Maybe later if I get time, I need to perform a ritual sacrifice to the toilet first though, might take most of the day"

 

[Thaluikhain]

"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.

 

[Zanaxal]

In medival times shitting in the woods would be the common option.

Just pickupa few viking books/film and its always a paragraph with relieving oneself outdoors. and this is about nords *ahem* vikings.

The modern toilet seat arrangement is a relatively new invention, from like the start of 1900s.


And anyways why be fixated on this? Just the gameplay too easy/repetitive is such a glaring issue to discuss.

Because what developer (other than Hideo Kojima) ever thinks:

"hmm, we mustn't forget to include a shitting mechanic in this game. Because defecation is a part of life people will miss in such an amazing fantasy world like Skyrim, who cares about swords, magic, nudity and dragons we need to give due attention to what gamers REALLy have the most interest in: stinky bacteria infested bodily waste!"

How fucking annoyed would you be if heading into battle and your "need to poo meter" gets to high. Wouldn't that be grand?[/sarc]

You literally should not have to deal with this shit.

LoL that actually sounds kind of fun. Bet like Johnny would have like a 5 minute time between every alarm lol.

The having to eat part was one the most fun features recently in MGS and therefore ofcourse they remove it -_-

 

[snowpuppy]

You can obtain mammoth dung.

 

[The Woolly One]

ME2 had bathrooms.

There were three on the Normandy (Captain's, male and female) and there were toilets in one of the clubs on the Citadel. I think this is the only game I've ever played that included bathrooms.

Although you can play Saints Row 3 AS a toilet...

 

[CoL0sS]

Oooooh and I thought all those daggers and axes common folk were carrying are for fighting off bears, when they're actually for digging holes.

 

[Mau95]

Oh God no... I drank that Spriggan Sap!

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I haven't seen any toilets, but if you look hard enough there are usually things that resemble chamber pots and buckets in the bedrooms, kitchens, or make-shift camps. I'm pretty sure it's because of the time period they are trying to display. Also depending on the town, it wouldn't be too hard to believe they've dug some kind of latrine out behind the house, or a 'poop' hole behind a tree a few yards away - or something of that nature. They really just let your imagination take that one.

 

[Xaio30]

You see that tree, just outside of Whiterun?

You see that tree, just Inside of Whiterun?

 

[gbemery]

ever hear the saying "if a Nord craps in the woods...." or was that a bear? hmm nevermind