Well, they just do what they have to do in th buckets, then throw it ou on the street and hope it ends up in the sewer. Or use it as fertilizer for their crops.
No bathrooms in Skyrim (or: the treatment of bathrooms in games?)
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Take it the other direction--conservation of detail. If there are toilets, they have to DO something in your game. in Duke Nukem 3D, you could pee and drink to restore health. In No One Lives Forever, you can catch guards and technicians and steal their gear. In a fantasy game? I saw one in Breath of Fire 1 or 2, but you SWIM into it...ew. What else could you do with it? The only games where potties are a core gameplay mechanic is in "The Sims" and the variants and sequels. I doubt the escapism of Fantasy RPG could be compatible with the bowel-and-bladder micromanagement.
For the record, I saw bathrooms with actual seats in Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past and Majora's Mask, but have forgotten the rest.
For the record, I saw bathrooms with actual seats in Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past and Majora's Mask, but have forgotten the rest.
Rome had some very impressive sewers, but still no toilets that weren't just holes.DuX1112 said: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?
And plus, they have sewers, i.e. sewage systems present in the game (at least in Riften right, and there are sewer outlets in Solitude, as well as suspicious drains in Whiterun, Markath and so on), but lo behold, no traces of anything remotely bathroom-like. Or at least toilet-seatish. The Imperial City had extensive sewer network too, but again: no toilets!
And how can the Dwemer dwarfs create their automatons (robots) and not have toilets? Now that I think harder... I may have seen something like an outhouse, or a small toilet house out in the countryside near farms... or I have not, not clear...
So, I think the "it wasn't invented" argument doesn't hold, because: magic, dwemer technology, and widespread sewage systems. Don't get me wrong, now all the buckets make much more sense...And the "bucket on head" maneuver, makes total sense... xD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca_maxima
Human Revolution continues that trend.Drake the Dragonheart said:
Especially fun times when you're sneaking into certain buildings; you enter via a vent to the Lady's, and walking out like a casual badass getting some dodgy looks.
OT: Yeah, like everyone said; buckets.
In Riften, as I just discovered yesterday, in the orphanage run by that *****, there's a cupboard with shackles and two buckets for the kids to do their business in.
I always wondered how, since they couldn't move their arms...
There are toilets in Skyrim. I've seen outhouses, buckets, bushes, trees etc.
You have to remember that (atleast in our world) we used WOOD to wipe our asses.
Oh, and I've seen a bathroom in Dragon Age 2! In Merill's house, there's an area with a bench with a hole, and some buckets and stuff. A similar thing can be found in the Witcher 2.
You have to remember that (atleast in our world) we used WOOD to wipe our asses.
Oh, and I've seen a bathroom in Dragon Age 2! In Merill's house, there's an area with a bench with a hole, and some buckets and stuff. A similar thing can be found in the Witcher 2.
This is why I love Breath of Fire 2 so much, in most every house in the game there is a bathroom, which does nothing except in one sidequest.
I am surprised through this discussion that so few Elder Scrolls fans here seem to play the same game in a different setting, I.e. Fallout 3 and new Vegas. There are toilets in all the buildings there, you can even drink out of them.
Bethesda are obviously very focused on realism in their settings, despite the inherent unreality of the situation. In a medieval setting, that means a bucket emptied out the window for a toilet. The sewers are essentially storm water drains to empty rain from the city. This takes all the poo in the process which is a side benefit, but the houses don't run to them. Notice there are no sinks either?
Bethesda are obviously very focused on realism in their settings, despite the inherent unreality of the situation. In a medieval setting, that means a bucket emptied out the window for a toilet. The sewers are essentially storm water drains to empty rain from the city. This takes all the poo in the process which is a side benefit, but the houses don't run to them. Notice there are no sinks either?
For that reason I never step in or swim in running water whenever I'm in town. Remember, in medieval times the general public would just go in a bucket and chuck the contents either out the window or into the closest river/hole they could find, so I'm guessing this is also how they roll in Skyrim.
Bathrooms were a commodity back available only for the very rich and powerful then and even so it was just very small room containing a stool with a hole sitting above a bucket that would ultimately follow the same fate as the general public's buckets.
Here's an interesting insight for you guys: the royal toilet back in ye olden days was tactically located if not in the general vicinity of the kitchen (right next to it), it'd sit nice and cozy inside the kitchen itself in an attempt to hide the bad smell.
You know, hygienic!
Bathrooms were a commodity back available only for the very rich and powerful then and even so it was just very small room containing a stool with a hole sitting above a bucket that would ultimately follow the same fate as the general public's buckets.
Here's an interesting insight for you guys: the royal toilet back in ye olden days was tactically located if not in the general vicinity of the kitchen (right next to it), it'd sit nice and cozy inside the kitchen itself in an attempt to hide the bad smell.
You know, hygienic!
In Honorhall Orphanage, there's a room with a bucket and straw.
I presumed that was Skyrim's toilet.
I presumed that was Skyrim's toilet.
It's THE bathroom for hours and hours of relief. Alone -or- in multiplayer.
Call me crazy, but I got so into the first Deus Ex that between some missions, realising how many hours I'd been going for, I decided I needed a break and used the toilet. Flushed afterwards and washed my hands and everything.
...Don't look at me like that!
It is a little known part of Elder Scrolls lore that the races of nirn have no anus, scrotum or other genitalier. They therefore have no need for a bathroom.
So you're the reason that tree's dyingXaio30 said:You see that tree, just Inside of Whiterun?The_Blue_Rider said:
