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

[SilentCom]

look for a bucket in the bedrooms.

ROFL

OT: I'm pretty sure they didn't put bathrooms in because they would pretty much be pointless unless you wanted to play a poop making simulator...

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Maybe they have spells to teleport their waste to the Oblivion realm?

 

[DuX1112]

Maybe they have spells to teleport their waste to the Oblivion realm?

Maybe the Daedra actually rely on poop as a sort of resource, food maybe?

Anyways, tadaaaam, this is what a bathroom in Skyrim looks like: http://i.imgur.com/80rsi.jpg

 

[Terminate421]

They go in the woods

 

[jawakiller]

I found a bathroom once. In a hunter's shack, over by the Throat of the World. Yeah, that bucket in the corner. That was it.

 

[anANGRYkangaroo]

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The french word for forget is "perdre" if that helps at all.

No it's not, that means lost. Oubliette is the word you're after, although those are generally used to talk about dungeons, not places to through poop.

Right you are, I forgot that.
As far as I was taught though, perdre was to lose or to forget...
Ah the joys of Québécois parents teaching me with Parisian French classes

 

[CulixCupric]

plumbing hasn't been invented.

look for a bucket in the bedrooms.

You see that tree, just outside of Whiterun?

^^^This. remember the quote from Disney's Hercules?

Spoiler: Scene From Hercules

Yeah, plumbing wasn't invented yet. look for a bucket. plus, i don't want to have to use the bathroom in a game, like twice a day, it would be more tedious then having to feed as a vampire just to avoid angry townsfolk.

Imagine Oregon Trail's "***You have died of dysentery***"

Spoiler: Image of that quote

 

[ShindoL Shill]

m'sir...

imagine shitting in a hole, and sharing it with LITERALLY EVERONE ELSE IN THE CITY.
rockjoint doesnt seem so bad now.

 

[faefrost]

Okay, so I know it's silly, but after... well, many hours playing of Skyrim today, I took a break and went to the bathroom, and this thought came to me - why are there no bathrooms in the houses of Skyrim?? Mind you this is not only the houses... There are also no bathrooms in inns, forts, castles, palaces, shops... Nowhere really. Caves?

So what's the deal with this? Now when I remember there are also no bathrooms in Dragon Age too. No bathrooms in ANY medieval/fantasy game I've played so far, not even Fable! The last bathroom I remember in an RPG game was the one in Shepard's captain quarters aboard the Normandy 2... If I'm not mistaken. Also, now I remembered more, there were bathrooms in Deus Ex: HR, Dead Space 2, Duken Nukem Forever, Crysis 1 & 2... In all entirety I'm not serious, but this really gave me an itch!

So riddle me this fellow gamers, what's the thing with bathrooms and RPGs? :/ Don't the people of Skyrim have bodily needs they need to take care of, or personal hygiene to keep up? Why not steal some soaps for example, or sell soaps, or produce soap, or steal towels, perhaps toilet paper and so on (so many rolls of paper and woodcutting industry in Skyrim)? I haven't seen a single faucet in the game (Skyrim), let alone a toilet seat... I'm curious as to what the toilet seats in Skyrim look like, and what are the differences between them, for example: Nord, Dwarven, Elven, Orcish toilet seats? And I can guess about dragons not needing a device to poop in, but where do giants go for... their large ones, right? Or Hagravens? :/ I also found a Spriggan Sap ingredient in game... I wonder how this "sap" was obtained... Any ideas?

You know those funny rounded things in the Dwemer dungeons with the lid on top that pops open? You know the things that you fish all the good loot out of?

Well I've got some bad news for you...

 

[ZeroDotZero]

The last one I remember was a cave in Rage with a bedpan inside it. It was a nice little touch, and it explained my lifelong desire to know where bandits went for number twos.

 

[professorgunki]

Actually, Splinter Cell games, specifically chaos theory had tons of bathrooms, some were part of the story.

 

[Hep_Q]

Why are all of you guys talking as if Skyrim is medieval times? Tamriel is on the planet Nirn, not earth. It is extremely similar, but that's not to say they have the same limitations as medieval times. Gay marriage is accepted in Skyrim. and there's effing magic and dragons. You can't compare it to our middle ages. Dwemer had Sophisticated plumming all over their constructs, there is no reason they couldn't at least make an outhouse.