It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

some examples of how it looked
(prob the pics are not allowed but its to give ou an idea)





on this one you clearly see the lantern hanging on my chars belt, you had to keep it fueled with oil or yer screwed



if the pics are removed you can check this topic, its in dutch but just klick open all the spoiler I posted there for the screenshots
4gamers.be/forum/index.php?/topic/2926-dragons-dogma/?hl=dogma

UlanX wrote: »

In TES games I have always carried a ridiculous amount to torches in my inventory because I tend to have my settings fairly dark to enhance dungeon atmosphere. I like using torches just for immersion at night time as well so I would love to see torches added as a craftable item at wood working stations. They could be used via the quickslot or assigned their own key.

What do others think?

Was this in Morrowind? I don't remember being able craft torches in Skyrim or Oblivion. Sounds like a cool idea tho. I agree that it would have to be pretty dark in order for people to have to use them. Not regular out in the wilds dark either where you get starlight/moonlight, but deep dungeon or cave dark where there's nothing else to throw light. This would certainly throw an interesting twist on battles. Fighting blind (in the dark) would be crazy fun!

Re Grue: not sure what that is, but it sounds nasty and not at all something I'd like to take on alone. Do they live under kids' beds? Cause I think I mite have had one as a kid. XD

Anyway, good idea. I'd be all for it!

This thread brought back fond memories of my human druid in EQ1 stumbling around in the dark trying to get through an unlit tunnel out of Surefall Glade and out into the world to adventure and getting so turned around bumping into walls that I ended right back where I started several times.

Yeah I think that would be cool, miss it from other es games.

Yea Dwarf Fortress adventure mode had some pretty nasty baddies that came out at night. They'd chase you until ti was light again too. I think I got powerful enough on several characters to actually kill them tho.

Dwarf Fortress is really the best game ever.

Nestor wrote: »

if you lit them, then put them on the ground, they would glow or burn forever. I made some nice mood lighting in my house with the Lanterns. They had a blue or red or yellow glow.

I put some in unlit fireplaces in my Oblivion houses for both atmosphere and that nice crackling noise

UrQuan wrote: »

purple-magicb16_ESO wrote: »

Re Grue: not sure what that is, but it sounds nasty and not at all something I'd like to take on alone. Do they live under kids' beds? Cause I think I mite have had one as a kid. XD

It's a reference to an old text-only computer game called Zork. That line is what the game told you. If you asked what a grue was you got more of an explanation. Sure enough, if you didn't get a torch or get someplace with some light, you would be eaten by a grue. Yes, I realize I'm dating myself by admitting to have played text-only computer games...

That's cool. Don't feel bad. I used to play a game called Utumno (not sure of the spelling). Pure text. Kids would never give it a second look today, but I'm an old D&D fan so it didn't bore me. It was more like a story than a computer game. Sort of like the old "choose your own adventure" books we used to get at the school library. Lol! Now that's old. Too old for even for any kind of graphics! Haha! Man I'm old :-(

I am also in favour of this feature. The Torch could be used as a weapon too, and slotted like we slot a dagger or whatever on the second hand; But Zenimax already knows that, it's a games studio after all. If a dungeon is too dark, just make those torches, lamps or braziers lit with our torch-weapon. Some of us prefer the adventure side of this games as opposed to the leveling and grind. This could be the potential to become best MMO ever. It already has the graphics, the Lore the tradition. It needs more game mechanics where players can create their own style of gameplay.

As I keep saying, it's a fairly trivial change to make the dark levels darker from the engine standpoint.

Torch mechanics and pitch black / dark areas/nighttime have been working since SNES days. This is not difficult to put in.

It would add a tremendous amount of fun to the gameplay.

smeeprocketnub19_ESO wrote: »

Torches were not in morrowind afaik.

/torch works well enough, too bad you can't move while using it.

This game doesn't really need torches though, it's not that dark even inside of caves and at night.

I can't remember for certain if there were torches or not, but I know for a fact Morrowind had lanterns.

imnotanother wrote: »

Gidorick wrote: »

HOLY NECROTHREAD BATMAN!

I don't think we should be able to craft them. My thoughts are here. Looting and buying them would be good enough.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/155836/the-need-for-functional-torches/p1

I will second the "holy necrothread" statement!

But on topic, when I first started playing, at console launch, I was really wanting torches but I quickly got over it. Torch emote works okay for meetings etc.

The fact that torches weren't a integral in their environment design (dark nights, spooky dungeons, etc.) says a LOT about how little ZOS cares about environmental immersion.

Gidorick wrote: »

imnotanother wrote: »

@Gidorick
I agree. If night was pitch black it would add A LOT to the depth of this game.
Make a cave per zone that is a scary, creepy, nightmare to enter.

@imnotanother , check out these threads revolving around this topic:

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/155836/the-need-for-functional-torches/p1
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/170536/immersive-darkness-concept/p1

Great threads that were well put together.
I couldn't agree more.

I much rather things like this be implemented instead of all the vanity features.

imnotanother wrote: »

Gidorick wrote: »

imnotanother wrote: »

@Gidorick
I agree. If night was pitch black it would add A LOT to the depth of this game.
Make a cave per zone that is a scary, creepy, nightmare to enter.

@imnotanother , check out these threads revolving around this topic:

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/155836/the-need-for-functional-torches/p1
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/170536/immersive-darkness-concept/p1

Great threads that were well put together.
I couldn't agree more.

I much rather things like this be implemented instead of all the vanity features.

Ugh... you and me BOTH @imnotanother . We don't have functional torches or immersive nights but you know what we ARE going to get? HATS! That just SCREAMS "Elder Scrolls", doesn't it?