Originally Posted by Lemonhead
Trailers always show big battlefields and yet we never get to play a part of those battles in CRPGs. Except for Mount and Blade maybe but that's a different beast. Would love it if a developer could actually pull that off in a sandbox game and still be a story focused game and not a simulation like M&B.

I thought the battles for Whiterun and Winterhold were pretty huge. You end up fighting tons of Soldiers in those battles. Skyrim made it large enough to feel like a real battle. I also liked the battle in The Witcher 2, though Gelding is forced to a linear path in that one.