How should the next Elder Scrolls Game be handled?

[likalaruku]

Next ES game is Elder Scrolls Online.

Wrong.

ESO is a side-game, saying its the next real Elder scrolls game is like saying Fallout:New Vegas was Fallout 4, it is not.

As long as it comes out before ES6, it's still the "next" ES game.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

Here's another thing I want: meatier DLC.

Hearthfire's kinda fun in a grindy, time-waste-ey manner, and it felt like Dawnguard was over far too quickly. If they don't resolve the issue with the Thalmor sometime soon, I'll also start murdering puppies.

I mean, seriously. I'm up for Game Jam cruft as much as anyone else, but I want meat on those bones, too. I want to kick the real assholes out of Skyrim for good, so the poor Stormcloaks can wake up and realize how much of a tool Ulfric actually is.

 

[Ezekiel T Bluff]

I would love to see a more steampunkish sequel, like Arcanum.
It would make sense if the next game took place 500 years after Skyrim.

Skyrim takes place 200 years after Oblivion, and yet everything stayed the same technology wise

 

[Randomologist]

Don't make everyone an asshole. Everywhere you go, whatever side you take, its six of one and half a dozen of the other. Much as I sympathise with Ulfric and freedom of religion, he's a negligent Jarl whereas Elisif does at least try to keep everyone happy, if surrounded by lickspittles and the often corrupt Empire.

Perhaps it's my play style, but I'm always running into many types of armour in a very short progression of levels. I start out in steel, then I find a single superior Dwemer piece. Cool, but by the next level I'm starting to find Orcish armour all of a sudden. Maybe its me being picky but the unmatching and unlikely combinations break the immersion.

Long story short, pace your levelling out- and while you're at it, I don't want to have to choose (NOW, RIGHT NOW) health/etc upgrades when I just want to look at my perks, I'd like to train as much as I like (If I'm unbalanced, my own fault), and some way to reassign points away from those many useless perks you chucked into the game.

 

[el derpenburgo]

The Aldmer homeland is Alinor, also known as the Summerset isles, and it is perfectly fine.

Aldmeris, the place the elves believe they came from, is a fictional place, it is a collection of dreams and memories from back when the elves were one race, before the spirit wars splintered them into the various races we see today, Aldmeris never actually existed.

Well, it really has been a while because for some reason I had it in my head that Aldmeris was real. The specific book I was talking about featured this Imperial cartographer who stumbled upon what he thought to be Aldmeris and found a bunch of stuff but in hindsight I suppose that was probably a tongue in cheek reference to Columbus' discovery of the 'East Indies', but it's a shame I don't actually remember what it was called. Also I used Aldmer because I specifically thought they were the proto-mer from which the Altmer (the Summerset Isles folk) and company grew from, but I see that they basically are the Altmer. I feel like an idiot for not checking uesp first :/

 

[SajuukKhar]

I would love to see a more steampunkish sequel, like Arcanum.
It would make sense if the next game took place 500 years after Skyrim.

Skyrim takes place 200 years after Oblivion, and yet everything stayed the same technology wise

Technology will most likely never advance for one simple reason... magic... when you have magic technological progress becomes stagnate because the limits that cause technological improvement to be necessary get removed via magic.

 

[Jynthor]

I wonder what they'll replace the Dragonshouts with, I very much doubt you'll be Dragonborn again and it would be weird to go back to being a normal human. Now they're stuck in the endless cycle of introducing new gimmicks.

 

[Ezekiel T Bluff]

I would love to see a more steampunkish sequel, like Arcanum.
It would make sense if the next game took place 500 years after Skyrim.

Skyrim takes place 200 years after Oblivion, and yet everything stayed the same technology wise

Technology will most likely never advance for one simple reason... magic... when you have magic technological progress becomes stagnate because the limits that cause technological improvement to be necessary get removed via magic.

That is sort of true, but I didnt see anyone in Skyrim cook food or drive around on anything powered by magic. Not everyone knows how to use magic. So technology could be advanced by those people, rendering mages unwanted for the reason that technology doesnt work around them, bla, bla... (I know that this is basicaly Arcanum, but it is an interesting concept to me at least, and I know it will never happen)

 

[SajuukKhar]

I really want a game in Black Marsh.

I know they'd have to rape the lore to pull it off, but hey, its not like Bethesda mind doing that, is it? At least it wouldn't become another hiking simulator like Skyrim. If the biggest pull of a game is great landscapes, that game should make sure it has landscapes different from the ones in fucking Wales.

Making a game in Black Marsh wouldnt be so hard.

Also Skyrim's landscape is the way it is becuase that is the way it has always been in lore
Morrowind = Giant mushroom place
Valenwood = Giant forest
Skyrim = Viking land
Black Marsh = swamp
Hammerfell = giant desert
Cyrodiil was a tropical jungle, but Tiber Septim hated it and turned it into like some generic mid-evil landscape

I wonder what they'll replace the Dragonshouts with, I very much doubt you'll be Dragonborn again and it would be weird to go back to being a normal human. Now they're stuck in the endless cycle of introducing new gimmicks.

There is Redguard Sword Singing and Akaviri Kiai