The elder scrolls "Space" rim?

[Virmire]

Nah its not Fallout folks!

Imagine one set in like... the 19th Century, yeah, now that'd be brilliant, Muskets and Rifles, Rapiers and Scimitars too, and magic could be something that was forgotten, then rediscovered in the game, now that would be awesome.

So Fable 2?

Well, in Skyrim you can marry people...

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

I probably would but I wouldn't want it to. I mean when I think Elder Scrolls I think a nearly god-like infantry man dressed in armour and weapons that go along with it trekking the land, killing, stealing, assasinating, performing magic, catering the worlds many problems before saving it and usually ending some kind of long going conflict in the process.

 

[ACman]

You mean like Bethesda does Mass Effect?

No. They'd be terrible at it.
- Land on other planets and find all their books!
- Become an all-powerful space god-being!
- We heard you liked exploring caves, so we put caves on other planets so you can do dungeons while you do dungeons!

I've actually been thinking about that.

I want a Bethesda game where you crash on a planet and have to survive.

Or are a colonial on a planet and are exploring and bringing data back to settlements.

You could have alien animals, alien ruins, secretive aliens, ruins, feral colonists etc etc etc.

 

[Boom129]

Nah its not Fallout folks!

Imagine one set in like... the 19th Century, yeah, now that'd be brilliant, Muskets and Rifles, Rapiers and Scimitars too, and magic could be something that was forgotten, then rediscovered in the game, now that would be awesome.

well said

 

[Smeggs]

I would like a fantasy enviroment where technology, science and society have developed into something similar to our own current enviroment. Imagine a battle-mage attempting to shoot down a helicopter, or a group of professional Dwarven troll hunters stalking the caverns with submachineguns.

But I don't think Elder Scrolls lends itself well to this... It's got its own niche, and it'd be better to simply start from the beginning.

I think I'm in love with you.

"ULTIMATE POWAAAAAAH!" *BZZZZZZZZZZZAT!*
"The Blackhawk is down, I repeat, the Blackhawk is down."

 

[Burst6]

I bet the Dwemer had guns. What happened to those guys anyway?

This game needs more steampunk.

 

[maturin]

While this would be dumb, you don't have to dig very far to recognize the very strong sci-fi inspired elements in the series.

Besides the clearly Star Wars-styled Chitin helmet in Morrowind, there are:
divine space ships
human and elven space ships
robots
giant robots
a moon colony
and essentially magical email

Any empirically described magic is indistinguishable from technology.

Then, during a siege in one of the many wars in Tamriel, the local commander thinks that enough of that exploding potion could blow off the gates....so he sends for the alchemist who (after a few side quests on the way) creates enough potion to actually destroy the gates, resulting in the capture of the fortress. Tamriel now has a new wonder weapon.

But magic can do that more reliably and cheaply. I don't deny that guns and cannon would be useful to many people in Tamriel, just that they wouldn't see the advantage in developing the related technology to the point of creating a useful weapon. Weaponized gunpowder would be nipped in the bud by readily available magical weapons even though a fully-developed cannon would be useful.

Case in point, the notoriously inventive Chinese did not put gunpowder to military purposes. Technology is easily ignored, especially when it is obscure and restricted to the elite.

What happened to those guys anyway?

Turned themselves into a thousand-foot tall stompy robot.

 

[2fish]

FUS RO DAH sure would be effective there...

But it is space type future idea, everyone wears a helmet, not sure if it would work or break your eardrums.

Not sure I would like it, but as long as it was a good game I would at least try it.

Elder Datapads I
Invasion of the Dwemer

Edit: I seem to have dropped a word my bad.

 

[Smeggs]

FUS RO DAH sure would be effective there...

But it is space type future idea, everyone wears a helmet, not sure if it would work or break eardrums.

Not sure I would like it, but as long as it was a good game I would at least try it.

Elder Datapads I
Invasion of the Dwemer

If anything, FUS RO DAH could only be made more powerful in space, as there is no inertia in space to slow someone, so they would be blown into the void never to be seen again.

 

[Bagged Milk]

I would like to see a Steampunk-like Elders Scrolls game. It would be interesting.
Morrowind was probably the most Steampunk-like game in the series so far.

ya know, if it was set in the past, the dwemer are so totally steampunk. It could be about how they were enslaving the falmer(snow elves, not sure if the name is right though) and the extinction of the dwemer!

 

[2fish]

FUS RO DAH sure would be effective there...

But it is space type future idea, everyone wears a helmet, not sure if it would work or break eardrums.

Not sure I would like it, but as long as it was a good game I would at least try it.

Elder Datapads I
Invasion of the Dwemer

If anything, FUS RO DAH could only be made more powerful in space, as there is no inertia in space to slow someone, so they would be blown into the void never to be seen again.

But in your own helmet the power could echo and boom go the eardrums.

 

[jthwilliams]

Ok, I'm not sure why no one else has said it but there is a series issue with TES in space.

In the TES universe there is no outter space. There is the mortal realm Nirn (nirm? nir? something like that) then the immortal realms which include a bunch of gods (aedra) in a physical form that look like planets to us. The "sun" is a huge hole in the barrier between the mortal and immortal realms and the stars are a bunch of small ones all made from retreating god like beings. And the thing that looks like the two moons is the rotting body of a god.


My point is if you were to build a spaceship in TES. YOu would only be able to get a slighly close up view of the Aedra and then hit the barriar. The Aedra would also probably not apperciate you invading their personal space.

Though, that being said, I think it could be kind of cool to explore the varies Aedra themed planets that are actually the Aedra themselves. It could be like Oblivion on LSD.

 

[Souplex]

A group of professional Dwarven troll hunters stalking the caverns with submachineguns.

The Dwarves in the Elder Scrolls universe are "Extinct." (They all just sort of vanished, it's not clear if they're dead, in another dimension, time traveling, developed beyond their physical bodies or whatever)

 

[Smeggs]

FUS RO DAH sure would be effective there...

But it is space type future idea, everyone wears a helmet, not sure if it would work or break eardrums.

Not sure I would like it, but as long as it was a good game I would at least try it.

Elder Datapads I
Invasion of the Dwemer

If anything, FUS RO DAH could only be made more powerful in space, as there is no inertia in space to slow someone, so they would be blown into the void never to be seen again.

But in your own helmet the power could echo and boom go the eardrums.

Dragonborn. We don't require oxygen.

 

[ace_of_something]

What do you think?

I'm about to blow all y'alls minds.

TES is set in a completely fictional world. For all we know... it IS the future

 

[DarkRyter]

You should go write a letter to Bethesda.

They'll be like "Who the fuck sends letters? It's 2011." and then they'll throw it away without reading it.

 

[Smeggs]

What do you think?

I'm about to blow all y'alls minds.

TES is set in a completely fictional world. For all we know... it IS the future

OH MAH GAH!

 

[jthwilliams]

I bet the Dwemer had guns. What happened to those guys anyway?

This game needs more steampunk.

I fully expect the Dwarves/Dwemer to make a return. There is just too much possible story in the WHERE THE HELL DID THEY GO area. Perhaps the next game, you'll play a Dwemer who returns to Tamrial and has to get his people back into the world. You have the ability to jump from plain to plain of reality. Also your people beat back the High Elves who have nearly taken everything over.


*EDIT*

Also I really hope in one of the DLCs I can start and hopefully prosecute a war with the Aldmeri Dominion. Those bastards really piss me off. They keep sending assasin squads after me and I've never done anything to them.