The Elder Scrolls Megathread

[Mister Cheese]

So is it normal for the initial launcher download to go from 74% to 2% after restarting it
Because this is a large download for me even buying the physical copy

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[sir dooble]

So is it normal for the initial launcher download to go from 74% to 2% after restarting it
Because this is a large download for me even buying the physical copy

Skyrim or ESO?

[Mister Cheese]

ESO.

[dudeman162]

I think the next Elder Scrolls should take place in Akavir, seeing how all the other provinces in Tamriel are being covered by ESO.

[sir dooble]

I think the next Elder Scrolls should take place in Akavir, seeing how all the other provinces in Tamriel are being covered by ESO.

Not all of them are in great scope though.
Only a few provinces are covered near enough fully.

Orsinium isn't featured, despite technically being in a region of High Rock that is featured.
Most of High Rock is covered, bar the border to Skyrim.
A tiny portion of Hammerfell is covered. Only the northern Alik'r Desert is touched, bordering on the Illiac Bay.

Summerset Isle only covers the (comparatively) small Auridon isle.
Almost all of Valenwood is covered (possibly all, depending on the map used to determine borders)
A smidge of Elsweyr is covered, with most of it being a single small training island. (Probably the least featured province)

Only a small section of northern Black Marsh, and the Black Marsh/Morrowind border is covered.
A few small areas of shore-line near the sea that divides Vvardenfell from mainland Morrowind is covered.
Only Eastmarch (Windhelm) and The Rift (Riften) from Skyrim are covered.

Only the very central area of Cyrodiil is included, including Cheydinhal, Chorrol and Bruma.
It doesn't include Kvatch (I think), Skingrad or Anvil, so none of the south-west.
And it doesn't include Bravil and Leyawiin, so none of the south-east, nor the Niben.

Really, there's plenty of area of Tamriel untouched by TESO or any of TES games, particularly Elsweyr and Black Marsh.
TESO covers a lot more land than almost all other TES games, but it doesn't cover entire provinces, and hardly touches some of them.

[dudeman162]

True, but the provinces will be fleshed out in future updates by Zenimax.

An Elder Scrolls game set in Akavir holds so much potential though. We can finally see what each of the four races look like, and we may even play as one of them. We can see all the Japanese inspired Akavirian architecture and society. And we may even know the fate of Nerevarine, since in Oblivion it was rumored that he/she had gone there on a journey. But it will remove the mystery surrounding the continent.

[sir dooble]

True, but the provinces will be fleshed out in future updates by Zenimax.

An Elder Scrolls game set in Akavir holds so much potential though. We can finally see what each of the four races look like, and we may even play as one of them. We can see all the Japanese inspired Akavirian architecture and society. And we may even know the fate of Nerevarine, since in Oblivion it was rumored that he/she had gone there on a journey. But it will remove the mystery surrounding the continent.

What reason do you then have for there being all the Tamrielic races in Akavir?
It would be interesting to go to Akavir, but how do you fit it into the lore that the people of Tamriel have gone there? No one has done so before on a large scale, and I don't see that happening without Tamriel being organised under the Empire again, and it would be a shame to jump ahead and not see how the Empire reforms with or against the Aldmeri Dominion.
And you definitely don't want to cut out the Tamriel races as playable races or for NPCs.

I know there was a large gap in time between Oblivion and Skyrim, but there were never big gaps between the previous 4 games. It would be nice if TES6 wasn't set too long after Skyrim.

[dudeman162]

What reason do you then have for there being all the Tamrielic races in Akavir?
It would be interesting to go to Akavir, but how do you fit it into the lore that the people of Tamriel have gone there? No one has done so before on a large scale, and I don't see that happening without Tamriel being organised under the Empire again, and it would be a shame to jump ahead and not see how the Empire reforms with or against the Aldmeri Dominion.
And you definitely don't want to cut out the Tamriel races as playable races or for NPCs.

I know there was a large gap in time between Oblivion and Skyrim, but there were never big gaps between the previous 4 games. It would be nice if TES6 wasn't set too long after Skyrim.

Well perhaps the next main installment shouldn't be in Akavir, but maybe a side game could take place there, like Redguard: An Elder Scrolls Adventure was one that took place in Hammerfell.

Also, Aldmeri Dominion 4 life.

[Alkatjo]

How about all regions in one game backed by some diplomatic storyline as well?

[Camel]

i would love it if es6 was in elsweyr, with giant deserts and lush, dangerous jungles.

like if there was a 100 mile stretch of desert that looked like the red rock level of unchartes 3, that would be awesome.

[MrKitKat]

i totally want to play as the other races like the sloads, and those monkey tigers

[dudeman162]

i totally want to play as the other races like the sloads, and those monkey tigers

And don't forget the serpent people!

[Cargøn]

the problem is online basically went all in with areas
if alakir really is the only untapped province then that's kinda sad
the options are to go to alakir or destroy canon

[sir dooble]

the problem is online basically went all in with areas
if alakir really is the only untapped province then that's kinda sad
the options are to go to alakir or destroy canon

Alik'r and the whole of Elsweyr, plus the large island in Summerset Isle, which could be big enough for a single game are all availaboe for previously unvisited locations.

[Mister Cheese]

Is anyone willing to have a group on ESO? I'm only level 5 and I need help badly lol