Elder Scrolls: Tamriel : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:57 pm

And you forgot Elsweyr... Which has already been created as a mod for Oblivion and it is awesome.
I don't think they will do it. I rather think they will maybe do 1 or 2 more Elder Scrolls (not even sure) and move to something completely different which will surprise us.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:30 pm

There basically was one... It was called The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard. Or alternatively, the expansion Tribunal.

That said, a single city, while it makes good sense for many MMOs, does not meet the epic scale of a TES game, which literally NEEDS lots of ground, plenty of dungeons, etc. Tribunal was okay for an expansion, but something like that wouldn't work for a full game.

You misunderstand. The city wouldn't be the same size as a city from TES as they are now, the city would be the same size as a province as they are now.

That's what I meant with this:

No, but if it did, I can't see there being any difference in the amount of content or explorable area between a "TES Tamriel" and a "TES Imperial City".

Scale is the key word: a game set entirely in one city would be MUCH closer to 1:1 than a game set on the continent.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:26 pm

According to the earlier descriptions, the Imperial City covers nearly the entire island, which was the better part of 100 miles across. The game Oblivion could have been confined to the Imperial City Island, just as Morrowind was confined to the island of Vvardenfell, and it would have felt a lot closer to a realistic scale (but still be heavily shrunken for "playability"). Instead, we got a "sampler" of Cyrodiil, shrunken down into a handful of tiny cities, and a few villages with a mere 3-5 houses, which felt like a small county instead of an enormous province.

Expanding the game to cover all of Tamriel would be far worse: you'd have one town to represent each province, with about a couple of square miles of territory surrounding each. In essence, you'd be able to look clear across the province, and see towns in Skyrim from Valenwood,or cross the province at a walk in 10-15 minutes real-time. NO THANKS!

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:13 pm

Acording to lore the Imperial City was spread across multiple islands, not just one.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:27 pm

I hope so, now that would be The Definitive Elder Scroll game, just imagine how long it would take you to do most of it.