I vote for Black Marsh as I think the whole land and everything would feel more alien. Skyrim and Oblivion felt like mideval or viking. MW felt very different with everything which I liked. I think Black Marsh would probably feel that way.

Yeah, I think Black Marsh would be good setting for a real sense of danger. In Skyrim it is cold indeed and they managed to pull off beautiful landscapes and snowstorms, but unfortunately they are just cosmetic. The struggle to fight a hostile land would feel so authentic in a dense swamp full of snakes, aligators and magic trees..., especially for the ones who like to play hardcoe mode like New Vegas. In Skyrim it's such a wasted opportunity with so much water and no sailing at all, so much cold and no freezing at all. Black Marsh would feature a network of navigable canols, we could have our own boat, raft, board enemy ships and so on....

It seems lately that the odd and different don't sell well. If Beth's sticking with things that are familiar and in people comfort zone, you will never see Akavir. That being fine with me, I don't care to visit Akivir and would rather it just be left alone entirely from the game setting.

To be honest... when you look at the skyrim map, look at the locations on the edge of the map... i think its gunna be hammerfell. id love it to go back in time though, so i can see dwemer ruins that arent ruined... and maybe REAL snow elves instead of falmer. id love to see where, what age and what new abilities they include . one thing that did annoy me a lil, was in morrowind, there were levitation spells and potions... these were removed from the newer games. id love for them to be reintroduced, although i know they wont cos people would use them as i did... shortcuts xD... ahh the travellers pants...

I would like Black Marsh and I reckon it would be a great showcase setting for the new generation of consoles, given the huge amount of water, swarming insects, lush vegetation, ect.

Okay, how about the theory that we've already been to High Rock TWICE, one of which was NOT the really undetailed nearly loreless "everything" game? Bethesda wouldn't make Cyrodiil for TES VI, but they would do Elsweyr perhaps because since they had everything (or rather a really vague impression of everything) in Arena they don't even think about it. For comparison, say I'm a filmmaker who makes documentaries, I made one about the China, one about Kenya, and one about our planet as a whole. Now for my next filmmaking project, am I going to take every country in the world off the list of possibilities because I made that home video? Probably not. Am I going to take China and Kenya off it? Probably. I'm not saying Bethesda couldn't be dull enough to choose the European style again (Although as I said the fact that they had a game set primarily there already makes it significantly less likely than one of the undone (excluding arena) provinces), but they shouldn't be. They've got so much potential to waste it on something we've already seen a million times. Why do you believe it will be High Rock? And why do you want it to be High Rock?

People like the familiar, and if it sells thats what they will stick too. Why else do you think they made Cyrodiil so mundane when it was so unique in the lore?

Elsweyr or Summerset Isles, I can't decide.

I'd like to see the Summerset Isles. It is hard to see them making a game take place in black marsh or elsweyr, 'cause I think the beast races are too much of a "love 'em or hate 'em" sort of thing.

Twice long time ago yes...A time when Btehseda wasnt todays Bethesda and games looked and played very differently. We have seen a randomized version of High Rock not a hand-made one such as Skyrim or Vvardenfell.

That being said High Rock is familliar as the poster below said and that means it will seem more attractive at the market. I want it because the setting with all the knight orders and small kingdoms is very interesting to me, with all the possible plots . Not every one finds a swamp or a desert that interesting.

good to see that i'm not the only one wanting Elsweyr

Elsweyr would be both difficult and awkward considering that there are quadruped Khajiit.
Someday, but not now.

Because of the Thalmor conflict, I'd love to see the Summerset Isles.

However, from some of the lore provided in Skyrim, I think the next viable location will be Hammerfell. Part of the lore is that the Thalmor wanted a portion of Hammerfell as part of the White-Gold Concordat, but Hammerfell would not give it up. As such, Hammerfell was released from association with the Empire, became an independent state, and continued to fight off the Thalmor. Eventually they succeeded, and now while damaged badly, are on their own.

The next Elder Scrolls game could look deeper into Hammerfell's situation as the Empire tries to reconquer them, Hammerfell trying to keep their independence, and a third group (probably the Thalmor) trying to conquer them as well. There's also some Ayleid ruins in the southern portion of Hammerfell in the area known as the Deadlands which could be explored, and of course the Dwemer were here (Stros M'Kai, anyone?).

Black Marsh and Elsweyr would both be great. I just randomly went with Black Marsh since it's had my attention for longer. (The first book helped.) Though like an above poster said, Elsweyr would require them to show all the types of khajiit. There are problems with that, but they are surmountable.

I honestly think that all that crystal stuff in Summerset would get exhausting to look at after a while. I think people would find a world made mostly of Altmer kind of uninviting as well, even if they weren't in the middle of trying to establish themselves as rightful rulers over the lesser races.

High Rock and Hammerfell are the most likely candidates for the next game by far because they're human areas, and also the least interesting to me. Hammerfell has some potential. And I could listen to lots of Hammerfall while playing it. High Rock seems most likely of all, because it lets them keep setting games in historic Europe. At least it has Orsinium as a redeeming quality.

I don't believe any engine they're likely to use in TES6 could do justice to Valenwood. Moving trees with cities in them in a game that is still completely open world just seems like it would either feel so artificial as to be out of place, or be very hard to implement, depending on how they went about it. And the trees probably wouldn't be nearly as massive as they ought to be, either. I hope they do this, but as like, TES9 or something.

The other continents are more interesting to me as distant, unseen places. Tamriel as a whole would require either ten times as long to make it (so in the 2030s or so), or a tenth the detail we're used to. And then for the next game, they'd have to rehash the same territory.

AKAVIR

Elsweyr. Definitely. All the other places I can kind of wrap my head around. Like, I'd be able to predict what they'd be like and wouldn't hold too many surprises. Elsweyr has a lot more potential.

Maybe that's just me though.

why not a bunch of countrys like dagger fall?

Not possible at this point in time.
Daggerfall was only pulled off because the land was randomly generated.

I totally agree with you.

Valenwood FTW!!!

The size on the map is completely irrelevant.

Elsweyr or Hammerfell. Very interested in both lands .

Black Marsh. Fascinating place, assuming they can provide a strange nature like in the books. Can't wait to see Argonians in their habitat.

I generally vote for Black Marsh in these polls, but after going up against the Thalmor I'm now rooting for Valenwood. Cannibalistic elves rising up against hegemonic Altmer, what's not to like?

Cannibalistic elves? Where'd you get that from? O_O

I just tried looking it up on UESP and couldn't find anything on it, and I've never read about that in the in-game books (Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim. I've never played Daggerfall or Arena).

But that definitely does sound interesting.