Maybe it's just me but identification is not what I seek in video games. I'm seeking the thrill of the adventure and the originality of each story. Vvardenfell was weird and alien, I had no attempt to identify with the land or the local culture, and yet it's my favorite game of all time. The beast races lands would offer great alien worlds to explore and wonder, so different from the last two games. I hope they'll give these provinces a try, there can't be a better moment than now, after a very successful human game.

Elder Scrolls wiki is a terrible source for lore, full of fanon, and unsourced information. Use UESP at least, if not the The Imperial library.

But really, everything about the Khajiit culture is based on real-world culture. The Khajiit's culture is only alien to those who have a very poor knowledge of current, and historical, of human cultures.

The Mane, Moon Worship, Clan Mothers, the moon sugar trade, moon phases affecting breeds of Khajiit.

The beast races lands would offer great alien worlds to explore and wonder, so different from the last two games. I hope they'll give these provinces a try, there can't be a better moment than now, after a very successful human game.

That would be great but Bethesda as a money making business may find it natural to try another succesful human game after the previous succesful human game, right?

I need some sort of identification in the PC but not the setting. One of the few things I didn't like about Dead Island, for example, was that there was no option for a white male character- which, to be completely honest, is the character I tend to play as in RPGs as I am myself a white male. That being said I don't give a damn about the identifiability of the setting for TES VI as long as we can still create a customized character to our own tastes. I mean even Skyrim isn't all that 'identifiable' to your average gamer. I might have Scandinavian ancestry but I'm certainly not used to living in castles and staving off bandits with a sword.

Hello Bethesda team, please stop trying to reinvent the rpg with every installment. Bring back the TES attributes, birthsigns and spells and try to make them work along with the perks to make an even deeper customization system. And please put more weight into dialogue choices, speech checks and characters personality (background, principles, disposition, etc...)

If they wanted to, I could see them finishing this in two or three more games. I doubt that would occur, but hear me out.

TESVI could (and I say should) take place in Hammerfell, one of the few nations of Tamriel completely unaffiliated with the Empire or Dominion in any way. It would be the starting strokes of the second Great War, and so both groups would attempt to get the Redguards on their side, the Dominion so that A: they could pincer the heart of Empire between the fearsome warriors of Hammerfell and their own wizards and B: Because Redguards have the Aldmeri worldview as regards Lorkhan. That would make the pattern of games as regards local Lorkhan views go Elven mavericks (Dunmer, Morrowind) unimportant filler game (Oblivion) typical humans (Nords, Skyrim), human mavericks (Redguards, Hammerfell) and typical elves (Altmer/Bosmer, Dominion, more on that later). Further, the Redguards are unique among humans for their appearance, cultural origins and means of fighting wars. The storyline could go either nonviolent or violent depending on player choice, where (and this is the bitterest pill to take in this idea) it will be the Empire who wins, but the means and ease of their victory is up to you. The game would begin by fixing one major error in Skyrim's opening moments: the Empire were the ones trying to kill you in Skyrim at first, whereas in this the Empire would save you from a Thalmor prison camp hidden on the southern border of the country, making you like them more and the Thalmor less. It gives you a character motivation and a background, however slight, with both sides before the real MQ begins. Later on, you can be a political genius who manages to succeed without bloodshed, someone who never gets their hands dirty, someone who does do their own murder, or you can eschew the political method for the more direct one in a more typical sword-and-sorcery adventure along the lines of the last few games. It would have to be awash in mythic symbolism, of course, a lot of snakes and scarabs both as enemy types and on heraldry. The devs should all re-play Redguard while reading a lot of African, arabic, japanese and nateve american literature to get in the zone before designing any of the writing or visuals.

Sooner or later they run out of "human" provinces and they have to take the beasts into consideration. Let's assume the next one is Hammerfell (yuck) then what? Go back to Cyrodiil and then back to Skyrim? I suppose they included beasts in this universe for some reasons, and one of them could be making stand out, original flavored games in their homelands. I think now the timing is just perfect to go to a beast land.

But they HAVE run out of Human provinces. High Rock and Hammerfell were both covered in Daggerfall. There are no more human provinces left. Just elf and beast provinces, and we've already been to an elf province. I think its time for a beast province.

No Hammerfell and High Rock weren't covered. The Illiac Bay was. And by your logic I can sit here and say we've been to all of Tamriel in Arena.

"there be dragons there be vikings there be microdetail macrodetail boom headshot in slow motion" Skyrim.

Haha lmao you caught the essence of modern TES

I share the opinion that BGS needs better writers like Michael Kirkbride or others like him (in Obsidian studios). I don't know if he was part of Oblivion's team but in my opinion that game had more meaningful quests and dialogue lines.

Am I the only one who isn't buying this 'Bethesda won't make a game in a beast province because it won't be profitable' theory?

I've been playing a lot of dual wielding lately and something's missing. I agree that block should be out but if a person has the dexterity to wield two weapons simultaneously they should have the finesse to parry and riposte attacks. Make it a perk if you have to, devs.