Is it time for TES to get the series reboot treatment?

Considering Skyrim is set centuries after the previous four games, isn't it already a "reboot"?

What Alkonium said.

I'd say so, although Skyrim does still retain some things from the previous games. I think perhaps a game on another continent could be seen as a reboot, too.

If I hear the word "reboot" one more time I won't be answerable for my actions.

During the middle dawn. So past, future, and alternate reality all rolled into one.

Not to bash Skyrim or Oblivion with this, but the events of Oblivion gave the series an epic setup for whatever the next game would be, and they squandered it by setting the game two hundred years after all that. I would have made the main quest start in Skyrim two weeks after the crisis, where all the provinces are still reeling from it. Then the next game would take place in about the same timeframe from the other end of the continent in the Summurset Isles where they try to get their own empire up and running.

Not really.....Oblivion ended the ability for anything from Oblivion to threaten (at least for a long time) there isnt really an 'aftermath' of that. Skyrim was the reboot.

All four previous games were set as the trials of Uriel Septium's life, first being imprisioned, then the War in the West, Fall of Battlespire, defeat of Dagoth Ur and finally with all those events leading ot enough Towers falling for Mehnrunes to breakthrough. Oblivion ended that story, Skyrim is set so far after so the series can do some new things....in that case dragons.

Skyrim is a reboot...no doubt about it.

I would love a game that takes place when Dwemer were still on Nirn.

I would also love a game that is set in distant future with some advancements,but not guns and cars...I'd like to see the future of Tamriel,taking a different path in technology,benefitting from the magic etc.
Like more machines powered by magic sources like soul gems or steam,optic stuff like zoom lenses on (advanced) bows,tech-swords or magic equipment etc. (I loved Hellgate London in that aspect) Also cities with larger scale buildings,to contain the population.
But I know doing this right would require some serious work =D

I'd like them to make either a RTS or a TBS (That's Real Time Strategy or Turn Based Strategy) game using an antique setting. It would obviously not be canon, but it would be fun to relive some of the ancient large scale engagements you read about in the lore.

a reboot in the fashion of deleting all the lore? No. but i've always liked the idea of going back to the past, like the first era or the common era.

Why would you want something from Oblivion to threaten them? They've worn out that crap. The aftermath is the cracked empire and the partially devastated landscape, with a huge power vacuum. Imagine the civil war in skyrim between the nine kings to either start a new empire or hold the old one together. You can still insert dragons into that mix, while people take advantage of those most affected by the Oblivion gates.

Or are you saying something else about there being no aftermath to a four hundred year old empire crumbling, that there's no ambition from the kings?

Oh my Aedra, no please.
I hate it when they do that to other things, for instance I refuse to see the new Star trek movie as canon.
It just seems like such a lazy and trite writers gimmick to me.
'Lets take an idea from the past, and tell it in a way that modern audiences like, in the meantime completely destroying the charm and style of the old product, and erase its lore too if were lucky. '

:Shiver:

Just seems like a really bad idea.
And I love TES lore as it is.

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