This thread is for ideas and suggestions for future Elder Scrolls games, and to keep all the discussion in one series of threads.

We have a long way to go before we get another ES game. In the meantime, similar topics will be closed and referred to this one.

Note there is a separate thread specifically for http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1595068-tes-vi-location-and-setting-speculation-30/ suggestions for future games. Please keep discussion of Skyrim in the correct forums.

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1598314-official-beyond-skyrim-tes-vi-76/

I'd agree with that to a certain extent. I think there were some great quests in Fallout 4, but I rarely forgot that I was playing a game, and that's not something I look for in Elder Scrolls games (or even Bethesda fallout titles). Perhaps they were thinking that it was a Fallout game, and the original titles in that series were very game-y - all about consciously thinking through tactics rather than just getting absorbed in exploration. If that's the case, then I think that the Elder Scrolls games should continue in the vein that we know and love. Perhaps there's also an effort to differentiate the franchises so that they're not each anologous with different wrapping - in other words, you shouldn't come to Fallout expecting Skyrim with guns, and vice versa.

So without knowing why they did it that way, it's impossible to say what the impact will be on the next game. What I do know is that you can't really talk about "trends" when it comes to Bethesda games as each is designed from the ground up, so Oblivion was vastly different from Fallout 3, which was vastly different from Skyrim. They've got several years to come up with the next game, so as long as we keep reminding them that the games are all about "Live another life" above all else, the next game should be fine.

In all fairness, Bethesda likes to try and reinvent the wheel every time they release a game. I mean, of course they would, trying to make the same game four times over (Fallout 3 and onward is structurally identical to TES's formula at this point) would drive anyone batty.

Basically, I expect whatever gameplay quirks come into play, it'll wholly be dependent on what they actually decide to do with the setting. I suppose crafting could be a thing, but they could just as easily pull a Inquisiiton on us and start actually have us take territories and forts for ourselves, allowing us to customize those. Will we see something like Fallout 4's settlement system? Personally, I don't think so. Copying that formula would be the obvious thing to do, and if Bethesda is anything, they're not ones to copy/paste a games past quirks into a newer product.

But, none of that matters now. Whatever they release, I'll actually be able to play the damn thing unlike Fallout 4, for I'm getting myself a new rig. IF ANY OF THE PARTS EVER SHOW UP.