It seems like in every elders scrolls the lore becomes less accurate and more crontradictory to the former it no longer rmakes any sense I want To read Others opinions on the matter so what do you think

No.

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...No.

No

I don't see how you could have an overhaul (let alone a "complete" one) without making it a fresh setting. Yes there are discrepancies and some of them are controversial but the core setting seems largely in tact.

Also, when we consider that much of the lore we have comes from in-game sources it's understandable that things won't always add up. You look at the history of an region or people and you'll find discrepancies and conflicts that far exceed anything in the Elder Scrolls lore and this is all "real" information.

Not really.. half the fun is asking questions, trying to figure out whats going on yourself.
The other half is debating it with others, to see views you never considered, just like life.

Try again.

No.

Not really seeing how you think the lore is so messed up that a complete overhaul is required. There's not even that many things that don't make sense. A few discrepancies here and there but, but so much that it's not even feasible? Not really.
No overhaul needed.

No.

...just no.

It's in-game books, so contradicting would make sense.

Nope.

Please explain your opinion – and the reasoning behind it – in more depth.

Sometimes it gets confusing, but I'd rather have it NOT hauled over, just continued to be expanded.

I have to agree with the others here, Bethesda should not completely change the lore. Now, there are things about the lore that I think could be better but if you're just going to completely rewrite everything, than what's the point of even claiming it's the same setting? You might as well just set it in a completely new universe. And it's not like Bethesda can't do that, Bethesda is legally allowed to make games other than the Elder Scrolls. If they really wanted to do a different setting, they could always just start a new series set in a different universe.

If Bethesda wants to adress the inconsistencies present in the lore, the solution would be to explain why the current lore differs from the past, or change it back to the way it was before. Changing everything isn't the solution.

No.

I like the confusion. I mean, how many disappearance of the Dwemer theories have thier been?

If anything, we need books to lie. They shouldn't be a 100% hard fact of the world. A lot of books where written by big, superioritist scholars simply to big up themselves or thier cause.

OP... No.


Exactly.

Ohh, and OP... No.

When I was skimming through the imperial city Library I saw contridictions alot of them But i'm not exactly saying to redo It from scratch that's a pain in the [censored] for the writers what I meant to say the more lore you make the harder to remember what have you have acknowladge before I know it gives it a more realistic perspective how the thoughts of mortals evolve over time and their truth they know about their own world change like for instance humans used to believe in the planets revolving around the earth i'm just saying they could completely disregard some of there lore in future games and it would make since since at different time periods understanding of our natural would gets more depth and complexity but certain aspects such as the dates or the phases of the two moons should stay the same I would care less about contradictinos if they had some proof of disproving the previous beliefs that was establish in previous games.

and if the rumors about it being set 250 yrs in the future or something like that are correct I dont want them to waste time keeping some aspects of the lore "alive"

No.

But expect controversial retcons in the future anyway.

People have already given my opinions. Namely, "no," and further "any dicrepancy can be chalked up to lore being entirely from in-universe sources and are therefore both understandable and make the setting deeper and more interesting."

NO NO NO.

The lore is often dumb and makes no sense in TES, but they shouldn't go out of their way to change it. They should just make new games where they do a better job. Eventually, the old lore will be updated, tweaked, and over written enough that they world makes more sense.

Don't insault the Lore... on the Lore forums. It doesn't bode well with its residents.

And NO, they don't need to change it,they just need to spend more time matching what Lore exists to what appears in the game. IE, don't turn Summerset Islands into a jungle (in an opposite of what they did to Cyrodiil>)

It could be dumb, because you don't understand it.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/15282-elder-scrolls-lore-faq/

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1112211-how-to-become-a-lore-buff/

First of all, what is lore? Some people here on the forums seems to claim that everything written in some book or note is lore. Some say that lore is what the newest game present to us.
An example of this is the Cyrodiil not being a jungle. Have we ever been 100% sure it was supposed to be a jungle? Or is it just a small piece of information written a long time ago without much thought to it. The games where cyrodiil has been accessable hasn't been a jungle, but a small line written somewhere seems to mean more than what we see in the games.

So what is correct "lore"?

Correct lore is what ever the developers want it to be.

And yes, we were absolutely sure that Cyrodiil was jungle. Or at least as sure as we can be with anything in TES.