Skyrim or Summerset Isle

Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:54 am

I would like to see a game taking place somewhat in the other continents, maybe search the remains of Yokuda or visit Pyandonea and the Maormers.
Akavir probably would be a good place. You were once a cabin mate on-board a fishing vessel. A storm appears suddenly and you find yourself washed ashore an unknown land. You are first heading to find some of your fellow shipmates and... enh.

I'd rather not go to Akavir since it would lose its mystique, and as for Yokuda I dont think there is anything left and the Maormers kill on sight so....
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:27 am

Skyrim, I like the cold. B)
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Post » Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:12 pm

I know Skyrim isn't all snow, but the main reason I loved Cyrodiil is because it encompassed a lot of different terrain types and regional flora. Skyrim would be mostly forests and snow caps.
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:11 am

I know Skyrim isn't all snow, but the main reason I loved Cyrodiil is because it encompassed a lot of different terrain types and regional flora. Skyrim would be mostly forests and snow caps.


That's good enough, besides It's home of the Nords :mohawk:
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:30 am

I'd rather not go to Akavir since it would lose its mystique, and as for Yokuda I dont think there is anything left and the Maormers kill on sight so....

I would like to go to Akavir. Why would you like to just know lore about some random place that you'll never visit? As for the Maormer, you could possibly play as one. That or Bethesda could ignore the lore and make them nice... Yes, they could ignore the lore just as they did with Oblivion.

Edit: Are murderous Maormer even part of the lore?
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:30 am

I think it should be on Summerset Isle. That way, you're confined to an island, like you were in Morrowind.
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:58 am

Why would you like to just know lore about some random place that you'll never visit?

Edit: Are murderous Maormer even part of the lore?

Because Akavir's sole purpose is to provide some rudimentary cardboard cutouts at the farthest point of the metaphorical horizon. As thoroughly argued in http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1050070. The point of Akavir is not Akavir in itself and all the details of Akavir, but the sense of expanse and wonder and the unknown that Akavir provides the world. Its purpose is to not be explored.

Maormer are generally associated with negative effects for Tamriel. Like whenever they try to steal away Summurset Isles.
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Post » Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:36 pm

Summerset Isles would propably have a more original culture, and that way can also lead to a richer story. I can imagine that the Altmer would have a pretty cool political system filled with corruption, just like Morrowind.
It would also be a good opportunity to bring in the sloads, which I think are some of the most interesting races in the lore.

There are not that much information that would give us a good picture of the Isles' nature and architecture, so the developers can be really creative in that regard.
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:27 am

Based on what was said in oblivon i would say there would be some kind of uprising in the Summerset Isle that would probably be a turning point in elder scrolls history maybe a magic based type game and such stuff to do crystals staffs swords that slash magic and magic looking auras and mage wear cloths.
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Post » Thu Dec 10, 2009 7:37 pm

Either. While seeing an rather odd location in Tamriel would be great, the fact that the place is filled with (as they are said to be from what I have heard about them) snooty and arrogant high elves would put me off.
What they could do is have one in the main game and release the other one as an expantion. That way, both groups will be happy.
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Post » Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:27 pm

ive always been wanting skyrim for the next game, but one thing im slightl concerned about is how non human races will fit in with the environment. i play imperials, dark elves, sometimes nords and khaajit, orcs sometimes too, and you get the point, but alot of the races might look really out of place. unless they continue to make every race the exact same with diff. skin colour.
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:24 am

skyrim. imagine a combination of vvardenfel, solstheim, and norway combined.... in other words freakin' awesome
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Post » Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:48 pm

Ok, so most of the debates if youve been watching are between skrim and summerset isle which would you guys prefer?(I dont know anything about both so i dont care)

If you ask me this Deadra Worship in the Summerset Isle seems like a location similar to Morrowind and the Questline of Oblivion.
But it seems that Skyrim is having some big fights and is the homeland of the Nords and I like FIGHTS that remind me of Vikings and people that remind me of Vikings.
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:06 am

I know Skyrim isn't all snow, but the main reason I loved Cyrodiil is because it encompassed a lot of different terrain types and regional flora. Skyrim would be mostly forests and snow caps.

If the game was set in Skyrim, it could be more than "just snow and ice". The province is bordered by High Rock, Hammerfell, Cyrodiil and Morrowind. That's a lot of different environments right there if Bethesda decided to include parts of them. Although, the part of Cyrodiil that borders Skyrim is all snow, mountains and ice... The rest of the climates greatly differ from Skyrim's.
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:00 am

Why Summerset for me? Well, while I Love snow, and on that end would preffer Skyrim, I also am fond of access to the sea, Elves, Magic, Daedra, and pathways/interaction from Oblivion's realms. . . Summerset Isles seems far more likely to have everything in that second list.
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Post » Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:35 pm

Why Summerset for me? Well, while I Love snow, and on that end would preffer Skyrim, I also am fond of access to the sea, Elves, Magic, Daedra, and pathways/interaction from Oblivion's realms. . . Summerset Isles seems far more likely to have everything in that second list.

Skyrim has a giant sea to the north, it also has the Falmer and possibly a large amount of Dunmer, thanks to what happened in The Infernal City. And I'm sure there is plenty of magic and Daedra there as well.
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:14 am

Skyrim has a giant sea to the north, it also has the Falmer and possibly a large amount of Dunmer, thanks to what happened in The Infernal City. And I'm sure there is plenty of magic and Daedra there as well.


If you are correct sir, and the Giant Northern Sea, the Dunmer and the copious Daedra and Daedric realm accessing opportunities go from the realm of speculation to the realm of hard fact. . . I may well reconsider my statement. I thank you for those factors for contemplation. :foodndrink:
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:40 am

If you are correct sir, and the Giant Northern Sea, the Dunmer and the copious Daedra and Daedric realm accessing opportunities go from the realm of speculation to the realm of hard fact. . . I may well reconsider my statement. I thank you for those factors for contemplation. :foodndrink:

You seem quite rude. The proper name for the "Giant Northern Sea" is the Sea of Ghosts and whether or not there are Dunmer in Skyrim doesn't matter. There are the Falmer, so there will be plenty of elves. The Daedra that I "speculated" on come in the form of werewolves, werebears and wereboars. How's that for hard fact?
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:58 am

I also have a bias: I just want to see the thu'um in some cutscenes. the won't put it in the actuall game because of the uberness factor, but it will have to show up at some point. same with the imperial college of the voice. if they don't...I'll make the non-existent throwing stars out of the disk and attach it to a spear that will be shot out of a crossbow at the Developers.


lol
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:10 am

Skyrim, I do not like the snooty high elves, and in their homeland, they are bound to be more common
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:03 am

You seem quite rude. The proper name for the "Giant Northern Sea" is the Sea of Ghosts and whether or not there are Dunmer in Skyrim doesn't matter. There are the Falmer, so there will be plenty of elves. The Daedra that I "speculated" on come in the form of werewolves, werebears and wereboars. How's that for hard fact?


The Falmer are a lost race, who knows if we'll ever actually encounter any in Skyrim. Even if we did, it would be a very rare occurrence.
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:17 am

The Falmer are a lost race, who knows if we'll ever actually encounter any in Skyrim. Even if we did, it would be a very rare occurrence.

It depends upon what the developers want to do with them.
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:18 am

Skyrim, for quite a few reasons. First and foremost of which, I'm [censored] sick of elves. Well, sorta. Just think, Morrowind is an elven culture, In the lore Nibeneans are High-Elf lite, while Colovians are Nordic lite, but we didn't get any distinguished cultural lore in Oblivion. let's have a human province, please.

Second, if, as the book implies, Summerset Isles are the seat of the racially and culturally intolerant New Aldmeri Dominion, it would be almost impossible to play a non-Altmer, and even more so if you are human. They could pull a Morrowind, saying that even if you are an Altmer you aren't from the isles, but they've done that before. Skyrim is implied to be almost completely independent, so you could conceivably play any race, and still get oodles of new lore.

Third, Nords are just awesome, and if a person needs more than that as a reason to do something, then that person is a truly sad individual.

Fourth: IT'S NOT JUST [censored] SNOW!

Fifth: Unearthing the Falmer civilization would provide dungeons like the Dwemer and Ayleid ruins, but also be completely new.
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Post » Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:49 pm

Fourth: IT'S NOT JUST [censored] SNOW!

Especially after the events mentioned in the book. If Vvardenfell erupted, it likely wouldn't be limited to just Morrowind; I wouldn't be surprised if the easternmost reaches of Skyrim are part of the new ashlands created by the eruption (especially if the Nords took the opportunity to go and claim some of Morrowind when the Dunmer left).
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Post » Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:15 am

Especially after the events mentioned in the book. If Vvardenfell erupted, likely wouldn't be limited to just Morrowind; I wouldn't be surprised if the easternmost reaches of Skyrim are part of the new ashlands created by the eruption (especially if the Nords took the opportunity to go and claim some of Morrowind when the Dunmer left).

I'm gonna admit that I hadn't even thought of that at all. Kudos to you for not... being an idiot like I just did.
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