Combinations!

Summerset Isle/Valenwood/Elswyr, or High Rock/Hammerfell/Skyrim.

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Brilliant!

I could see the Summerset Isles, Valenwood and Elsweyr being in one game, but High Rock, Hammerfell and Skyrim in one game would be too much. Hammerfell and Skyrim are too big to include in one game. I think it would be better if the main province was Skyrim with parts of High Rock, Hammerfell, Morrowind and possibly Cyrodiil being accessable. Then you would have several different environments to explore, save for the part of Cyrodiil that borders Skyrim. Then people wont complain, "It's all snow and ice!"

only it's elder scrolls you end up having :sadvaultboy:

Summerset Isle, and im not worried about how it will be represented I would have faith beth would do it fantasic. I really like the island idea with out fake %$# borders like in tes 4

Somewhat like Vesuviuas

I would like to see Skyrim. I welcome the mountains and snow believing that gamesas will make one heck of a quest line out of it.

if i had to have 1 of the 2 it would be the summerset isles. id like to see it take place in valenwood though, wood elves are my favourite race and id like to see valenwood for real and not just read about it. what would be sweet though if they did it like arena and made all of tamriel accesible!

Skyrim,There needs to be more werewolves!Bring back the Werewolves. Bloodmoon style. After all Werewolves Do exist on all Lands of Tameriel So Where were they in Oblivion. Its time for the Werewolves to Shine instead of the vampires.

Actually, Skyrim wouldn't be all that bad of a setting, since it's not supposed to be "all snow", except that I get really tired of the stupid and belligerent Nords that clutter up the place. They're the ONLY race I never felt a reason to play in either of the last two TES games. Since the Skyrim setting is "probable" at this point, and it'll probably be another generic "pseudo-medieval" landscape and culture like OB anyway, only with a more "Scandinavian" flavor, I guess I'll have to wait for TES VI or VII to see another really "exotic" setting like Black Marsh or Valenwood.

Erm, you may forget that Arena and Daggerfall were predominantly "pseudo-medieval" as well. Granted this was due to the limited graphical engines and less fleshed out culture, but the point still stands. If anything, Morrowind was the exception for the Tamrielic provinces. Do not expect to see giant mushrooms or hollowed out moons in many of the other provinces, as, in all honesty, most of Tamriel is pretty generic, at least compared to Morrowind.

But that's not a bad thing. Oblivion's flaw was in its lack of variety, not its general environment. A generic European setting would be fine if it had as much diversity in climates and architecture as Morrowind had. And if anything, Skyrim is probably the Earth-like province with the most potential to be unique - hot springs, massive chasms, hollowed out glaciers, et cetera. I'd say the only other human province that could prove to be fairly diverse would be Hammerfell, http://www.imperial-library.info/maps/map_hf_names.jpg. Desert? Savannah? Jungle? Not bad.

Back on topic, the Nords don't have to be solely influenced by Scandinavia. Bretons seem to be the equivalent of the Celts, but maybe Bethesda could draw inspiration from the Visigothic/Germanic societies as well.

Skrim because Nords are awesome our current processors and computer chips wouldn't be able to handle it

I voted Summerset Isle. I'm biased too in that I'm from Norway - the Norse-like viking-style Nord culture is slightly boring for me, because it's too close to home, so to speak. We've also seen parts of Nord culture and architecture in Solstheim and Bruma - but we haven't seen anything from the home of the Altmers. I would love that.

As long as the snow is not just white ground like in oblivion, I say Skyrim.

Skyrim, but only if we get some cool barbaric armor for it. I want to play as a huge Nord barbarian dressed in bear and wolf furs. Though if it's not I'm just going to get it modded in, even if I have to learn to model it myself

EDIT: I've got it now, Nord Barbarian Werewolf. Make it so Bethesda and all my faith in you will be renewed. The sacrifices will resume! (They'll know what I mean...)

Also, for the love of all that is good, Beards! You have the technogoly, you did it in Fallout 3, my nord barbarian needs a beard!

Skyrim of course. Nords are AWESOME.

skyrim all the way, i want a change of scenery, i would like to see more snow, and maybe to hunt wild bears in the woods. And the mountain scenery would be interesting to look at. Plus i could contine playing an assasin who hate snords, win win mega kill spree.

assassins hate snords!!! I better be on the lookout!

Skyrim.

I would rather have skyrim as it sounds way more action packed than the weak an wimpy altmer. I can already picture a few action scenes with explosions and huge battles, and nords are awsome fighters, next to redguards.

I think that Summerset is best left for later on in the series. There are other parts of Tamriel to see before Summerset Isles (I picture Summerset being the last place visited in Tamriel).... I would much rather go to a well done Skyrim than an anxiously done sub-par Summerset......
Though my original vote was for TESV to take place throughout every square inch of Valenwood/Elsweyr (with proper boarders and accurate views looking into Cyrodiil).

Either way, I am trusting Bethesda will take what they learned from Morrowind and Oblivion to create and fine tune what should/could be the most inclusive and indepth ES game yet.

Skyrim!


I love the setting, I love the nords, and I don't particularly like the high elves haha. Plus Summerset always sounded like a tropical beach to me. Not really my thing.





I've been wanting to see Skyrim since the first time I set foot in Solstheim.

This actually sums up what I think, if Bethesda has paid attention to even half the criticism on the "blandness" of Oblivions setting, then TESV's will be brilliant.

I don't think either of these would be fun. What made the environments of Morrowind so fun to play in was their diversity; Skyrim is all ice and snow. You could travel all the land and it would all look the same. Unlike in Morrowind, there are not very big differences within the cultures of the Nords in Skyrim, and even if they added some diversity to Skyrim it wouldn't be anything you'd never seen before. It'd be 90% Bloodmoon without Hircine, 5% Bruma, 5% Dagon Fel. It just wouldn't be interesting. Besides, after Oblivion, an Elder Scrolls game set in a place more foreign to real-life cultures would be interesting. Trudging through Cyrodiil felt like playing any other fantasy rpg churned out by the gears of low-budge game making, albeit with some lovely twists here and there. Nonetheless, the beauty of the elder scrolls world is in its relative unconventionality compared to other fantasy games. Skyrim would be monotonous and boring, and Summerset doesn't have enough of a population of foreigners, I'd imagine, to make playing as any race other than Altmer fesible. Also, no one likes them.

My vote? Elsweyr. In-game descriptions point to it as being geographically and culturally diverse, and the southern part is definitely cosmopolitan enough to have foreign presence and the political system is arcane and complex enough to provide intrigue and fun similar to the Great Houses of Morrowind.

Plus, khajiits are badass.
Joining a skooma-lord sort of faction? that'd be tite. Hunting bears in the snow? Go to Bruma. Or Solstheim. It's already been done.

Summerset Isle (although, we won't be able to abbreviate it with SI...) because of the events that took place in the novel. Skyrim would be good as well, but I like SumI better... (did that one work...?)