TES V will most likely take place in Skyrim, but I'm not so sure about High Rock.

As long as technology limits us to current land sizes, I'd prefer they avoid using two provinces. Ideally, less than one. Oblivion probably would have felt less small to a lot of people if it hadn't been trying to represent an entire province over 16 square miles, which created a pretty ridiculous sense of scale.

Technology? I thought development time limited land sizes. Are larger land sizes not possible for some reason? I agree that only one province(if even one province) should be used, but I'm curious to know how technology limits land sizes.

It's partly a limit, but partly in the "can't do it yet" sense either. More advanced graphics and systems take up more space and system resources, which is why Morrowind occupies far more of your hard drive than Daggerfall despite the size difference. Development time is important of course, but there's also the issue of how many gigabytes of space you're willing to take up with miles and miles of modern graphical land. Not to mention the strain on RAM for the computer to be "aware" of it all at once, so you'd have to break it up into awkward loading chunks just to reach these areas that would likely be just giant blocks of Daggerfallish random nothing.

As hardware improves to accommodate this stuff development tools also improve. Technology "limits" things in the sense of it not being able to do them effectively yet. As an example, animations. Bethesda doesn't have good history with them, and they're not easy to make; you find sparing animation in lots of things. But technology is improving there, with stuff like Euphoria, which will also become better and easier with time. That's a lot of what I mean by technological limit, we just can't effectively make it all with the development time and resources allowed, currently, but as things improve we'll probably see larger land masses.

yeah, sure, but still they dont give off the "here in the big city" like i got from Daggerfall or example Vivec.

and Morrowind is frontier land, not very old settlements = not very big.

Cyrodiil, Heart province of a 1000-500 year old, continent wide Empire = where is my city of Rome?

they could do way bigger cities since they are in a separate cell.

Why din't I see this thread before!!!!!!!!! :facepalm:

I could be interested in seeing The Crystal Tower or what its called, as well as the way the thieves guilds are in the game

Why not just make it an expansion, a la Shivering Isles? The two relatively modern Elder Scrolls have each had an expansion which kind of takes you out of the main provinces (Bloodmoon, Shivering Isles), although I suppose you could say Bloodmoon is still basically Tamriel. Anyhow, Shivering Isles definitely sets the precedent for taking the character to somewhere totally alien. It almost feels like a completely different game than Oblivion (except your character has the same skills, and can create the same potions, and carry over equipment from the main game).

So, they could potentially take you to some part of Akavir through a similar magic portal to how you got to the Madgod's Realm. Heck, instead of making it an expansion, maybe they have a game which is split between a kingdom in Akavir, and a province in Tamriel. Maybe there's things you can't accomplish in Tamriel before you first accomplish something in Akavir.

There's absolutely possibilities, it's just a matter of whether or not Bethesda/Zeni decide to try to go that route.

Actually, ever since I heard the rumor in Oblivion about the "Nerevarine going on an expedition to Akavir", it has suggested to me a strong possibility that gamesas might have something in mind for the future with Akavir (although, it might also have just been a way to explain why the almighty Nerevarine didn't show up to save the day, or possibly an in-lore way to save him/her from dieing when the Ministry of Justice crashed into Vivec City, although, honestly, I don't really expect the player character from a previous game to ever make an appearance in a future game - BUT, the future game could certainly include in the backstory/lore, some sort of events set into motion by the Nerevarine while he/she was in Akavir; since the Nerevarine was an Agent of Azura, it could be that he went to Akavir at the bidding of Azura, in order to pave the way for a future hero, or maybe another incarnation of the Nerevarine, I mean, if you can be re-incarnated once, why not twice).

I think that the Nerevarine going to Akavir is actually more indicative of them not going there since the point of saying that he might have gone to Akavir is to get him out of the way.

Akavir is a stage prop. It's something cardboard set out on the horizon with some paintbrush strokes to give the player the impression that there's something big and completely alien far away. To flesh it out would remove its role as that stage prop.

ThatOneGuy speaks the truth.