Many people have so far suggested multiple provinces in one game, just like in DF.
And I'm gonna suggest one too:
Skyrim, High Rock and some parts of Hammerfell and maybe some parts of Morrowind.
That's what I say.

Personally I dont care where it takes place as long as i get to play another Elder Scrolls. I love the games even though I have only played Morrowind and Oblivion but plan on playing the others the moment I get the chance. I would like to see them use the entire map in a game but that is probably not gonna happen until consoles and PCs get bigger and better hard drives to generate it.

Play arena Vysa King (Arena is TES I)

Everything this guy said, plus the fact the Solstheim was just such a cool place to explore, and that was only tiny.

im being greedy here but i think it would be great if it was just one epic game which allowed you to travel to all parts of cyrodil. or at least at some point they released a whole area as DLC, would certainly give it longetivity :L

In Oblivion you can axcess all parts of Cyrodiil.

Dude I have to agree with that. It would be cool to see 2 countrys. It would give more citys and perhaps they could be warring with each other and you can choose who you ally yourself with.

I wouldn't mind 2 different countries.
I'd prob'ly have to vote Elsweyr for one of them, I want to see the ktities!! :wub:

Have the kitties at war with the ugly lizards, maybe? :frog:

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Skyrim or Hammerfell would be nice

skyrim = giant bruma. besides, the name skyrim isnt even original (black marsh isnt either, so they called it argonia) skyrim just means "touches the rim of the sky" - that means mountains - unscalable mountains, because beth aint gonna have levitation or climbing skills, according to m'aiq

Like hell it is. Sorry, but that horse has been beaten to death so long it might as well be classified as ground meat.

Skyrim is not all snow and ice. The western half of Skyrim, called the Reach, is temperate and contains both forests and river-valleys. Wheat can thrive there, which means that temperatures in that area have to be fairly neutral. The eastern and southern sections DO fulfill that stereotype of snow and ice, being ruggedly mountainous and frigid, but that doesn't mean it can be automatically compared to the simplified-mountain-slope-fest that was Bruma. Imagine deep chasms, wide and narrow fjords, steep cliffs, eroded paths in mountainsides, glacial formations, frozen lakes, etc, etc. All of those make for a snow-and-ice region that far surpasses Bruma's surrounding ambience. Skyrim has complexity and significant variance of climate.

And who says that levitation or climbing won't make a comeback? The only reason levitation went away in Oblivion was because cities had to be their own worldspace due to lack of rendering optimization in the engine. Umbra render culling tech, among other things, would solve that.

yeah but the other 50% is just snow and ice... just like alaska either way
EDIT: and levitation isnt coming back, m'aiq says so

I can see by your choice tutor's name, that you are well informed in the manifold truth.

The other 50% is just snow and ice? Please re-read my post. We might as well say that 75% of Hammerfell is just desert, or that 90% of Black Marsh is just swamp.
And what's wrong with Alaska? Alaska's an incredibly diverse and geographically interesting/unique place. We might as well say that Elsweyr is just like the Sahara Desert.

Really, if you have a preference for a provincial style, that's all well and good, but at least acknowledge that each province has equal potential to be a unique experience, just as each province also has equal potential to be a watered down simplification.

EDIT: And just because M'Aiq talked about the removal of levitation in TES:IV, it doesn't mean that TES:V won't have it. After all, M'Aiq talked about the removal of horses in TES:III, but there just happened to be horses in TES:IV.

Cyrodiil is just the French countryside.

elsweyr is just a desert? heheh, thats a good one. everyone knows that it is forest and desert. and if half of skyrim is all mountains then that would be a waste of space, since you couldnt get anywhere. and black marsh is a swamp, thats what makes it cool, that and argonians live there.

EDIT: anyways, i think tesv should be in argonia elsweyr and or valenwood. no point in turning this into a fight since i said it was all snow and ice...

EDIT 2: actually i think skyrim would be a great place for my adventurer's guild idea, if people didnt try to bash that into the ground. so, sooorrryyyy i bashed skyrim into the ground....thought thats technically impossible, since 50% it is all mountains....

i dont really have a favorite but if i do think it will be in skyrim summerset isles or valenwood (all three of which sound awesome)

Summerset would be neat. All that lore... And magic! I think I would hesitate even buying the game was it set in Skyrim. Snow, snow, snow..., snow... Mountain!!!....snow...snow, wolf!!...snow. Well that?s fun.

Please read...
This: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=985390&st=80
This: http://www.imperial-library.info/pge/skyrim.shtml
Look at this: http://www.imperial-library.info/maps/cyrodiillargelowrescr7.jpg
And perhaps even scroll up the page to see http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1033980&view=findpost&p=15048130.

Skyrim is not all snow.
And snow does not uniformly == boring.
And Skyrim has just as much potential for lore as Summurset Isle.

Just want to say that the map you linked to is nothing more than guesses and imagination from the creator. The real Skyrim doesn't have to look anything like that and it most likely will not.

Still though I agree that Skyrim probably won't be only snow.

Im diggin the skyrim art man.

I think that world map just looks awesome. Very detailed.

ok ok we see its not all snow and ice, but the other 50% of it is, and where i come from we get enough snow.... all you can see is a powdery white field of freezing snow....man i hate iowa :shakehead:

i would want it to be a mash up of valenwood, the summerset isles, and maybe eleswyr all in one game that way it would be close to the size of cyrodill as aposed to just one small province plus if they did this that could add in the possiblity of boat travel which would be fun and make pirate a larger part of the game maybe

I would hope Skyrim was less Alaska (although it's an apparently magical place) and more Iceland.

You have the snow and the mountains, sure, but you also have various kinds of vegetation and areas of volcanic activity.
Diversity in a barren wilderness, basically.