all of Tamriel that would be awesome but depending on what race you choose you should start in its homeland

that would be great but it would be to big and certain areas wouldnt be as detailed as they where in ob and mw

Black marsh or the home land of the breton or high elfs.

I seriously discourage Beth to do Summerset Isles. People have very high expectations of this province, with the Psijics and whatnot, so I really doubt Beth can do it good enough, no matter what.
After "Oblivion with guns", it would be described as "Crisis without guns"... unless they opt to implement weapons of course bliviongate:

For me personally i would like to see skyrim we all wonder what it would be like after we got a taste of it in morrowind on the other hand it might be summerset isle because of what npc's said in oblivion.

ive heared theyre doing skyrim

If Beth did Summerset Isles they would do a very good job on the the terrain and such the province would be a good editon but i would like to see Skyrim

I say all of them, what ever race you are, thats where you start.

And TES:V will hit the shelves around 2025. All of them translates to massive world-scale simplification, massive nonsensical procedural generation, or an infeasible waiting time.

If it really launched in 2025, I'd blame you for such a thing. But I'm kidding on that. Love how you seem to be the only one defending Skyrim.

I would love for it to be set in Skyrim. If they dumbed it down to just snow and mountains, so what? You'd still get the interesting lore to go with it. To everyone saying that it would be snow and mountains, think about what it would be like in Elswheyr(didn't spell that right but I stand by it.). If you say it'd be dumbed down to snow and mountains, then Elswheyr(see other parentheses) would be nothing but sand and the occasional water oasis. Sand, sand, sand, sand, sand, OASIS, sand, sand, sand, sand. You can't seriously tell me nothing but a sea of golden brown would be interesting.

Yes, no matter which province it's set in, it has a 95% chance to be dumbed down to boring. Each province has it's own unique landscape and charm. But each one has a high chance to be gutted for it's stereotype setting. Now let's get off the "Skyrim would be dumb because of snow but this province would be awesome because of the land and lore." arguments. Please and thanks.

I thought in the .ini file you could remove border and go to the other sections. I haven't tried it though.

That would be very hard for them because its a large world scale and the province would be to big and there would at least be 1 city in each place with a small amount of dungeons and forts.

Skyrim definitely, but they really need to focus less on grandiose graphics, more on the actual story and setting

I thought in the .ini file you could remove border and go to the other sections. I haven't tried it though.

You can, but it's all just procedurally generated nothingness, and it only extends from Cyrodiil's borders for a little while before you come to this big, eerie "end of the world" thing where the land just stops, and several hundred feet below is the never-ending ocean.

But if they were to do the game with every province, they would have to utilize different world-texture sets for all the different provinces. So however many land textures Oblivion used multiplied by 9. Then, they'd have to create all-unique architecture for not only the individual provinces, but the cultural distinctions and splits within each province as well; multiply all of Oblivion's art files by nine, and then further multiply them by at least 2 or 3. Assuming they continue to hand-place most everything, like Bethesda is known for, they now have 9x the area in which to fill. That includes city structures, caves and ruins and dungeons fairly unique to the provinces, NPCs who are more than just sentence-spouting billboards, a wilderness with actual interesting detail and not just procedurally generated land, etc, etc. They would have to expertly flesh out the religious beliefs and structures in all 9 provinces, flesh out the politics in all 9 provinces, and attempt to pull off the illusion of a self-sufficient and vibrant world in all 9 provinces. Quite a task, really. I'd much rather them focus on one province, or the border region of two provinces, and devote all those efforts to giving vast characterization to a single area, as opposed to spreading all those resources to give a so-so characterization to all of Tamriel.

Besides, from a marketing angle, doing one province at a time is a perfect strategy; it ensures that your series always has new and unexplored places to go, and it guarantees the longevity of your series.





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Yeah, I don't know why all the hatred is reappearing towards Skyrim. We went through all that months ago; I thought everyone had come to terms with the idea that Skyrim as a possible game-setting could be insanely interesting.

Frankly, these two things right here sold me on Skyrim:
http://www.imperial-library.info/obscure_text/aldudagga.shtml
http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=921446

Cyrodiil the real deal would be nice.

But anyway... I want ALL of Tamriel, but it wont happen.

akavir would be nice to go to but suppose its a bit rundown now we havent really heard anywhere outside of Tamreil so i want it to be in Akavir

I would love Cyrodiil again because it was fantastic, but realistically that's not gonna happen twice in a row of course.

So realistically it's either Skyrim or Summerset Isle. I love ice and snowy landscapes, they create one of the best atmospheres in games, but I wonder if TES5 takes place in Skyrim, would there be almost nothing but snowy landscapes? How would Bethesda avoid the criticism they got for Oblivion's "bland and everything looking the same environments" (which I don't personally agree with at all though, but that's what I often read) if they set TES5 in the northern Skyrim region?

After reading a bit about the lore and about the issues occuring around Tamriel (which can of course be disregarded with the coming of the new game ;P), I'd have to cast my vote for the Summerset Isles. It seems the most intriguing to me. In terms of everything. Possible interaction with the Maormer is a plus.
With that said, I wouldn't mind anywhere in the end because I feel each province has great things to offer. Can't wait.

Skyrim is the most logical location from a technical limitations standpoint.

Given the hardware of the 360 and PS3, it's easier to render a bleak, snowy landscape than a lush landscape full of animated foliage with grass, leaves, and bushes swaying in the wind, etc. That's part of why FO3 looks markedly better than Oblivion on the consoles.

Like it or not, TESV will be made with the consoles in mind, since that's where the real money is. With so little RAM to work with, if they want the game to look better than Oblivion/FO3, they're going to need an environment with less foliage to process (this is all assuming they stick with a modified version of the gamebryo engine).

I say Skyrim. If not, then Valenwood. Bosmers were the coolest to me but they were always a bit too short.

Skyrim.

Love me some Nords! Yay Skyrim! Must have long ships though.

I'd like to see Hammerfell, simply because that'd mean more Dwemer stuffs!

Though, from what I can read about Skyrim, I guess that wouldn't be so bad, either. That, and now I just realize that Redguard took place in Hammerfell. Oops.

Skyrim, for reasons already mentioned. Although what I'm really hoping for is that along with Skyrim, mainland Morrowind and northern High Rock are featured in expansions as well, since both areas were not truly available in their respective games (even though Tribunal technically took place on mainland Morrowind).

I do sort of wonder what could be in such a game though. What I mean is that if they have us actually fight someone like a Greybeard, it'd better not be a really pathetic fight like what the last boss in the Mages Guild questline in Oblivion was like. I'm expecting something that can utterly crush me if I blindly rush in/I'm not paying attention, given the amount of power that they are said to have in the lore.


Daggerfall also took place in northern Hammerfell/southern High Rock.