» Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:57 am
Personally, I think going back to Morrowind or Cyrodiil is too early. Morrowind and Obivion developped the areas quite extensively. Maybe not to everyone's liking, but still... redoing it again seems pointless and repetitive. Hammerfell and High Rock, thought they've been visited, would be nice if re-visited with modern technology, and to the same length as Morrowind and Cyrodill. But they have already been seen, so meh.
All the other 5 provinces would be interesting. I have a preference for the odd exotic ones (all of them except Skyrim), but while they'd be interesting from an artistic view, I'm not so sure they would translate all that well into a game setting.
- While Black Marsh would probably have the most interesting landscape and flora, personally I'd find it more interesting as a Myst type of game where you mostly just explore. And while I love Argonians, after years of playing TES games, I still can't distinguish them from one another, so trying to find an Argonian questgiver in a crowd of Argonians that all look alike and move around, to me, sounds like quite a challenge, but not of the good kind.
- While Valenwood' moving cities sitting on trees sound intriguing, I don't think it would be possible nor good game mechanics to have settlements moving around. And with the general unexplainable hatred for Bosmers, I don't think it would even be considered. Plus moving constantly from the ground to the tree branches would be fun for a short while but become annoying pretty quick.
- Elsweyr doesn't have large cities, so to me that doesn't sound appealing for a game setting. An interesting place is not necessarily a good location for a game. But Bethesda could change that very easily just by saying "in the last 200 years, it changed". They'd also have to deal with its separation from the Empire, as I don't see how the imperial factions could fit in otherwise and I highly doubt the Fighters/Mages/Thieves guilds would be tossed out the window.
- Summerset Isle would be a nice choice, because it looks interesting and has been elaborated quite a bit compared to other provinces. Being an island, it's convenient from a game mechanics point of view, with the water acting as a natural barrier around the explorable area. And Psijics.
- Skyrim makes the most sense. It's very wide-audience-friendly, it's native race is human, it would have a landscape/flora people would identify with more easily. But meh. I still don't like it. It's rather bland compared to the other options.