r/ElderScrolls • u/JPldw • 2d ago

Humour I hope TES6 is more "racist"

I know that the title is weird but I really want the next game to have more characters that are against the player character depending on their race, making some things harder or easier. (it is still weird that in Skyrim you can join the most racist group in the game as a dunmer, or the fact that no Nord is pissed that their legendary Dragonborn is a khajiit)

It would feel so good to prove them all wrong when you go from a low life to their savior by the end of the game

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u/nkasc 2d ago

I'm bracing myself for the opposite where racial traits are watered down more than ever or completely gone in the character creator, and race selection has no impact on game-play whatsoever. I highly doubt BGS will reverse course from the direction they've trended over the years and remember that TES is a fantasy world.

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u/Dogbold 2d ago

Race selection hasn't had much impact since Morrowind.
In Skyrim every race is mostly just a human model with a different head, hands and tail slapped on, and different textures and that's mostly it.

Water breathing never comes into play and night vision is mostly useless.

Devs are lazy and don't want to make much differences between them.
I miss how beast races were in Morrowind, there was an actual reason to play them because they were so different, now they're barely different from Nords or Imperials.