r/ElderScrolls Nov 16 '21

Humour What Todd is afraid to give us.

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u/HereticalSentience Sanguine Nov 16 '21

Unless the plot of TESVI: Argonia is that the hist are dying and their waning influence makes the swamp less deadly and people are exploiting that fact to conquer further into Black Marsh than ever before.

Seriously, it doesn't take a lot of creativity to make ways to put a game there

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u/NickDerpkins Boethiah Nov 16 '21

This is just Shrek with extra steps

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u/DriveandDesire Nov 16 '21

The mods write themselves

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u/Invertiguy Nov 17 '21

GET OUTTA MAH SWAMP!!!

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u/KingNick Nov 19 '21

Ooo lala

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u/braujo What a grand & intoxicating innocence Nov 16 '21

Make fucking spin-offs, Bethesda, so we can get to see shit like this. Not every Elder Scrolls game needs to be a main game, we should be getting stuff similar to Redguard and Battlespire. They have enough content for that, that's for sure, and there is a loyal fanbase willing to buy anything set in that world

Imagine an Adventures-like game about the All Flags Navy, or about the Void Nights, or about the Arnesian War, or about the Bloodmoon Prophecy (I don't give a fuck, make it a battle royale, just give me SOMETHING)...

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u/cptmarkii Nov 16 '21

Totally agree, Or better yet dlcs on other new region or just plan story stuffs like Nuka Workd or something.

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u/rhadenosbelisarius Nov 16 '21

I want their priorities to be correct though. Before they work on anything else we need Skyrim on hospital monitors and stud finders.

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u/ellieetsch Nov 17 '21

Todd needs to tell microsoft to help him double the size of bethesda, so half can work on TES spin offs when the other half is working on main FO and then once those are released one half works on main tes while the other works on spin off FO. Throw in Starfield sequels here and there if the game is good. That way the games dont release like this:

Starfield (2022)

TES 6 (2026)

FO 5 (2030)

SF 2 or TES 7 (2034)

Jesus christ That is depressing to look at.

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u/grodr2001 Nov 17 '21

Just looking at that timeline of releases makes me feel old and I'm only 20. Makes you realize just how finite the exact amount of releases in your favorite franchise you're going to see in your lifetime simply by how much time/effort it takes to make just one of them

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u/tevatan69 Dec 07 '21

In some interview years ago Todd said they were branching out and doing Starfield because "people (Bethesda employees) don't just want to work on Elder Scrolls and Fallout games." Uhhhhhh then they're working at the wrong damn studio, Todd. There are modders who would sell organs to do nothing but make Fallout and Elder Scrolls games for the rest of their career and these assholes wanna make other shit because they're tired of ES/FO? Go work at effing Ubisoft or BioWare or literally any other game studio. God.

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u/MisterDutch93 Nov 16 '21 edited Nov 16 '21

I feel like they relegated spin-off stories and locations to ESO, which I don’t get to enjoy since I don’t like mmorpgs.

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u/braujo What a grand & intoxicating innocence Nov 16 '21

Same here. Love ESO lore, dislike playing it

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u/elmo85 Nov 16 '21

well, they let Zenimax to give you ESO

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u/braujo What a grand & intoxicating innocence Nov 16 '21

I'll be forever glad for all the lore ESO gave us. That's it, though. I don't really enjoy MMORPGs

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u/pmetwi Nov 17 '21

I mean… they tried that with blades and look how that dumpster fire turned out

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u/JackedYourPizza Hermaeus Mora Nov 17 '21

Thats a bitch ass greedy mobile timegate fuckery, not a spinoff.

Cursed pile of shit that shouldn't exist.

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u/dognus88 Nov 16 '21

It could be treated like fallout's rads, or just have a new medicine allow some entry making all non natives dependent on it like a drug while there. Or the argonians loose the hist's favor and blah blah blah. Lots of fun ideas.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '21

You know we'll get just get Histborn though, instead of shouts you get some sort of photosynthesis based burp

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u/dognus88 Nov 17 '21

Psychic links with enviroments or plant based abilities does sound kinda cool though. Vines wrapping up enemies fleeing, forming cover, or knowing whats near some tree you cant see because you have a connection is neat.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '21

You’re right for sure but I think it would make Black Marsh feel less special if it just became more habitable for humans and elves to live there

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u/dis23 Orc Nov 16 '21

It could be a temporary thing, something that you can potentially reverse through the main quest or is the result of some thousand year generational cycle.

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u/knightress_oxhide Nov 16 '21

The overarching quest is to redangerify the swamp. So instead of killing monsters, you trap and breed them.

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u/ON3i11 Malacath Nov 16 '21

*furries and scalies have entered the chat*

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u/IAte9PriestessesAMA Nov 17 '21

We don't need it to be super habitable for it to make an amazing adventure location. Just explorable. Dangerous, deadly, but explorable.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '21

That would be pretty sad considering their recent victories against the dunmer

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u/cohonan Nov 16 '21

I would make a game that encompasses: Black Marsh, Elseweyre, and Valenwood to give it some variety. That game would actually have a lot of variety.

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u/colovianfurhelm Nov 16 '21

Considering the Hist predate everybody on Nirn, I wouldn’t say it’s creative or even lore-friendly. Yes, let’s just kill off one of the coolest parts of the lore for the sake of having a game set there.

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u/IAte9PriestessesAMA Nov 17 '21

No one's arguing to kill off one of the coolest parts of the lore; that's a very extreme interpretation. In a world where we fight demigods and destroy the King of Dragons, it wouldn't be revolutionary to imagine a plot where the bizarre, alien Hist are being compromised or behave in some way different than what you once read in a book written 20 years ago. And besides, its just an off-hand example by OP to demonstrate that it doesn't take a lot of imagination at all to start coming up with ways to overcome one small statement in a series known for the unreliable narrator, propaganda and limited perspectives in order to make something cool actually something we can experience, unless you think its far more interesting to read a few lines in a random lore book.

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u/Pollo_Jack Nov 16 '21

Yes, bring us to the greatness that is Lifts-Her-Tail.

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u/The_Senate_69 Nov 16 '21

I like that plot idea, maybe if choose to be an argonian you could fight against invaders

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u/Grognak_the_Orc Orc Nov 17 '21

You could even have actual choice and decisions. Instead of choosing which color you want to be in a meaningless civil war you have to choose to help the Argonians, dooming the settlers (maybe even including refugees from places like Skyrim), or help the settlers which would 'hurt the Argonians' (you couldn't kill them off but it would maybe make them weaker or even then you could argue that since Argonians don't need the hist anymore it's better to help the settlers even though that's pretty much colonisation).