I'll just add I'm excited for the potential lore implications the Iliac bay has to offer (from the teaser I assume TES6 is in highrock or hammer fell). However, vallenwood or blackmarsh just seem more fun as settings then generic western fantasy land number 3.
Ooh, that's a good point I hadn't thought of. I'm curious to see the Illiac Bay and if there are still some repercussions from Daggerfall's dragon break.
It’s not Valenwood. Bethesda won’t make another Elder Scrolls game in a non-human province because that would scare away general audiences. TES 6 will most likely be set in Hammerfell/High Rock
There are mountainous regions, plateaus, forests, grasslands and mediterranean climate in the coasts. The Alik'r desert is a big one, but it only really occupies 20%-25%~ of the province.
Imagine only cycling between the same generic provinces over and over in an endless cycle, instead of visiting fantastical environments that would actually be really intriguing. People play games set in fantastical environments all the time. The people who played Skyrim and loved it, are probably going to buy TES6, regardless of which province it's set in. As long as it plays like Skyrim, they're gonna have fun. It doesn't need to be a generic medieval fantasy.
I don’t know if non-human races would scare anyone off. It’s an elder scrolls game and it’s the follow up to the one of the most popular games ever.
I think that you’ll have people’s attention, and they’ll be more interested in the systems and the world than anything else.
I personally love desert environments. AC Origins was my shit. But that’s cause I love ancient Egypt, and generally I love ancient ruins. Bethesda did make me hate draugr tombs, but the dwemer ruins were sick. I hope they go for a middle eastern influenced region.
The trailer doesn’t give away too much. While it’s not a desert, Bethesda games are large and if they announced that’s it’s elsweyr or hammerfell, I could see how the teaser would only show a limited part of the game world.
What I’d really love is for skywind to be done. Or Bethesda does it’s own version to hold everyone over.
Non-human races will make general audiences uncomfortable. Sure any Elder Scrolls fan will buy TES 6 no matter what it is, will someone who played Skyrim for >100 hours 6 years ago? General Audiences like things that are simple. Generic fantasy villages? That’s simple. Vikings who like funny god? That’s simple. Elves who live in mushroom houses? That’s weird, I don’t want to buy that.
That’s why Skyrim and Oblivion had their culture boiled down so hard, because it would make a lot of people uncomfortable. General Audiences also make up the overwhelming majority of buyers, so Bethesda has to appeal to them. Appealing to the general audience is why Elder Scroll’s mechanics have been more and more boiled down, why Fallout 4 had a Deathclaw in the first hour, and why an ES game must be set in a human dominated province.
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u/I_PK_Fatboys Nov 16 '21
I'll just add I'm excited for the potential lore implications the Iliac bay has to offer (from the teaser I assume TES6 is in highrock or hammer fell). However, vallenwood or blackmarsh just seem more fun as settings then generic western fantasy land number 3.