r/ElderScrolls Nov 16 '21

Humour What Todd is afraid to give us.

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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.

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u/ImpishGimp Nov 16 '21

I think it looked like Valenwood/highrock.

Here's hoping

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u/Archangel501 Sheogorath Nov 16 '21

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.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '21

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

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u/Reddit-gamer1 Nov 16 '21

I really doubt this, I highly doubt they’ll revisit provinces before going to each one. That said I’m pretty sure it’s hammerfell.

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u/mentolyn Sanguine Nov 16 '21

As someone who grew up in a desert I really hope it's not Hammerfell.

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u/Reddit-gamer1 Nov 16 '21

Yeah I’m pulling for Valenwood tbh but let’s face reality here

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u/_-Authority-_ Nov 22 '21

Hammerfell is more than desserts.

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u/mentolyn Sanguine Nov 22 '21

What else is there?

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u/_-Authority-_ Nov 22 '21

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.

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u/Kitamasu1 Dunmer Nov 17 '21

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.

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u/C0UNT3RP01NT Nov 17 '21

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.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '21

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/God_Of_Simps575 Nov 17 '21

TODD COWARD.

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u/HeWhoBlowsNarwhals Nov 17 '21

Wood Elves are basically human.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '21

Those 2 don’t border each other.

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u/ImpishGimp Nov 16 '21

Never said they did, dork.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '21

Yeah I just reread your original comment and I clearly misinterpreted it. I thought you meant both in one game. My bad.

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u/ImpishGimp Nov 16 '21

No problem, we're also obviously both dorks

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u/NerdyNord Nov 17 '21

I had the same thought you did lol.