Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-109.78.74.133-20140222001044/@comment-16047389-20140622021740

Dovahsebrom wrote: Dark Jeto wrote:

I'm actually more annoyed at their whole "Talos reshaping the climate" explanation than the reason for why they did it. If they had just said "We're making Cyrodiil a temperate zone now because we didn't actually want a jungle environment so please just ignore the change" I would've been fine with that. Why? That would mean they just blantantly would break their established lore. At least the Talos-CHIM scenario gives a reasonable explanation why the forests are gone rather than a "we don't like Cyrodiil being a jungle so now where going to make that lore and all lore associated with it questionable".

It's obvious that this is just used to cover up the fact that they made a mistake. Just as the Dragon Break was made to allow all endings in Daggerfall to have happened all at once. It would be easier to accept had it been more properly planned, if it didn't have all the signs of retcon sickness. I can understand making mistakes when writing stories, and keeping it consistent with previous lore. But it is better to accept mistakes when they are made and simply move on, then try to pretend that there was never a mistake to begin with. You don't see the Fallout trying to use some kind of Dragon Break argument for any of its games. They just pick the endings that they want to work with and go with it.