Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26213507-20150715194939/@comment-26356342-20150831203039

Draevan13 wrote: College Mage: Ferris wrote: Well to pull it back to the newest topic brought up, The Empire has always and most likely will always be within the main focus of Elder scrolls IMO. I'm sure some people would love to drop them completely, but it'd be strange to not see them. I half expect the next elder scrolls game to have your main quest be a rise to power to become the next emperor, and then dealing with the second great war. I'm aware most believe the next game will take place in Hammerfell, but with the current gen of consoles, it could be possible to go back to having multiple provinces. ESO kinda does it already... I don't think I'd enjoy being Emperor in a TES game... I just want to faff about about in the wilderness and explore/adventure. I wouldn't mind helping a new Emperor get the throne, though. I'm not suggesting I'd want it either, but I've been racking my brain trying to think, how would the new protagonist be "on par" with the likes of the last 3, who were all essentially demi-gods... or in the case of the Hero of Kvatch, an actual god. Short of them coming up with some sort of new legendary icon to mantle, becoming an emperor would make some sense, it matches the power fantasy they tend to go for, it puts you in direct control of the war, the emperor being dead could be a focus point to have your character go from prisoner, to soldier, to commander, to finally emperor. Just food for thought really.

Blademaster Jauffre wrote: Quality > Quantity, I'd rather have a very good produced single province than multiple of the ESO provinces.

Have you played ESO? I wouldn't say the quality is too bad for all the provinces we get to see. Sure some of it gets scaled back a bit, (its not even that noticeable unless youre specifically looking for a location such as Kvatch)  but if they were to even just focus on 3 Provinces, Hammerfell, High Rock, and Cyrodiil, it could be done with current gen hardware to full scale (or at least full scale when compared to morrowind or skyrim)