User blog comment:The Milkman/Phantasy Philosophy: Elder Scrolls/@comment-1600847-20121121212128

Really, it all boils down to your personal taste. Sometimes, I just want to play a Medieval European fantasy game, which is why I love Oblivion's setting. Variety is always good, but I don't always want Mushroom Trees and Silt Striders, sometimes I like the basics: mages and goblins, dragons and wenches and knights bashings each other with maces. And fruity British accents.

Skyrim's setting irked me because, like the Imperial City, it's different than what is was described in previous lore. It's always been described as a snowy wasteland as you would expect a northern country to be. Then you play Skyrim, and it's exactly like Oblivion: Forests in the south, marshes in the South-East, plains in the center, mountains and snow in the North. How is it that Northern Cyrodiil is cold wasteland, yet a few miles north in Southern Skyrim it's a lush, verdant forest? It doesn't make sense. Likely if the whole game took place in a snowy wasteland it would have bored players, though I would have liked it, and not just because I'm Canadian. It'd be consistent.