User blog comment:ParanormalAndroid/Speculate here./@comment-10906938-20141009010025/@comment-5469467-20141009015110

I think that's the problem Oblivion had; there wasn't enough geographical variety. (Also the fact that the existing geography was pretty generic.) If you look at Skyrim and Morrowind, different holds / regions will have different types of environmen. In Morrowind you had swamps, grassland, savannahs, deserts and volcanic, while Skyrim had taiga, autumnal forest, tundra, mountains and good-old-fashioned snow (even if some individual holds / regions share the same ones). That's one of the reaons why I advocate there being a game set in Elsweyr; because you have desert and jungle at the very least, and room to add a couple of other types of area depending on the location.