Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-96.252.245.207-20130116060134/@comment-10207438-20140421052510

81.129.10.194 wrote:

To everyone who is saying about it taking 8x longer to do all of Tamriel.... You all seem to be forgetting that they don't need to be redesigning as much as they did. They've already given us most the Provinces of tamriel, so we already have the maps. they would maybe tweak some places to fit with a new age, and to fit with a whole new story line, but the key alements would be there, all the cities that they wanted would be in position, so maybe adding more things into them would take a few months, but it would fit the 4-5 year timespan we would expect from the last few years worth of TES game Pacman the great wrote:

While it wouldn't take eight times longer to do all of Tamriel (they don't use the entire development time to create the game world), assuming that Zenimax let them use all the maps from ESO, they would have to tweak a lot. The graphics would be outdated, they would have to remove all the ESO things (the forts would need removing or replacing), the cities would need to be changed a lot, and they would need new NPCs (and Ma'iq the liar). Obviously they could take cities from Oblivion or Skyrim (the landscape of Morrowind was changed drastically by the eruption of the Red Mountain), but they would need substantial updates to Cyrodiil to reflect what happened over the last 200 years. It wouldn't take eight times longer, but it would be way longer than a few months. If Zenimax let them use ESO maps. And if not, you more or less multiply the world building time by six or something (Skyrim is a relatively big province, and they can still use Skyrim's and Oblivion's maps with many updates). I'm not sure how long they spend creating the game world (probably two or three years), but they definitely spend at least eighteen months. Eighteen times six equals 108 months, or nine years. Nine years equals too long. Pink Slim wrote: Also, I would still expect a game that takes place in all of Tamriel would take multiple disks no matter what, there are nine Provinces, all of which would have to be fully furnished(unless they go back to Arena's Route and make everything that doesn't matter randomly generated) there would have to be THOUSANDS of different types/styles of weapons(imagine playing throught all of tamriel and there are only twelve different types of non-Daedric artifact swords) Hundreds of different types of monsters, hundreds of voice actors, thousands of new locations, probably thousands of quests, hundreds of spells.

and to top it all off, how long do you think it would take to do all that? Skyrim was released more than five years after Oblivion, how long would it take for nine provinces? If we wanted it within the same type of timespan they would have to hire thousands of people, all of them working together, just to build the world. the quests, dialouge, story, and most importantly, the lore from places that have very little lore, like vallenwood/hammerfell/blackmarsh/elswyr, this is all too much stuff to write down.

Too much stuff to make, too much stuff to write, too much everything, and just not enough time to build it. and hell if they do decide on doing this, by the time they finish it, the tech will most likely be outdated.

Even if they started an all tamriel TES the day Skyrim was released, I wouldn't expect it to come out any time soon, children will be born and become old enough to buy it without their parents permission by the time it comes out. and that's if it even comes out, they would have to have billions of dollars set aside to make this game, unless they make other games at the same time, which will slow production of this game even more, the people asking for the game could be having grandchildren by the time it comes out. plus regulations could change while they're making it, imagine taking twenty years out of your life to make something, and when you're close to finishing it, it becomes illegal.

there's just too much red tape, a full tamriel TES would be impossible for the foreseeable future. too much work, not enough time, not enough money, technilogical limitations, (by the time it comes out) outdated technology, and most importantly an aging fanbase. I don't see a 9-province TES coming out any time soon.