Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-96.252.245.207-20130116060134/@comment-10207438-20140108203515

Spartan Jack 17 wrote: True, I have no idea why Microsoft/Sony decided on 500gb hard drives when game installs can take up way more than 25gb of space. Still, if they could fit Skyrim on a 4.5gb DVD then they could fit all of Tamrial on a blu-ray. It would just take up way too much space on console. 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 and hell if they do decide on doing this, by the time they finish it, the tech will most likely be outdated.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.