Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-50.135.236.134-20140226125517/@comment-24653830-20140309024938

I have to say that I agree with the people that say that the game has went mainstream with each successing game, but I beleive that the games were only getting better. Of course I think that some things could be brought back (ie. throwing stars, levetate, spell design, spears), but by no means do I believe that would be a "watered down version" of the previous game. I fell in love with The Elder Scrolls series with Oblivion because that fits the generation of gaming that was around when I started getting into the more indepth games (my sister had to buy it for me with my own money when it came out). Ok now that I have dated my age range let me say that I have picked up on Morrowind recently. Considering that I am just moving to computer gaming over console gaming I figured I would play Morrowind to get some practice on the mouse and keys. I do have to say that if Morrowind was a new game now, graphics set aside, I would not waste my time on it. Although considering the options at the time I could see how it was popular and I probably would have picked up on it if I was old enough to be playing it. The biggest issue in Morrowind is the lack of a convienient fast travel, or even a horse to travel faster, and the fact that your caracter moves slow even with your speed in the 90's really makes the game a pain to get anything done. This tends to make even selling stuff in your inventory a mission in it's self. Also stamina determines the chance to hit your target and the ability to cast spells. This defininately brings some realizim to the game but it is a little over board. I could see if your range with a bow decreased, damage with your melee weapons reduced and miss chance went up if your stamina was tapped out but when I have 25-50% of my stamina left I shouldn't miss with a bow or sword (keep in mind that my agility is at 98). Also, I don't believe that magic should be affected by stamina, unless it is tapped out, because it is a whole different kind of energy. Don't get me wrong I believe it is a good system but it needs more control. I do beleive that if you are careless enough to waste your stamina sprinting all the time you deserve to get your skull crushed but I don't believe TES would have been as popular as it is if that was the case.

Inregards to the Lore breaking issue I get it. In a way the Ebonhard pact doesn't make much sense and the ancors from the sky were never documented. It is hard to follow the lore of the game when you are going to an earlier time. They could say that the information was lost in the war or what ever have you but you will always have those sceptics out there. You have to create something new to entertain the players and those sceptics will always be difficuld to please. If they went with a historical event I could see people complaining that they have already read this story and they know how it ends. They could have went forward to create something new but it would step on the toes of Bethesda if they decide to make a TES6. Regardless of the lore I believe that TESO will be comprehensive with the 1st era and earlier history of the 2nd era that the game it's self will be enjoyable and what we expect from a TES game.

So far I haven't found any edvidence on whether or not Bethesda actually intends to make a TES6 but considering 1. Zenimax is making TESO and 2. the concept of a TES6 is very widely expected by the gaming community I expect that Bethesda and Zenimax could see an opportunity to make more money from the series and continue to make single player TES games. If you have people paying $15 a month then buying expansions and then gets TES 6 and on top of that buys the DLC's for that game then the money would begin to stack even higher. I wouldn't be supprised to see control of expansions for TESO compliment the release dates for TES6 and it's DLC's to maximize the money they could make from the gaming community. Although I really hope that TESO doesn't conflict too much with any other TES games that may come out, it would seem that in the end I could see TES having two really great games to choose from.