User blog comment:Dragonclaw1000/Can't wait for skyrim 2..../@comment-1992639-20130307152322

This argument keeps coming up. The reason why so many young people and casual gamers call all of the Elder Scrolls series "Skyrim" is because TES5:Skyrim made a lot of news and got a lot of media attention. Far more than its predecessors. For a lot of new or casual gamers Skyrim is the first title they have played. As for the graphics, the generation of young gamers today are spoonfed one pretty looking game after the other. Retro and gameplay holds less meaning for them maybe. Just look at how popular HDR patches and mods are for older games.

Maybe Bethesda should have put a number 5 on the box which Skyrim came in, instead of a roman V. People'd have been more aware that there are games before Skyrim.