Board Thread:Future TES Titles/@comment-4708902-20170410172044

Regardless of race, gender, class, or route, every version of every game's player is essentially the same character. So what's the next player character's story?

Morrowind and Skyrim both had a character who has ancient history or heritige to them. Online and Oblivion had a character who had no heritage or history to them, but instead fell into their roles because of a cruel trick of fate. Both of these types of heroes have pros and cons to them.

An average person who fell into their role like the Hero of Kvatch, shows that people without divine blood or heritage can still become great heroes. I have not finished Oblivions main quest, but since I knew ahead how it would end, I knew that Oblivions hero was meant to have an even blanker slate compared to the Dovakin and Neravarine. As a result, it seems Martin gets more in universe development then you because your job is technically to get him crowned Emperor so that HE can save Tamriel, making you a semi side character, and only your defeat of Dagon at the end makes you the main character. Your own development comes from you in how you experience the story.

Morrowind and Skyrim both had you play as a legendary character who probably was destined for greatness the moment they were born. While there were still blank slates you needed to fill in in terms of your choices, personality and gameplay, people still look to you to defeat Dagoth and Alduin. So more responsibility is put on you.

I haven't bought online yet so I don't know how the Vestiges story goes(DON'T SPOIL IT!)

A while ago, I posted an idea for an ES6 hero where the character is the reincarnation of Tiber Septim, but Draeven13 suggested that a better hero would be an Oblivion like character who's an average guy who fell into their roll.

What do you think would be better for a game where the Thalmor are the most likely main villains? A Lgendary Hero? Or an average mortal who fell into their role? What should their arc be? Are the center of the story, or are you someone who needs to help someone else?

The only thing I ask of the ES6 main character and main character is a good story where any character could be put in, and story events that will cause gamers to act and react as if they were actually in the the game world, putting the gamer into the blank slates that all ES heroes start as. 