Elder Scrolls 6 Predictions, Cast your Predictions today! Options

[Renee]

I started another thread in this forum about occult stuff but I got a little too ambitious, I'm afraid. Should have written Kahreem up first. I'll continue that one's OP eventually.

For now though, what do you think will appear in Elder Scrolls 6? I'm going to put some predictions now, you all can do the same, and let's see if we're right or wrong, eh?

1). Spellmaker will return, definitely. Because that was the #1 complaint back in 2011 about Skyrim. I personally never missed spell making myself, but good lord I remember the feedback from lack of.

2). Mix 'n' match armor / clothing sets will also return. Because that was the #2 complaint (from what I remember). Fallout 4 has definitely shown that Beth even got away from 1-piece suits, and I think they'll further this with ES6 for sure. I hesitate to predict pauldrons will make a return, but from what I've heard FO4 has the character able to wear different things on different sides of his/her body?

3). I think it'll be in High Rock primarily, but not just High Rock. I think it'll be in more than one province, maybe High Rock and Hammerfell. I'm just going by what was seen in the ES6 Trailer. To me, that looks like a northern clime.

That's all for now!

[Winter Wolf]

Thanks mALX!!!! It is good to be back.

Great to read what Renee and you are saying about cats. I will try not to hate on Skyrim again other than to say that the discussion on varied personalities is what we need so bad in Elder Scrolls. After playing hundreds and hundred of hours in Skyrim I cannot remember one single NPC in the whole game.

Now Oblivion- wow, that had more awesome personalities just in Bravil alone. Kud-Ei, City Swimmer, the orc in the tavern, the Khajiit in the TG storyline. Or the Skingrad guilds and their bed-hopping antics. Or the Count and his awesome story.

So the number one thing we need in the game is a massive improvement in NPC personalities!

This post has been edited by Winter Wolf: Nov 30 2018, 06:30 AM

[mALX]

Thanks mALX!!!! It is good to be back.

Great to read what Renee and you are saying about cats. I will try not to hate on Skyrim again other than to say that the discussion on varied personalities is what we need so bad in Elder Scrolls. After playing hundreds and hundred of hours in Skyrim I cannot remember one single NPC in the whole game.

Now Oblivion- wow, that had more awesome personalities just in Bravil alone. Kud-Ei, City Swimmer, the orc in the tavern, the Khajiit in the TG storyline. Or the Skingrad guilds and their bed-hopping antics. Or the Count and his awesome story.

So the number one thing we need in the game is a massive improvement in NPC personalities!

Agreed! I remember (and loved) Elisif the Fair in Solitude; and the sassy housecarl in Riften; but really didn't remember or feel any real liking for anyone else in Skyrim. In Oblivion there were so many compelling characters and stories - and they took the time with longer questlines to get to know the characters (like the friendship that develops with the Player and Modryn Oreyn in the Fighters Guild; etc).

ESO has tried to get back to the longer questline threads that run through your game and more compelling characters; and have done a really good job of it. You can run into someone you worked with in a previous questline later on and may end up doing more quests with them again; and they remember you from before. Even a dog you may have helped in the past = the army picks it up and brings it with them, and when you are doing something in another Province you might run into the dog and it recognizes you; etc. There is one sister and brother who are TRYING to be explorers and you might come across them in dire straits throughout several dungeons across many provinces (and can rescue them if you want to do the quest) = it is very cool the way they continued relationships in ESO.

[Winter Wolf]

ESO has tried to get back to the longer questline threads that run through your game and more compelling characters; and have done a really good job of it. You can run into someone you worked with in a previous questline later on and may end up doing more quests with them again; and they remember you from before. Even a dog you may have helped in the past = the army picks it up and brings it with them, and when you are doing something in another Province you might run into the dog and it recognizes you; etc. There is one sister and brother who are TRYING to be explorers and you might come across them in dire straits throughout several dungeons across many provinces (and can rescue them if you want to do the quest) = it is very cool the way they continued relationships in ESO.

Thanks for posting this mALX.

You have restored my faith. Lets hope that Todd allows a larger team to participate in the quest writing for the next game. The online folk sound like they would be perfect to assist in the development.

[mALX]

Raz got mad at Feng-do for disobeying orders during the AD questline.

I will have to try disobeying him sometime and see, lol.

ESO has tried to get back to the longer questline threads that run through your game and more compelling characters; and have done a really good job of it. You can run into someone you worked with in a previous questline later on and may end up doing more quests with them again; and they remember you from before. Even a dog you may have helped in the past = the army picks it up and brings it with them, and when you are doing something in another Province you might run into the dog and it recognizes you; etc. There is one sister and brother who are TRYING to be explorers and you might come across them in dire straits throughout several dungeons across many provinces (and can rescue them if you want to do the quest) = it is very cool the way they continued relationships in ESO.

Thanks for posting this mALX.

You have restored my faith. Lets hope that Todd allows a larger team to participate in the quest writing for the next game. The online folk sound like they would be perfect to assist in the development.

Do you remember the Moderator over at the Official Bethesda Forums that used to read all of our FanFic stories and hang out with us all = Leydenne? Well, she was hired by Zenimax to do some of their quest writing for ESO; and I think that she/her input is one of the reasons for their quests going back to being Awesome like Morrowind and Oblivion's were. She was a ton of fun and there are many really fun quests/questlines in ESO that were so much like their old quests used to be. (Skyrim was so serious = it totally lacked fun; so I was really happy to see that back in the game).

And there is a huge amount of fun in ESO to be found in dialogue that you won't find unless you talk to some NPC's randomly. Example: On one boat trip you take, if you talk to the people that work on the ship before you take off on the trip; literally everyone on the boat has the hots for the guy who helped you get on board. (males and females both) and if you talk to them again after landing = they are all mad at him.

And some choices you make will determine how some NPC's act when they see you for the rest of the game = One lady will almost spit on you the whole rest of the game if you side against her in one quest early on; and she doesn't hide it at all, lol. Of course, the ones you sided with will greet you in friendship, but throughout the game there are people/quests where you have to make choices that affect more people than just you and the quest-giver (like when you choose between rulers or ruling factions your decision could affect all those that worshipped the ruier, etc). They won't attack you over your choice; but they will mutter things under their breath at you as you pass by them. (or hail you for making the right choice if you chose their way).

So you are not always the hero to everyone, even when you feel like you've done the right thing = very much like Fallout: New Vegas!

So I am really hoping they institute some of that into TES VI. Maybe Leydenne will write the quests for them too!

[Renee]

Do you remember the Moderator over at the Official Bethesda Forums that used to read all of our FanFic stories and hang out with us all = Leydenne? Well, she was hired by Zenimax to do some of their quest writing for ESO;

What the what? That's amazing!