So, where do we think Elder Scrolls 6 is set?

[Johnw1104]

flashfire926 said:

Johnw1104 said:

You're assuming they scale to the same ratio that they used in Skyrim, which was obviously drastically scaled down from what it is meant to actually be. They can make Hammerfall a dozen times larger than what we saw in Skyrim if they so choose... they've changed the scale with each new game. If picking one province meant never picking a smaller one we would have had to end the franchise with Oblivion.

All the "modern" ES games (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim) use the same scale, and are proportionate to each other. Since 2001 they have stayed true to this layout (even in ESO afaik).

They havent changed scale since 2001, so I doubt they do it here.

 

Ehh no? Don't mean to sound dismissive but the games have varied to some degree in size and the provinces very obviously do not have an exact correlation to how big they can be in-game. Skyrim would have been a good deal smaller were that the case, and in the end they're all tiny compared to how large they are actually meant to be in the lore.

Ever since Morrowind the size of the world has increasingly been decided entirely by how large they can make it while still packing it full of sufficiently interesting content. That guiding principle will probably continue to be the driving factor in game size, and if they feel they can make a worthwhile game with a larger in-game world than they've made in the past they'll do that regardless of which province they choose.

It would otherwise mean that they can't choose any provinces smaller than Cyrodill (which they already have), and that would just be silly.