Elder Scrolls VI in development

[grumbler]

I'm thinking that Hammerfell will be the next location.  Lots of room for stories there.

[Caliga]

Wasn't Daggerfall set there?  If like Valmy says they won't repeat a province, then Hammerfell should be out.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

given that there's at least one game with all provinces in it, they've been doing nothing but repeats :p

[Monoriu]

I have played Arena, which was the first game and it covered all provinces.  It is actually quite meaningless because with the exception of the main quest related dungeons, everything else was randomly generated.  So there really wasn't much difference among the provinces.  Every city in each province looked the same.  Every NPC felt the same. 

I haven't played Daggerfall but I heard that it was the same.  They only started doing the landscape, cities and NPCs in detail starting from Morrowind, I think.  Since Morrowind, they have been doing different provinces. 

[Grey Fox]

Hopefully, it's time for a new engine?

[schaksen]

Hopefully, it's time for a new engine?

Probably NOT given the "Skyrim Special Edition" likely being a "beta" of an updated engine for ESVI

[Valmy]

given that there's at least one game with all provinces in it, they've been doing nothing but repeats :p

Well ok I am not counting Arena here. Daggerfall also cheats for having two provinces

As you can see they only worked on making the world coherent after Daggerfall: http://i.imgur.com/B7rBN.jpg

[viper37]

Hopefully, it's time for a new engine?

Probably NOT given the "Skyrim Special Edition" likely being a "beta" of an updated engine for ESVI

Skyrim is 32 bit engine, able to use more than 2gb of memory with a mod (SKSE).
However, it suffers from all other limitations associated with such an engine.  They can tweak it all they want, they run into many limits, including the number of scripts they can use (and that's a problem for modders, currently, they need to develop tools that merge mods or they make the game crash).  And that province size is about the biggest they can go within the limit of the engine.

So, new engine, hence the long development time.  They will release two other games before that, likely on that new engine, and that will let them tweak it.

[Josquius]

Given they're saying don't expect it soon, they're working on big things, etc.... I think they probably are looking for a new engine.

[Grey Fox]

Hopefully, it's time for a new engine?

Probably NOT given the "Skyrim Special Edition" likely being a "beta" of an updated engine for ESVI

Skyrim is 32 bit engine, able to use more than 2gb of memory with a mod (SKSE).
However, it suffers from all other limitations associated with such an engine.  They can tweak it all they want, they run into many limits, including the number of scripts they can use (and that's a problem for modders, currently, they need to develop tools that merge mods or they make the game crash).  And that province size is about the biggest they can go within the limit of the engine.

So, new engine, hence the long development time.  They will release two other games before that, likely on that new engine, and that will let them tweak it.

They said that the SE will support 64bit, shacksen may be right.

[Razgovory]

Honestly they ought to try two provinces.  I've never been a big fan of the lore.  The only place that really felt unique was Morrowwind.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I had limited playing with Skyrim because of that. Got so bored of the Nords and all that snow and ice. Morrowind was much more interesting as you say.

[Valmy]

Cyrodiil was supposed to be a Roman Empire of dark skinned people living in a jungle. And then they changed it to a generic fantasy setting to increase sales.

That experience tells me we are not likely to see something as weird as Morrowind again anytime soon.

[Caliga]

And then they changed it to a generic fantasy setting to increase sales.

  Didn't know that.

[Valmy]

The weird thing was they went BACK to being dark skinned Romans in Skyrim:



In Oblivion he would have been wearing full plate.