I was literally about to say this lol
The oblivion pirate mod is even older
It’s just as large as the Oblivion map but no Kvatch and beyond to the west and anything south of bravil is also blocked. (Bravil got butt fucked in the war according to lore and cannot be visited)
It also wasn't so much the engine as the hardware as well. Keep in mind they had to put Skyrim on the fucking PS3 and base Xbox 360. Devs NOW can't even make seamless open worlds with current gen. Given what we have seen from devs these days, Skyrim is practically technical wizardry.
Worst case scenario:
I think there is a large community of people who play ESO for the lore, speaking as a former member. It introduced a lottt of stuff and was fan servicey in a way with Morrowind and Clockwork City DLCs. More strange lore, and even out of game meta canon stuff (c0da) was referenced. I think MK did some contract work?
It's actually not that bad an idea.
This is exactly what is going to happen, and you already know it. Especially if its set Hammerfell which is where they are from, at least that would make sense. Or even worse it could just be like Starfield with every city occupied by a wholesome equitable blend of all races with 70 percent of them being obese to show body diversity.
I will say the engine does have problems that had to be fixed by modders to a sad extent. They'll update the game with microtransaction trash no asked for, but they never fix their shit even when the work has already been done for them.
From what I see most loreheads generally do not like what ESO did with it.
It makes me sad because Redguards actually have pretty interesting lore, but you already know they're going to fuck it up and African Americanize it.
The pill that modern Bethesda will nuke their game to avoid swallowing is that Redguards were never the niggers of Tamriel.
Given how they toned down the schizo lore to make Oblivion more appealing after Morrowind, then did so again for Skyrim, no doubt they'll continue for TES6 too. The fact that so many people complained it became too generic fantasy in Skyrim, compared to Morrowind's authentic strageness, will mean fuck all due to the success of Skyrim. It's sad cus the lore of the regions where the game is meant to be set has the potential to make it as beautifully strange as Morrowind was, while keeping some of the familiar fantasy aspects
Agreed, Oblivion was fantastic, and I still have to admit that I like Skyrim as well. I enjoy when the different ethnic groups within the lore feel like unique peoples, including being racist to one another. After having played a few hours of Starfield, I no longer trust the current team at Bethesda to be able to write in a way that makes anyone, let alone the Redguard feel authentic or non-pandering.
