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The Elder Scrolls (TES) is an award-winning RPG series by Bethesda Softworks set in the vast world of Nirn.

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'Bethesda's in the bad position of having expectations being so high they cannot be met': Skyrim design lead reckons it might be hard for The Elder Scrolls 6 to live up to the ever-increasing fervor (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago

Expectations should be low, not high. The current Elder Scrolls title (Online) and the current Fallout title (76) are both pay-to-win microtransaction-hell freemium games. Like the base game was given away to a lot of people and continues to be so, but to do anything fun, you really gotta buy the expansions (of which there are like a dozen) and/or subscribe. Even GamePass Ultimate ($30 a month!) doesn't cover most of it. It gets you into the game and that's about it.

Even if we overlook Online, the progression from Morrowind to Oblivion to Skyrim has been graphics go up and roleplaying goes down (in favour of one character who can do anything as opposed to in Morrowind where if you couldn't do magic, you couldn't advance in the Mages Guild, as opposed to in Skyrim where you do like one spell and find three books and solve a combat puzzle or three and you're Arch-Mage. Even in Oblivion you had to choose between Thieves Guild and Mages Guild if you were in both — those who know avoid joining the mages guild until after that one quest. Or they're arch-mage by that point.