• deus@lemmy.world
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    Maybe if he was in charge instead of Cyrodiil, Skyrim and (I assume) Hammerfell we could have gotten games set in the weirdest provinces like Black Marsh, Elsweyr or perhaps even Akavir.

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      He wrote a lot of Skyrim-centred stuff. There are a bunch of references to it in the game of the same name, and a good few other things clearly influenced, but his vision of Skyrim was pretty wild. Same goes for the stuff he wrote for Cyrodiil. Knights of the Nine was him

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        Elder scrolls online set a major expansion there.

        95%+ of the content in the whole game can be done solo if you don’t like the second M in MMO.

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      Elsweyr

      One of the things that persistently annoys me about TES is Khajiit morphology - there are 17 different distinct physical makeups of Khajiit (based on the phases of the moons at their birth) ranging from able to be accidentally mistaken for men or mer to sentient housecat and the vast majority of them just…never appear in any given TES game. A TES game set in Elsweyr would have to care about that a lot more.

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          TES Online and Legends are the exceptions (and I think only in one expansion for TES Online). For a franchise that’s been around since the early 90s with 5 main series games and multiple spinoffs.