I suggested a long time ago, that the next Elder Scrolls title should include all of the provinces, and while scouring for more Skyrim info I came upon http://ppsh-41.tumblr.com/post/13145143504/entire-tamriel-landmass-built-into-skyrim of important info!

My guess is that the inevitable expansions would include these land-masses and it simply fills me with school-boy giddiness at the thought! Of course this is simply speculation (Admittedly overly optimistic) I could very well be wrong, but still, it make perfect sense considering each chapter dealt with a different province in Tamriel, and the fracturing of the Empire itself that I still have to wonder....

Finally? The first Elder Scrolls game I ever played had all of Tamriel in it. Arena

How come people still believe that when they find something on the internet it's new and fascinating?

OOPS! My "bad" as My first Tes game was DaggerFall (On a friend's PC) and Morrowind (My own!)

I've not finished the main quest yet, but as I've played so far, it seems like there's an aweful lot going on in Skyrim that is related to other provinces (Thalmor; quest "In my time of need", etc). I'm kind of hoping that gamesas is planning to maybe like release one expansion per year for the next few years which adds in goings-on in the other provinces (e.g. Tes V: Hammerfell; Tes V: High Rock; Tes V: Valenwood, etc), and the fate of the Empire in total, as opposed to being a strictly "provincial" game/storyline.

Perhaps the player-character can usher in a new empire/emperor, or perhaps establish a new order, like some sort of federation, or at least broker a lasting peace between newly independent states. Anyhow, time will tell.

never.

the development time and the amount of people it would take would cost way to much money for them to ever do it. I would like it as much as the next person but its pretty much asking to lose money for Bethesda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlbA2qiXsf0

Video showing all of the landmass, including names of the areas, such as Morrowind, Anvil, Bruma, the Whitegold Tower in Cyrodil, etc..

This.

Considering the amount of work that would go into filling the provinces -and Skyrim, Cyrodil and Morrowind do not constitue 'all of Tamriel- would mean that it would take as long as Skyrim to make, they'd have to charge as much as the main game cost and they'd have to be sure the the DLC sales would match the games sales to make the kind of money to recoup their costs.

And since Skyrim took about five years to make, the DLC would arrive around 2016. And who's going to be interested in a five year old game by then to warrent buying DLC for it that costs the same as a new game?



edit: And people are making far too much out of the landmasses being there. The same was done in Oblivion, the neighbouring provinces had basic terrain. Don't remember Province DLC for that game.

And that would only be one of the 5-6(?) provinces.

comic sans, really?
and that ugly yellow :S

anyway, I highly doubt it seeing as each individual province took years to create and fill up with content
perhaps some small parts of other provinces will make their way to DLC but every province in it's entirety
I highly doubt it

all that said, I would very much like them to remake morrowind or something, because lets face it, we have already been there so putting it in a entirely new game would be pointless. where as if they put it in DLC it would be epic.

Modders. Hell of a lot easier to import the Morrowind and Oblivion games when the landmass is already there. Oblivions areas would be easiest, since the "Creation" engine is in fact Gamebryo heavily modded.

Yup, though judging by the threads that keep popping up on this subject, there's only three provinces in Tamriel

Randomly generated mass and stuff is not equal to the TES games we get today, in terms of terrain and the world.

I sure did, especially as the OP never did say that.

It'll take the same length of time for the modders too.

Check out Tamriel Rebuilt. Neither the Morrowind or Oblivion versions are close to being finished and all they have to show for there work is some of the Morrowind mainland.

something that all of you forgetting though is that the reason the games took so long to make is because they updated the engine everytime, had to do all the other technical stuff and had to think of the plots.

they could easily make a province that is too small to make a game like Elsweyr or the Somerset Isles and add all the new content with ease because they already have the means of making them.

Yeah, it was actually the guy who made the video I linked. My bad. Brainfart.

Do you have any idea how long it would take to make that? look how long it took to make skyrim itself, they aren't going to make a DLC bigger than the base game.

Thats true. A smaller Province could work as an expansion of the size of say Bloodmoon or Shivering Isles.

But not for the size that DLC seems to be these days.

Personally, I think they should stick with one Province per game. That way they can focus on that Province, rather than getting several that are a little watered down.

First I believe it took them about 3 years to make, and second, all of that time it took to dev the game was in building the custom engine, populating it with meshes/textures built from scratch, and brand-new scripts/animations as well. They already have 75% of the work out of the way already, also, consider the size of Shivering Isles and the short dev time. As I said before, it IS speculation after all. BTW: Oblivion didn't include the entirety of Tamriel.

Do you think if they did that, it would be like removing the borders between Cyrodill, Morrowind and Skyrim, and having the same amount of content per province?

No. It would be mostly generated and bad.

Very interesting although unfortunately impossible, I'm sure.

The very first TES featured all Tamriel. I think it would be best if the next game with all Tamriel in it was the last TES ever. So, in 50 years or so...

true, but I mean some of them are literally too small for a game. if you go back on oblivion and go to your map, go look at elsweyr. you can see pretty much the entire country from the map and if they made it it would be SI size, which they are planning to do anyway.

I say save the big provinces and other continents for new games, small provinces for DLC.

That's because Modders are not getting paid, or have employed teams working on the mod for 8-12 hours a-day...