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Just looking at the elder scrolls time line and wonder if Bethesda would ever consider making a prequel type of game, like bring us back to the first era or second era...

Wondering what everyone's thoughts are and if you would play a prequel type game if they made one, maybe not even a whole game but some kind of expansion pack even.

TES has a huge following and there would be so many possibility's to what they could do, But can't wait until skyrim comes out to see what the future may hold for the series

Wasn't Redguard a prequel?

Indeed it was.

POMC S117 wrote:Wasn't Redguard a prequel?

That's what I was going to raise, except Redguard wasn't too successful, although that doesn't mean that other prequels would be.

Redgaurd 2E 864 (4)
Battle spire 3E, between 389 and 399 (3)
Shadowkey 3E 397 (6)
Arena 3E 399 (1)
Dagger fall 3E 405 (2)
Morrowind 3E 427 (5)
Oblivion 3E 433 (7)

TES Travels, dont have the dates on them, so there where two prequals that we know of, not sure when the Travles ones took place

Edit: After looking I found another one, so thats three prequals at least,

Wolfie wrote:TES Travels, dont have the dates on them, so there where two prequals that we know of, not sure when the Travles ones took place

Shadowkey could be considered a prequel. It was released between Morrowind and Oblivion, but took place in 3E 397, during the Imperial Simulacrum (a.k.a. Arena). Dawnstar and Stormhold don't have any dates, but one could regard Stormhold as being set sometime during the Third Era (due to the Morrowind-esque "legion" armor seen on Varus), and Dawnstar mentions an "Emperor", but all that really tells us is that it wasn't set during the Mythic Age/early First Era. The Oblivion travels game obviously coincides with the original console/PC version.

Edit: Ninja'd on pointing out Shadowkey.

OblivionDuruza wrote:The problem with those games, is that they are largely linear, and this is probably the reason they failed in comparison to the main series. If Beth were to go back in time, I'd say it'd need to be an open world RPG with the same kind of feel as their main flagship series.

I agree and yet disagree, I feel like going back in time is just asking for mistakes in lore, plus your a lot more restricted with what you can and cant do, for example, you should not be able to kill (enter guy here) as he is needed for this or that
I'd like them to make it but they would need a way to have more freedom then I can see them getting to do the flagship justice

Haha, I sincerely doubt that Fifth Era crap will be taken into consideration if the series ever gets that far. Vivec is already dead/missing anyway.

two things

1:What loveletter?

2:i dont think a prequel is possible in a no-linear sense. and that means another redgaurd, which wasnt so bad but didnt make me feel like playing it again

yea but Beth doesn't really have any areas in the history of Tamriel that would quite allow non-linear game play. and the areas that might work are just really too hard to do practically.

The First Era is pretty blank. All sorts of things could happen back then. Perhaps something revolving around the Marukhati Selectives and the Dragon Break they caused. It would allow for another Daggerfall "Warp in the West" situation.

Looking back at the OP, it seems our conclusion was reached before the discussion began.

I think another "Adventures" spin-off around the time of the Akaviri Invasion of the Second Era would be interesting. More of an action/puzzler than an RPG. Perhaps playing as a Reman spy, sneaking around Akaviri camps...