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Elder Scrolls V pre production
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2024 7:27 am
by debrasalazar
I was wondering if we knew anything about Skyrim before it was Skyrim ? Like we know Morrowind was supposed to be in Summerset and called Tribunal. Was there anything like that for Skyrim ? I think I heard Todd wanted the game to be set in High Rock is this true ?
Re: Elder Scrolls V pre production
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2024 9:13 am
by legoless
Never heard anything like that. Oblivion on PSP was supposed to be set in High Rock. Rumours of TES V being set in Skyrim were around a little while before the official announcement.
Re: Elder Scrolls V pre production
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2024 10:01 pm
by Lord Timster
afaik the very first things Beth discussed about TES5 were that they wanted the theme to be 'gritty' and to have a level of 'familiarity' for a lot of people. (So not as 'colorful generic fantasy' as Oblivion and not as 'alien' as Morrowind.)
And they went straight from 'gritty + familiar' to 'Vikings' and then Skyrim.
I think 'big honkin' dragons' and the 'magic voice from Dune' might have been floated as design ideas pretty early on but I'm not sure.
So yeah, TES5 was Skyrim from pretty much Day One. (afaik)