10 Things We Want From Elder Scrolls 6

Nobody wants to see The Elder Scrolls turned into yet another Minecraft/Day-Z wannabe, filled with mundane crafting tasks and punchable trees. That doesn't mean the lessons learned from survival games should be avoided whole cloth, however, as some such features can really enhance the way you play an open world RPG.

We saw this with Skyrim, when various modders added dynamic cold, hunger, thirst, and fatigue elements to the game, as well as ways to combat them. You could equip heavy fur coats to avoid the chill, cook food over a warm fire to prevent starvation, and steering clear of water was essential if you wanted to avoid freezing to death. These gameplay tweaks were similar to those found in Fallout: New Vegas’s hardcore mode, but they completely transformed the way you went about playing Skyrim.

Were similar features to be implemented into The Elder Scrolls VI, they’d probably need to remain optional. A lot of people like to play Skyrim as a story-driven RPG or a straight-up exploration game, so forcing them to endure Bear Grylls-ian trials seems a little unfair. But that doesn’t mean the option shouldn’t be there, for those who want to give it a try.