Elder Scrolls 6: 5 Most Likely Locations To Be Revealed At E3 2018
Can anything beat Skyrim? ... Yes.
It's been seven years since Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was released, and three years since Fallout 4, so it's looking very likely that Bethesda's next big game will be announced at their E3 conference on 10 June.
The company have previously said they're working on two large titles. One is rumoured to be a new IP called "Starfield", a sci-fi adventure game that people hope will be revealed soon. It's looking increasingly likely that the other one will be the next Elder Scrolls game.
As with any Bethesda game, everyone wants to know one thing - where it will be set. Everyone has an opinion on what Elder Scrolls VI's location might be, or where they'd like to go in the universe, and these range from the plausible to the downright boring (Bethesda have been re-releasing Skyrim for seven straight years: we don't need another game there!)
Wherever they choose to go, it's a certainty that the land will be more riveting than the real world. To find the perfect location, it needs to work in two ways - it'll have to make for a good game, and it'll have to work in the lore. These are the most likely options.
5. Elsweyr & The Black Marsh
Home of the Khajiit and Argonian races respectively, Elsweyr and The Black Marsh are likely too small to ever host their own games. Together, however, they stand a chance
If the two locations were both used in the game, perhaps in a Witcher 3-esque multiple maps way, they would work perfectly together. They have contrasting environments - Elsweyr has a large desert whilst The Black Marsh is - well, a dark and impenetrable marsh. There's also tension surrounding the locations in the lore - both have seceded from the Empire, and Argonians invaded Morrowind during the time of ESV.
The biggest problem with these places hosting the game is how exotic and remote they are - the Khajiit are tribal, so have few large cities, and equally Argonians aren't exactly the most grand and intriguing race in the games when it comes to culture. Bethesda have typically focused on the more human races in both ES and Fallout, so it would be interesting to explore minority races, but the studio has a lot of leg work to do to develop them. They are known to like cats though, so who knows...
So whilst the geography would make for interesting and diverse gameplay, the locations are just a little too exotic and out-of-the-way to be plausible for a game.