The Elder Scrolls VI: 10 Ways To Blow Skyrim Out Of The Water

1. No Loading

This one is a given. Every current-generation game is making a big stink about how seamless their experience is. From gameplay, to cinematic, to gameplay, seamlessly. Entering and exiting interiors, seamlessly. From land, to air, to sea, to land again, without seams. We get it. Considering the accumulative hours we've spent rotating random assets and pretending those "useful hints" are €œuseful,€ it's almost impossible to imagine an Elder Scrolls game in which we can simply enter a new area, no strings attached. As trivial as this may seem to some, loading time is one of the last, great immersion breakers in gaming. Show us a game designer who loves loading screens and we€™ll show you a lot of angry gamers and a game designer who just got fired. Obviously, such things are far from intentional, but merely the technical limitations of an era, one that€™s rapidly coming to an end. If The Elder Scrolls VI were to load once and simply be, we wouldn€™t have to endure thirty seconds of darkness just to see if we want to go deeper into that cave. We wouldn€™t have to twiddle our thumbs forever just to enter the top floor of that tower. Bethesda's epic, medieval fantasy frontier would become our seamless oyster, and we just might finally run out of reasons to leave home. How do you think Bethesda can improve on Skyrim? Share your thoughts below in the comments thread.
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