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this dunmer in #morrowind #tribunal predicts the oblivion crisis. tribunal was released November 2002 and development for #Oblivion started the same year; so it's not a surprise but still a cool hint at the next game's plot before its official announcement.
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that being said, i think there's something similar to this in Oblivion that foreshadows #Skyrim; so, you gotta figure there's a lot of these in Skyrim too ... they're just much easier to find in hindsight lol
"I have seen dragons. Perhaps you will see a dragon. I won't say where I saw one. Perhaps I did not." -M'aiq the Liar, Oblivion.
i think the easy guess regarding Skyrim's foreshadowing of the next game is Thalmor related, something to do with the direnni towers or other. the Thalmor thread never gets resolved.
@buru5 This guy saw the adoring fan and recoiled in horror just like the rest of us.
@buru5 That's cool. It shows they at least had some sort of loose timeline/ world building that they were shooting for.
I've always wanted to play The Elder Scrolls games. Perhaps one day my backlog will allow!
could see them getting hard to 'get into,' especially if you have no experience with the series. morrowind especially, best described as a boring-mood-game early on and (generously) somewhat-more-exciting-mood-game when you get the hang of things. in terms of world building, ES has the most creative fantasy world building in the #ComputerGame space bar none but not always presented as well as it could be; the draw of ES is 'the lore' + 'the feeling of being in the world' (the moods)
@Judeau an example of this creative world building is that the gods/etc. + most historical figures have contradicting accounts of their exploits; some accounts paint them out to be saints and others paint them to be murderer; and all sides are fully fleshed out.
there's also mild-sci-fi concepts floating about in the background like transcending the 'game world,' space/time travel, etc. that are hinted but never overtly revealed so there's an overarching sense of mystery to everything.
@buru5 That sounds great. I have no doubt that I would love the games, especially the older ones which I tend to be drawn to.
There's just something so ethereal yet alluring about older computer games that try to convey rich massive open worlds.