If I were Bethesda I'd be stealing as much as I can from ESO. They've basically created an entire world map of fucking everywhere and everything. They could genuinely take that, update a region for TES6's later place in the timeline, and if they made sure the engine was compatible they could go back and add entire continents as DLC later on. I'm not sure how well that would hold up -- like, are the maps big enough such that without infinite numbers of other players running around would it be believable? -- but it'd be an interesting starting point.
I wasn't super enthused about ESO's classes at launch (the very idea of a restrictive class in TES is a bit icky) but I guess starting last year they've started allowing you to subclass? Swapping your skill trees around?
I never liked playing anything than the home races in each game (except Arena, which High Elf is a must if you really want to finish the game).
Playing as a beast race is basically play as a furry. Nah.
Yeah, I tend to try and play the home races. This latest Oblivion run was Altmer becuase they're just so fucking broken in the game, but it's usually Imperial all the way. (Although by the end I had just embraced exploits and it was a moot point really.) I'm leaning towards a first actual playthrough of Morrowind (I guess OpenMV and TR is the way to go with that?) and that lends towards a Dark Elf playthrough, I guess. Similarly, I can't imagine playing Skyrim as anything but a Nord (but by then it was literally just cosmetic so who cares).
AS IT SHOULD BE. The Altmer are the chosen people for a reason. If you choose to play as farm equipment, then by the Nine, you'll roleplay as one too.
I was actually reading up on the farm equipment races lately -- ESO has me completely choice-locked on picking a race / class -- and apparently they have a way more in depth backstory than the later games would state. Like the Khajiit have a shitload of clans but a plague fucked their entire society up and resulted in the not-Roma we see nowadays; but there are various flavors of furry Khajiit, including ones that are housecat sized quadrapeds and tiger sized quadrapeds that are used as mounts. Both are fully sentient, can speak common, and often go into the arcane arts becuase no one expects the fucking stray cat hanging out in the alleyway to be a necromancer. Argonians started talking briefly about their culture in Oblivion, and it seemed more interesting than what we get; haven't dived too deep into them, but apparently they have giant fucking Argonian Titans hanging out in the swamps and shit, that's weird as hell.
I'd love to see a TES game set in those two races' regions and get them fleshed out, but Modern Bethesda couldn't do anything other than make them 1. Oppressed Blacks or 2. Oppressed Native Americans so I guess we'll just regulate that to "what could have been." Imagine a TES game where playing as Argonian or Khajiit gets you an entire different dialogue set because you can actually speak the native tongue of the other farm equipment races.
