Morrowind was the high water mark of the elder scrolls series and this is a hill I will die on with fervor.
It introduced a ton of content that Oblivion and Skyrim would proceed to riff on.
But, again, this is a 25 year old game. To say “we’ll never have another Morrowind” a few weeks after a bunch of ugly firings doesn’t seem to acknowledge that we didn’t get a “new Morrowind” before that, either. And we never will, because it’s a product of a certain historical moment.
But we still got Eldin Ring and Horizon: Zero Dawn and Dragon Age and Mass Effect and Divinity: Original Sin.
I don’t see anything to suggest we won’t continue to get big budget open world RPGs, even if they aren’t in the identical artistic or thematic style as an Elder Scrolls game.
It introduced a ton of content that Oblivion and Skyrim would proceed to riff on.
But, again, this is a 25 year old game. To say “we’ll never have another Morrowind” a few weeks after a bunch of ugly firings doesn’t seem to acknowledge that we didn’t get a “new Morrowind” before that, either. And we never will, because it’s a product of a certain historical moment.
But we still got Eldin Ring and Horizon: Zero Dawn and Dragon Age and Mass Effect and Divinity: Original Sin.
I don’t see anything to suggest we won’t continue to get big budget open world RPGs, even if they aren’t in the identical artistic or thematic style as an Elder Scrolls game.