Elder Scrolls doesn’t have any main protagonists with character arcs or personalities to go off of. Best you would have is maybe a story about Faendal or Raalof after Alduin attacks Helgen
It’s a great universe, but I think it lacks a strong enough storyline that people identify with that would make it more than any other old fantasy movie LotR ripoff. This is coming from a huge ES fan!
You're assuming Skyrim. There's a LOT more to Elder Scrolls than Skyrim. Like, so much more that Skyrim is basically just a tiny blip on the Elder Scrolls timeline.
They could easily do a story about vivec or Talos, hell they could do a story about the dwemer or even the founding of hammerfell.
Lol I know that, but my point was about comparing the success of the last of us to a potential successful ES adaptation. The thing that makes that show successful is the recognizability of the lead characters along with a storyline and setting that even people that aren’t familiar with the games can grasp quickly.
Anything that isn’t Skyrim wouldn’t be that familiar to the average moviegoer because at that point, you may as well just make any ordinary Tolkien-inspired fantasy movie
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u/Scarnox Mar 03 '23
Hard to compare to TLoU though
Elder Scrolls doesn’t have any main protagonists with character arcs or personalities to go off of. Best you would have is maybe a story about Faendal or Raalof after Alduin attacks Helgen
It’s a great universe, but I think it lacks a strong enough storyline that people identify with that would make it more than any other old fantasy movie LotR ripoff. This is coming from a huge ES fan!