User blog comment:Jack Pistol/My Future/@comment-5206974-20120609233659/@comment-2040576-20120610074808

The Elder Scrolls is a series of 5 games, Skyrim being the most recent release. For further details check their IGN pages and the Elder Scrolls wiki. In Skyrim you are the last Dragonborn, which is someone who has the ability to absorb dragon souls and speak in dragon tongue. The dragons return and you must defeat them as well as doing many other quests and chosing a side in the civil war in Skyrim. What I like, is that you can chose how to play the game completely. If you don't want to do a quest, you don't have to. If you see an NPC that you feel like killing, go ahead. If you don't like either choice of a quest ( in most quests you chose how to play it ), kill both parties and run off with all their stuff. There is more to the game than fighting and an epic expansion is being released soon. I am not going into detial about all this though, just do some research on it ( it got me hyped for the game so I bought it :P ).

As for Elder Scrolls Online, it is being released next year and is going to be the MMORPG version of the series. The games are set in Tamriel, but usually only in one province, ( Skyrim is a province ) but ESO, will be set on the entire continent which is very expansive. In skyrim it takes you quite a bit of time to get from one corner to the other, espeically with all the mountains, rivers and enemies in your way. In the game, the empire of Tamriel has fallen apart and 4 factions have formed, 3 of which are playable. The fourth are the Imperials, who own the Imperial province and are trying to defend it from the other factions. Everyone is fighting for their faction to claim the Imperial City, and then a player gets crowned by his faction as the empire, and then they need to defend it from the other factions. So it is a mix of MMORPG, strategy and the epicness of Elder Scrolls everyone loves. They sey the combat, exploring and quests are going to be amazing. Check out the Elder Scrolls Online website and the page for it on the Elder Scrolls wiki. I have been following news for it on game sites, on Elder Scrolls sites and on videos :P