Typical series, no way. They're all about a fixed cast of quirky characters and drama, the very things TES is not about. I'd watch a travel show or serialized nature documentaries about it. I'd watch something akin to Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends too.

For me, games vs. series/films rarely give something good. I can't recall any that I liked out of what has been done until now. That's also valid in the other direction: I never enjoyed games made out of films/series.

I therefore globally prefer that both remain two different activities, no matter what game.

Depends on how well it's done, nothing more, nothing less

Wonder if a series would have as many bloopers as the games have bugs?
Just kidding!

In the end, The Elder Scrolls is "just" a fantasy setting. It's not a story in itself, it's a world where different stories take place.

So apart from all the visual stuff, the quality of a movie or series has not much to do with the setting of TES, and much more with the general writing and story quality of the show.
Can you have a show of GoT's quality set in the Elder Scrolls universe? Of course.
Can you frell it up like GoT did? Sure you can.
It all depends on what story they tell. TES has the potential to host good stories, and it also has the potential to turn into a complete trainwreck.

And that includes stories based on those mentioned in games, or even main plots of the games. For a format like TV or a movie, the main stories of TES games are utterly inadequate - because they are written for a free-exploration video game. Those two have wildly different methods of storytelling, and you can't just take the ingame story and do a movie with it. Sure, you need like 30-50 hours to complete the TES3:Morrowind story, but 50% of it is randomly walking through the landscape fighting the same overland trash every few miles, 40% are repetitive "go here, do that, come back, get next task, repeat" quests - those work in a video game where you want to go out and do stuff, but are a snoozefest in TV format. And for the last 10%, the meat of the story, you are utterly alone. You are traveling alone, you are going places alone, all interaction is fleeting and temporary, there are no relationships and personal conversations, just functional interaction.

So even if you take the TES3 story, you'd have to
- condense the repetitive and videogame-y nature of the story into one that people want to watch, not play,
- write additional characters and their relationships and personalities,
- expand on existing NPCs to make them into believable characters, instead of Morrowiki access points,
- create a story arc with clear beats, instead of the meandering mess that is the story experienced by a random player...

Essentially, you'd have to re-write the entire story, with the main aspects that make for an interesting movie experience being the things that you'd have to add, and can't take from the game.

So again, whether a TES movie or TV series is good or bad, entirely depends on the writers of that movie/show. TES is just the backdrop so the CGI department has stuff to do.

I'm shocked there hasn't already been a VR cosplay mini-series dedicated to The Lusty Argonian Maid.

There are some good examples like arcane, which I think is great.
The cyberpunk anime was great in my opinion.
The anime "Steins.Gate" is in my opinion one of the best animes (also based on a game).

I think animated stuff can be easily done. For real world movies it gets a bit more complicated. I think doing this well is the same level as doing a real world version of an anime / animated movie well.

There are few like erased (watched the anime and real world movie, I even dont know what was first or which is better) or the fan project light of hope looks really great (havent fully watched it yet). Also I think that the real world adaption of Bleach (at least until the mid) is well done.

The witcher was at least ok.

So I think a movie adaption of elder scrolls for sure could work, why wouldnt it be possible to create a great movie?

It could be made like game of thrones with less adult content and more magic but still plenty of intrigues for example. For example the oblivion story with the mythic dawn stuff and murder of the emperor could perfectly work and some action based stuff in the planes of oblivion and some story lines of a few chosen sidequests or even something new.

But realistically I guess it would end up being some trash like some (low budget) Dungeons & Dragons movies or the Rings of Power (high budget, big hype but meh in so many ways)...

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Would you watch a series about The Elder Scroll?

Hmm...which Elder Scroll?

I've heard some are practically unreadable, so I'm not sure they'd translate well.

About the Lore of The Elder Scroll.

Which Elder Scroll?

Some, in the Lore there are many stories that you can use to make a series.

Watches the joke fly over their head.

There are many Elder Scrolls and each one tells a different part of Nirn's History. Like for example in Skyrim you had to get the Elder Scroll of Dragon locked away in the Tower of Mzark in order to learn what happened to Alduin and learn the shout you need.

So if you don't say "The Elder Scrolls" as a series and instead "The Elder Scroll" the question becomes for those who know the lore.... which one?