Elder scrolls strategy game series#

When the world was young, and EA still held a crippling monopoly over Peter Jackson's LOTR videogame rights, they happened to produce one of the most visually stunning and nostalgia-inducing Real Time Strategy games of all time: The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth.Īs it was rushed through production (this is EA we're talking about), there were quite a lot of rough edges, particularly when it came to team balance (of the playable factions, Rohan featured the majority of the cast of the film series as god-heroes, Mordor literally got free units and is still the unqualified worst faction to play, while Gondor and Isengard felt like they had actually gone through some basic play-testing, which given the other two factions, made them feel totally broken too). In my opinion, The Elder Scrolls holds more potential than most IPs to produce a fully articulated RTS (especially considering Halo put one out… which I actually enjoyed quite a bit!). From childhood, I've held Age of Empires and WarCraft III in highest esteem, and only finally got into RPGs when a friend let me borrow Oblivion in high school. TL DR, Microsoft should put together an Elder Scrolls RTS, and should shamelessly take inspiration from the style, design, and gameplay of The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth.