Nowadays Elder Scrolls is widely considered one of the greatest video games franchises of all time, with each game winning Game of the Year from multiple publications. Though its first installment Arena was originally planned to be a gladiatorial combat game, the developers kept adding on side quests and lore until it became more similar to Dungeons and Dragons than anything, eventually scrapping the fighting game idea for an open-world RPG series, and the rest is gaming history. The Elder Scrolls series takes place in many different provinces across the continent of Tamriel with wildly different environments, characters, towns and storylines, but they all have a few things in common: swords, magic, and a sense of awe and wonder.
Bethesda's beloved Elder Scrolls series has been around for over 20 years now, rising above its humble epic fantasy origins in Arena and becoming an open-world universe of its own with the release of epic adventures like the beloved Morrowind, the successful and influential Oblivion, and of course the exploding popularity of Skyrim.
