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I don't think I'll ever understand why companies are obsessed with youth. Somehow it's better to have an audience of unemployed students with limited discretionary spending?

How does remastering Oblivion without releasing anything related to TES6 prove they can do both effectively? We have no idea whatsoever about the progress on TES6. They might not be making any significant progress at all. Similarly why would releasing news of a game shortly before its release be a poorly kept secret? Since when are games supposed to be kept secret until their release? Typically you want to drum up interest beforehand with marketing, not keep it confidential like military technology.

Exactly! Chosen one or not, if you had the option to reject the role of hero and watch the world burn or even join the evil Daedra to help burn it down yourself, it would be far more fun, interesting, and consistent with the intention to make games where players can "live another life, in another world." I more or less get why they haven't done that. We can assume that the games they've released basically represent the best they could make at the time. And they were always glitchy, especially when semi-significant choices like Skyrim Civil War were offered. They just haven't had the capacity to do it all. I still wish they could, of course.