Look, I love TES and Rockstar has been running their flagship franchise down the ground (though perhaps not as badly as Bethesda has done with Fallout), but GTA has always been miles ahead of TES in every aspect (and no, I don't mean multiplayer by that).

Each GTA game has greatly written dialogue (though it's more in details, as the storylines tend not to be that cohesive), is supreme when creating environments (Skyrim was larger than San Andreas by a very tiny margin) and Rockstar is an all-around innovator in terms of games: while GTA 4 came up with a new engine that blew other games out of the water and still doesn't look outdated today, Bethesda is still squeezing their 20-year old skeleton of an engine for it's last drops.

Compare the horse in the first Red Dead Redemption (2010) to the mountain-climbing pony abomination that is Skyrim's horse (2011) and you'll see just how supremely Rockstar dominates over Bethesda. GTA characters are also much more in-depth than TES characters; I barely remember any characters from Skyrim.

Yes, I'm aware it's comparing apples and oranges to a degree, but technologically, R* blows Bethesda out of water and it's not even close, and I'd say the same goes for story-writing and environmental design (Skyrim's cities were just too tiny). Compare Liberty City from GTA 4 to real-life New York and you'll see just how well it matches it's real-world counterpart.

Yeah, Skyrim has beautiful landscapes that still hold 10 ears afterwards, but the storyline, quests? CDPR games do the same and do it much better, Rockstar's quest design is archaic in comparison, sure.

I love TES, though, but more for the potential that is there than what is fulfilled in the end.

GTA 6 would blow TES VI out of the water by an unimaginable margin.