Bethesda: Don’t Expect Elder Scrolls V in the “Near Future”
Posted 08/18/09 at 12:13:12 AM by Nathan Grayson
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The cement’s settled, the paint’s dry, and the bomb has dropped and blown it all to pieces – Fallout 3’s finished. So, what’s next for Bethesda? Well, based on a comment made last year, we were kind of hoping for a new Elder Scrolls game. However, during a panel at QuakeCon, Bethesda’s Todd Howard revealed that Bethesda has other plans.
“Don't look for a new Elder Scrolls game in the near future,” Howard said when asked about Elder Scrolls V. "We are working on our next big game but we are not talking about it."
In a blog post clarifying Howard’s comments, Bethesda boss Pete Hines noted that ZeniMax Online (a branch of Bethesda’s parent company) is working on an MMO, as that’s its area of expertise. Thus, if the oft-rumored Elder Scrolls MMO is more than just wishful thinking, ZeniMax Online’s the one working the forge – not Bethesda.
So, what’s taking up so much of Bethesda’s time that the Elder Scrolls have been shelved until God-knows-when? Beats us. Do you have any guesses?
Fallout
Submitted by nekollx on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 9:04am
Fallout 4?
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This game was meh. Voice
Submitted by Netram on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 8:46am
This game was meh. Voice acting sucked, combat sucked, ui sucked, leveling sucked, quests sucked, money system sucks, animations sucked. Games like this are just too big and when it comes down to the most important part; the game play it just flopped so hard. Bosses where just enemies with bigger health pools with no use of tactics needed to kill them just run in and spam mouse1 or cast bar and you're a winner.
Dark Messiah blew this game out of the water. Everything about Dark Messiah was perfect, and did what Oblivion failed so hard to deliver. Sure, it wasn't an open game, but if you compare the main story of Dark Messiah to Oblivion, Oblivion is by far the biggest trash out there in terms of being fun.
ootb, yeah
Submitted by BaggerX on Tue, 08/25/2009 - 9:42am
Oblivion was a mediocre game out of the box. The openness and all of the things to see were pretty cool, but the gameplay itself was just completely bland and uninspired. Thankfully the mod community was able to slowly turn this game into what it should have been from the start.
Now I have much more interesting landscapes, much better stealth and magic gameplay, no ridiculous leveled enemies, a much larger variety of creatures to encounter, as well as many more quests, weapons and equipment and some truly awesome places for my character to live and stash stuff (Frostcrag Spire Revisited simply rocks :)
Those things along with too many more to even list have made this into a truly amazing game. The only bad part is that the main story still requires me to close gate after gate, doing basically the same thing over and over just to progress in the story. I haven't looked lately to see if there is a fix for that, but it would be cool if there was. If you've got the patience to install a bunch of mods, you can turn it into what is probably the most incredible open-world game ever created.
Submitted by BZ on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 7:14am
Best game series ever, Bethesda has my faith that whatever they touch will turn to gold.
waiting
Submitted by wk on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 11:54pm
Bethesda is my favorite game publishing co.and never disppoint me (Oblivion and Fallout 3 are among greatest PC games i ever played). so, definitely i'll be waiting for their next game.
MPC is my home page
Submitted by robotsneedhugs2 on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 10:16pm
http://kotaku.com/5339301/bethesda-clarifies-no-elder-scrolls-v-statement
GOOD, maybe this game will
Submitted by DBsantos77 on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 9:40pm
GOOD, maybe this game will have loads of LESS bugs then IV, thank god there's people that dedicate time to fix Bethesda's screw-ups (UOP)
Other then that, I hope that the next game is even better then the fourth, although it will be hard to top that off. I love Elder scrolls, and have played since morrowind, this one should be even more amazing.
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