no elder scroll 6?

[noobshi]

Why do I have a feeling that there won't be an elder scroll 6? This might sound dumb but I think Bethesda is running out of ideas for the single player The elder scroll series. Skyrim is pretty much timeless now with all the mods, and graphical enchantments. If they are planning to have an elder scrolls 6, they have to top the graphic of today nodded skyrim, which is really impressive. Not to mention overhauls and mod (upcoming) such as skywind and skylivion, that provide an immersive plays for nearly every RPG lover. So toping current PC version of skyrim will be a monumental task. Unless they want to risk creating a game weaker than its predecessor.

 

Another reason I think the elder scrolls series is coming to an end is because of the elder scrolls online. I'm not bashing on the elder scroll online in any way. I just think that they are using ESO as their last mean of incomes, why else would they charge 60 on top of 15 monthly, on top of limited edition pre-order for something that is not very polish compair to up coming black desert online and arc age with their seige and even housing system, that skyrim haves, but not ESO. I see it as a very desperate way to cash in the elder scroll title.

 

I can see that the elder scroll series will become like blizzard's Warcraft series. After WoW launched, they stop Warcraft at 3, due to the success of wow. So, now all of the new Warcraft lore will be place on WoW, instead of something like Warcraft 4. There might be spind off elder scrolls or even recreation of an elder scrolls game in HD. But I really don't think there will be an elder scroll 6 that continues the timeline after skyrim ( as in the future, maybe hundreds of years after events of skyrim, not necessarily have to be connected with skyrim ). If you disagreed with any of my point, feel free to comment. For I really want to believe that there will be a TES6, please convince :(.

Edited February 26, 2014 by noobshi

[djjohnjarvis]

As has been said many times before Bethesda Games Studios is not working on ESO, Zenimax Online is. BGS will be using the same engine for their next few games from what has been said, meaning that they will be sticking to the same formula they used for Fallout and The Elder Scrolls (an open world sandbox RPG type game). The engine they use doesn't seem very geared up for online and they have no online experience whatsoever having only developed single player games so I very much doubt that is the route they will take.

 

They have confirmed that they are already working on a new game but have not specified what, but the most likely would be Fallout 4 unless they hand over the franchise to one of their sister studios like they did with New Vegas. They bought the full rights for the franchise after they developed Fallout 3 so it's very likely there will be a Fallout 4. A single player game and online MMO are two different markets altogether so it would be silly to assume they would quit developing their largest franchise after the success of Skyrim. The fact that ESO is set way before all the other Elder Scrolls pretty much says that they are doing it not to interrupt the timeline that is already going on in the single player Elder Scrolls.

 

It seems pointless that Zenimax (Bethesda's parent company) would go to the trouble of setting up an online division if they intended BGS to develop online MMO games.

[kleinstaff]

ut took them more than 2 years after oblivion to anounce TES V skyrim is just over 2 years old

 

it take time lot of time and brainstorming to come up with new thigs or redesignig older ided

i don't think we will know before 2015

 

besides launching a follow up or a succcesor so shortly after a major commercial succes like TES V was mostly only leads to major dissapointment for both the buyers (we ) and he developers themselves

 

thp i still believe they could have done a 4th DLC if they didn't had all those problems with the PS 3 version

 

 

btw ESO is a complete different thing made by another studio and has nothing to do with the design proces at bethesda , it only happens to use the same world

Edited February 26, 2014 by kleinstaff

[Lisnpuppy]

Really? This again?

 

As was said the ESO game is not the same division (Zenimax) as Bethesda that makes Skyrim and all the SPRPGs.

 

All things come to an end eventually. That is life. However there is absolutely no evidence at present that there will not be another single player TES game.

 

Here are some limited statistics on sales http://www.statisticbrain.com/skyrim-the-elder-scrolls-v-statistics/

 

Why would they stop making them when it is a cash cow? Skyrim legendary still regularly sits on the top 10 selling list on Steam. They made money hand over fist on this.

 

So forget your angst on this and save your fingers the workout for the posts. Short of some kind of catastrophe I would bet good money on TES single player games continuing.

[JimboUK]

Obsidian have stated in interest in doing an Elder Scrolls game, maybe like Fallout they'll make a spin off.

[chanchan05]

This again?

 

1. Bethesda takes 4-5years to make an ES game (Morrowind 2002, Oblivion 2006, Skyrim 2011), so I expect TES 6 at 2016, 2 more years to go.

 

2. The story isn't a hard thing. Just take a look at all the "What do you want to see in TES 6" threads. Heck the war with the Thalmor is good enough to stand as a main quest over several TES iterations.

 

3. DO NOT COMPARE WoW with TESO. It won't happen the same way. WoW was intended to replace Warcraft in the first place, as it was set in the aftermath of WC3. TESO is set in the 2nd Era, 1000 years before Skyrim. They'll ruin the TESO storyline if they suddenly fast forward 1000 years.

 

4. No they don't have to top the graphics of Skyrim with mods, and they aren't going to. TES games are built for a console platform, then ported to PC, which means they are limited by what the current gen consoles can handle. The XBoxOne and PS4 would probably be able to handle what stands for high settings now in PC.

 

5. In fact, if they wanted to stop TES, they should have stopped at Oblivion. At least the storyline in that game had closure. Skyrim leaves the big war with the Thalmor hanging.

[BlackRampage]

If they are planning to have an elder scrolls 6, they have to top the graphic of today nodded skyrim, which is really impressive.

 

Well, actually the Creation Engine, which Skyrim uses, is just a heavily modified Gamebryo engine, which was already outdated by the time they released Fallout 3. Skyrim's graphics are impressive, but they're definitely not top notch compared to those of other games released at the time, let alone today's.

 

Still plenty of provinces in Tamriel to be explored anyhow.

[Rennn]

What are the best and worst case scenarios?

 

Best: Well, Skyrim has only been out for what, 2-3 years? It took Bethesda much longer than that after Oblivion to announce Skyrim. There's no reason to suspect they won't make TES 6, especially since as others have mentioned, TESO is not made by Bethesda and Bethesda made a ton of money on Skyrim.

 

Worst: You just said that Skyrim is a timeless masterpiece with limitless potential thanks to mods, and for some reason that disappoints you about TES 6? Even if there's no TES 6, that really just means a dedicated team will mod the rest of the continents into Skyrim eventually. Hell, there are still devoted teams and hundreds of individuals working on almost every part of Morrowind, and great game as it is, it never appealed to the same vast quantity of people as Skyrim.

 

My opinion: Tes 6 will happen, probably in ~3 years following precedent. And they'll probably half-assedly upgrade the Creation Engine to DX11 for it. It'll probably be the same size as Skyrim to avoid accusations of making the game worse, but have more dynamic effects to save development time, and as a result will lead to more polished but ultimately similar quests just like Daggerfall, Oblivion and Skyrim. It'll sell more than Skyrim but get worse reviews, because no sequel ever manages to escape that once it attracts the casual crowd with very short memories. It'll probably be in the Summerset Isle, because that's the area that I find least interesting but seems easiest to develop since they won't need to make walking trees or dynamic sand deformation and tessellation, like they would in the other remaining regions of Tamriel on next-gen hardware. They'll probably reintroduce simplified spellcrafting and remove torches, because that's the kind of trade-off that Bethesda loves to make. They'll remove werewolves again if they don't have to fit a norse theme, but they may keep a couple boss dragons just to say they still have them, because that's just a nice easter egg for fans and good avertising at the same time. They'll toy with online multiplayer but will ultimately decide just to integrate world events and friend tracking into a leaderboard on their website, because that's what large developers do when they can't quite figure out the logistics of multiplayer. They'll ditch sampled antialiasing altogether to net the performance and visual returns of a deferred lighting engine, now that they've already patched deferred shadows into Skyrim. Instead they'll focus on custom coded MLAA and 4K for jaggy removal, because that's much more efficient and saves a lot of time during development.

[Bloodinfested]

Theres so much they can do realistically you can look forward to several more TES games. Probably even dont have to keep going forward in the timeline they had some interesting conflicts with Akavir plus some major battles within the 3E, lot of other things that happen in the past they could look at.

Its very hard to speculate what they are working on until they start leaking info.

 

ESO started in the middle of Oblivions DLCs and then you had Skyrim with all its DLCs so obviously zenimax is not interfering with Bethesda single player games.

[noobshi]

I know that Bethesda is not making ESO and I never said that Bethesda made ESO..., but Zenimax studio is the parent company of Bethesda, so you can't really say it is made by a different company. It more like a different studio by the same company, so the marketing plan can't be off-track from what its parent company wants

. Regarding all the other holds in tamreil, have you notice that all the tes game take place in human provinces, well except for morrowind. But morrowind was still diverse with many races because they have a slavery system that introduce other races into the game. The next TES is very limits in places it could take place. Do you think they will make it in setting with only khajiit, argonians, or only elves with very limited amount of human.

One thing really bug me is why skyrim, their most game only receive 3 dlc while other fallout, oblivion and morrowind receive tons of dlc content? This got nothing to do with my point, but I just wants to state it anyway.

Don't get me wrong, I think there will be more TES to come, but I don't think it will be tes6, it will be like new Vegas, the title will be there but I doubt it will have the 6 in it.

Also this is only my speculations, I myself really hope for a tes6. I'm not making this post because there's no news about tes6 yet. I'm just considering what could happens.

Edited February 26, 2014 by noobshi