Bethesda Game Studios is hard at work on the fifth game in the Elder Scrolls series, according to a new report.
It's a direct sequel to 2006's stonking great fantasy role-playing game Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Eurogamer Denmark said.
We've asked the author of the story, Eurogamer Denmark Editor-in-chief Kristian West, to translate into English for us (apparently Google doesn't do it justice). Here's what he said:
"This source not only confirmed that the game is in current production, but also spoke briefly about the content - with fantasy-sounding phrases like Dragon Lord, something with The Blades - and that voice acting for the characters in the game is currently happening in the weeks to follow.
"The same source confirmed, with official game documents in hand, that this will be the chronological sequel to what happened in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, which is the latest game in the now 16-years-old Elder Scrolls saga and by itself one of the better RPGs for PC and consoles.
"The sequel to Oblivion is coming, we can hereby confirm without hesitation. It's been a while since 2006, hasn't it?"
Rumour of an Elder Scrolls sequel has been rife since Oblivion's launch.
In August Bethesda Game Studios told Eurogamer the majority of its 90 or so staff are beavering away on the new game - thought to be a new Elder Scrolls title - which has been in development for two years.
Executive producer Todd Howard said in an interview with Eurogamer at QuakeCon that the studio's current title will be announced soon, but he couldn't say exactly when. "I have a sense but we're not ready even to talk about [the timing of the announcement], because it might change. I don't want to disappoint people.
"One thing I can say is that from when you first hear about it to when it's out will be the shortest it's been for us. It's pretty far along. When we show it, we want to show a lot, because there's a lot of game there to play right now.
"You know, if [global VP of PR and marketing] Pete Hines came in and said, 'I want you to show it,' I'd be like, 'Okay, I'm ready to show it.' But we've just decided for now not to yet."
Howard wouldn't be drawn on many details about the game, but said the technology was derived from the engine that powered Fallout 3, albeit with significant modifications.
"Fallout 3 technically does a lot more than Oblivion. The new stuff is an even bigger jump from that," he said.
"I can say it is on the existing platforms, which we're really happy with. You almost feel like you have a new console when you see the game."
My biggest gripe with Bethesda is that they've recycled the same handful of voice actors for all of their games. In Oblivion, one voice actor voiced all male Dunmer, Altmer, and Bosmer elf NPCs. And his voice was only suitable for the Bosmer. I prefer a bit of variety in the voices and personality of NPCs. Instead of paying a ton of money to get Patrick Stewart or Liam Neeson to voice one character, just hire a decent, varied, and sizeable group of voice actors.
Also, give me a set of realistic (and badass) face presets to work with during character creation. Millions of slider bars are nice and all, but I have yet to make a character in Oblivion that looks remotely realistic. Artistic fail on my part, sure, but some great face presets would be helpful.
"Howard wouldn't be drawn on many details about the game, but said the technology was derived from the engine that powered Fallout 3, albeit with significant modifications.
"Fallout 3 technically does a lot more than Oblivion. The new stuff is an even bigger jump from that," he said."
Hmm, not sure if this sounds like a good thing or a bad thing. When Oblivion came out in 2006, it looked amazing. While I love playing FO3, the character animation leaves something to be desired. Hopefully they beef-up the polygons of the people and have a lot more of them. Graphics aren't everything, but when you are standing in front of people for 20-30% of the game, it's nice if they look good.
Look's exciting. My beef with a lot of current games is that they populate the screen with so few people (even if you can't interact with everyone). A city should look full, a town should have people walking around. It's odd when a large city has so few people actually anywhere in it.
Also, give me a set of realistic (and badass) face presets to work with during character creation. Millions of slider bars are nice and all, but I have yet to make a character in Oblivion that looks remotely realistic. Artistic fail on my part, sure, but some great face presets would be helpful.
Morrowind was so many miles ahead of Oblivion in every important way it's just silly. Oblivion did show how much people prefer dumbed down role playing features, zero character advancement, and completely coddling gameplay however. So I suppose if that's the future of the series, count me disgusted with everyone.will it suck as much as Morrowind?
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Morrowind was so many miles ahead of Oblivion in every important way it's just silly. Oblivion did show how much people prefer dumbed down role playing features, zero character advancement, and completely coddling gameplay however. So I suppose if that's the future of the series, count me disgusted with everyone.
Morrowind was so many miles ahead of Oblivion in every important way it's just silly. Oblivion did show how much people prefer dumbed down role playing features, zero character advancement, and completely coddling gameplay however. So I suppose if that's the future of the series, count me disgusted with everyone.
This. Morrowind was a lot better than Oblivion in all respects. Even better graphically in some areas when modded.
Bethesda Game Studios is hard at work on the fifth game in the Elder Scrolls series, according to a new report.
"This source not only confirmed that the game is in current production, but also spoke briefly about the content - with fantasy-sounding phrases like Dragon Lord, something with The Blades - and that voice acting for the characters in the game is currently happening in the weeks to follow.
In August Bethesda Game Studios told Eurogamer the majority of its 90 or so staff are beavering away on the new game - thought to be a new Elder Scrolls title - which has been in development for two years.
Howard wouldn't be drawn on many details about the game, but said the technology was derived from the engine that powered Fallout 3
We all have our tastes, so no worries. Not liking either makes sense anyway. I thought the post was more "Morrowind sucks, while Oblivion is good".I didn't touch oblivion b/c I hated Morrowind so much.
Eh. I'll wait and see. Oblivion was an improvement over Morrowind, but that really didn't require much. While it got rid of the most outlandishly broken mechanics, and the ludicrous wikipedia that passed for conversation, the underlying leveling mechanic was still fundamentally backward.
We all have our tastes, so no worries. Not liking either makes sense anyway. I thought the post was more "Morrowind sucks, while Oblivion is good".
This. Morrowind was a lot better than Oblivion in all respects. Even better graphically in some areas when modded.
WTF if it's still based off Gamebryo that is an instant fail for me.