Bethesda's Next Project

[Arthmoor]

Some nice fuel for speculation. I certainly hope they don't go down the road of turning this into an MMO. The only logical thing they could have been working on for so long is TES V.

[StarX]

TES V seems most likely indeed. I'm very curious about the era and location they will pick. It probably takes place after the events covered by The Infernal City.

[Johnn123]

ahh this is the piece of info i missed. wonder what it could it be...

[Zaldir]

I really hope it won't be a MMO... TES is best made singleplayer, that's just the way it is. In a MMO, there wouldn't be anymore mods (Except from UI Mods), and hell there's A LOT of restrictions in MMOs, so goodbye roleplaying...

It would, however be interesting to see how they made it, and to make it most successful as a MMO, they would have to follow in Darkfall and Mortal Online's footsteps and not WoW or those "WoW-Copies".

But.. I guess there's nothing else to do than wait and see..

Edited August 15, 2010 by grond
Watch the language please.

[grond]

Would it be possible to create an Elder Scrolls MMO and ESV?? Make them separate entities? Is Beth big enough to build and maintain both? Would it be good business? Or would they link the two somehow, or make one or the other.

I do not keep up with the trades...

[vometia]

I'm tempted to say "it could be a good single-player game or a bad MMO". But I would say that because I don't like MMOs, which are by definition all bad as far as I'm concerned.

[InsanitySorrow]

It's not Beth themselves that would be making an MMO, they've stated that before and has been mentioned many times here , So I think you maybe right Grond and it would be possible to have TESV and an MMO.

[Jheuloh]

Some nice fuel for speculation. I certainly hope they don't go down the road of turning this into an MMO. The only logical thing they could have been working on for so long is TES V.

According to the words of UESP, Pete Hines has scotched all TESV-MMO rumours.

Everything else is up in the air though. I agree that TESV seems a likely candidate for their mystery project.

Edit: As IS said, however, it's likely that a TES spin-off MMO could be made by ZeniMax, as Bethesda itself is developing TESV (Or preparing to develop TESV).

Edited August 16, 2010 by Jheuloh

[Johnn123]

I really hope it won't be a MMO... TES is best made singleplayer, that's just the way it is. In a MMO, there wouldn't be anymore mods (Except from UI Mods), and hell there's A LOT of restrictions in MMOs, so goodbye roleplaying...

It would, however be interesting to see how they made it, and to make it most successful as a MMO, they would have to follow in Darkfall and Mortal Online's footsteps and not WoW or those "WoW-Copies".

But.. I guess there's nothing else to do than wait and see..

i can guarentee its not an MMO. BGS does not develop MMO's, zenimax online, does however and are apparently making an MMO right now.

[Eclipse]

I'm sick of people begging for MMOs. It's not just Es, it's Fallout too, wasn't that supposed to be getting an MMO. . .

What would be interesting, is a console based MMO. Not sure how it would work, but that's something I wouldn't mind seeing.

[Arthmoor]

Edit: As IS said, however, it's likely that a TES spin-off MMO could be made by ZeniMax, as Bethesda itself is developing TESV (Or preparing to develop TESV).

Exactly. It's almost certainly got to be TES V because the announcement of an MMO would have come out of ZeniMax instead. There could be a parallel project going quite easily since I don't think the two houses share a developer pool. Also, according to those court filings, the only likely MMO in production is for Fallout.

Now, assuming it's TES V, we already got a sneak leak about when it'll be set, supposedly something like 200 years post-Oblivion. We just don't know for sure which province it'll cover, or if it might cover more than one.

[Jheuloh]

Skyrim seems a likely candidate, seeing that Bethesda's had the name trademarked for a few years now. I'd be interested to see at least some portion of a neighboring province make at least a token appearance in TESV, however.

[nottlong]

Skyrim would be a good location and overlapping in to other areas sounds like a great idea to me. TESV and a spin off MMo is likely I think.

[_echo]

Co-op is something I would like to see. But MMO, no thanks. It would a fun mechanic to have some quests that need 2 people for puzzle solving and whatnot.

[vometia]

I wonder how long it'll go between CTDs? I must admit that's one thing that puts me off diving in too soon, though knowing me I'll probably still be tempted if they offer random tat in the form of a collector's edition.

[washington]

I wouldn't mind TES themed MMO (I haven't played MMO ever before), but not TES V - that has to be single player.

Also, I wouldn't mind another episode of TES Adventures, like Redguard.

I hope I'll buy a new PC until then though.

[Vereta]

TES V please.