Bethesda pencils in new Elder Scrolls title for 2010
Fallout 3 publisher will continue to focus on titles for PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii
Fallout 3 publisher Bethesda has indicated that the next title in the hugely popular Elder Scrolls series will be released in 2010.
Paul Oughton, publishing executive for Bethesda, also said that although the market for the Wii and DS has opened up more varied publishing opportunities, the company doesn't have any current plans to release titles for Nintendo consoles.
"At the moment we've got Fallout 3 for this year and potentially there's a new Elder Scrolls title in 2010," said Oughton. "At the moment we're not that interested in the Wii. We're going to stick to PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. We'll continue to pursue three or four titles a year and go for big titles," he said of the company's publishing plans for the future.
Oughton acknowledged that Nintendo has done a great job of expanding the games market to a mass audience, but he also expects that it will soon reach saturation point.
"We've seen games selling in the past 18 months that we never thought we'd see. We wouldn't have thought that pet games and cooking games would have a viable market five years ago. No publisher would have taken those products on," he said.
"But Nintendo bought new products in with vast amounts of marketing money to launch these into the minds of the consumer and made a market for them. Every other publisher then very quickly developed DS and Wii products and we're getting to saturation now."
I'm actually surprised they've taken this long to announce a new ES title.
I hope if they do elder scrolls 5 they will have multi-player (system link/on-line) and allow players to meet up anywhere and to jump in at any time.
also i hope for the magic system to be enhanced to allow any type of item to be enchanted with any spell (eg: i wanted a sword that glowed, constant effect. but that wasn't possible. I also wanted gloves/gauntlets that caused damage on strike like a sword would)
Another enhancement i'd like to see is the magic system to allow for standard use (pick a spell and cast it) or a new form using the headset for voice recognition. so you could pick a spell and give it a "voice" command and so when needed you could say the command and the spell would be cast. (this would i think bring a huge amount of fun and as long as you kept your head in battle you could cast spells like they should be cast)
two last things would be staffs, in oblivion there was only one staff you could enchant as part of the mage guild quest, i'd like more staffs to be used as wizard staffs or weapons.
and dual wielding. and blocking with either hand.
Please keep a respectful tone on this site. If you wish to trash talk, take it to NeoGAF.
Now if you wish to respond to me with facts regarding Bethesda's development plans, I'm all ears.
also i would like to see enemies like goblins/trolls etc... not level up... ore perhaps have them level up like the pc... example: you fight a goblin and it is killing you so you run away... but during the fight you gain skill in block. but it gains skill in blade. then while you are else where the gobin may attack other things and win thus increasing its level/skill.
It sounds as though you haven't played Morrowind (or at least enough of it). ES3 you can be either vampire or werewolf. You also have roughly twice as many spells (mark, recall, levitate, and a few others).
Anyways, I think oblivion did a fantastic job with character creation. When ES4 came out, it set the standard for high character customization. Now, it's just another game that you can change your appearance. I would like to see the clothing come back. In Morrowind, you had separate pauldrons, gauntlets, you could wear a robe over your armor, you could wear belts, pants, skirts, etc. It was awesome. I loved the clothing set-up in Morrowind.
Edited 1 times. Last edit by Simon Arnet on 23rd October 2010 4:34pm
Also should note no mention of the Elderscrolls V at this year's E3. So i suspect no TES V untill at least 2012, nothing on the official oblivion site either. Disappointed with the fact I didn't find anything about that "secret" that they were supposedly going to announce on during E3 according to some sources.
So I'd really like some real links say to a official interview from a reliable source.
Edited 2 times. Last edit by Doug Cross on 5th November 2010 4:38am
Unless it's that PSP Elder Scrolls game that was a big rumor a while back... ha ha.