[Trevor Bostwick]

It shouldn't be an issue.. Games like Fallout aren't exactly known for being amazing looking. I'd sacrifice appearance in a game like Fallout for more content.

[N Only WhiTe girl]

I do feel Bethesda could innovate more. Especially with the engine that...never changes.

That said, I don't want them to abandon their established IPs, especially Fallout.

[Stephani Silva]

BGS will be in no discernible way "bust", unless you mean in your opinion they are "bust"?

[x_JeNnY_x]

I'd personally love a BGS rpg in a similar ethos and narrative to that of Mass Effect .

I agree but the gaming populace has some fatuous obsession with fidelity and so on.

I'm not entirely sure what my point is

[Sheeva]

Oh, they could innovate for sure, but the "new IP or bust" is taking it too far.

They don't need to re-invent the wheel or anything crazy like that. Though yeah, they could improve quite a bit still, but it won't kill them to show some restraint either, I like innovation as long as it is in order to improve and not just for innovations sake.

I would like for Beth games to feel a little bit more unique, it's kinda "do you want the fantasy skin or the post-apocalyptic skin?" and by that I mean that they play quite simmilar to each other. Of course it's also nice for Beth fans to know what they're getting when they buy a game. So I think there is a fine balance and junk.

[sally R]

It's going to be really telling come May to see how The Witcher 3 turns out and then to see what Beth puts out as far as open world games.

[Jynx Anthropic]

Maybe but I think that Witcher 3 will not do as good as it is hyped. Most games being hyped like that quite often wind up failing quite bad to live up to what is promised.

I have more faith in Bethesda when it comes to making open world games since they have over 20 Years making them

[Samantha hulme]

OK, have we all shouted out what we hope is talked about at the news conference yet?

I'm thinking we should be hearing more info from Bethesda/Zenimax pretty soon. All we have currently is a date and a city. No venue location, no info on available number of seats, not even a projected program duration. It seem's likely that they'll have different special options for varying levels of stuff like they do at Quakecon, premium location seats, exclusive catered reception stuff etc., but until there are more details, any prospective attendees are frozen in standby mode. It might be easier to glean some of what's going to happen if the presentation runs 60 minutes vs. 90 or even longer. I can't really see it being shorter,

FWIW, I wasn't planning on making this trip, but I haven't ruled it out yet either....

[Jynx Anthropic]

If I lived in the same state as the conference I would definitely go. But considering it's on the opposite side of the country as me, it's a no go. I'll definitely be watching it in twitch though

[Averielle Garcia]

Im finding it a little weird that some people are 100% sure that fallout 4 is there next game. I mean I would love for that to be true but its seems there setting themselves up for some bad heart aches if it isn't fallout4 (I truly truly hope it is though)

[krystal sowten]

Yeah, but I'm not sure if it will be a Skyrimslayer or any of those other [censored] titles the "serious game journalists" put on it in order to sell their [censored] magazines.

I hope it will raise the bar though in some aspects, but Bethesda games already have features that the witcher doesn't, like character creation, which is a big deal to some gamers. They also have the success of the last game to surf on, and so far the TES games have been more casual than the Witcher games.

But if the Witcher 3 is somewhat of a threat, I'm pretty sure Bethesda is aware of it. Besides I don't think CD Projekt have their eyes set on Bethesdas Crown or anything, they just want to make good games. But we'll see, though as I said, I think the Wild Hunt "theat" is somewhat over hyped by journalists in order to sell better.

[Tanya]

The only thing that is 100% certain is that Bethesda Softworks didn't rent the space and schedule a press conference just so Pete Hines could walk out on the stage and just stare at the attendees for 60 minutes (or however long the event is scheduled). Beyond that, there are no guarantees.

I think it is extremely likely that we will be told what Bethesda Game Studios is currently working on and we will be given a timeframe for its release, but that is not guaranteed.

I think that it is extremely likely that more than one product will be presented if the event is longer than 30 minutes, but again that is not guaranteed.

I think we are likely to hear about the current projects of most if not all of ZeniMax Media's game development studios if the event is one hour or longer, but that is not guaranteed.

I think we will hear about Fallout 4, but that isn't guaranteed either.

[Rude Gurl]

I think most of us would agree that there are no guarantees with pure speculation. I'm sure Bethesda have something substantial to announce but only time will tell of course.

[Marilú]

So lets see here, Bethesda Game Studios develops The Elder Scrolls video games which are open world fantasy medieval video games and the Fallout video games which are open world apocalyptic video games.

Imagine if for E3 2015 Pete Hines comes to the podium and says, ladies and gentlemen welcome to Bethesda Softworks E3 2015 conference I welcome you our long time game director from Bethesda Game Studios Todd Howard and you see on a projector screen behind Pete Hines the Bethesda Game Studios logo appear and out Todd Howard walks from behind the curtains to the podium, Todd Howard proceeds to say hello everybody. Then Tod Howard says it has been almost 4 years since we released The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and during that time frame we have been working hard to deliver you something absolutely amazing that Bethesda Game Studios will push forward to innovate in our design philosophy.

Imagine a picture appearing on the projector screen behind Todd Howard the title name of the video game and saying it's set as a sci-fi futuristic setting kind of like the Mass Effect video games only that the video game is still fully open world and explorable, but it takes place on Earth, the Moon, and Mars, and your Playable Character (PC) is still fully customizable like in the The Elder Scrolls video games, Fallout 3, and Fallout: New Vegas.

Imagine if this is what Bethesda Game Studios does. Why? Because Todd Howard is burnt out and wants to try something now. After all wasn't there a YouTube video or interview on some web site where Todd Howard said he wants to try something new? At least that is what I remember reading. I would find it very welcoming myself to see a brand new type of video game being developed by Bethesda Game Studios.

Because believe it or not video game developers sometimes do get burnt out by working on the same exact video game franchise sequels, prequels, and spinoffs for so many years like 10 years or 20 years. I have no idea how the Call of Duty video game developers can keep working on developing Call of Duty video games every year and releasing the Call of Duty video games for sale every year. I mean at least Activision gave 3 year development cycles now to all 3 of the Call of Duty video game development companies that Activision owns.

So E3 2015 for Bethesda Softworks conference will be very interesting to watch and see no Fallout 4 or The Elder Scrolls VI get announced and shown off.

[Alexandra Ryan]

If Todd Howard is burned out then Bethesda should hire fresh blood and keep the series going. It would be the biggest nonsense (bigger than no half-life 3 after hl2) if they just stop TES for a few 12 years because Todd burned out. Not after Skyrim's success.

[Alan Whiston]

Everyone keeps hying that game. Personally, I don't get it. I've played 1 and 2 and honestly, they're great but not god-tier as people claim.

[Britta Gronkowski]

Well who knows what will happen in a few years. Todd Howard said 200 people is the sweet spot that he likes to work with. Right now Bethesda Game Studios has like 250 people employed from what I heard.

Just because something is a huge success and sells a lot earning the company lots of money does not mean a person will not get burned out. There are plenty of people who got really rich from selling something and got burnt out after 20 years and moved onto trying something new.

For E3 2015 I can see this out come, either 1. Fallout 4 getting announced and released for sale in 2015 with the short time frame from announcement to release for sale, like how Todd Howard wants, 2. Releasing a brand new video game franchise for sale this before 2015 ends. 3. Announcing and releasing The Elder Scrolls VI for sale in 2015 or 3. Announcing they will release a video game for sale in 2015 and having 2 teams working simultaneously developing 2 different video games at the same time so they can release a video game in 2016 for sale as well.

Those are just some of my guesses.

[Rachel Hall]

For me both The Witcher and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings has better written quests than The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has.

So this is why some of us are hoping once The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt releases for sale on May 19th, 2015, that Bethesda Game Studios whatever video game they are developing and possibly going to release for sale in 2015 will have better written quests compared to what The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has.

I myself am hoping Bethesda Game Studios gets some very good quests written from now on for their video games.

[Kelli Wolfe]

It is better written, the story is way better than say Skyrim or Oblivion.

The story is one of the better video game stories I have played through for quite some time, though I think I might still like Mafia more, I think I would say that the Mafia games have some of the best stories I've ever played through in games.

[Chad Holloway]

I would like to add, that I am fairly certain (just not 100% ) that we will not be treated to a one hour dissertation on the reproductive habits of pigeons (a.k.a., flying rats) unless it has something to do with a game.

[Valerie Marie]

While I agree with your rationale regarding BGS throwing a new IP into their production mix, I don't believe they are about to announce something totally unexpected without some placation of their fans current hopes. I'd really like to see a new IP announced by them, probably more than Fallout or ES when I really think about it. However.... subbing this for a long awaited Fallout entry creates an immediate dislike factor by the snubbed FO wish-fulls. Best to announce two forthcoming IPs from BGS in this scenario.... with Fallout getting some in depth presentation as well.

As for the ES crowd, from my perspective, it is not rational for them to expect ES-6 to be featured at the E3 news conference. The Elder Scrolls is their flagship series, and still very worthy of getting that huge single spotlight treatment. Having it show up on the immediate heels of an ESO that Zenimax is still trying to bolster up just doesn't make any business sense to me whatsoever.

[Phillip Brunyee]

Fallout 4 is pretty much a given, but I don't think it warrants Bethesda's first ever E3 conference by itself. Besides, Fallout (or TES, for that matter) doesn't need such big and expensive promoting.

There has to be something else in the works. Something big.

IMHO, it's either:

1) A brand new mind-blowing IP

2) Some new technology, perhaps an engine for open-world games or something like OR

3) Trailer for Skyrim (movie)

4) Fallout 4(coming this year) and TES VI(coming next year). That would steal the show for sure.

[CSar L]

It isn't for Bethesda Game Studios specifically; it's for Bethesda Softworks, a global publisher that owns many studios other than BGS.

They'll undoubtedly have more DOOM news from id Software, some TES:O stuff, DLC for The Evil Within and probably Wolfenstein, and perhaps a Dishonored 2 announcement as well. Oh and Battlecry too. Fallout 4 will just be something they'll close with, in the final 15 minutes or so.

[J.P loves]

I'm perfectly aware that it's for Bethesda Softworks. My point still stands. All of those things don't really warrant Bethesda's own press-conference. E3 conferences are ridiculously expensive even for major publishers.

There has to be some other major announcement besides Fallout, IMO.

[Kate Norris]

I just pointed out two potential reveals - DOOM (which hasn't been publicly shown yet) and Dishonered 2 - and two DLC announcements, along with some potential major updates for TES:O. And Fallout 4 on top of all that. You don't get to completely ignore all of those things and then say your "point still stands".

Even half of that would make for an extremely busy schedule for an E3 conference - far more so than most publishers twice Bethesda's size. What else are you expecting them to announce? A perpetual motion machine?