Once TESV is announced the wave of previews, images and videos will start to come with all kinds of spoilers. The question is, are you strong enough to resist your hype and avoid all of this?
Remember the time when you picked a game on the shelf in a store and had no idea what it was about, or what you could do? And then you installed it on your computer, and was amazed and surprised and just couldn't stop playing it? Those were the good times, nowadays we usually get spoiled too much, and that makes the game a little less enjoyable.

I'll try to avoid those previews as much as I can, or maybe I'll set a limit on what I can see. Like 10 images, 1 video and 2 previews.

I want to be surprised, I want that feeling of playing a game that I know nothing about it
How about you? Can you resist the spoilers?

It's the 5th in a series of similar games, there's nothing we don't already know about. Previews are to pique interest, not ruin plot points.

My introduction into the TES series was when I picked up Morrowind for the Xbox because the back of the game case looked really cool. I stayed up for 24 hrs solid playing that game directly after... it blew my mind. I had to play Daggerfall after I finished, though that game was near impossible to find at the time. What I can say is that I wished I had seen previews for Daggerfall but glad I hadn't for Morrowind. I followed Oblivion like a fiend and gobbled up every little bit I could and when I played the game I was amazed, though not nearly to the extent that I had been from my first introduction into the series (not being a MW vs OB statement here just that I knew what I was going to see).

I would love to be able to have that experience back, but I know myself too well to know that I won't be able to resist the temptation of gobbling up every little TES tidbit when they start trickling out.

Hmm good question , it would be quite hard to resist my urges to look at TESV. I will try my hardest to resist.....I like surprises.

Spoilers I always avoid like the plague. Information, no. I'm far too bitter to ever, ever pre-order or buy another game on release day. Oblivion was the final nail in that coffin. I don't have enough money/get enough games per year to buy one and have no idea what it's even like.

This should be a pole dood it would be better. I know what you mean but no it is very hard not too.

I avoided pretty much all the real details about New Vegas.

Features I knew in advance (none spoilers, just preserving space here):


No spoilers. No quest/story information. Nothing about characters or settlements, other than what's shown in the trailer.

For TES V, it'll be much the same.

I'll be interested in the chosen provinces, some of the gameplay mechanics (How is AI improved, how will the combat work, what skills will we be able to choose from) , but taking everything with a grain of salt (especially after that E3 demo for Oblivion demonstrating AI...)

All general gameplay stuff, maybe a basic storyline intro as you'd expect in a trailer, but I don't want specifics.

I don't understand why some people want to know everything. Every bit of information they can possibly find they read, and then when they finally get to play the game they already know so much about it. Oh hey, here's that quest I read about a month ago! Great!

If I can, I'll try not to view anything about it. Maybe a trailer and a couple screenshots, but nothing more.

I'll do the very best I can, but somehow I'll read into it and be spoiled.

Spoiler warnings do not work on me.

When it's announced I'll be looking up every bit of information, pictures, and videos I can find.

When Oblivion was announced I searched for new screenshots for hours and anolyzed every one of them like they were forensic evidence.

I still haven't got around to FONV yet and so I haven't visited the fallout board at all. I hate spoilers and I consider even a screen shot to be one. I forget what it was that I saw for FO3, but there was a shot showing the character talking to someone that ruined a surprise for me. When Tes 5 starts being previewed you'll see me vanish from this forum. I'll let the game reveal itself to me when I own it. Previews, trailers, and sneak peaks are only for games that I don't already follow religiously. That's not true, I'm much more faithful to TES and I am to religion...

Ah crap, I'm going to the Deadlands, I mean Hell...

Not necessarily. As the previous book has proven, alot that was previously canon can quickly change, and besides many previews (especially on big games) often talk about the plot, and some of us may want it to be a surprise. And also, there's plenty we don't know(except for Lady Nerevar,she knows everything ).

They personally revealed quite a bit about the plot and whatnot with Oblivion so I'll be keeping my eyes distracted. I'll watch maybe a trailer, but that's it. I want to experience everything first hand. With how many bad games are made out there, I can understand why developers have the need to reveal just so much about their games, but personally I hate it.

Hah, I am just like you. Even a little screenshot can be a spoiler. But I just can't avoid them D:

I don't like having a good story spoiled, or a good dungeon or especially special items or "epic loot". Those things I absolutely hate having spoiled.

However, I can look at screenshots and trailers all day. I will not usually watch anything player made, as they are much more likely to spoil something important than anything official.

But like others are saying I have been totally jaded to pre-ordering games now (nothing from Bethesda Studios yet). The last game I got without even batting an eye was Supreme Commander 2, and I whole heartedly wish I hadn't bought it ($50). The first one was amazing, the second one was a sellout. So ya, I am definitely interested in reading reviews on Amazon and looking at trailers now days.

I can say that I don't feel that way about Bethesda really. I have always gotten my dollar value from their games and don't expect to be unpleasantly surprised in the future. At least not until the day key members decide to retire from the company.

That's what occurred between me and Morrowind.

Same here. Had read something about it a year before I got the game in a magazine. Picked it up because it was very cheap (5 euro) and recognised the title. Started playing it, and got lost in the game for hundreds of hours.

During the time TES IV was announced, I never even visited the OB forums (still too busy with MW), but just before the release I occasionally visited the OB forums. Got the game a few weeks after release, then stopped to see the OB forums again until I had played the game a few weeks so things wouldn't be spoiled to me. Only then went back to the forums and stayed there until I stopped playing OB.
Then Fallout 3 came, the same thing happened, only visiting the FO forums occasionally and just before release, after I bought the game I didn't visit, and later on started to come back again.
For Fallout New Vegas, I haven't visited the forums for some months now, and will only be getting there once I have picked upt the game and played it extensively.

So I just imagine the same will happen when TES V will (finally) be announced. And they could do that any time now as far as I'm concerned, because I haven't really visited the OB forums in months now...

I am going to try my hardest not to and maby ony see a few interviews so I can get a little outline then ask people for the rest that way I know some of it I may even just go blind I love the WOW fealing oblivion had that cus I got it like 2 years ago (threw it out computer was [censored] it broke the computer only lvl 2). Then about 9-12 months ago I got it again (now have my own computer a few years ago (fixed now) on my b-day for like 3k) and the WOW FACTOR WAS ALMOST THE SAME!!

So if you can avoid it at all costs. For Shogun 2 total war I played most of the series so the WOW!! factor wont last as long because I will know about 40%_90% of the game without loooking at anything so I am watching away. I hope you understand the videos and stuff when you know the info it takes longer for the game to come and time to pass. If you have a good imagination you can daydream about that stuff in math class!!


<_< ..........................What are you doing andrew!!! :whistling: <_< Wake up andrew!!!..............um notin sir....................ur math class svcks so im passin the time thinkin about a game i wana have come out.............(spelling like a person who is tired) I do have 2 1 hour long math classes in one day it svcks.

I will not be able to resist them and I will hate myself for it.

Considering how closely I followed the development of Oblivion, how excited I was for it, and then how I felt after actually playing it, I'm considering going into TESV totally dark. Just experiencing it on it's own terms without any preconceived ideas about it.


I know I won't though. I love spoilers. I soak up every bit of information I can get a hold of about something I'm interested in.

I would absolutely love to be able to resist learning almost everything for TES V. But I know I wont be able to. I visit this forum pretty much every day, read the Bethblog regularly, listen to the Bethesda podcast, and go to a handful of gaming websites for news... there's no way I'll be able to resit reading any new information and watching a new video if I come across it, and because of all of the things I do, I'll have more exposure to those things than most gamers, hence I'll have more chances to fail to resit reading or watching them.

I pick my previews specifically so I don't get any spoilers amazingly it works and when the elder scrolls IV was released the game play I saw had no spoilers not even minor quest spoilers but the odds are against me since the elder scrolls V will probably be a bigger hype so I might get svcked in

I doubt I'll be able to play the next game without knowing anything about it, even if I didn't follow its development at all, I wouldn't be able to relive that feeling of not knowing at all what to expect I got when I played Morrowind, because I've played past Elder Scrolls games before, and I have some idea of what to expect. Even though a lot tends to change between Elder Scrolls games, a trend I expect Bethesda will continue to follow, there still tends to be some things that are constant. Such as the first person gameplay (Even though modern games have the option to go into third person, I still consider them primarily first person games since I never actually play entirely in third person, I just occassionally use it for taking screenshots or just admiring my character and his or her equipment.) the wide open sandbox world, and of course it takes place in the same universe. When I got Morrowind, I didn't know anything about the game at all. I got it because it was recommended to me, all I knew about it before I played it was what the person who recommended it said, and what I could see from the screenshots on the back of the box and the manual, so naturally, whatever I saw was going to be a surprise, but I simply can't go back to that level of utter ignorance that ensures everything in the game will surprise me now that I've played several games in the series, even if I ignore all prerelease information, screenshots and videos. That's fine, though, because I don't really mind knowing something about what to expect from a game when I play it, it helps to get me really anticipating it, and really, spoilers don't bother me unless they actually spoil the story, and maybe some of the late game enemies and items, and I hope that Bethesda will know better than to spoil the story actually, I don't even consider anything that doesn't relate to the story a "spoiler" at all, after all, gameplay doesn't need to be a surprise to be enjoyable, but knowing what's going to happen before hand is generally not considered a good thing in a story.

As said before, I personally hope that BETHESDA THEMSELVES don't blurt out spoilers anymore.

For Oblivion for example, first thing blurted out, the Emperor dies...
Now OK, this happened fairly early on in the story but you could have left that a secret, what do you think what left hook that had been.

But then the next thing "And oh yea, he secretly has a son somewhere and you're out to find him"...
Uhm, HELLO!, while yes that too was still kinda early in the story you would have NOT found out about it till he brought the amulet to Jauffre, so you could have spent WEEKS without ever finding that out. WHY blurt that out, and not just once like it was a slip up, it was revealed in the E3 demo, it was written in just about every magazine preview.
And in case you say "if you never seen them you wouldn't know", tough luck, it's written ON THE BACK OF THE BOX!

THOSE are things you DON'T REVEAL, let alone ON THE BOX!


Bethesda, stop being spoilersports!

This would be quite a challenge to pull off, but I think I'll give it a try. No looking at videos, previews, screenshots... just find out when it's released and then pick it up and install it.

It's an Elder Scrolls game, that should be enough reason to buy it, no need to spoil myself with previews.