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The creation of this thread is to keep speculated information of future TES series in one place. As quoted:



More recent interviews of note:
April 27th, 2009: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/974/974529p1.html
June 25th, 2009: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=24211 (particularly this quoted part)August 14th, 2009: http://news.bigdownload.com/2009/08/14/quakecon-2009-todd-howard-keynote-highlights/
August 17th, 2009: Pete clarify many things of what happen in QuakeCon in this blog: http://bethblog.com/index.php/2009/08/17/clarifying-about-next-elder-scrolls-game-mmo-etc/

Also, the first Elder Scrolls Novel, http://www.amazon.com/Elder-Scrolls-Infernal-City/dp/0345508017, and it's release date, November 24th, 2009.
Further, an Amazon plot synopsis that was later removed indicates TES:V will take place 200 years after the events of the Oblivion Crisis. Here is the http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:LTwbGwuYMjgJ:www.amazon.com/Elder-Scrolls-Infernal-City/dp/1848566867 of the page via Google archiving.
Mkay, apparently that cache archive has been overwritten. In that link's stead, here are proofs http://s56.radikal.ru/i151/0910/07/1139f395d0ce.png and http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu244/MrTissueBox/TheElderScrollsV200yearsafterOblivi.jpg. Here also are posts http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1013535&st=180&p=15180738&#entry15180738, http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1046946&st=0&p=15191628&#entry15191628, and http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1046946&st=0&p=15191628&#entry15191628 from the user who first informed us of the 200-year leap before both Amazon and Waterstones spilled the beans.

UPDATE: I've zipped and uploaded the Google Archive I saved. Download's http://www.mediafire.com/?zt0jtmunzjj through Mediafire (blech, but unless you guys know of a better free file-hosting service...). Unzip and open the html document to see the confirming archive of Amazon's page.



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at the VGA's praying they will even mention TES in any way o and can you answer a question? they said TES V was planned for 2010 is there anything recent that blocks that statement? Please provide link if so.

http://bethblog.com/index.php/2009/08/17/clarifying-about-next-elder-scrolls-game-mmo-etc/
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/UESPWiki:News/The_Wait_Continues

TESV isn't planned at all: they won't admit they are working on it.

Are other people noticing the posts angrily demanding TES V? Those seem too harsh, but how much longer do you believe we will have to wait for the TES V?

I loved the speedy correction on August 17th by the Marketing and Public Relations VP for something that 'doesn't exist'. It could have ruined the book sales which bridged the gap between Oblivion and the "upcoming game" that 'doesn't exist'.

Yup people are really beginning to get fed up with waiting for this game. I think we just need to be patient...

Who knows. I'm waiting patiently, but I will be absolutely pissed if it turns out they're working on something other than TES.

Why?

Over at Bethesda they're pry like, "whoa, over the last several months those guys over at the forums have really convinced themselves that a TES V is being worked on?and they seem really aggressive. ?maybe we should get going on developing TES V or these guys are just gunna snap!"

They are likely working on TES and another project since they have two development teams. Even if one project is in early pre-production. I'm guessing they started early pre-production for the next ES in 2007.

Either that or, "Okay, we're usually pretty secretive about everything, but for your own good we just want to tell you straight up we aren't working an Elder Scrolls game right now."

I really hope they are working on TES V. If they aren't, I will be very disappointed.

No offense guys, but we can't expect a developer to produce only games of two different series for the rest of it's existence. They've developed different games before, and they're going to do it again. Sure, their money makers are TES and Fallout, but it's hard to believe they wont ever work on a different game again.

I'm just saying, don't hate Bethesda if they really aren't working on TESV. :shrug:

If they aren't working on it, we probably won't get TES V for at least another 6-7 years. Surely you can see why I would be upset if Bethesda didn't even start TES V yet.

I have another question. Do you believe that TES V will resemble Morrowind, or it will be aimed at more casual audiences?

If they were smart they'd incorperate a pleasant mix. but seeing as the game isn't likely in development yet, we're a long ways from worrying about that.

The only things I want brought over from Oblivion are graphics, animations, buyable houses, and the same fast travel system. Other than that, I want the game to be like Morrowind.

2010 announcement, 2011 release.

It's too early to get upset. Wait till E3 2010 in June before getting the undies in a bunch.

I'm patient, but what if E3 2010 arrives, and Bethesda announces ?

Well next March I wont care too much about TES. Lots of cool new games coming out next year that will occupy all of my time. e.g. Call of Prypiat.

I want TESV as much as the next guy, but I'm simply saying that if they really aren't working on it, then we shouldn't be angry or surprised.

I want it to be more like Morrowind and less like Oblivion, in many ways. I can't help but think that Skyrim just isn't very interesting, and honestly I think any other province would be better. The one thing that could make me really excited is if I saw a lot unique architecture ala Morrowind, and not the generic medieval architecture we saw in Oblivion.

I just hope they take the fact that Skyrim was the first place in Tamriel to be colonized and use it to their advantage. I don't want boring old Alyeid ruins that all look exactly the same, I want ancient temples and towns with unique architecture.

Although if they aren't working on it, it would certainly be a kindness to tell us that. I'd also say that if they aren't working on it, it's a good sign that despite claims to the contrary, the devs' enthusiasm for the IP has waned. It's been long enough since Oblivion that it would be had to believe that they were really excited about it, but needed to do a second new IP first. I don't mean that Bethesda couldn't handle three titles in various phases of development, just that it's not usually the thing you're most eager to do that gets postponed.

Daggerfall - 1996
Morrowind - 2002
Oblivion - 2006

Six and four years between them, with some "sidegames" like Redguard and expansions inbetween. I wouldn't worry about TES V too much unless it was nearing the end of 2012, myself.

Well Todd did say http://bethblog.com/index.php/2009/08/17/clarifying-about-next-elder-scrolls-game-mmo-etc/, after all. I'm confident that we'll see TESV after the second book is released, but I wouldn't be surprised if we saw another game first. :shrug:

Seeing as though Pete Hines said years ago that the development teams at Bethesda would divide into several groups, one of which was assigned to the next Elder Scrolls title, I'd be completely shocked if they weren't working on it in some capacity right now. That's not the only reason either. Let's be frank here. It's about $$$. They know where their bread is buttered. Fallout and Elder Scrolls. They can publish little niche titles that all they want. They can introduce shooters into the flooded shooter market all they want. But at the end of the day they're going to make bank on Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Period. They have also made statements in the not so distant past that gamesas has grown tremendously in the last few years and that they are capable of developing at least a few titles simultaneously. It'll be four years since the last Elder Scrolls this March. I would expect an announcement anytime from there onward.

Now, on the other hand, if they are planning on Elder Scrolls V to be a PC/Next-Gen console release, we're not getting a game until 2012 at the earliest. I would certainly hope that if that were their plans they would let us off the hook. 'Cuase that would be just cold man.

Where did you hear that? Perhaps you've misread accounts of Bethesda splitting Todd's team as they neared the end of Oblivion's development? This is normal in software development; teams do not necessarily develop software as a singular rigid unit, but are usually more fluid and organic. At any point along the development process there is usually a small group already working on the next game after that. As development for the current game nears completion, more and more people are moved over to the next project until almost everyone's working on the next. Depending on the overall size of the entire team, a small handful may then begin development of the game after the next.





To the contrary, I think it's quite likely they're developing TES:V. The argument for them working on a new IP, for whatever the various reasons proposed, seems less likely. Fallout was the new IP, so it is unlikely they'd risk another new IP. It is altogether common for Bethesda to flat out deny development on a game until they're ready to announce it.