Very simple: Rage Engine, also known as id Tech 5

Bethesda acquired id software, so they are likely going to use id's latest engine. For those unfamiliar with the company (is this necessary?), the engine programmer of id, John Carmack, is a master of game engines. He created the engines for Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Doom 3, Quake 4. He always breaks new ground, and never fails to make extremely powerful game engines that are always moddable.

As far as the engine goes (if they are using Tech 5), we can expect some seriously massive, intricately detailed terrain that use something Carmack created called MegaTexture. This allows humongous terrain textures with dimensions of 128,000 x 128,000 (thats no typo) which is about 20GB of texture data.

Also, the most detailed characters ever in a game engine may emerge in TES:V Skyrim in the form of voxels, where game models are no longer stored in a mesh of triangles, but in volumes of tiny blocks. See the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpEpAFGplnI

For convenience, here's the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_tech_5

Again, Bethesda using Tech 5 is just speculation. Seriously though, why not? Bethesda isn't really known for the most rock solid engines, but John Carmack is! Cross your fingers!

*Sigh*

:facepalm:

The engine was made by Bethesda, completely new, years back before they acquired iD Software. iD Tech 5 also does not bare well with sandbox worlds. But who knows? Maybe they did use it, that would make me very happy. I love iD Tech a lot, as well as iD and John Carmack.

Bethesda is using a new engine. There is already a thread speculating on an upgraded gamebyro or id tech 5. Overall the consensus is that the tweet from Bethesda so far is the best and most recent source we have to go on for Skyrim.

It is is not Tech 5
Tech 5 was acquired this year, way too late for Bethesda to change engine for TES V, which has most likely been production since Oblivion was Released.


And it has already confirmed that they are using their own engine.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/111/1112464p1.html that they're not using id 5:

id Tech 5 is best suited for games with static lighting, which Megatexture is used for maximum texture and http://static.computergames.ro/cg/assassin/images3/rage/rage012.jpg.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULKd4mklOzM Game engines suitable for TES are RAGE(RDR, GTA4), Cryengine2-3... Although Bethesda has an in-house engine which will be used for TES V:Skyrim.


PS. What you see in Oblivion, have you seen anything like that in another game using gamebryo engine? It is Bethesda's own magic. It's always been.

My goodness, we already have a thread for this one too. You folks are not bothering to search first and it's making me grumpy. Just wait until grumpy bear wakes up.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1148129-do-you-think-this-will-run-on-the-same-engine-as-oblivion-did/page__st__60__p__16794329__hl__engine__fromsearch__1#entry16794329

Oh and check this out: