Last TES-game? : V

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:22 am

Since the plot of Skyrim is including and sort of summing up the stories from the previous TES-games, could this be a sign of this being a conclusion to the TES-saga overall? The last TES-game? I hope not, it was just a thought a friend of mine had, so I thought I'd ask here what you guys think.

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 2:15 pm

Nope.

However it might be the last single player TES game for a long time (I know that's not a popular opinion but it seems realistic)

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:17 am

I hope it lasts as long and has as many games as Final Fantasy.

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:03 am

It could very well result in a pathway to the next games. I don't think they are done, but we might have to wait 4-6 years. There might be an MMO, however.

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:58 am

It would only be a new beginning after, it's not necessarily the end. Like the end of a story arc or something.

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:14 am

Nope.

However it might be the last single player TES game for a long time (I know that's not a popular opinion but it seems realistic)

Urghh, really hope that won't be true

Last thing I won't is TES to turn from single player into multiplayer, we'll have tons of people shouting a "OMG u svck !!!11111111"

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:57 pm

I hope not, but right now I think we need to actually get THIS game before thinking of what is or isn't coming next... :wink_smile:

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:37 pm

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» Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:23 pm

I don't think they are done, but we might have to wait 4-6 years.

I could go for a Redguard-esque game for an interlude.

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 2:24 pm

I have been slightly worried that this might be the last ES game every since people on here first mentioned Alduin. :sadvaultboy:

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:07 am

I hope it lasts as long and has as many games as Final Fantasy.

Except double that.

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:01 pm

I could go for a Redguard-esque game for an interlude.

From a different company or Bethesda?

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:16 am

I hope not, but right now I think we need to actually get THIS game before thinking of what is or isn't coming next... :wink_smile:

I agree, I didn't mean to speculate about what the next game will be. Just wondering if the story of Skyrim could be a conclusion of the saga.

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:22 am

Of course not.
There are so many many provinces left without a game dedicated to them.
I think we will have at least 5 more TES games before the saga ends.

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 2:44 pm

i hope they make a least 7 or 8

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:53 am

I will hate Bethesda if they end the Elder Scrolls series before making a game where you can play in all of Tamriel. If they make that game, then I'll be content.

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 2:39 pm

The last TES game will be the one where sales are so lackluster that they do not justify making another.

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:28 pm

Yeah, dropping your flagship series of nearly 17 years that's currently rapidly growing in popularity and prestige is a brilliant idea. [/sarcasm]

No, I don't believe it will be the last one. Why would it be? Actually, considering how separate it is from its predecessors (away from the Septim empire, 200 years into the future instead of the 40 year gap between TES I and TES IV), I think Skyrim is actually a beginning of a new chapter of the Elder Scrolls series. It likely will not be out in this new time period by itself, if you ask me.

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:30 pm

I will hate Bethesda if they end the Elder Scrolls series before making a game where you can play in all of Tamriel. If they make that game, then I'll be content.

It's called The Elder Scrolls I: Arena.

A game spanning all of Tamriel with the quality of Bethesda's two more recent Elder Scrolls games doesn't seem possible, to me.

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:54 pm

I will hate Bethesda if they end the Elder Scrolls series before making a game where you can play in all of Tamriel. If they make that game, then I'll be content.

Arena

But yeah I know you mean the whole of Tamriel in detail (not even sure if that is possible without tons of randomised areas?, As that would take absolute ages).

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:08 pm

The perfect ending to TES would have to be, in my honest opinion, a game that encompasses all of tamriel. Entire Tamriel at your feet to explore. Im not even talking MMO here. That would be one hell of a big game. Probably would take like 5-6 years to complete but it would be so immersive, so open ended, so big, so endless, and of course mod-ready, that it would never actually end. It would live on... FOREVER !

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:03 pm

Nope.

However it might be the last single player TES game for a long time (I know that's not a popular opinion but it seems realistic)

Games that sell so well their creators would have to be crazy to stop making them, hardly sell at all compared to sibgle-player TES games.

I'm sure the piles of money everyone involved with the TES games are currently sitting on, makes the unlikely fantasy of a WoW killer seem like something they could actually do (and they'll fail like everyone else), but there's no particular reason that would interfere with the future of single-player TES games.

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:26 am

I don't see any logic behind Bethesda axing one of the most popular and critically acclaimed series of all time. Like Seti, I personally think lots of the engine and gameplay overhauls in Skyrim are actually paving the way for the new "third generation" of TES games. Now how exactly you make a plot for TES VI that's more epic than a fight against Alduin, who knows. But hey, Guild Wars: Nightfall had you fight a god and then they still managed to do something for Eye of the North.

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:45 am

It could very well result in a pathway to the next games. I don't think they are done, but we might have to wait 4-6 years. There might be an MMO, however.

I'm pretty sure they announced the MMO would not be for TES, but for another popular series. I can't remember if Brink is going to be an MMO, but I think that project is being worked on by a different team.

» Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:49 am

Actually, we are wrighting the prophecy in ES:V anybody remember the end of oblivion? You shall be it's scribe, I think ES:V is a reboot and a major step forward for the game.

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1HX7YnG39w

The ending makes perfect sense now, you shall wright the new age.