:intergalactic: this link is what todd howard said at a gaming conference recently http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/15/elder-scrolls-v-not-in-the-works-theres-a-chance-for-elder-s/ for those who don't want to go to the link, todd howard said they are not making ESV and not to look for it anytime soon. pete hines said they bought the rights to fallout because they intended to develop the series more and to work on it. so it seems Fallout 3 and beyond seems to be the focus right now for the design team. either more content for FO3 or maybe working on FO4. todd howard also said "its good to miss something for a while that there is some nostalgia factor" something to that affect, now i think he was talking about the elder scrolls there..its good to miss that for a while so those few comments made by todd howard and pete hines sure make it appear fallout is the focus still, not ESV. and that is contrary to what i've seen most people on the forum post threads about. they think TES is next that doesn't seem to be the case. its more Fallout. Thank God :fallout:

(dramatic)noooooooooooooooooo(dramatic) i really want a new elder scrolls game. its already been 3 years since the last ones release, and tesv will take at least 4 years to make.

Just so you know, he was misquoted in the interview. There's been a statement on Bethblog, clarifying this whole thing. Plus additional threads in the TES General.

There WILL be another TES game. 'Soon' in the video games world can be as little as half a year.

Also, they've said they are done with Fallout 3.

Again. that interview was misconstrued. No where did todd say that they were done with TES.
Normally a new TES isn't announced until maybe a month to two months away from completion. Bethesda likes to hold their games close and show em off when they have something to show off.
That interview in no way insinuates that the next game is another fallout. Will there be future fallout's from bethesda? Yes.
And they have said countless times that they are done with fallout 3.

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what are you talking about. they worked on oblivion for years. now they're working on fallout. not just FO3. i already told you what pete hines said. they bought the rights to fallout to work on it and develop it more for years to come lol. you're acting like they're all done with it and going back to the ES. thats not the case. they have not started working on ESV. bethesda bought the rights to fallout. thats their new baby. not TES. oblivion has a lot of life to it still. and todd howard said its good to miss something for a while. he's mostly likely talking about TES, not FO3 lol. your argument isn't with me. i'm strictly going by comments made by pete hines and todd howard. this is the problem, you and others underestimated the huge success of FO3 and how popular and moneymaking it has become in a short time. they aren't even close to being done with the Fallout Series and i think its gonna be a 1-2 punch at least FO3 and FO4 both with lots of additional content similar to oblivion and more even i think. FO3 is the game of the moment. :fallout:

The problem is you're basing your entire case on an interview that was misquoted and misrepresented with only half the information.

TES is Beth's signiture series, they aren't going to throw it to the wayside. Yes, Fallout 3 has been popular, but how many bought it simply because they played the originals? And how do you know the 'nostalgia' comment wasn't directed to the time that had passed between the last Fallout game and Fallout 3?

pete hines stated very clearly their intent with fallout 3 and beyond. thats the focus right now. thats the BIG game now, FO3, they ain't gonna stop working on the Fallout series, they're just getting it going with FO3 thats not even the end any time soon for the fallout series. lol either its more content for FO3 or there will be a FO4 in the near future. they didn't buy the rights to fallout to do one game, work on it for a year then stop lol it turned out to be a huge success and a great "sequel to oblivion really" its the game of the present and future. its gonna be a while before TESV comes out.

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and it's been 4 years for oblivion now. There is no life left to it.
"Miss something for a while." Hmm. a 4 year hiatus between TES4 and TES5. That seems like a while.
"Fallout 3 is their baby now." No. It's black Isles' baby. Bethesda adopted it. They re worked it. The result: a very successful game with little to no bearing of the original two on it.
Logical thinking would lead most to believe that if something is that popular, why release a sequel so fast? Faster sequels=game rode into the ground.
They took a break from elder scrolls. It paid off. is it possible they are working on the next one? Yes. Is it possible they are working on Fallout 4? Yes. Could they be working on both? More than likely.
Don't base your assumptions on a misconstrued interview and general fanboyism.

When did anyone say that they are done with the Fallout series forever? I say they are done with Fallout 3, any more content would be milking the cash cow. I still want a new Fallout, which we will get next year. However, it is TES's turn.

Yes, they plan to do a minimum of two more Fallout games as well as publishing New Vegas.

Yet you still haven't moved away from the fact that you're basing everything on a misquoted interview, in fact the site you linked to wasn't even the ones who did the interview.


And Fallout 3 is going to look bigger compared to Oblivion because it released on three consoles, whereas Oblvion only initially released on PC and Xbox since the PS3 hadn't been released at the time.

its on ps3 now. i hope all of bethesdas games go on ps3. the fact is that tes series is more important to bethesda than fallout. i believe strongly tesv will come before fallout 4. like a previous comment stated, tes is bethesdas. they will never abandon tes for fallout in an way. tes is bethesdas signature and they are probably as excited about tesv as i am.

Bethesda will not demise TES, it looks like it will take a great while to we see a new game. I remember that Oblivion was being made short after Morrowind, but without much information on the first phases.

You can be sure TES 5 will happen, as even if they release it in 2012 it will be a success because of the franchise.

The teat still has some milk to give, I suspect.

There wont be any more DLC, deal with it and stop making different threads about how there planning more >.>

Well they said they wanted to make more than one, that's why they bought the licence.

A lot of you act as if Bethesda can only do one thing at a time. I promise you that is not the case. It is entirely likely that they are working on all their products simultaneously. It is a very common business practice to have several generations of a product-line already completed and waiting to go. Why the wait? One word - money. The goal of just about every company is to maximize profits. As long as the cash is flowing, a new release will be held. Once the money slows to a trickle, that's when a new release is made. I'll give you an example. My father designs ASICS (application specific Integrated circuits) chips. If you watch TV, you see and hear alot about 3-G telephony networks. And now you hear about 4-G networks. Well, that's alot of bull. My father designed the chips for 3-G networks 15 years ago. Virtually all of the features were available then, but not released. Little by little, each year, new features are released to the unsuspecting public so the company can basically resell the same thing to us year after year. This can be applied to Bethesda as well. All of you who played Oblivion will surely notice that the game engine is practically identical. They didn't spend any time building a new game engine, just modifying an existing one to make Fallout 3. That is the reason why Fallout 3 isn't like the other two. They took what they had an applied it to Fallout 3. Mark my words, after several releases (FO4,5,6, maybe 7) you will see a new game engine. And when that time comes, the game will be totally different again. But until that time, we will only see revisions of the existing games. As long as sales are good with each release (and the company doesn't go belly up like Interplay/Black Isle), you can expect to see a new release of every title.

I agree, what is stated above is correct on my vista, while all of you argue on either TES:V or Fallout 3+, there is one fact you are missing: they were working at fallout 3 and oblvion simultaneously, both released with a 2 year difference.

TES:V, it will come when it will come.
More FO3 DLC, unlikely, they said they're done with DLCs, but who knows?
FO4: Orly? FO3 is not even a year old, releasing FO4 before the game is at least 1.5 year old is a dumb thing to do, hurts marketing, people get tired of Fallout, they will want something new, not the same plot, again!