[kristy dunn]

I would bet that Fallout 4 is coming into alpha stage. ESV has been in full-production for quite a while now.

ES5 would have only been in full production since fallout 3 finished....

if they are looking for some sort of test, then odds are the rough engine is built and content has started to be added. I reckon the same as the others here, they are making the demo video for when they annonce.....i still reckon thats gonna be E3.

[Inol Wakhid]

Yeah if TESV is taking a radically enhanced approach to OB and FO3 then it will have required a LOT of tweaking to turn the gamebryo engine into what's necessary, especially if the combat or AI is getting a make-over.

Finger's crossed this whole time has been on engine-development, asset creation and story/quest design and they are just starting to build gameplay and implement everything. That would bode well for the type of game we want out of TES5 but not so well for the time it'll be til we actually play it, ha! Still, if it comes out in 2015 but it's the whole mainland and it's got all the amazing stuff they couldn't include in previous iterations and more quests and content than any other TES game combined? Yeah the wait will be more than worth it!

[yermom]

ES5 would have only been in full production since fallout 3 finished....if they are looking for some sort of test, then odds are the rough engine is built and content has started to be added. I reckon the same as the others here, they are making the demo video for when they annonce.....i still reckon thats gonna be E3.

:celebrate:

I had a dream TES V was announced last night. They'd gone back a bit with the graphics; it was only slightly better than Daggerfall's. I was not impressed.

[Kelly Tomlinson]

:celebrate:

I had a dream TES V was announced last night. They'd gone back a bit with the graphics; it was only slightly better than Daggerfall's. I was not impressed.

LOL awesome, yeah I started playing MW and OB again and have been having TES themed dreams a lot, only one that was a prediction or seemed like it. Maybe they had to scale back the graphics because the game world was so enormous and it was all real time, no load screens etc, so it was back to sprites to fit it all onto a 360 disc, haha.

[Kelly John]

Also it is certification testing, which is a bit different than game testing and indicates a very early phase of development for whatever game this is for. It looks like whatever it is is just coming into the alpha phase or just about to, which means they've probably just finished upgrading the engine and the certification testers will be there to make sure it is all hunky-dorey before they actually begin building a game on top of it. From my limited in-house beta-testing experience I know that cert testing is a lot more in-depth and complex than just playing the game and reporting/recreating bugs and issues.

We think similar. Todd has just spoken on Xbox podcast. He mentioned that they are revising their engine for the next big project. So yeah it has to be either for preliminary testing or like others said one tester could have been lost his job and this is just for replacement. It's not likely they are close to finishing the TESV.

I'm not familiar with Bethesda games older than Oblivion but i can say that the Bethesda games i played so far were suffering from Crash to Desktops. It's not something always happening but i'm used to getting a CTD once in a while. They better do things right this time.

LOL awesome, yeah I started playing MW and OB again and have been having TES themed dreams a lot, only one that was a prediction or seemed like it. Maybe they had to scale back the graphics because the game world was so enormous and it was all real time, no load screens etc, so it was back to sprites to fit it all onto a 360 disc, haha

This concerns me as well. PS3 has at least Blu-ray. I'm totally newb when it comes to consoles so i'm gonna ask this: isn't that possible to release the xbox 360 version of the game as two discs? I mean it could be like this, you need to install first DVD to your x-box harddrive and second dvd is required to be inserted while playing. how bout that?

[OJY]

[/quote]This concerns me as well. PS3 has at least Blu-ray. I'm totally newb when it comes to consoles so i'm gonna ask this: isn't that possible to release the xbox 360 version of the game as two discs? I mean it could be like this, you need to install first DVD to your x-box harddrive and second dvd is required to be inserted while playing. how bout that?
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Mass Effect 2 for 360 is played with 2 discs, and it has happened numerous times with other IPs on even older consoles, so the idea and functions are there to make this as big as they need.

[Patrick Gordon]

We think similar. Todd has just spoken on Xbox podcast. He mentioned that they are revising their engine for the next big project. So yeah it has to be either for preliminary testing or like others said one tester could have been lost his job and this is just for replacement. It's not likely they are close to finishing the TESV.

I'm not familiar with Bethesda games older than Oblivion but i can say that the Bethesda games i played so far were suffering from Crash to Desktops. It's not something always happening but i'm used to getting a CTD once in a while. They better do things right this time.



This concerns me as well. PS3 has at least Blu-ray. I'm totally newb when it comes to consoles so i'm gonna ask this: isn't that possible to release the xbox 360 version of the game as two discs? I mean it could be like this, you need to install first DVD to your x-box harddrive and second dvd is required to be inserted while playing. how bout that?

[Gen Daley]

i have all 3 consoles and fallout 3 worked on the xbox
and was a disaster on the ps3 constant freezes crashes etc
it has left a very bad taste in the mouth of ps3 users

[Vivien]

i have all 3 consoles and fallout 3 worked on the xbox
and was a disaster on the ps3 constant freezes crashes etc
it has left a very bad taste in the mouth of ps3 users

The PS3 isn't really Bethesda's preferred console. They focus on Microsoft's platforms first and the PS3 second. That's the way it's been since Morrowind. Morrowind only came out on the PC and Xbox, Oblivion originally came out on the PC and Xbox 360 with the PS3 version coming later, Fallout 3 came out on all 3 platforms at once but the PS3 version was buggy, and the PC and Xbox 360 got the Fallout 3 DLC way before the PS3 got it.

So if I were you I simply wouldn't get TES V on the PS3 because I very much doubt Bethesda is ever going to ever treat the PS3 version of their games the same as they do the other versions.

[Liii BLATES]

The PS3 isn't really Bethesda's preferred console. They focus on Microsoft's platforms first and the PS3 second. That's the way it's been since Morrowind. Morrowind only came out on the PC and Xbox, Oblivion originally came out on the PC and Xbox 360 with the PS3 version coming later, Fallout 3 came out on all 3 platforms at once but the PS3 version was buggy, and the PC and Xbox 360 got the Fallout 3 DLC way before the PS3 got it.

So if I were you I simply wouldn't get TES V on the PS3 because I very much doubt Bethesda is ever going to ever treat the PS3 version of their games the same as they do the other versions.

They would really also want to make a great game for the ps3.
I mean they have to make it work for ps3 aswel.
There are a lot of people who don't have high-end pc's capable of running TES V(We dont even know yet what the spec will be) so those people will likely run it on their ps3 instead.
If they got a bad experiance with tes they would think twice in the fututre to buy future games.

And it seems to me that as a gamesdeveloper you would always want to expand your fanbase with buyers and potentional buyers.

BTW: Japan and eastern lands are a great potentional market.

Pas

[scorpion972]

They would really also want to make a great game for the ps3.
I mean they have to make it work for ps3 aswel.
There are a lot of people who don't have high-end pc's capable of running TES V(We dont even know yet what the spec will be) so those people will likely run it on their ps3 instead.
If they got a bad experiance with tes they would think twice in the fututre to buy future games.

And it seems to me that as a gamesdeveloper you would always want to expand your fanbase with buyers and potentional buyers.

BTW: Japan and eastern lands are a great potentional market.

Pas

Even though I don't have a PS3 I definitely would like to see Bethesda treat all of the platforms equally, there's no reason why the PS3 should be so neglected. I have a feeling that Bethesda must have had a temporary exclusivity deal with Microsoft regarding Oblivion as well as Fallout 3's DLC, so I think the only thing stopping them is the prospect of money from Microsoft.

[J.P loves]

Even though I don't have a PS3 I definitely would like to see Bethesda treat all of the platforms equally, there's no reason why the PS3 should be so neglected. I have a feeling that Bethesda must have had a temporary exclusivity deal with Microsoft regarding Oblivion as well as Fallout 3's DLC, so I think the only thing stopping them is the prospect of money from Microsoft.

Bethesda know their way around making games for pc(microsoft based software) and has done it for quite a long time, and as we can tell from their games they have become pretty good at it over the years. When microsoft was creating the xbox 360 they was smart enough to make it simalr to a pc, so that the transition from pc-programing to xbox360 programing was slightly more easy than the programing-hell that the PS3 is. Atleast in the beginning.

That expalins why many games did have better graphics at xbox 360, even when the PS3 had much more power. However you'll find that most games now look better on PS3 now because they've learnd to master the PS3.

Edit: btw what the [censored] is the deal with 25 speculation threads and no info from bethsda. It's been a realy long time since Oblivion.

[Klaire]

This concerns me as well. PS3 has at least Blu-ray. I'm totally newb when it comes to consoles so i'm gonna ask this: isn't that possible to release the xbox 360 version of the game as two discs? I mean it could be like this, you need to install first DVD to your x-box harddrive and second dvd is required to be inserted while playing. how bout that?

From a 360 user who has a 20gb hard drive and refuses to pay for microsoft's overpriced HDs, no, thank you. Switching discs ala ME2 would be preferable. Unless you're just talking about the option of also installing one of the disks, that would be alright.

[Sheeva]

Edit: btw what the [censored] is the deal with 25 speculation threads and no info from bethsda. It's been a realy long time since Oblivion.

The deal is that people often stray away from the speculation and get off-topic since there's very little to talk about anymore.

[Alkira rose Nankivell]

Don't worry about it guys, new compression schemes are always being created (thin .zip or .rar, but for games). Unless the next game is using Id Tech 5, and thus unimaginably vast, ultra high resolution textures, Eight gigs will most likely be plenty enough storage for the console versions.

[Travis]

The deal is that people often stray away from the speculation and get off-topic since there's very little to talk about anymore.

The irony in that statement is palpable...

[Izzy Coleman]

The irony in that statement is palpable...

I am aware. Although the same goes for your statement, and, subsequently, this one as well.

[chloe hampson]

The PS3 isn't really Bethesda's preferred console. They focus on Microsoft's platforms first and the PS3 second. That's the way it's been since Morrowind. Morrowind only came out on the PC and Xbox, Oblivion originally came out on the PC and Xbox 360 with the PS3 version coming later, Fallout 3 came out on all 3 platforms at once but the PS3 version was buggy, and the PC and Xbox 360 got the Fallout 3 DLC way before the PS3 got it.

So if I were you I simply wouldn't get TES V on the PS3 because I very much doubt Bethesda is ever going to ever treat the PS3 version of their games the same as they do the other versions.

Why can't they treat the PS3 equally? The PS3 is my only option.

Anyway, when's E3? I'm hoping TES V wil be announced by the end of E3. 5 years for an announcement is too much, so I'm strongly expecting TES V to be announced this year. If it isn't at E3, when else could it be announced, or will it likely just be announced through GameInformer?

[Britta Gronkowski]

Anyway, when's E3? I'm hoping TES V wil be announced by the end of E3. 5 years for an announcement is too much, so I'm strongly expecting TES V to be announced this year. If it isn't at E3, when else could it be announced, or will it likely just be announced through GameInformer?

It's been 4 years, not 5, though that is still a very long time to wait.

And E3 is June 15-17 though Microsoft's conference is on June 14, and if they're going to announce it anytime during E3, it'll be during Microsoft's conference.

[Lifee Mccaslin]

It's been 4 years, not 5, though that is still a very long time to wait.

And E3 is June 15-17 though Microsoft's conference is on June 14, and if they're going to announce it anytime during E3, it'll be during Microsoft's conference.

I know it's been 4 years, but if Bethesda doesn't announce TES V this year, it will be 5 years, so Bethesda must announce TES V this year.

Has Bethesda ever showed up at E3 without a game to announce, or do they sometimes go just to talk about titles they are publishing, but not developing?

[Quick draw II]

Has Bethesda ever showed up at E3 without a game to announce, or do they sometimes go just to talk about titles they are publishing, but not developing?

I don't know, and don't really know of any way to find out. You would need the list of developers and publishers attending E3 for each of these past few years, but I wouldn't know how to go about finding that. :shrug:

[Lory Da Costa]

I don't know, and don't really know of any way to find out. You would need the list of developers and publishers attending E3 for each of these past few years, but I wouldn't know how to go about finding that. :shrug:

All I knoew is bethesda is there at E3 this year. Whether to showcase TESV or not is still uncertain.

[Joe Bonney]

Hmmm, well I don't think that job was there before, good find. Maybe they're testing the demo of TES V that they're going to show off at E3... or not... a man can dream...

I think the reason why they are doing/ have done so many games in between Oblivion and TES: V is that they want the game to be pefect, and are trying out different styles so as to know which couple work best. It's probably not actually TES.

[Sarah Knight]

I think the reason why they are doing/ have done so many games in between Oblivion and TES: V is that they want the game to be pefect, and are trying out different styles so as to know which couple work best. It's probably not actually TES.

They've only done one game Fallout 3

[Mr. Allen]

I think the reason why they are doing/ have done so many games in between Oblivion and TES: V is that they want the game to be pefect, and are trying out different styles so as to know which couple work best. It's probably not actually TES.

Bethesda Softworks != Bethesda Game Studios

There has been a single game (fallout 3) made since Oblivion by Bethesda. The rest are all published by them.