[Rachael]

Yeah sorry, we don't have an Elder Scrolls Facebook page at this time...just the other games listed.

At this time...?

Does that mean you're all planning one and you thought it was already released when it actuality it was delayed but you forgot for a short moment, and thus mislead us to thinking there was an Elder Scrolls Facebook page, because eventually there will be?

Ah right, "Secret Bethesda Secrets" have to remain hidden.

It's times like this I wish I was omniscient.

(P.S. I caught you before the edit)

[Crystal Clarke]

Poor Gstaff can't even say a single word without us interpreting it to mean something regarding TES V. :laugh:

[NeverStopThe]

Poor Gstaff can't even say a single word without us interpreting it to mean something regarding TES V. :laugh:

And that would stop if we just had anything to bite down on.

[yessenia hermosillo]

*cough**cough*

I hope the Beth staff is getting as much a kick out of this whole process as we are. And I promise, personally, if you give an answer to this that'll be enough for me to know about anything you guys *cough* may or may not be doing.

Man, I need some Hals or something.

[Ellie English]

*cough**cough*

I hope the Beth staff is getting as much a kick out of this whole process as we are. And I promise, personally, if you give an answer to this that'll be enough for me to know about anything you guys *cough* may or may not be doing.

Man, I need some Hals or something.

Have a Halls!

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac87/MartutTES/Halls2.jpg

[No Name]

Aww, you only have sugar free. Well, I guess its better than nothing. *kicks some dirt*

[Umpyre Records]

At this time...?

Does that mean you're all planning one and you thought it was already released when it actuality it was delayed but you forgot for a short moment, and thus mislead us to thinking there was an Elder Scrolls Facebook page, because eventually there will be?

Ah right, "Secret Bethesda Secrets" have to remain hidden.

It's times like this I wish I was omniscient.

(P.S. I caught you before the edit)

Your comments are really reaching. Gstaff's comments are the polite way of saying, "Nope. No Elder Scrolls page." Anyone who understands business and has ever represented an organization knows this, and would have responded in a similar manner. To assume he meant anything else, well, you really have to read into it. Quite frankly, even if an official Eder Scrolls Facebook page showed up, it really wouldn't mean much as far as TES V is concerned.

[Kelly John]

Reaching is what this thread does.

[adam holden]

wow yall really tear apart and twist every word that the bethesda employees say huh? no wonder they are scared of announceing TES V until they can show all the features.

[JUan Martinez]

Your comments are really reaching. Gstaff's comments are the polite way of saying, "Nope. No Elder Scrolls page." Anyone who understands business and has ever represented an organization knows this, and would have responded in a similar manner. To assume he meant anything else, well, you really have to read into it. Quite frankly, even if an official Eder Scrolls Facebook page showed up, it really wouldn't mean much as far as TES V is concerned.

wow yall really tear apart and twist every word that the bethesda employees say huh? no wonder they are scared of announceing TES V until they can show all the features.

I was
kidding.

Sheesh.

[Alyna]

wow yall really tear apart and twist every word that the bethesda employees say huh? no wonder they are scared of announceing TES V until they can show all the features.

That's what happens when it's been 4-5 years since your last game debut, and people love the franchise. We want more, we need more, and we shall have more. :grad: (maybe/hopefully/possibly)
I'd imagine that people do this because information is so scarce (aka non existent) at this point. We know nothing, therefore anything these people say is a possible clue to the next game. So we dissect it, bisect it, and bisix it. Wait.

[Chenae Butler]

That's what happens when it's been 4-5 years since your last game debut, and people love the franchise. We want more, we need more, and we shall have more. :grad: (maybe/hopefully/possibly)
I'd imagine that people do this because information is so scarce (aka non existent) at this point. We know nothing, therefore anything these people say is a possible clue to the next game. So we dissect it, bisect it, and bisix it. Wait.

Gstaff: Hello.
Forumers: What could he mean by that? Is that some type of clue? Perhaps it's part of the Falmer language. Maybe each individual letter means something. Quickly, capture Gstaff!

[helen buchan]

Gstaff: Hello.
Forumers: What could he mean by that? Is that some type of clue? Perhaps it's part of the Falmer language. Maybe each individual letter means something. Quickly, capture Gstaff!

:rofl:
Basically.

[lacy lake]

wow yall really tear apart and twist every word that the bethesda employees say huh? no wonder they are scared of announceing TES V until they can show all the features.

Speaking of 'twisting', I would venture to say that that statement itself twists words. It is true we do sometimes read too deeply into things, but I firmly assert that the general intention around here is to arrive at truth and not fabricate it. To that end I think we do a commendable job of distilling reliable information while filtering out the misinterpretations that inevitably creep into these types of discussions.

As for the timing of an announcement, scared Bethesda surely is not. I believe a more fitting descriptor for their announcement strategy is wise.

[CArla HOlbert]

And speaking of 'twisting words', Stain. I would guess that you have a decent ability to, ahem 'accurately articulate your intent' if you catch my drift.
Most everyone here does. Thats half the fun of this thread for me.

[maria Dwyer]

I was hearing an interview by Will Wright and he mentioned that hes read bits of the LOST forum and seen how they disect everylittle thing in the scenes on the show and try to figure out what it means. He was amazed to see how people will dig that far into the detail of the show.

So we're not the only ones that do it. I guess its just human nature to pull things apart and see how they work.

By the way, LOST is on tonight on channel 2 in NZ at 10:30. Only six eps to go to the big finalie.

[Gavin boyce]

Guys... unless the events mentioned in the book effected Skyrim greatly...

It's gonna be mostly snow.

The map from arena:
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac87/MartutTES/Skyrim.png

[Sammie LM]

Guys... unless the events mentioned in the book effected Skyrim greatly...

It's gonna be mostly snow.

The map from arena:
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac87/MartutTES/Skyrim.png

As has been said an ungodly amount of times, a lot of the lore from Arena has been retconned. For example, as you know, Vvardenfell wasn't exactlyhttp://www.imperial-library.info/maps/arena_morrowind.shtml I seriously doubt they're going to bother following lore from Arena for Skyrim when they didn't do it for Vvardenfell.

[Jason White]

I've been too lazy to do so up until now, but i'm just going to throw this out to you guys to pick and chew (yes i'm mean, i know :stare: )

You guys have been pretty certain that the game is going to be mainly set in Skyrim, did it ever occur to you that the main area of the game won't actually be Skyrim? Let me explain; TES IV: Oblivion mainly took place in Cyrodiil with 'The Deadlands' as a secondary setting. TES III: Morrowind only took place (vanilla) on Vvanderfall, an island part of Morrowind, but not the whole province. Why is everyone so sure that the trademark name 'Skyrim' means that the main setting is in Skyrim.

I love being proven wrong, and i'm thinking i must have missed something, or am overlooking some piece of information/speculation, so why is everyone so sure it's going to be in Skyrim? :huh:

[Riky Carrasco]

I've been to lazy to do so up until now, but i'm just going to throw this out to you guys to pick and chew (yes i'm mean, i know :stare: )

You guys have been pretty certain that the game is going to be mainly set in Skyrim, did it ever occur to you that the main area of the game won't actually be Skyrim? Let me explain; TES IV: Oblivion mainly took place in Cyrodiil with 'The Deadlands' as a secondary setting. TES III: Morrowind only took place (vanilla) on Vvanderfall, an island part of Morrowind, but not the whole province. Why is everyone so sure that the trademark name 'Skyrim' means that the main setting is in Skyrim.

I love being proven wrong, and i'm thinking i must have missed something, or am overlooking some piece of information/speculation, so why is everyone so sure it's going to be in Skyrim? :huh:

With Oblivion, Bethesda showed that they can make an entire province in one game. In Morrowind, they initially planned to include the entire province, but could only do Vvardenfell. However it still took place in Morrowind. In Daggerfall, the game took place in the areas surrounding the city of Daggerfall. So it only makes sense that the game would be taking place in the same province that it was named after. As for Oblivion not mainly taking place in Oblivion, that doesn't really apply to Skyrim. Unless you think we'll be spending most of our time in a daedric realm and only occasionally visiting Skryim, which doesn't make much sense. Maybe you see something I don't but I see no reason to believe a game named Skryim will take place anywhere but in Skyrim. And I find it hard to believe it wont be the entire province, considering Bethesda has the ability to make an entire province now.

[Nina Mccormick]

With Oblivion, Bethesda showed that they can make an entire province in one game. In Morrowind, they initially planned to include the entire province, but could only do Vvardenfell. However it still took place in Morrowind. In Daggerfall, the game took place in the areas surrounding the city of Daggerfall. So it only makes sense that the game would be taking place in the same province that it was named after. As for Oblivion not mainly taking place in Oblivion, that doesn't really apply to Skyrim. Unless you think we'll be spending most of our time in a daedric realm and only occasionally visiting Skryim, which doesn't make much sense. Maybe you see something I don't but I see no reason to believe a game named Skryim will take place anywhere but in Skyrim. And I find it hard to believe it wont be the entire province, considering Bethesda has the ability to make an entire province now.

While i have no doubt about Beth's capabilities, i imagine something slightly different to what you are saying. I'm pretty sure that the dev's have the capabilities to make more than one province, look at this http://uesp.net/wiki/File:TamrielMap.jpg, Skyrim is adjacent to four provinces, I remember hearing that one of the main things the dev's wanted to include in Oblivion, was to have lots of NPC's fighting at the same place at the same time with the player character, for obvious reasons they never really fulfilled that idea. When i first heard about them trying to optimize their engine, i remembered the limitation of the current engine with things like what i just described, it occurred to me that they may try to revisit that old idea and the best way to do so would have some sort of war (DISCLAIMER: purely wild speculation beyond this point) with all the problems at the northern areas, it was my guess that they would have some sort of war to do with Skyrim, but not necessarily limited to it.

Anyway that's my interpretation of the whole Skyrim trademark, feel free to kick it in the (insert noun for place which may feel extreme pain when hit)

[Wayland Neace]

As has been said an ungodly amount of times, a lot of the lore from Arena has been retconned. For example, as you know, Vvardenfell wasn't exactlyhttp://www.imperial-library.info/maps/arena_morrowind.shtml I seriously doubt they're going to bother following lore from Arena for Skyrim when they didn't do it for Vvardenfell.

Phew. I knew there must have been a reason that nobody was referencing to that map before.

Good to know, thank you!

[Dawn Farrell]

Anyway that's my interpretation of the whole Skyrim trademark, feel free to kick it in the (insert noun for place which may feel extreme pain when hit)

While they certainly could do something like a war with the other provinces, I don't think they'd let us actually venture into any of them. Remember, while it is indeed adjacent to 4 provinces, it's border with Morrowind is currently covered in ash after Red Mountain erupted, so that wouldn't be very interesting, and it's border with Cyrodiil has already been in a game and I don't think Bethesda would want to make it again, especially considering it was mostly just snow and mountains. That does leave two provinces left, but like I said, I don't think they'd actually want to make any of them, mostly because those provinces could be featured in their own games, and make Bethesda more money.

But regardless, I'm confident Skyrim will be the main province featured. That doesn't mean they can't include other areas, but I'm sure Skyrim, or at least a part of it, will play the starring role.

[Jason Rice]

There will be a war, Akaviri invaders will land in Skyrim and the main quest will be repelling them.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it until it is either confirmed or denied.

[Jack Moves]

But regardless, I'm confident Skyrim will be the main province featured. That doesn't mean they can't include other areas, but I'm sure Skyrim, or at least a part of it, will play the starring role.

I also believe that Skyrim will play an important role, all i'm saying is we might also get a different province/daedra plane to also make an appearance, even if it's something as small as a bordered wall from High Rock. So the whole fretting about it being all Skyrim and little anything else (not that i believe any of that only snow and mountains rumor) shouldn't be that big.