[Robert Bindley]

Agreed, I don't think the announcement of TES being under development would impact any of the other titles currently in the works. If you're talking about release dates, well, that would be another thing entirely. I don't think they'd release two of their own (as in: IP's owned by their parent company) rpg's too close together for fear of them stealing each other's thunder. Keeping that in mind: does anyone know how long New Vegas has been under development? Particularly, whether or not they started working on it sooner or later as Bethesda started working on their new and unknown project. The argument being here that both projects might be of the same order of scale and thus might have comparable dev-cycles. Figuring out which of the similar projects is bound to come to completion earlier might give rise to speculation about Bethesda's launch windows (or however you'd like to call it).

Or maybe I'm just reaching and this thread and it's lines of thought are getting to me

It's a non-issue in my mind. New Vegas will be released this fall. Given how Bethesda likes to release games about a year after their announcement and how we don't even have a TES:V announcement yet, I just don't see any chance for conflict here. BGS's big game likely won't be released until late 2011 or even early 2012.

[David Chambers]

I'll agree with you on BGS's next big game taking some time to release and on Bethesda's MO regarding announcing/releasing, but how can you be so sure about Obsidian's Fallout and it's development cycle? Hence my doubts about potentially clashing release schedules.

Edit: never mind, I didn't know New Vegas already had a solid release date (or window), now I do.

[Angelina Mayo]

Holy crap!!!! Check out the website!!!

[ashleigh bryden]

I told you some one would Rick Roll us.

[Oscar Vazquez]

What? Why would they wait months after New Vegas to announce it? New Vegas is a game they're publishing, not developing, and an announcement even a week before New Vegas was released wouldn't interfere with it. I think you're seriously overestimating how much an announcement would clash with the New Vegas release.

Because in my estimation, they aren't going to announce something too far out from release date. Assuming the earliest release would be Fall, 2011 announcing this summer isn't exactly news for something over a year away.

They announced Fallout New Vegas in Feb this year for this Fall's release. I would guess ESV will be so mammoth it will be prone to at least the same delays as Fallout 3 encountered.

Maybe also factor in by Christmas 2011 there could be new consoles rolling out so console versions could take much longer. If they can release before those complications it could save a whole lotta problems.

[Alan Whiston]

It looks as though the wait is over!

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/fullstory.php?id=162212

:blink:

:blink:

:celebrate:

[Ricky Meehan]

Alinor?
Lolwut

[Dawn Farrell]

It's a non-issue in my mind. New Vegas will be released this fall. Given how Bethesda likes to release games about a year after their announcement and how we don't even have a TES:V announcement yet, I just don't see any chance for conflict here. BGS's big game likely won't be released until late 2011 or even early 2012.

Under development announcements won't really tell anyone something we don't already really know. The non announcement of development just tells us it's still a good distance over the horizon. Until they start revealing hard estimations like New Vegas, there's no real coherent countdown.

[Hussnein Amin]

Because in my estimation, they aren't going to announce something too far out from release date. Assuming the earliest release would be Fall, 2011 announcing this summer isn't exactly news for something over a year away.

They announced Fallout New Vegas in Feb this year for this Fall's release. I would guess ESV will be so mammoth it will be prone to at least the same delays as Fallout 3 encountered.

Maybe also factor in by Christmas 2011 there could be new consoles rolling out so console versions could take much longer. If they can release before those complications it could save a whole lotta problems.

Morrowind was released 2 years and 2 months after it's announcement, and it was 1 year and 6 months for Oblivion. So it is in fact very likely that they will announce the game far away from the release date, as that's what they've always done. That's not to say they can't release it earlier than that, but the point is that Bethesda is perfectly fine releasing a game more than a year after they announce it.

It's pretty unlikely that new consoles will be coming out in Christmas 2011, for a few reasons. E3 2010 will be where Microsoft and Sony show off their motion controllers, so even if they did have new consoles, they wouldn't reveal them until E3 2011(after all, who would buy their motion controls if new consoles were coming out). And even if they revealed them at E3 2011, they likely wouldn't release them until Fall 2012. But that's all really unlikely anyway, simply because Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have all said that they don't see a need for a new generation yet, and nearly all anolysts say that a new generation is a long way away.

It looks as though the wait is over!

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/fullstory.php?id=162212

:blink:

:blink:

:celebrate:

I see they didn't even try to make it sound believable...

[Andrew Lang]

Morrowind was released 2 years and 2 months after it's announcement, and it was 1 year and 6 months for Oblivion. So it is in fact very likely that they will announce the game far away from the release date, as that's what they've always done. That's not to say they can't release it earlier than that, but the point is that Bethesda is perfectly fine releasing a game more than a year after they announce it.

It's pretty unlikely that new consoles will be coming out in Christmas 2011, for a few reasons. E3 2010 will be where Microsoft and Sony show off their motion controllers, so even if they did have new consoles, they wouldn't reveal them until E3 2011(after all, who would buy their motion controls if new consoles were coming out). And even if they revealed them at E3 2011, they likely wouldn't release them until Fall 2012. But that's all really unlikely anyway, simply because Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have all said that they don't see a need for a new generation yet, and nearly all anolysts say that a new generation is a long way away.




I see they didn't even try to make it sound believable...

My point was I would assume we don't really have to speculate about under development, but how far out we still are. If you try to use a development date as a marker, you can now add 1.5 to 2 years. Once they announce development.

[Darian Ennels]

Morrowind was released 2 years and 2 months after it's announcement, and it was 1 year and 6 months for Oblivion. So it is in fact very likely that they will announce the game far away from the release date, as that's what they've always done. That's not to say they can't release it earlier than that, but the point is that Bethesda is perfectly fine releasing a game more than a year after they announce it.

It's pretty unlikely that new consoles will be coming out in Christmas 2011, for a few reasons. E3 2010 will be where Microsoft and Sony show off their motion controllers, so even if they did have new consoles, they wouldn't reveal them until E3 2011(after all, who would buy their motion controls if new consoles were coming out). And even if they revealed them at E3 2011, they likely wouldn't release them until Fall 2012. But that's all really unlikely anyway, simply because Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have all said that they don't see a need for a new generation yet, and nearly all anolysts say that a new generation is a long way away

It's not gonna be until at the very least 2013 for next gen systems to be released, if not 2014, like someone speculated before if i'm not mistaken

[Vickytoria Vasquez]

Don't judge Skyrim based on the Jerall Mountains: it's just one small area of Cyrodiil. Obviously, if it's going to be featured prominently in Skyrim, the snow is going to have a little more effort put into it. I felt the same way about Skyrim, but now I'm quite excited about it. We need a different landscape for the next game from Cyrodiil's, and Skyrim has potential. Admittedly, it's not as alien as some of the other provinces, but I still think there's plenty of potential. As for the Nords, you may have a good point there. I'm not worried about how "mystical" the land is, but I hope they try to steer away from the whole "Nords=Vikings" cliché. But they said they want to bring back the culture from Morrowind, and the cities are much more interesting politically than Oblivion's was, so we'll see what happens. Overall, I'm happy to have it in Skyrim.

I think Skyrim could be awsome. Nords are my favorite race and Bruma my favorite city, so maybe im biased but given what ive read about the culture and geography of skyrim i think it could be very interesting and varied. It does have plains and Haafingar(Solitude) could make for a good equivalent of the Imperial city. Whatever the case Bethesda has struck gold time and again with its games, so i doubt very seriously they will disappoint. This is my 1st post take it easy on me.

[Silencio]

Holy crap!!!! Check out the website!!!

You've hurt my feelings...

On another note #4: Looks like there's not going to be a fake announcement today Eh, this game better be the best damn game I've ever played in my life...

[CHARLODDE]

You've hurt my feelings...

On another note #4: Looks like there's not going to be a fake announcement today Eh, this game better be the best damn game I've ever played in my life...

No fake announcement today means a real anoouncement tomorrow.

[Jason King]

No fake announcement today means a real anoouncement tomorrow.

Yeah, cause' it's like. Today's april fools day. TES:V isn't being announced.
April 2nd: lol jk, TES:V incoming

[Jose ordaz]

Yeah, cause' it's like. Today's april fools day. TES:V isn't being announced.
April 2nd: lol jk, TES:V incoming

Anything is possible...

[Alexandra Ryan]

We're lucky. They could have chosen today to announce an MMO set in a full-scale version of Bravil 400 years after the Oblivion Crisis, at which time all forms of magic except destruction have been officially outlawed and the Bosmeri have taken over Cyrodiil using automatic rifles.

[Project]

Under development announcements won't really tell anyone something we don't already really know. The non announcement of development just tells us it's still a good distance over the horizon. Until they start revealing hard estimations like New Vegas, there's no real coherent countdown.

Well...an announcement won't tell us anything we don't already suspect, but until there's an announcement we really don't know anything. However, I agree with you in that we've got a while to wait before we can expect to play TES:V. And I also agree that our estimation for when the game might be released is based entirely on past development cycle patterns and not anything much more concrete than that (other than the trademark).

[Rach B]

We're lucky. They could have chosen today to announce an MMO set in a full-scale version of Bravil 400 years after the Oblivion Crisis, at which time all forms of magic except destruction have been officially outlawed and the Bosmeri have taken over Cyrodiil using automatic rifles.

That sounds like brink!

[dean Cutler]

It looks as though the wait is over!

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/fullstory.php?id=162212

:blink:

:blink:

:celebrate:

Gosh. I actually cried a bit when I found it was April Fools....

Does anyone think though it may still be Alinor?

[Ebou Suso]

Gosh. I actually cried a bit when I found it was April Fools....

Does anyone think though it may still be Alinor?

Of course not, because they haven't trademarked that name. If someone wanted to make a somewhat believable announcement, they would have said it would take place in Skyrim.

[Mari martnez Martinez]

Of course not, because they haven't trademarked that name. If someone wanted to make a somewhat believable announcement, they would have said it would take place in Skyrim.

Alinor would still be pretty cool. Grooving in the Summerset Isles

On another note #7: Summerset Isles is probably too small of a province to make a game about :/

[Unstoppable Judge]

On another note #7: Summerset Isles is probably too small of a province to make a game about :/

Have you not played Daggerfall? It's absolutely huge and covers a pretty small area on the map. It's unfortunately what they did with Oblivion (and Morrowind for that matter) because it really made the entire continent look very small. The effect is similar to if you took the United States and reduced it down to about a couple square miles with only scant representations of the cities of New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Miami, Denver, and Los Angelos.

[Vicki Blondie]

How "to scale" is Fallout 3?

[Josh Sabatini]

How "to scale" is Fallout 3?

Well, the map itself lines up almost perfectly with a map of real life D.C., but the city itself isn't to scale at all. Though I don't think they were trying to make it to scale.