[Gen Daley]

can someone imagine how amazing the cover would be?!

No.

There are no words, thoughts, or concepts that will explain the pure unadvlterated ecstasy that will be the Elder Scrolls V GI cover (when that time comes).

[Andrew]

My thoughts exactly. Just in time for me to start University.
:facepalm:

I as well, and I won't be taking my xbox...

[Etta Hargrave]

I don't know about you dudes, but I'm super excited. Things are falling nicely into place...

Spike VGA announcement followed by the Feb GI cover... Love it.

[Eilidh Brian]

I don't know about you dudes, but I'm super excited. Things are falling nicely into place...

Spike VGA announcement followed by the Feb GI cover... Love it.

A VGA announcement is definately awesome, but I don't think it will happen. I think that instead of it, Bethesda will announce it on a calm day with nothing going on surprising us and the world. Folks on Bethesda are way unexpected.

[Matt Terry]

I don't know about you dudes, but I'm super excited. Things are falling nicely into place...

Spike VGA announcement followed by the Feb GI cover... Love it.

Me too... it's just Elder Scrolls, nothing comes close to it, it's just unbelievably awesome

Anyway, is the four page spread at the back of the magazine? If it is that might be because that's what they want readers to have stuck in their minds when they finish reading it. Long shot but.. you know.

[x_JeNnY_x]

Me too... it's just Elder Scrolls, nothing comes close to it, it's just unbelievably awesome

Anyway, is the four page spread at the back of the magazine? If it is that might be because that's what they want readers to have stuck in their minds when they finish reading it. Long shot but.. you know.

Well they put the "A Survivor is Born" Tomb Radier teaser image on the last 2 pages to foreshadow this issue, so if it follows that pattern, then I'd definitely take that as a sign.

And it's been a long time since I've read GI, but if a game has the cover story, that means there will be a good article on it inside right, with screenshots and lots of game info?

[jennie xhx]

Well they put the "A Survivor is Born" Tomb Radier teaser image on the last 2 pages to foreshadow this issue, so if it follows that pattern, then I'd definitely take that as a sign.

And it's been a long time since I've read GI, but if a game has the cover story, that means there will be a good article on it inside right, with screenshots and lots of game info?

Yes. I think the Game Informer article would serve as the world's first in depth look at TESV, but it wouldn't be the very first confirmation.

February is a very strong contender for having a TESV cover story, but I think that announcement of the game is quite sooner. I think the VGAs are a likely candidate for a highly publicized reveal, and it does not matter where they do it or when, TESV is going to get the attention it deserves and will be the most talked about game of 2011.

[CHANONE]

And just to get people's imaginations going, here's the GI cover for Oblivion...
[img]http://worthplaying.com/press/152/elderscrolls4_cover.jpg[/img]

What do you think it'll look like for ES:V? By the way I love how they say "Xbox 2"

[Jeneene Hunte]

I predict that the TES V announcement will be done not at the VGAs, but in this very thread. (not #86 but this thread series) I'd put money on it. Think about it; short of the games release itself, an announcement in this thread would be the ultimate gift from Beth to its loyal fans.

[Abi Emily]

Well they put the "A Survivor is Born" Tomb Radier teaser image on the last 2 pages to foreshadow this issue, so if it follows that pattern, then I'd definitely take that as a sign.

And it's been a long time since I've read GI, but if a game has the cover story, that means there will be a good article on it inside right, with screenshots and lots of game info?

Yeah, the four page spread has to be significant in light of the next issue of GI. I'm like everyone else in thinking why they would bring up a brief history lesson of Elder Scrolls out of nowhere...and at the end of the magazine.

If February's cover is TESV there should be lot's of game info and screenshots. Todd said they had a lot of game to show in that Eurogamer article.

[Rude Gurl]

"Got test samples for our Feb cover today & Jan is already in motion. Jan you won't see coming but you have been begging for Feb 4ever"

4ever.... guys it will be duke nukem forever... common i understand hope but this is just stupid. No on game has had fans waiting on it longer then Duke Nukem especially the near mythic status that the next game Duke Nukem Forever has received and the wording clearly clearly shows this

[Dan Stevens]

Well they put the "A Survivor is Born" Tomb Radier teaser image on the last 2 pages to foreshadow this issue, so if it follows that pattern, then I'd definitely take that as a sign.

And it's been a long time since I've read GI, but if a game has the cover story, that means there will be a good article on it inside right, with screenshots and lots of game info?

Aside from the fact that http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-08-16-bethesdas-todd-howard-interview, "It's pretty far along. When we show it, we want to show a lot, because there's a lot of game there to play right now" - yes, that's true. Game Informer almost always couples a game reveal with at least four or five pages of content about the game. It all depends on how much the developer wants to reveal, really, and we're lucky enough to be in a position where they want to reveal a lot.

"Got test samples for our Feb cover today & Jan is already in motion. Jan you won't see coming but you have been begging for Feb 4ever"

4ever.... guys it will be duke nukem forever... common i understand hope but this is just stupid. No on game has had fans waiting on it longer then Duke Nukem especially the near mythic status that the next game Duke Nukem Forever has received and the wording clearly clearly shows this

This is something we've already addressed. It's certainly possible, but considering the fact that 1) there was an exposé in January's GI on Elder Scrolls, not Duke Nukem, and 2) Andy simply doesn't put that much thought into his tweets, it's not as likely as an Elder Scrolls announcement. I won't say it's not a possibility, but there's nothing other than that tweet that even hints at a Duke Nukem cover. There's much more evidence for an Elder Scrolls announcement.

[Brιonα Renae]

"Got test samples for our Feb cover today & Jan is already in motion. Jan you won't see coming but you have been begging for Feb 4ever"

4ever.... guys it will be duke nukem forever... common i understand hope but this is just stupid. No on game has had fans waiting on it longer then Duke Nukem especially the near mythic status that the next game Duke Nukem Forever has received and the wording clearly clearly shows this

I thought this too, and it's very likely. But the fact that they put the Elder Scrolls history at the end of this issue really points towards ESV being the next cover. Especially after they did the same thing with the Tomb Raider cover and the teaser at the end of the last issue.

Basically they know that ESV fans are rabid and have been waiting forever and keep begging McNamara and Bethesda to put it on the cover. They would have to be completely [censored] to put something random like this at the very end of this issue and not follow through on it. They'd know that this would get us talking.

On that note, if the Feb cover isn't TESV, everyone get ready to spam to [censored] out of McNamara and Pete Hines' twitter accounts, because that would just be mean... they know they're getting our hopes up.

[Rusty Billiot]

"Got test samples for our Feb cover today & Jan is already in motion. Jan you won't see coming but you have been begging for Feb 4ever"

4ever.... guys it will be duke nukem forever... common i understand hope but this is just stupid. No on game has had fans waiting on it longer then Duke Nukem especially the near mythic status that the next game Duke Nukem Forever has received and the wording clearly clearly shows this

i agree, im for sure he put 4ever on account of the forever in the new duke nukem title, but hopefully tes v has some news dropped on it soon, im patiently wating also

[Shianne Donato]

"Got test samples for our Feb cover today & Jan is already in motion. Jan you won't see coming but you have been begging for Feb 4ever"

4ever.... guys it will be duke nukem forever... common i understand hope but this is just stupid. No on game has had fans waiting on it longer then Duke Nukem especially the near mythic status that the next game Duke Nukem Forever has received and the wording clearly clearly shows this

No, just because he wrote "forever/4ever" it doesn't mean it will be Duke Nukem Forever. And we already know a bunch of crap about it, it doesn't need a cover anymore. Lately GI covers have been announcements and first-look issues of games that have been announced but had no details or info at all, like Resistance 3, we all knew about it, but no one knew anything about what would be in game or gameplay info.

If they are going for Duke Nukem, it sure is a waste of paper and ink

As for TESV, Pete's tweets and a tweet by McNamara back some months ago where he mentioned that a bunch of people had been begging for a new Elder Scrolls, points that the next cover will definately be it, plus the exposé on the last pages as well the rumours lately suggests even more the possibility of a new Elder Scrolls being GI February's Cover.

[Cat]

just because you dont think it needs a whole article doesn't mean the rest of the gaming community agrees with you, info about Duke Nukem just started surfacing this year and while its out there i would not put it past GI to run a big reveal on the game and really bust it wide open. now i think this is a case of us as ES fans seeing evidence that looks substantial to us but in reality is rather trivial, seriously its a direct title reference dont be so blind as to ignore contradicting evidence.

[Kieren Thomson]

just because you dont think it needs a whole article doesn't mean the rest of the gaming community agrees with you, info about Duke Nukem just started surfacing this year and while its out there i would not put it past GI to run a big reveal on the game and really bust it wide open. now i think this is a case of us as ES fans seeing evidence that looks substantial to us but in reality is rather trivial, seriously its a direct title reference dont be so blind as to ignore contradicting evidence.

It's not just that, there has been a bunch of evidence and activity towards TESV in November-December that makes a lot of people think that it will be the cover.
It's all about the chances that each of the possibilities has. A bunch of facts supports TESV, and only the "4ever" thing supports Duke Nukem. I can't argue when people say it is a possibility, it sure is, but what are the odds of it?

[Kelly Tomlinson]

just because you dont think it needs a whole article doesn't mean the rest of the gaming community agrees with you, info about Duke Nukem just started surfacing this year and while its out there i would not put it past GI to run a big reveal on the game and really bust it wide open. now i think this is a case of us as ES fans seeing evidence that looks substantial to us but in reality is rather trivial, seriously its a direct title reference dont be so blind as to ignore contradicting evidence.

It's not ignoring it, it's both interpreting it and determining how important it is to the overall theory. You have to look at all of the evidence, supporting and contradictory, and then decide where you stand. For me, there's a very small amount of contradictory evidence, and some of it is questionable as to its validity. The "4ever" assertion is problematic because, at least right now, we're not even sure he was referencing Duke Nukem Forever. It very easily could've been Twitter shorthand. And, until it's clear what the meaning was, that "evidence" is useless for either supporting or contradicting the speculation. There's other evidence supporting the theory and no other evidence that directly contradicts it, so the only conclusion that makes sense to me is "there's an Elder Scrolls announcement cover imminent."

[Sammykins]

That a Duke Nukem Forever preview would or would not be interesting is not what concerns me with your logic... it's that you're guessing it because a single world in the tweet just so happens to be the same word that is in a game that happens to have been begged for "forever." At least we know that both Oblivion and Fallout 3 had GI covers, so guessing that TES V will have a cover makes sense. But a Duke Nukem Cover would be out of the blue really, it would have made more sense to have a preview back when it was announced that Gearbox had picked it up.

And he didn't even say forever, he said "4ever." Isn't the fact that he didn't say "forever" evidence that it is not a game with forever in the title? If it was DNF, wouldn't he have said forever and not "4ever?" If you truly believe that "4ever" is concrete proof that it's a cover for "Duke Nukem Forever," then... wow. Just wow.

http://www.impawards.com/2002/posters/pokemon_forever.jpg

[Marcus Jordan]

probably radically higher than that of TES V being announced, the circumstantial evidence that we have all points to an announcement in the near future im just saying that this one is looking to be a Duke Nukem reveal. if the word had been like 5ever (not a word sadly) or idk like 5everal years? He was trying to be witty, plus this is essentially the 4th game in the series... 4ever= Forever.

your right its probably pokemon 4ever the game....

guys im just playing devils advocate here, no one would be happier if it was actually tes5 i would probably just stand there mouth agape starring at my magazine.

[Brad Johnson]

probably radically higher than that of TES V being announced, the circumstantial evidence that we have all points to an announcement in the near future im just saying that this one is looking to be a Duke Nukem reveal. if the word had been like 5ever (not a word sadly) or idk like 5everal years? He was trying to be witty, plus this is essentially the 4th game in the series... 4ever= Forever.

Oh come on, seriously? I don't think he would stop to think and create a clever way of hinting without giving away that the next cover is Duke Nukem Forever.

[Cheryl Rice]

just because you dont think it needs a whole article doesn't mean the rest of the gaming community agrees with you, info about Duke Nukem just started surfacing this year and while its out there i would not put it past GI to run a big reveal on the game and really bust it wide open. now i think this is a case of us as ES fans seeing evidence that looks substantial to us but in reality is rather trivial, seriously its a direct title reference dont be so blind as to ignore contradicting evidence.

This was discussed a couple of threads ago. To just repeat the results: yes, you're right that it's plausible that the Feb GI cover will be DNF. However, the "4ever" is not definitive - there are lots of equally plausible explanations for that word choice which don't imply that the cover will be DNF. So that tweet, by itself, does not rule out the Feb GI cover being TES V.

What people are claiming should increase our confidence in the Feb GI cover being TES V is (1) Pete's tweets that Bethesda had fixed an announcement date for their next big project (presumably TES V), and that the state of TES series would "become clear before too long" (I'm not sure if that's quite right, I'm quoting from memory); (2) this latest piece in the Jan GI, which seems like it's, as it were, warming people up for a new TES title. These two bits of evidence point not only to there being a new TES title in development, but, more specifically, that title being announced soon. In contrast, while of course we know that DNF is in development, I'm not aware of any evidence which suggests that very soon there will be a massive release of new information about that game (of course, this may just be because I don't care about DNF).

Let me put it this way. You might think that, as far as the chances go for being the Feb GI cover, DNF and TES V are on a par, because both are games about which people have been craving information. The point of the two bits of information I just mentioned is that they are a tie-breaker - they show that DNF and TES V are not a par. TES V has a greater chance because we have evidence that in the near future we'll get information about it.

(Actually, I think a stronger point can be made. Even if you think that, just in light of McNamara's tweet and the "4ever", DNF is a more likely Feb GI cover than TES V, it still seems reasonable to think that all things considered - ie. taking into consideration the other bits of evidence I mentioned - TES V is the more likely Feb GI cover).

[emma sweeney]

FFS the new game could be Elder Scrolls V: Forever for all we know.

[Alan Whiston]

This was discussed a couple of threads ago. To just repeat the results: yes, you're right that it's plausible that the Feb GI cover will be DNF. However, the "4ever" is not definitive - there are lots of equally plausible explanations for that word choice which don't imply that the cover will be DNF. So that tweet, by itself, does not rule out the Feb GI cover being TES V.

What people are claiming should increase our confidence in the Feb GI cover being TES V is (1) Pete's tweets that Bethesda had fixed an announcement date for their next big project (presumably TES V), and that the state of TES series would "become clear before too long" (I'm not sure if that's quite right, I'm quoting from memory); (2) this latest piece in the Jan GI, which seems like it's, as it were, warming people up for a new TES title. These two bits of evidence point not only to there being a new TES title in development, but, more specifically, that title being announced soon. In contrast, while of course we know that DNF is in development, I'm not aware of any evidence which suggests that very soon there will be a massive release of new information about that game (of course, this may just be because I don't care about DNF).

Let me put it this way. You might think that, as far as the chances go for being the Feb GI cover, DNF and TES V are on a par, because both are games about which people have been craving information. The point of the two bits of information I just mentioned is that they are a tie-breaker - they show that DNF and TES V are not a par. TES V has a greater chance because we have evidence that in the near future we'll get information about it.

Exactly! And we already have too much information on DNF. Hell, everyone played it on PAX and there has been countless previews etc. Plus we have all info that was leaked before GBX got it.

[jason worrell]

He was trying to be witty

This is the last time I'm going to respond, just to avoid knocking the thread off track and annoying the staff here.

Ask yourself: how do you know that? Did he tell you? Are you two friends? Or, more likely, is this all based on your own intuition?

Like I said, you have to look at the facts, the things we know for certain. There are no things we know for certain in regards to Duke Nukem Forever and Game Informer (other than the series has no history of being on its cover). There are many things we know for certain in regards to The Elder Scrolls series and Game Informer. So, to say that a Duke Nukem Forever cover is more likely than an Elder Scrolls cover, you must either know something we don't, or are putting too much faith in one piece of evidence. I'm betting on the latter.