Take another one and maybe it'll be announced by then :snoring: .

Well I got TES4 for pc so I will be busy with mods. A teaser would be nice at e3 though

I'm not really into the hype machine personally. gamesas was all talk no action with Oblivion when it came to the biggest 'innovations' they were touting such as the non-existent Radiant-AI. I'd rather have an announcment saying we're working on TES: V, we'll give you nuggets of goodness when they're finished. Rather than what they did with Oblivion which was suddenly announce the game, tell us how awesome it's going to be and brag about this paradigm shifting AI, and then deliever a game that was basically great graphics and nothing else innovative.

I wouldn't care if TESV wasn't released until December 2011 so long as we get an announcement soon.

I predict we'll see an announcement a teaser at E3 and a mid-late 2011 release.

My speculation is basically this. Small announcement with concept art for the forum first, MAYBE, but the big, public announcement I will guess for E3 and a release about... well, if it's not December 2010 it'll be 12/2011

And he'll be grateful for it when they don't end up announcing too early, becoming beholden to the fans for grandiose statements too-early-made, getting everyone's hopes up for things that might not be there in the final product.
I'm glad Bethesda holds their cards close to their chest. It's not only more professional of a tactic, it negates some serious problems that result from announcing too quickly.

Assuming any of those features shown actually make it into the final game (*coughTESIVdevelopervideoscough*). <_<

I saw the list of companies that will be at E3 2010, and Bethesda Softworks was on the list. I'm thinking it might have to do with Brink, which recently got an article in this month's Game Informer magazine. At least now I know what the heck the game is about!

...which is why they're not saying anything this time around. They're making sure that this time they'll be able to put their money where their mouth is.

I agree that they shouldn't talk about a feature that isn't finalized or that there's a high probability of there being cut backs in it, however I don't see how this contributes to why they can't just say "Hey everybody, we're making TES 5,", give us a lame teaser at e3, and post screens on the website that everyone on this forum will overanolyze until their eyes bleed. Its really not a bad marketing strategy, considering many games are announced 1-2 years before release. Just look at Duke Nukem Forever .

As much as I'm dying for an announcement, I'd rather them announce it at such a time that they can give us a firm release date. Both Morrowind and Oblivion were delayed. I'd rather have the announcement at the end of the year if it meant there would be no delay, than an announcement tomorrow that would result in a delay.

Peter Molyneux is a perfect example of pre-mature game announcements gone wrong. Him and Bethesda have two things in common: they're very ambitious. However, Peter announces games very early in development, hypes his games up, and is often unable to deliver on over half the features he bragged about because his ambition, the ideas that result from it and what he's realistically able to do don't coincide. The advantage to holding one's cards close to their chest until they're truly ready is the fact that you can be ridiculously ambitious, but you're not giving false hope to the fans. I'm sure Bethesda has very high ambitions for their games, many of which cannot be met in the final product. But the longer they keep hush-hush about it, the less of a chance they'll be disappointing fans with features they're unable to deliver on. Because by the time they do announce the game, the features they speak of are those that already set in stone for the most part. With Oblivion, Bethesda made the mistake of hyping too early. I'm sure they all very much wanted to include those features in the game, but in the end were simply unable to do so.

Simply a "We're working on it!" announcement is a lose-lose situation. If they were to do such an announcement, fans will complain that there is no information on the game. If they don't announce it at all, fans complain there is no announcement. Either way, people are going to be unhappy, so quite frankly I'd rather them announce it when they have a substantial amount of (accurate) content to show off.

Ok, heres my picture of an E3 announcement if Bethesda decides to do it: after brink and new vegas announcement, bethesda spokesman starts to wrap up the speech and walk off when it suddenly goes black (except for the black screen illuminated, like when a comp screen goes black you can still see it) about five seconds after the lights go off that familiar morrowind/oblivion theme song (but slightly modified for the new TES game) comes on and a trailer appears. If that was to happen, t'would be quite amazing. pretty doubtful but hopeful for an E3 announceent all the same.

Big Download claims 2K Games is a confirmed publisher exhibiting at PAX East in March.

http://news.bigdownload.com/2010/02/02/pax-east-reveals-music-and-exhibitor-list-for-inaugural-event/

Could this possibly have anything to do with TESV?

I doubt it, 2K Games deals with a lot of other developers besides Bethesda. It could happen, but it's unlikely.

Fable III will be released before xmas this year.
New Call of Duty this year, however buy another studio.
Bioshock 2
Mass Effect 2

and for TES: V:

please go [censored] yourelf.

ffs please leak out a picture or something like apple do.

Is this right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSFW7tMzSkE&feature=related

TESV: Shadowkey ?

And what about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs7dscJfx0M

Heh.
Bethesda has released no information related to any new Elder Scrolls game.

All I know is, they better have a real good reason if they don't announce TES 5 by the end of this summer. And don't give me, Fallout 3 set them back, cause they were in pre-production from Oblivion to Fallout 3. Five years is enough to make a good game so you better announce it soon.

Of course, because ordering them to give us a release date will do us a whole lot of good. The longer the better in my book, at least we know it isn't being rushed.

It's a reasonable bet they've been working on it all this time and therefore have been putting a lot into it, but there is the off chance they haven't started until much more recently or (worst case scenario) at all. Personally, I think they have it in the works and have been working on it, and that means when they do show the first videos they will already be reasonably developed to minimize popping and buginess in the demo vids/trailers.

http://www.elderscrolls.com/games/shadowkey_overview.htm was released back in 2004, before Oblivion. And it wasn't called TESV.


That's http://www.projectoffset.com/, it has absolutely nothing to do with The Elder Scrolls.

Seriously, don't try to find information about TESV on YouTube. It's a waste of time as all you will find is misinformation and lies.

I think it will release in 2012. Why? Because previous elder scrolls games have been seperated by 4 and 6 years. Distance from 1st and 2nd was 4 years, 2nd and 3rd 6 and 3rd to 4th was 4. So it's time for the six year time frame as oblivion was released in 2006.

I think that it will be released when it's ready to be released. Although I'm pretty sure that that will be in, and I'm hoping that it will be in 2011, mainly because they'd been working on it then for five years, long enough to produce a great game and they wouldn't want to delay too long in its release.

alright about two years ago i said let em have another year or two before the announcement, now i say lets have it today.