University of Colorado - Skyrim : V

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:54 am

Hey guys,

I wrote an article about the Elder Scrolls series for my University's newspaper in order to hype everyone up for Skyrim. I think I have all the correct information. Let me know what you think!

http://www.ucdadvocate.com/infocus/the-fantastic-world-of-the-elder-scrolls-1.1963583

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:13 am

your first line has an error, fix it b4 you get fired!

"With The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrimbeing "

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:26 am

Fantastic

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:22 am

your first line has an error, fix it b4 you get fired!

"With The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrimbeing "

That is the web editor's fault. I can't fix it!

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:50 pm

Shouldn't you be referring to Bethesda Game Studios and not Bethesda Softworks? BS is just the publisher.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:19 pm

Hey guys,

I wrote an article about the Elder Scrolls series for my University's newspaper in order to hype everyone up for Skyrim. I think I have all the correct information. Let me know what you think!

http://www.ucdadvocate.com/infocus/the-fantastic-world-of-the-elder-scrolls-1.1963583

I did not read your article, but your avatar is very cute, I should put a hat on my cat!

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:37 am

Shouldn't you be referring to Bethesda Game Studios and not Bethesda Softworks? BS is just the publisher.

That, and at the end of the article you should specify the year instead of just saying November 11.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:33 am

Hey guys,

I wrote an article about the Elder Scrolls series for my University's newspaper in order to hype everyone up for Skyrim. I think I have all the correct information. Let me know what you think!

http://www.ucdadvocate.com/infocus/the-fantastic-world-of-the-elder-scrolls-1.1963583

at the end you put "The Elder Scrolls IV: Skyrim".
might want to fix that. other than that great article :smile:

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:56 am

Good hype, OP! :goodjob:

Shouldn't you be referring to Bethesda Game Studios and not Bethesda Softworks? BS is just the publisher.

It has to be the single most common mistake associated with the company, but IIRC gamesas was actually the developer of both Daggerfall and Arena. This changed somewhere prior to the release/development of Morrowind.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:14 am

Good hype, OP! :goodjob:

It has to be the single most common mistake associated with the company, but IIRC gamesas was actually the developer of both Daggerfall and Arena. This changed somewhere prior to the release/development of Morrowind.

It actually changed prior to the release of Oblivion, they still went by gamesas when they released Morrowind.

EDIT: Or at least I think so, based on the fact that Bethesda Game Studios isn't mentioned on the box or during the opening credits of Morrowind, it just says gamesas. Maybe they called themselves Bethesda Game Studios internally though.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:16 am

at the end you put "The Elder Scrolls IV: Skyrim".
might want to fix that. other than that great article :smile:

The web editor for the newspaper changed that for some reason. I have to talk to them and try and get it fixed.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:52 am

It actually changed prior to the release of Oblivion, they still went by gamesas when they released Morrowind.

EDIT: Or at least I think so, based on the fact that Bethesda Game Studios isn't mentioned on the box or during the opening credits of Morrowind, it just says gamesas. Maybe they called themselves Bethesda Game Studios internally though.

My game discs say gamesas as well, and nothing about "game studios" so I'm inclined to agree (and these are originals from '02).

One of the 'Beths' needs to [censored] vanish so that we may forever have this confusion alleviated.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:50 pm

you guys should fire the web-editor

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:18 am

go buffs! im from denver, i go to school in Washington at Gonzaga U. but my girlfriend is at CU

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:25 am

The game is so large that Bethesda claimed it was twice the size of Great Britain.

I'm probably just being picky, but I think this line would sound better if it said something along the lines of "When measured in square feet, the game world in it's entirety comes out to be twice the size of Great Britain."

Sounds more accurate to me, since that really is a fact about the game. Otherwise, great article. :goodjob:

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:00 am

It actually changed prior to the release of Oblivion, they still went by gamesas when they released Morrowind.

EDIT: Or at least I think so, based on the fact that Bethesda Game Studios isn't mentioned on the box or during the opening credits of Morrowind, it just says gamesas. Maybe they called themselves Bethesda Game Studios internally though.

I duno, the wiki says BGS has been around since 85

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethesda_Game_Studios

Perhaps they were an internal development team only recently broken off as its own things while still flying the banner of BS

Edit: never mind, all is answered.

"the studio's name and logo was established with the release of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion in 2006."

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:52 am

go buffs! im from denver, i go to school in Washington at Gonzaga U. but my girlfriend is at CU

WooHoo Gonzaga is whats up. I've kicked it with Gary Bell. He will be your star point guard next year lol.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:10 am

WooHoo Gonzaga is whats up. I've kicked it with Gary Bell. He will be your star point guard next year lol.

oh good stuff! i hope hes better than our current line up :/ its been pretty dismal this year

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:22 pm

Besides the two errors already mentioned i'd say you only made one other mistake. Your sales statistics are from 2006. Since you can't really get anything else to go by it should be reworded to say it sold more than 1.7 millions copies in the first year after release.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:17 am

There's some redundancy, and some of the sentences could've been structured in a better way, but that's a good article. Nice work!

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:24 am

Re: The name debate.

They were known as Bethesda Softworks (gamesas for short) when Morrowind came out. The company has been around since well before that. They are currently known as Bethesda Game Studios.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:11 am

Re: The name debate.

They were known as Bethesda Softworks (gamesas for short) when Morrowind came out. The company has been around since well before that. They are currently known as Bethesda Game Studios.

Technically they didn't change their name. They split into two separate entities, a developer(Bethesda Game Studios) and a publisher(Bethesda Softworks).