I'll be playing quite a bit of Morrowind, maybe some Oblivion but I find Oblivion to get boring a lot faster than MW.

Probably. And besides, if an announcement comes up, I won't just go, "I must now stop playing this immediately because the next one's coming"...

I've been playing Morrowind a lot now. That's mainly because I've been reading Infernal City. Plus, I was slightly disappointed with Dragon Age and had to find another fantasy game to play.

Not exclusively but yes. I am still playing Morrowind & Oblivion, the constant supply of wonderful mods keep both fresh. And I have yet to experience Daggerfall (I have it, just haven't started it yet). However, I always keep an eye open for RPGs that look promising - I'm also playing Fallout 3 & Dragon Age: Origins at the moment, and I will check out Gothic 4: Arcania when it comes out. But if they limit the player character to a male again I'll be giving it a miss. <_<

Just started playing Morrowind again, it's very fun, it's like the ultimate game for when I'm sick, but on normal days I just can't stand the insane ammounts of time that are wasted on little progress. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, I like(big understatement) it that way even if it's not an every day game for me, and I got the taste for TES games again too! Maybe I'll try Daggerfall.

I will play Oblivion while I wait for TES V... Which won?t come out. Honestly, I?m starting to think it won?t. Have you heard anything about it?

I'm still playing oblivon, both because I want to and to tide me over while I wait, I would be playing morrowind too if my 360 was backwards compatable but it isnt. =/

of course I play morrowind, and oblivion get a short play in between,and eventually some of the old titles,but as long mods for morrowind comes out I play it,and next installment comes when it does,hopefully sooner than later.

I already played the previous TES games. I rather play other games I haven't played yet, like Mass Effect 2 and so on.

For me I have played the old titles some,but haven?t finished them through, and have slight difficulties to find a new game that engage me,so as long mods comes out for mw/ob I?m fine.

it is a few new titles I?m curious about,mass effect 2 and a few others,but I like single player without company most of the time,so the TES-games is right in my alley

Yes, and i will play Morrowind and Oblivion still. They're great games so why stop?

No, that would probably make it more difficult to wait for the next game. I will still play Fallout 3 every now and then but other than this all I play these days is Bioware games.

Of course I'll be playing them - and I always will.

I will mainly be playing Morrowind and Oblivion, with a little Daggerfall thrown in the mix.

From Daggerfall to Oblivion

I've been trying some other games in between or going back to some older ones, including MW.

I'm playing Fallout 3 a lot atm. Haven't played Oblivion in about a month, since it threw it's last hissy fit and decimated my entire Oblivion directory for unknown reasons. I'll reinstall it as soon as I'm done with Fallout

I'll play morrowind. I proboly won't get it when It comes out, as A. my computer probably won't run it. and B. I bet it will be rated M, so I have to wait until I'm at least 17.

I would play Shadowkey through but I missed an auction.

ESV is not coming out for a long time, FO3 is the flagship series for bethesda now and they are focusing most of their energy on that series, FO4 probably coming out late next year. todd howard is not a liar and when pressed at a gaming conference about bethesdas next project he did say DO NOT be looking for ESV anytime soon, they are working on FO4 not ESV, there are a lot of midevil type games and FO was a huge success they definately want to capitolize on that success. sorry to bum you out but if i were you i would not be looking for an elder scrolls game for a long time. <_<

Having FO4 fresh off the production line within a year or so of New Vegas coming out would be oversaturating the market with Fallout. More importantly, Bethesda the developer would be competing with Bethesda the publisher. Lose-lose situation. One reason why it's unlikely that Bethesda is currently working on a FO game.
And while Todd did say, "don't look for TESV anytime soon," that by no means definitively translates to "FO has replaced TES as Bethesda's flagship series." By itself, it could just as likely translate to "We're working on the next ES title, but it's going to be a fair while before it comes out."

Yes, we should play TES while we wait. Why not? Currently I'm finishing Arena and hopefully finish Daggerfall soon if I can work around some bug.

i disagree, oversaturating the market with fallout? new vegas is coming out this year and its not bethesesda made, by the time FO4 comes out late next year it will have been a year since FONV and several years since FO3 so actually i think thats just about right, if a fallout game came out right now it would have sales through the roof, not much competition for fallout they have no competetors, on the other hand there are lots of midevil type games out. i would be really suprised if bethesda decided not to make fallout 4 relatively soon after todd howard and pete hines comments concerning continuing the fallout series abd the reasond why the bought the rights to it, which is a huge success and its been a while since fallout 3 came out as it is. so we're ready for fallout 4. i doubt bethesda is gonna gonna let obsidian overshadow them with FONV(which is prob gonna be really good) so i am definately expecting FO4 by late 2011.

New Vegas may not be Bethesda-made, but it is most assuredly Bethesda-financed. If you are a gaming company, if you house both a developing arm and a publishing arm, and you want both of them to be as calculatedly successful as they possibly can, then you are not going to undermine either short-term or long-term sales of a publishing product by quickly one-upping it through your own developed release of a title within the same series. Even if FO4 were to debut a year after New Vegas, that's still cutting into New Vegas's long-term profit ranges, potentially interfering with expansions or planned DLC, putting a damper on repackaging efforts, etc, etc. Bethesda as a developer and presumably as a publisher has a different mindset than most for what time-period constitutes a game's profitable life-cycle.


That's pretty straw-man, to be honest. If TES can be relegated to "lots of medieval type games," then Fallout can be relegated to "lots of sci-fi games" or "lots of post-apocalyptic games." When a game's premise is purposely abstracted to the blandest of perspectives, it's going to sound like every game out there. Fortunately, neither TES nor Fallout is that abstracted in reality. Therefore, both series have unique premises that set them apart from the rest of their overall genre, meaning neither series has a money-making or consumer edge in the creative premise department.


I won't deny that FO3 was a huge financial success. So was Oblivion. So was Morrowind before it. So was Daggerfall before it. It is likely true that FO3 has won Bethesda the most money, but that's by no means a commentary on the series. For example, Oblivion netted Bethesda more profits than Morrowind. Morrowind netted Bethesda more profits than Daggerfall. As their popularity and longevity as a developer increases, they get name recognition, and those who played their last games are far more likely to buy their newest games. In example, I bought FO3 knowing nothing about the series and very little about the premise. Yet I bought it because Bethesda made it, because I wanted to see the design-philosophy direction they were heading in for their next titles. From what I've read, that's also true for a lot of people who bought FO3. If they do make FO4 next, it will likely make even more money than FO3. If they make TES:V next, it will also likely make even more money than FO3. Once again, no discernible advantage between the series.


FO3's been out for a little less than a year and 3 months. In Bethesda timetables, that's hardly anything at all. Their release cycle averages 4 to 5 years. Late 2011 will be around 3 years after FO3's release. Is it possible that they may release a title then, be it TES or FO? I suppose. But I still see zero evidence to strongly indicate that the next title will be FO.

-------------------------------

Just re-delved into Arkngthand again. Oh, the memories of the puzzle box once-so-frustratingly obscured. TES:V? Living in the past echoes of Vvardenfell has displaced it from my mind for the time being.

I highly doubt FO4 will come before ESV.

oblivion needed to be more similar to morrowind basically half morrowind and half oblivion