thats an asperation not a plan

Only if Bethesda hates money.

I am pretty sure if it sells, you should keep making it, how's that for a business model? Me, I will worry about this after I have completed Fallout 4 GOTY.

there are hundreds and hundreds of elder scrolls, the games are basically the moth priest reading the scrolls.

Skyrim is just the end of this story ark (or maybe its not) , and as long as TES keeps making money, there not going to stop making them.

/end pretty much, this has been asked/said before, and its not going to happen, which is a good thing.

Why would Skyrim be the last tes? Evey tes game had an epic conflict the player had to overcome. I'm pretty sure they're not going to stop until at the very least Tamriel is finished. They may explore other continents like Akavir in the future.

Wow am I getting old or something? 2016 sounds futuristic but alas it is only 5 years away :blink: I remember when I was a kid I was thinking what the world would be like in the year 2000, I had visions of us flying around in hover cars and our roads would become 3 dimensional! Alas I also wondered what TES game we would be up to by 2010 and now I have my answer Been playing TES back to Arena, when that came out I didn't even know what a role playing game was so I see no reason why Bethesda would stop such a successful franchise when there are at least 4 provinces left to explore !

Alas TES will continue, would LOVE to see what they could do with Valenwood on the next gen consoles ! Photo-realistic forests filled with fauna and treetop villages anyone? (I can hear the Ewok drums beating already!) (I love playing as a Elf and Ranger so this would be my wet-dream!)

Long Live TES !! :tes:

The series should end at VII. I'm tired of these epic quests they keep churning. Really, being God of vast sandbox isn't gratifying. I'd like Bethesda to try story-driven (but not linear) action adventures. Let Fallout be their RPG. Anything that sacrifices epic winz! for intimacy with the plot.

Last will have all Nirn and all planes available in it (~100M Km2- most of it randomly generated of course)
All sentient creatures (maybe finally Imga and maybe Sload will be playable), all wildlife
Basically everything TES universe holds.
All guild quest lines will have opened endings (starting with scripted quests and ending with infinite random quests like in TES2)
Smart AIs that actually live like characters in Sims3 (jobs, fiends, interests, families, etc) and have naturalistic death/birth ration

Somehow it seems that this "last" game is something we won't see for a long time.

I doubt Skyrim will be the last Elder Scrolls, the fact that the previous plots are revealed to have been signs proceeding Skyrim doesn't mean they can't make more games, after all, they don't HAVE to tie the stories together, the fact that one story follows another in the same setting is enough of a connection, really, it's okay to have two events in the same setting without one being the direct cause of another. And they can still tie future games to Skyrim, maybe the next game will tell us what kind of impact the events of Skyrim had on the setting. In any case, it would be quite a waste to end the series here, as it still seems to be doing pretty well so from a business perspective, it would seem wise to continue making the Elder Scrolls games, and I'm sure Bethesda can still come up with ideas for plots that fit the setting, especially since they don't need to worry about whether they can top the threat of the past game since each game has a different protagonist, so the new game doesn't need to have a more dangerous enemy than the previous one to ensure that the antagonist can still be a threat, not to mention there's still quite a few provinces we've yet to have a chance to explore in detail. I'd be quite dissappointed if Bethesda decided to end the series here.

Keep in mind, though, this doesn't mean we'll see an Elder Scrolls VI soon, because I suspect that Bethesda will want to do Fallout 4 after Skyrim, unless of course they make the rather unlikely decision to let Obsidian create all future Fallout games, but regardless, I see no reason to doubt that we WILL see another Elder Scrolls game after Skyrim, just as I was sure we'd see one after Oblivion. It's simply a question of when Bethesda will get to it.

they will probably still make TES games even after the remaining provinces of tamriel have been used, they'll think of something

I really hope they put Fallout to Obsidian and just give them Skyrim's engine to use. The Elder Scrolls should be their sole priority IMO. It's the series they've done from the start, their greatest and deepest, and if I'm not mistaken, most popular.

probably not but i wouldnt expect to see the next TES game out until 2017 at a minimum. to be honest as much as i love the games i kinda wish they would move on to another fantasy setting. personally id like to see something much darker and low fantasy. skyrim sounds like its going in that direction so maybe if i like skyrims setting alot ill clamor for another TES game. if skyrim ends up being just slightly darker than oblvion then ill hope they move onto a new franchise. id love to see what skyrim does with a DnD setting, or just make up an entirely new world........after all that is something they are great at.

Don't forget Akavir. That would be sweeeeeeeet :tes:

I have a feeling that if they wanted to finish the series they would have told us.

but i do like the idea of going to a new continent or exploring the entire world :drool:

anyway if I was ending the series I would call the game something like TES: apocalypse or something like that.

You think Bethesda will drop TES simply because the lore says it would be logical? If Skyrim is a success, we'll propably see TES VI. And besides, there are more prophecies in the Elder Scrolls.

I'm reckoning it will be Black marsh or Summerset Isle based on poll results of previous threads.

Then we still have Elsyer & Valenwood (i'm hoping for a super combined map of the two on this one. In TES lore the two have often warred).

I'm reckoning the architecture etc of Valenwood will be based on something like this
http://12345-traveladventure.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/12345-travel-adventure-Angkor-WatCambodia.jpg
The deathly cannibalistic race that the Bosmer are. Welcome to the killing fields.

We also have other continents such as Akavir.

Both Valenwood and Akavir have a monkey race which we are still yet to see (and maybe even play as). I think we can safely say we have a long way to go yet. I'm sure as technolgy grows they will just get better and better. I have full confidence in the Bethseda team. They seem to know how to satisfy their fans by giving them a top product everytime.

yes because the W...
okay of course not if this goes well they will make an expansion first and then a new game

No, because they haven't made a TES: Elsweyr yet.

Yes, I didn't forget there. But how says Bethesda has to make an Akaviri game?
4 people have quoted me and said this, you people are broken records.

Chances are they'll just make a game for each country in Tamriel, then make a couple other games for other continents. Before there was even any confirmation on where Skyrim would even take place, a lot of people thought either Sumurset Isles or Elseweyr.

Not by a long shot. We'll have at least 3 more Elder Scrolls game before they pull the plug if they do.

We still have Summerset Isle, Valenwood, Black Marsh, Elswear, Hammerfell.

I hear ya. Valenwood FTW

If Bethesda say they wont make a 6th TES game im gonna set myself on fire in a public place.

Ah, Do'Tiraith, always the extremist. You'll kill yourself if you don't get TES 6, but you'll intentionally not get TES 5 if it doesn't have the whole of High Rock in an expansion.

if beth dont make tes 6, i'll probably cry for a bit