I mean everything has been leading up to Alduin coming, look at the wall. So do you think this is the last main Elder Scrolls game?

Nope. Unless Bethesda losses interest in making money.

Yes. Since Elder Scrolls VI will likely take about 5-6 years of development, we'll never get to see it since 2012 is right around the corner.

there's other prophecies out there, bro.

Funny.
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If ES gets sales it will get more games.

What they're not telling us about is the fact that the Devs are actually Alduin worshipers, and 2012 is when he shall rise again! Mwahahahahahahaha O.o

There can still be other Elder Scrolls games so they wont be losing money, but every main TES games main events have all lead to Alduin coming, so I think it would make sense to end the main series with five games and then do "sidequels".

Once Bethesda finishes with all the prophesies on that wall, they'll concentrate on all the prophesies inscribed on the ceiling. O.o Haha

If there is money to be made and provinces to visit, there shall be more TES.

I have a fairly large hunch that Alduin isn't going to be ending the world anytime soon

Last of the 5-part story arc. Elder Scrolls VI will begin a new story, probably concentrating on the southern provinces.

there have been a couple of topics like this before. the games you play are just the elders scrolls being read, and there are hundreds of them, so there will be more games. this is just the end of this story ark.

There are cooler things that can happen. I, for one, would love to see Lorkhan return and finish the job Pelinal started... :whistling:

TES6 will be Summerset Isle.

Deal with it.

Mark my words, October 2016.

DONT YOU EVER SAY THAT! :ahhh: i can say for a fact that if this where there last game it would have to be all of nirn or nothing theres so much left to do .....bethesda wouldnt do such an evil thing

Just in time for the Xbox 720, coming out in 2015. http://www.computerandvideogames.com/294549/xbox-720-release-date-2015-designer-suggests/

It's going to be like Oblivion all over again. (graphics jump-wise)

I think people are misunderstanding me. I don't want Bethesda to end TES, its one of my favorite game series. I was just wondering if this could be there last main one.

Lol..what? Where are you getting that? Why/how has every TES main plot led up to Alduin coming? That's just one prophecy completely unrelated to the other TES games.
There will be other games, trust me. I'm pretty sure Bethesda quite likes making millions of dollars.

I want a prequel. something in the first era. maybe see some dwarves.

No way. They love making it, and people love playing it. (and paying for it.)

Alduin wont end the world and i mean..in a world like that... u still gotta worry about akavir invading and tons of other things are going on. It just wont stop. like he attacks and loses and everytings all good again. wont happen that way. of course there will be more. many more i hope they dont stop making htem for a very long them. then have it go on a 20 year hiatus then be revived lol when im old as crap lol.

2016? You wish, they go directly to Fallout 4 after Skyrim and Fallout was a money maker from the start so expect it to be big.

I highly doubt Skyrim will be the last Elder Scrolls game, unless Skyrim somehow manages to be a huge flop Bethesda will have no reason to think that it's not profitable to continue the series, and while it's true that in Skyrim it's revealed that the past games were all leading up to the events of Skyrim itself, this doesn't mean more games can't be made after Skyrim. Bethesda doesn't necessarily have to tie each game together, each Elder Scrolls game has been a standalone story. We've learned that each event was leading up to some future crisis, but that doesn't mean that they're all directly related, it's just that in the prophecy involved with Skyrim's story, the past events are signs that proceed the coming of Alduin. And I'm really not convinced that Betheada had this ongoing prophecy in mind all along, so just because this one prophecy is resolved doesn't mean therwe can't be new stories, the only thing that really needs to connect them to past games is the fact that they take place in the same setting, after Skyrim, Bethesda can start a new story that's not directly related to it. And Bethesda could still tie future games in with past games if they wanted to, after all, we weren't told about the prophecy of Alduin's return in Oblivion either, future games could be connected to Skyrim by information that we weren't told before them.

I suspect that Bethesda will continue making Elder Scrolls games until either Bethesda goes bankrupt (In which case, another company could still pick up the license later), or people stop wanting to play the series, neither of which seem likely in the near future, or the final reason that could happen is if Bethesda runs out of stories they could tell in the series, which I also don't think is close to happening, after all, we still have quite a few provinces we haven't seen since Arena, and all the provinces have potential to have different stories, it's not like after Alduin is defeated there's suddenly going to be no more threats Bethesda can use, and since each Elder Scrolls game has had a different protagonist, Bethesda doesn't need to choose between raising the stakes each game or having the hero lose all the items and abilities gained in the previous game, with or without explanation, to ensure that the antagonist of each game can be a credible threat, so Bethesda doesn't need to worry about not being able to think of a way to make a bigger threat than Alduin.



I think the prophecy is what the poster meant in this case, as we've been told that past Elder Scrolls games were all signs that will proceed the return of Alduin, but like I said, I doubt Bethesda planned for that all along, and it certainly doesn't mean all new games need to be tied to the past one in some way.

I was just reminded of the argument involving WoW and Blizzard...

ontopic: As long as we throw our money at Bethseda, the team will still make the games.

Skyrim is practically the beginning of a new age. Why would they stop at the beginning?