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Ok, so I have had this question rolling inside my mind for quite some time now, and I decided to make it into a poll...
Pls, remember the pros and cons of your decision, such as lag and so on.
Although by the time it comes out, there will be a lot of changes in the gaming universe.

That is if we survive 2012

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I think if there is another game that spans the entire continent it is likely to be an MMORPG - but such a game wouldn't be part of the core series so there is no good option for me in question #1. It's also worth pointing out if this becomes a discussion on MMOs the thread will be locked with a re-direct to the official multiplayer thread which rather leaves everyone here walking on egg shells.

I don't think we'll see another game in the core series that covers the entire continent since that cannot be done within changing the format of the games. Now the format changed between I and II, and II and III, so this is conceivable but I don't think we'll see it. A non-MMO spin-off could do this perhaps but I'm still skeptical.

As am I, nicely said...
Oh and btw...
DO NOT SPAM THIS TOPIC WITH MMO STUFF...pls

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I doubt there ever will be a full Tamriel game.
And I really doubt they'll ever make a TES MMO, unless it's for the iPhone or something like that.

A MMO for the iPhone? Does that exist?

I have a feeling this will be the last game in the series. But hopefully they'll make some spin-off games like Redguard or Battlespire in other provinces.

Why do you feel this way?

Especially when we are led to believe that there is a fifth era.

I foresee the series continuing for a long time as they (Bethesda) have no shortage of material to work with/create.

I agree here, I'm sure Bethesda can still come up with new ideas for Elder Scrolls sequels, and I don't want the series to end until Bethesda starts running out of good ideas for it.

Though if the Fifth Era is really going to be like what the lore we have on it suggests, I hope the series stays in the Fourth Era, I read the Loveletter recently and it doesn't really sound like what I look for in the Elder Scrolls series at all, Bethesda already has the Fallout license, so there's no need to turn the Elder Scrolls into post apocalyptic science-fiction too.

As to an Elder Scrolls game spanning all of Tamriel, I'm not sure if it would really be feasible to do that with the current technology available, while maintaining the level of quality and detail I want from the series, and I wouldn't want an Elder Scrolls game spanning all of Tamriel if it would come at the sacrifice of detail and quality. Better to get one province at a time but done well to have a game that has all the provinces but makes all of them underwhelming.

And I don't want an Elder Scrolls MMO and doubt I'd play one, if it were made.

I'm sure it'll be a long ways off before we see all of Tamriel in a single game. Especially with how things have been and they've all been one section per game. So it should be some time, because we still have Black Marsh, Elsweyr, Valenwood, High Rock, and Summerset Isles to go through. So, yeah...it's likely to be some time before that's even a serious consideration if they continue with this pattern.

Now, as unpopular of an idea as I know it would be amongst the forum members, I could definitely go for an Elder Scrolls MMO, but only if it were done right, and I'm picky as hell when it comes to MMOs.

First off, it would have to not only not cater to the WoW crowd, but actively make efforts to avoid that crowd of the gaming world. WoW just isn't nearly as good as people make it out to be, it's the same exact gameplay you'd get in a free MMO from Korea with a lot of polish slapped on by Blizzard's money. This simply would not do.
I think Elder Scrolls has the lore behind it to make a wonderful MMO experience, but it would definitely have to be something completely unique, something unlike any other MMO. Now, I don't know exactly what it is they'd have to do, but if it was made from the same mold as every other MMO out there, then no it probably wouldn't be as amazing as it could be and would just be a sad mockery of what it could have been.

:stare:


I think Bethesda would like to make a game in every province. I mean, we haven't seen all of High Rock and Hammerfall yet. And we haven't seen Elsweyr, Valenwood, Black Marsh or Summerset Isle yet (apart from in Arena).

I chose that I would like to see it be the last game of the series, just to say 'lets look at Tamriel one last time' or something along those lines, and by that time (which is hopefully never) they should have the technology to create the whole country. And no, I wouldn't like it to be an MMO, because T ES isn't an MMo game.

Daggerfall was set in High Rock :/.

And I hope what you're saying is right. But it almost sounds like everything in the previous games was leading to this Alduin atack. That and they're trying to make it very epic, if there were more games what could there possibly be that has more "epicness" than an atack of a Daedra Lord of destruction and than an attack led by The God of Time leading an army of dragons. Also every TES gives us a more powerfull enemy and a more grander one than the previous one. I'm not saying there won't be more games but I'd see them more like side-games. Like Battlespire and Redguard. That's not anything bad, because I consider Redguard among the two best of the whole series.

While I would like a game that covered the whole world, I do not think it would be feasible to do. I don't think you could make a game with as much detail, places and such for a whole world like they did in MW. Obviously I would love it if they did do that but again I think it would take too much time and effort to cover everything. And just to answer your last question without going into it too much, I think it should be a single player otherwise you wouldn't be able to have mods or use the console to fix mistakes and such.

No. Daggerfall was set in the southern THIRD of highrock and the northern THIRD of Hammerfell.

Arena lets you travel all over Tamriel actually. The whole MMO idea just needs to die. I'd rather them put development time into multiple games. Than spending 10 years updating an MMO over and over. Where's my Warcraft 4? Oh it'll never happen as long as WoW exists. Gee thanks Blizzard.



Yeah not now. But when they made Daggerfall 15 years ago it wasn't feasible to make a world like Skyrim in all it's detail and scope.

Ah, I forgot that's {partially} where it was set. Well, there's two provinces that can be expanded upon and have their own games, still.

I agree with that.
Although I am a lore lover, I am not all the way in the ES universe. Although I know about some post apocalyptic stuff from a friend.
And yes, they have fallout for that sort of games. It is good that ES is rich in derail, but no offence to any of you ES fanatics, but no lore (including StarCraft, Star Trek, DIablo, LotR etc.) can compare with Warcraft

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This is pretty much what Arena is, but I assume you mean a non-randomly-generated world detailed to the point of the more recent games.

I was thinking more of an roaming fell ya know...
more like all of the elements before made into one ultimate es game on the entire continent xD

The Elder Scrolls Universe is far, far deeper than Warcraft's. You may've only looked at the mainquests, but Warcraft is about as deep as a puddle compared to Elder Scrolls.

It seems that we both dont know what were talking about, since you dont know WArcraft's lore.
Ill ask you this, how many books does WC have and how many does ES?
No offfence and all, but warcraft already has the title of best universe, some prize or whatever

SO THERE`!!!!

I hope ES6 spans all of Tamriel, but the technology may not exist until 7 or 8. Now that I know there is a CS available for Syrim, I hope Bethesda releases an official gameworld map so talented modders can actually use it to recreate all of Tamriel, and Bethesda picks the cream of the crop for the next game.This would also eliminate many of the legal issues.

You mean like this one? http://images.uesp.net//c/c3/TamrielMap.jpg

Necro_EX, I'm guessing that what bradleyh means is a http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=27235

I did mean an officially endorsed hieghtmap that takes events considered to be "Canon" into account, even if I do not enjoy thinking about Vivec City as a Meteor Crater and Red Mountain destroying Vvardenfall.

Ah, alright then. I was a little confused by that statement, but now I see what you're getting at.