Although I do want Bethesda to create TES V because it is the roman numeral V and five is a big checkpoint, I don't want this TES to start to resemble something like Final Fantasy (Although they are good games, the numbers are getting ridiculous in my opinion).

What I mean by having a new or different series is either keep going with TES Legends or TES Adventures, or start a new series similar to those.

What is your opinion?

I want to keep Roman numerals.

They should keep with the numbered series.

But they should make more elderscrolls games of different genres in between. I think they'd have more luck with that now.

And, in the meantime, they should have a smaller group of people working on TESV for a very long time.

THIS...
...Don't kill the tradition.

I don't have an inherent problem with another spin off title developed by Bethesda. I would rather hear about TES V than a spin off but there are some interesting things Bethesda could do with a spin off that wouldn't fit in to the core game series.

If an Elder Scrolls title was developed by someone other than Bethesda it would almost certainly be a spin off series, and that too has some interesting possibilities.

Eye of Argonia. Want...

this.

stick to numbers for proper TES games, and keep unnumbered issues for spin offs.

Roman numerals are cool.

So what if Final Fantasy uses them?

The Elder Scrolls is America's Final Fantasy....

I think some fans will be rather unhappy that you said that...

But the numbers haven't gotten nearly as big for the Elder Scrolls, besides, the Elder Scrolls doesn't have "final" in its name, calling a game a name like "Final Fantasy" seems like false advertising when the series manages to run for... I don't even know how many Final Fantasy games there are any more.

But in any case, the numbers work fine for me, although I wouldn't actually care if they dropped them as long as I still got the game I want, but why get rid of them? They work just fine, and they make it clear that this game is intended as a sequel to earlier Elder Scrolls games, as well as making it easy to work out their chronological order, sometimes if you have sequels that are not numbered, it becomes easy to get confused as to which one comes first, especially when there's a lot of them.

Keep it the way it is IMO.

In addition to wanting the current system kept, I would like to point out that Elder Scrolls games each have their own, non-numbered names, unlike Final Fantasy games. Most people just refer to Elder Scrolls games by those names(Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, and Oblivion).

I don't think it matters. Bethesda hasn't used roman numerals for every Elder Scrolls game anyway.

They have for all the proper ones. Battlespire and Redguard were spin-offs that did not fit the style of proper Elder Scrolls games and were not intended to be sequels.

Keep the numerals.

Yes, keep the tradition.

They don't need to go on a tangent. The games are soo different that they can, and do, make them different in a way that going off on a tangent would.

The only reason for going off a tangent i can see is to discover other provinces and maybe change the races. but if in the next game the main story involved an war between two nations e.g. tamriel and akavir then the game after they could se tin akavir after the invissible mutual agreements made between the two games.

Bethesda have been clever with the way they have made the games, they created their own world in every aspect (the universe, the solar system, the planets, the continents the timelines, the flora and fauna, the climates) so if they wanted they could make the next game set in a differnet continent, a realm of oblivion, they could add in major events like the merging of empires to make super empires, the overthrow of imperialism etc...


Therefore, keep the numbers =P

This. While I'd rather play a TES game like Morrowind and Oblivion, I believe shorter developped games - by different people than those making TES V - with a different gameplay (like action/adventure like Redguard) could be very nice. More Tamriel = good. Because, let's face it, if we want every bit of Tamriel playable within the TES series, we'd have to wait for more than 10 years. So having some adventures, I don't know, in Summerset Isle before Skyrim is out could be cool. Which makes me think, I wonder if they ever thought of making TES V in Summerset Isle. Maybe the next TES? Maybe they are too ambitious for the current technology. Because, TES III was initially supposed to happen in Summerset Isle as TES IV, which leads me to believe they have something to tell in there, but don't seem to want to do it just yet.

I say keep the numerals, but I would be interested in something along the lines of F:NV, I'd like to see how other companies take on TES would be like.

The game are spaced well enough(94,96,02,06) that they could go for awhile, i think that the numerals should not go past X(10) id like to see a elder scrolls adventures game for every race.

People who take issue with that are too biased and don't understand the reason for the comparison. Also, final fantasy's final has nothing to do with the game, came about because squaresoft was outta money and they thought that game was the end of their fantasy of being game dev's, so they called it that. It sold big time, and it became the name for their marquis RPG titles from then on, not that the games are even in the same universe (with a couple exceptions involving spinoffs/direct sequels)

As it is Im ok with that comparison because of the fact that Elder Scrolls seems to the THE Western Fantasy RPG, where like it or not, the FF series is the big JRPG series as far as the US is concerned.

That said I don't really care if they number it or not, I really just want to see the rest of the world, and eventually have the megagame with all the regions in one! Yes, massive game, hours and hours of walking... wait.... hmmm....

For as long as we get another Elder Scrolls game soon enough I couldn't even be bothered how they call it.

They should keep going with what they have.

They're screwing up open world and the RPG part of the game, so they might as well do something small but do it right. Another Elderscrolls Adventure like Redguard or Battlespire, for those of us who haven't played those.

I say keep them as they are. As you said, Final Fantasy XX or what ever number, but in TES, leave the Roman numeral, but we never go by it. It's always Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion. What ever the next one is, we will not be calling it TES V, but say that till we have an Official name. I would love to be calling it Black Marsh, but I don't see that happening.

So once we have an official name it will not be reffered to as TES V anymore. :whistling: