This game looks so big and vast.. one would assume that bethesda would be working on this for more than a couple of years, as it has been true with their previous games like morrowind, oblivion and fallout 3.

Do you think that a longer development period would have benefited a game like this more? Just to iron out the bugs and stuff? This is just my opinion on this matter.. so just share your thoughts, i'm not trying to start anything here. :violin:

Edit: Skyrim went into full production once fallout 3 was finished, and i'd imagine.. since its the full team thats working on it, they had to wait till most of the DLC for fallout 3 was finished.. so 2009 might be it. Thats what i think, oblivion/fallout 3 took twice as much development time than skyrim.. cant hurt to be a little worried considering bethesda past efforts right? Bug wise anyway.

It had plenty of development time... :confused:

Srsly, no.

wait... when did it get discovered Skyrim has had a short developement time? I was under the impression that they have been working on it since they finished shivering Isles.

It already has, it's the reason beast legs aren't in the game as confirmed by Vsions.

Where the heck did you come up with this notion that Skyrim's only had a short development time? Sounds like your trying to start something...

5 Years of development time is considered short?

If i can remember.. skyrim went into full production once fallout 3 was finished, along with all the DLC i would assume.

^This...

:rolleyes:
It has seriously had enough time and many of its features sound and look better than Oblivion.

This has been in development since they released Fallout 3... what's short about that?

There were some quotes from Todd that indicated that they started work on Skyrim almost immediately after the release of fallout 3 which was late october 2008 so that gave them a full 3 years for development on a generation of consoles that they have alot of experience with. They know what they're doing, we just have to trust that we'll get another exceptional game from them.

It was revealed last December, but it's been in development in one capacity or another since 2006/7. They started smashing on it around 2008 after FO3 was released.


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it has had more dev time than FO3 if I had to guess. Oblivion = 2006, FO3 = 2008, Skyrim = 2011 (but been kinda worked on since 2006)

um someone is confusing announcement time with development time like seriously 5 years is quite enough they said its been worked on since oblivion and since they said dragons were their focus for 2-3 years im sure its been more than a couple of months or a year unless Todd time travels with his team

It has been in development since oblivion came out and that was a long time ago, so I don't think it will be bad.

Of course, but where do you draw the line? They could spend 10-15 years+ crafting the most amazing open-world RPG ever made... but it wouldn't be good for business.

I'm just glad they're not churning out TES games ever year or two.

Short development? :shakehead:

Theyve been working on skyrim since fallout haha. thats really long... They dont want to pull a blizzard and work on skyrim like theyre working on diablo -_-

^^ This ^^ Not short at all, I don't think anything will be "hurt" but if there are any GAME BREAKING bugs I'll be pissed. Small and funny bugs / glitches are to be expected. Todd even said if they are funny and not game breaking they intentionally leave them in.

yes because longer development time always makes a better game, I mean look at Duke Nukedom
longer time doesnt always mean better game, I think 4 years is a fair amount of time

100 employees x 2000hr work year x 3 years = 600,000 man hours. That's not including overtime and we all know that game developers put in ridiculous amounts of over time. This development cycle is pushing a million man hours. That's long enough.

Very well said thats ALOT of development time.

If I'm not mistaken, they had been working on FO3 since they announced Oblivion.

Yeah but a blackout can really set them back.

as soon as they finished fallout 3 the started work on it so its development time wasnt short by any means.

FOR A GAME LIKE SKYRIM!!

Open world games like these aren't easy to make, even for rockstar which have been making open world games for most of their career.