I believe flintlock like guns would fit and feel right.

why will there never be guns in tamriel you ask? Because every citizen learns flare at level one.

Everybody in tamriel IS a gun. Mages are just bazookas.

A case can be made for flintlock guns, I think. In some future Elder Scrolls game. Ideally, it would be one involving the Dwemer prominently, since they have a history of that sort of thing.

But Skyrim isn't going in that direction. If anything, it's going to have a Dark Ages feel, lower tech than Oblivion - no crossbows, at least, and lighter armor. Skyrim is based on Scandinavia in the Viking Age, well before the invention of gunpowder - and, honestly, ranged weapons in general weren't the Vikings' style. So while flintlock guns might have a place in the Elder Scrolls, they probably don't have one in Skyrim. Wait for the next game.

This. Nords are based, possibly loosely based but based none the less on the Norseman. Like the above poster I suspect the game will have a Viking/dark age feel to it and any form of firearm would feel really weird and at odds. Imagine you're wearing mail and fur Nord armour, your two hand battle axe slung over your shoulder, your mighty braided Nord beard blowing about in the snow storm. Your opponant is a monstrous frost giant. You reach, seemingly for your mighty axe, but no, you actually pull out a little flint lock pistol....
Just weird.
And personally, and this is just me, I hate guns in my fantasy RPG games, hated them in Fable and I'd despise them in Elder Scrolls, despise them enough to cause me doubt over bying an Elder Scrolls game that includes them. Thats just my opinion and taste though of course.

Who needs guns when apparently everyone in cyrodil can shoot fireballs and restore health with no formal training?

Personally, I wouldn't want to see a TES game with any firearm, even if it was primitive.

Reason? Well, it's just preference actually.

I buy TES games because they're different. I think that adding guns into the game would be just a way to appeal to a new type of audience. I like TES's selection of weapons as they are now, and would hope Bethesda keep to that.

Would we even have guns in real life if we could shoot fireballs from our hands?

...and if Oblivion had guns, then describing Fallout 3 as "Oblivion with guns" wouldn't make much sense. Let's leave the guns to the post-apocalyptic RPGs.

This is nuts. I don't want fridges in Skyrim, but you don't see me making a thread about it.


Okay:
1. Due to the realm of Nirn being completely different from planet earth, and not obeying similar laws of physics, we don't even know if guns can exist.
2. Alchemy in Nirn is an actual science, that actually works, unlike here on earth. They almost have no need for chemistry.
3. Magic exists. Why go through all the trouble of inventing a gun when it's so much easier to shoot a fireball from your fingertips?
4. It honestly does not fit the setting. I'm sorry.

EDIT: Double post. Also: pie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchlock muskets would be appropriate IMO.

This is perhaps one of the better arguments I've seen against guns in Skyrim, at least.




Time for a revolution! :gun:



Hehehehe

I know that these aren't really guns, but what about the dwemer centurions? They had those dart gun things, which aren't gunpowder ones but pretty close.

I think those are just fancified crossbows or dart guns that could be spring-loaded.

If I see any guns in TES V, I'm gonna have to make a mage specializing in mysticism (particularly telekinesis). That way I could stop bullets in their tracks, a la The Matrix, and then use telekinesis to pull the gun out of the wielder's hands and start clubbing them over the head with it.

If they ever added guns to a vanilla ES game, I would find a mod that removes them...ASAP. Guns belong in futuristic games...they ruin the atmosphere for ES games.

Especially with a long reload time to counter balance.

Now that you think of it...in TTT, Saruman concocted an explosnve that that one uruk-hai ran into the sewer thing of Helm's Deep to open it up...ala muslim suicide bomber style.

Didn't the pirate ships in TES Adventure Redguard have cannons on it?

Really though, has anybody from Beth even hinted that there might be guns? What a silly thought, I am surprised people are actually even humoring this idea. THERE WON'T BE ANY GUNS IN ANY ELDER SCROLLS GAMES EVER.

This isn't Fable.

Didn't you know that Fallout invented guns.

Ya got me!

I don't really care either way. Realistically, people will want to increase the damage they do from far away. People will think of guns eventually...

That being said, it doesn't really fit in with TES games. It might make sense, and it might be well done (just one or two shoddy hand cannons), but it could only lead to bad habits. I'm sure they would keep the guns as a minor aspect of the game (people just say "What's that?" every so often), but the only improvement they could make over shoddy guns in future games would be half decent guns, then good guns, and so on and so forth with increasing numbers and decreasing gameplay value.

So no, no guns in my TES thank you very much. Leave it to the modders, they will do it well enough without breaking lore.

I think Fable should never have put guns in their games or "moved" in time of the development of society.

Same goes for TES. And here it's even more obvious. Never ever any guns. No explosives either. The only industrial thing should be the dwemer machines, nothing else.

No, they wouldn't.

Agreed, guns in general have no place in TES.