With PS4 and X720, the next systems will be sure to be in line with the best specs the PC will offer at the time, even better.
Do you think the game will be much more massive? I hope they will create a new engine and there really shouldn't be no excuse to have so many glitches and bugs next time around since the systems will be that much more powerful and capable to handle it.

Isn't that what people said pre-Oblivion?

If they add content to the game and create an interesting and remove far more bugs than they did with Skyrim maybe and maybe not. Hard to say.

no becasue all us pcers will move on to tablets and the TES will phase out from being dumbed down from pcs to consoles to dumbed down from consoles to tablets.

see you on the Ipad 3 hahahahaha....

Bethesda still makes RPGs???

I dunno, I don't think that there is a "best" rpg, only favorites. For example, my favorite is Ultima 6, but it's by no means the best.

C'mon. Can't we get them to fix the current release before dreaming about the next version? The probability of Bethesda not being around in the industry is growing. These guys started out young and they've gotten a bit older. Who knows if they want to do this for another 10 or 15 years. It's entirely possible the next Elders Scrolls title will be made by another development group -- whether or not Bethesda exists in its current state or as a bought entity.

Who knows what the next TES brings? For all we know it could be the worst RPG ever made.

@OP: What? Why would it be? This series at its best touched "damn good RPG" years ago with Morrowind and hasn't returned. Don't get me wrong, Skyrim is a pretty good game. It's just not really an RPG. And if it is? It's a pretty [censored] one.

The next TES game. Wow. I shutter to think of the possibilities. Skyrim is already one of the best games I've ever played, I find it hard to imagine that the next game will be even better. And it will be, I'm sure. So I can't wait. 5 years is a long time to wait though.

LMFAO



If you seriously believe this, you have no idea what you're talking about.

2010 and 2011 PC tech is likely better than what the PS4/720 are going to be.

You're assuming the next Xbox is going to take a big leap forward in technology. If it does, then great. Maybe then console-ported games to PCs will actually make better use of a PC's power. With that said, just how much more expensive will the new Xbox be? Will it be backward compatible with all the Xbox games people already own, or will they be screwed?

I'd rather they didn't "create a new engine". That's what Skyrim supposedly has, but we all know it's the same old Gamebryo. I, and most everyone else, would rather they used a newer, better engine. People knock modded Oblivion as not being much better than vanilla, yet they seem to have no problem knowing Skyrim's engine is just a modded Oblivion engine.

And the biggest assumption of all, will the next TES game be more RPG than Skyrim? Doubtful, but then based on numerous threads, it wouldn't take much to surpass Skyrim in that regard.

Uldred

Well, Elderscrolls has won 'game of the year' 3 games in a row.. So I suspect the next one will just be as great. They do continuesly improve. As for no bugs? :/
I doubt it, they will always have bugs and errors for every game, they should do a blizzard and forget about release dates, so they can make it perfect before release. I would rather wait in suspense for a non glitchy, fantasicly non rushed game. And they just created a new engine for Skyrim! They may upgrade it, but they wont make another... I would like to see more ideas from members of forums and a defenite improvement on housing and marriage.

Bethesda always takes technological advancements that occur between the previous two Elder Scrolls games.

So any technological advancements from 2007 to 2011 will be featured in Elder Scrolls VI.

The destructible environments from Crysis.
The flammable environments from FarCry 2.
The horses from Red Dead Redemption.
The facial animation from LA Noire.
Euphoria from Natural Motion
The character animation from Battlefield 3.

People put too much stock into the "Game of the Year" title.
It's much like listening to movie critics, believing what they say, and deciding whether or not to see a movie because of it.

One man's garbage is another man's treasure.

Uldred

Except the engine.

Uldred

I wish! That would be nice!

People are so uncreative. I would bet my life Windows is more clever than Xbox 720...

Highly unlikely. They'll be closer but still quite behind. Still, Skyrim to TES VI will likely be a bigger step up when it comes to technical aspects than Oblivion to Skyrim was.

Bethesda does have the potential to make the best RPG ever, if they do a few things:

1. They need better writing for the quests. The biggest thing that keeps Skyrim from being head and shoulders above all other titles is simply the fact that in 9 out of 10 quests you get railroaded along a certain path and have absolutely no say about how you want to proceed. As much freedom as Skyrim gives you to fight the way you want, it doesn't give you any freedom to act the way you want. If you play an honorable warrior who doesn't beat up defenseless old women there is no guild for you to join. The game simply never lets you feel like you're in control of your characters actions outside of fighting, and that brings down the whole experience. When you weigh that kind of massive laziness in the quest writing against a title like Mass Effect where you get to make choices at almost every turn its clear why the title of "best RPG ever" is barred to the Elderscrolls until they rectify that deficiency.

2. They need to balance the game better. When it comes right down to it, freedom to "play the character you want" simply rings hollow when doing so can result in an utterly gimped character. Yes, I am bringing up that whole mage thing, yes I am bringing up Enchantment being overpowered, yes I am bringing up that they still didn't come up with a way to make wearing robes a valid choice and not just something a few people do in spite of Bethesda's pigheadedness when it comes to actually allowing players to do what they want. Seriously, a game where people are supposed to make choices, but they get punished for not making a tiny set of really overpowered choices does not really offer much freedom. It's like if I let someone chose whether they want 10 pieces of chocolate, 5 pieces of licorice or 1 piece of toffee, then say I'm giving them freedom to pick their favorite candy. Sure, they can pick which one they like, but if they happen to like toffee they still get screwed by the whole deal.

3. Do some freaking game testing before you release and fix the bugs. Nuff said.

LOL.. I am betting it will be wack....


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Prepare to receive ignorant "Morrowind is the only true ES RPG waah" comments. Either way RPG is a loose term nowadays. Genre's are compining. Whatever it I hope to not be disappointed.

If you are trying to discredit movie criticism...you really should step back. However game critics are of a different judgement. It's a young professionalism...still controlled by popularity and hype. Some deserving though.

Problem is that the Elder Scrolls talks about 5 scrolls. Skyrim is the last Elder Scroll game. So no there won't be another Elder Scrolls game. The Prophecy has come to an end with Skyrim depicting the 5th and final scroll. Only thing that Bethesda can do is create another series in a similar world or totally different RPG as entirely.

No, they did not "create a new engine", Beth just updated the same engine that partially was used in Morrowind and all of Oblivion, Fallout 3 and and Fallout: New Vegas. Next time, it really should be a "new engine".


If they use a totally new engine (not an updated version as was in Skyrim), I agree.