i have to say as a technology curve. they would hit guns in the next game or 2 based on the armor cuz plate armor was be4 invention of firearms. that being said no please dont put them in. crossbows polearms bigger variety of weapons and armors would definitely be welcomed cuz what theres 8 or 9 races (cant remember sorry). they all dont use same armor when they goto war. yet in skyrim a kajhit wears same thing as orc completely different body types and homelands. yes i know orc have armor in skyrim.

I quote from the TES bible:

If Bethesda does decide they want to give guns a shot, I hope they try it in a small expansion sized stand alone game we can easily ignore lore wise so that we're not stuck with them if we hate them.
Adding them in a full fledged TES game would be a mistake IMO.

/sarcasm on


Bethesda response to this and other "idea's"

http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/design-en-e7bcd56fddccf4a54c5013117990368f.html

/sarcasm off

Considering that we're already in Nirn's 45th century, and that a period reminiscent of Europe's 18th or 19th century would make absolutely no sense for the setting... No.

I wouldn't be surprised. Considering a fair amount of the people who made Fallout NV had a large involvement in developing Skyrim (Despite what Bethesda may claim) we'll likely see it very soon.

Please, please, no. Crossbows, spears, javelins, just NO guns please, it would be extremely out of place

If this series got guns, half of its fanbase would leave. It'd end up just as bad as Fable.

Right about the technology curve except that for whatever reason (probably magic) the ES universe has apparently had a more or less stable technology cap for thousands of years. Not to mention, the fancy armor aside, if TES were to be fallowing a point in actual history it would likely most closely parallel the decline of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the "dark ages".

What technology curve? In Arena there was plate armor, in Daggerfall there was plate armor, in Morrowind there was plate armor, in Oblivion there was plate armor, and in Skyrim there is still plate armor. It's always been there. The most "advanced" thing we have gotten is Crossbows and Dwemer stoof.

If I've ever learned anything from Elder Scrolls, it's that chicks dig my mammoth tusk.

That is actually a acceptable reason for no guns.

Can you really tell me you wouldn't use, at least once, a sword and a pistol?

What about hand crossbows? would you settle for that?

did the armor look exactly like skyrim design and im not going by what the names are

Not really, no. Iron lost the pauldrons, steel is less platey, dwemer is still as random as ever, orcish is "bigger" and ebony is "pointier", glass is now less glassy, and daedric went from stupidly bright red to black and red ala Morrowind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKss2uYpih8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Jg6L16Mzs&feature=related

Of all the inane questions that I've seen so far.... this one takes the taco.

No, I don't and will never want any guns or "19th Century" themes in an alternate universe that's based on epic high fantasy. That's like asking the Fellowship to ride in ironclad warships down the Anduin after leaving Lothlórien.

*earmuffs*

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

OMG, it hurts, no, no no the lore.... no no

Well the ideia is not entirely dumb, as anyone know the dwarven race was the techno-race of TES, and no one knows if they really are dead, they are supposed to be on another realm, so in the next TES the dwemer could began a invasion of tamriel from their plane using their tech with the help of some daedric lord, so the player could not be able to use weapons but dwemer could use it, not the traditional weapons of course, but weapons that fires magic or something similiar. I don't know, this could let the game to be placed in the entire continent, much things to discover and places to visit, but just and ideia. In the past the dwemer was able to contruct automatons why not weapons? And this could be a big chance to introduce a lot new armor and weapons (I'd love to use a spear in the game, mithril armor for example, could be a new kind of armor), more new enemies to (large enemies, largest than giants and mamuth).

But, if the ideia was to bring the TES universe to a "steam age", I agree this will not be so nice for the serie.

Is like Narn some alternate realm of Narnia....

I should have clarified, I thought I had heard there was no political, technological or sociological progression. In twenty-thousand years from now, little should have changed besides "events" and "lore". Ignoring the logic of the game world, we have enough guns in other games. Why make this one just as boring?

There cant be, as Tamriel is not Earth and follows its own rules.

Magic is a fundemental part of the world, and people have learned how to use that to accomplish great feats.
Imperial mananauts have been to the moons, Altmer sunbirds have pierced the Aetherius.
An artificial pocket dimension was constructed and maintained to house the Imperial college of battlemages, the Battlespire.

When it comes to great feats of advancement, you could argue that the people of Tamriel are more advanced than we are on some points, its just that they use magic, not technology.

Even the works of the Dwemer are more technomancy than technology.

You dont really need guns when your army has a batallion of mages blasting fireballs from their staves.

So 19th century England, one of the most developed economies of that era, was medieval. I wonder what one would call, say, Transylvania or rural Russia, or even most of Scandinavia... with or without guns.

I don't really mind the gunpowder, cannons or even the odd Dwemer AK-47, but a magical, open world RPG set in the 18th or 19th century? This sounds like TES: We-ran-out-of-ideas-so-we-hired-Harry-Turtledove...

Why the heck would you want guns in TES?
I like it just the way it is.

Leave that for Fallout. Like Fallout 3 was Oblivion with guns, I'm quite sure Fallout 4 will feel like Skyrim with guns.

That was a cannon from Redguard


I have no problem with medieval cannons, and ven hand cannons, but not muskets or flintlock pistols.