worried about another oblivion. First play through was fun, but after that it's pretty much bleh.

I agree, i couldnt really start a new Oblivion because it was just basically all the same stuff. But my worst case scenario would be no TES:V at all, because even one good time through is better than none.

The game starts with you in a Skyrim prison cell. Suddenly, either 1) a god, 2) royalty, or 3) a quirky sidekick releases you. At this point in the tutorial, you can choose whether to use 1) a sword, 2) a bow, or 3) a fireball spell. You can also choose whether to wear 1) no armor, 2) Leather Armor, or 3) Steel Armor. Glass and Daedric can be bought at all shops for 100 gold, they come as full suits of armor. Then, you are asked to join either 1) the Fighting Thieves Guild or 2) the Assassin Mages Guild. Finally, you find out that you are the chosen one, and the god's pooped you out into existence just so you could happen to stop whatever global catastrophe which is threatening all of existence, at least this Tuesday.

My worst nightmare is an MMO. Turning the greatest singleplayer game ever made (imo) into a hollow shell of itself and filling it with dead, static npc's and quests involving rat-killing and boar-hunting would be the end of my interest in the series.

I have to kill thirty boars.


Oops, it seems that upon going to where the boars are, someone named "Darth Vivec LOL" has killed them all. Looks like I'm waiting twenty minutes for a respawn.




No MMO feels epic. Even while raiding, you're doing it with too many other people. I don't want that experience when playing a TES game. I don't really want that experience at all, anymore.

I think the worst case scenario is an average game. A game that is TREMENDOUSLY bad will be at least interesting, but a game that evokes heartbroken sighs from fans would be devastating.

Worst case scenario in line with the other posts? TES5 eventually gets sold in a combined pack with CoD and MW series.

You're born in an underground vault and learn, in school, that Nirn was destroyed by nuclear war three hundred years ago. Then, the overlord of the vault goes crazy and starts killing everyone.

Your childhood sweetheart gives you a gun, but you give it back to her because she needs it more. Or you keep it because you're a [censored].

Then you fight your way through way too many radmudcrabs until you escape the vault.

Your pip boy tells you to go to Megaton. So, you spend the next 30+ hours fighting through hordes of cliffracers until you reach Megaton. Then the credits roll and your disc erases itself so you can't ever play again.

It also sells your credit card number to Microsoft, who sells it to anyone willing to pay 200 Microsoft points.

EDIT: But, the box will state, "go anywhere and do anything."

Never mind.

worst possible scenario-a game that reverts to the basic and uninteresting style of Arena. That, while the pioneer of the series, is just horrible for an Elder Scrolls game.

Didn't even have to read the rest of the post

You sir win this thread

That put many disturbing images in my head.

I put in the disk, install the game, get through the first cutscene, then as soon as it goes to gameplay... ES5 has encountered a problem and needs to close. Send error report?

multiplayer wouldn't actually be that bad, I am not for it, but the game system is basically designed for multiplayer

yeah, and you can unlock prestige mode via which you attain new titles and emblems by beating the game over and over

Whenever you try to speak with an NPC, all they say is "I saw a mudcrab the other day. Nasty creatures!" or "By Azura! By Azura! By Azura!" or "You look like you could really *insert skill name here*" rather than give you pertinent information regarding the quests. Instead of receiving quests from any NPC, you only get them from one character, A. D. Fan, who is constantly surprised by your appearance, despite the fact that you have been in the same room with him the whole time.

The Elder Scrolls V: Modern Warfare

Worst situation? A scene rolls pass of a mighty warrior having an epic battle against a giant troll, just as he lays the final blow and voice is heard "Wake up sleepy head!" the fight scene ends and instead a scene showing a 9 year old kid in bed with his mum trying to wake him up. you get your mission: Go to school.

TES V: Back to the Future with Michael J. Fox. You have to help a battlemage gather ingredients to help make a potion that cures Parkinson's Disease.

The worst case scenario would be TES V=real life but you were limited to eating mudcrab meat for dinner every night and your boss was named Glarthir.

Bethesda thinks everyone likes immense level scaling.

Some of Y'all have been on some good skooma. Where can I get some?

Start New Game
-Type thy Name:
Sorry the game will only display Herman as thy name.
-Choose thy Class:
*Warrior
*Warrior
*Warrior
*Warrior
*Warrior
-Distribute Class Points:
*Strenght 23 [99]
-Choose Major Ability:
*Long Sword
*Shield
-Choose thy Home Region:
*A boat
*A cave
*A prison cell
*Internet

Its the year 72 of the 34Era, Uriel Septim was kidnapped at age 91 when walking in the park, can you save it from evil Aedric god Akatosh? *Static image of Uriel's Face from OB shows him seeing you with a nothing expression* He, our King, our prayer, throwed himself to the Skomma when he died for the 34th time, and he dreamt about you, running with hold hands at the Cyrodiil green fields, and KNOWS that you can kill some gods because youre WARRIOR.
You start in a infinite space full of lollypops and Castles made from chocolate, your first task is to siege the Todd Howard's villa that has gone overrun with Mehrunes Dagon clones irritated for not wearing long pants.

Ahhh, Arena. I wonder how many people here got your joke? I haven't yet played Daggerfall. Does your post make a joke about it too?

You put the disk in, install the game and get to the first cutscene. It's the go compare advert. It plays every go compare advert EVER. Then, it finishes, and goes to you in a prison cell. Guards come and let you out of jail as you've done your time. You get into the the prison office and see a cliff racer out the window. You panic and pick up a fork that was on the table. 100 guards rush in and try to arrest you HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT!
You select go to jail, as you have no money and you'd get slaughtered if you resisted arrest. After a 5 minute loading screen, it shows the new jail in Tamriel...
You see the adoring fan, and he says "Welcome to MMO Modern Warfare 2..."

You install the game and suddenly you click play on the launcher.

"Lord Dagon is being reborn in the 5th era, you must stop him..."

"What is thy name?"



"What is thy class?"



"What is thy race?"



You see a red-skinned, four-armed human. He growls at you. You hit him with your fists and he dies.

"You saved Tamriel!"

The disclusion on Hircine would be a loss for all. :sadvaultboy:

The game starts with an epic intro. Then the game continues with character creation, tutorial, stuff like that. The graphics are awesome, too bad it only runs on the very high-end computers. Stats don't exist in the game, everything is done with mini-games. And by stats, I mean all stats like skills, attributes, everything except for health, magicka and fatigue. Fatigue never goes down, it was very unrealistic in the other games, you know, in Morrowind you even got tired by running, a blasphemy to Nature and Order! Oblivion made it better, but even then the forces of the Universe were outraged because you got tired by jumping! So, yeah, there is Fatigue, but it's realistic this time, it never goes down! You can do 9999999999999 push-ups you will still have energy to fight a whole army after it! You can make poisons in the game, you even have poisoned apples, poisoned wines, poisoned everything! This is to make the game appealing for ignorant svcke... err, I mean intelligent people, with college degrees! The dialogues are all voice-acted, although there's only two voice actors: Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean. They are perfectly enough. The physics are amazing, you can throw stuff around! Too bad it doesn't do anything, but at least there's the option!
So, I think this is enough to deduce that the fifth installment of the Elder Scrolls series is the best in the whole series, probably the best RPG ever! Who cares about games like Planescape: Torment or Baldur's Gate I-II, this is much more accesible for the masses! At least, it will be in two years time, when computers that are able to run this game will have a payable cost! The reviews are already singing odes about this game, no, this piece of Art! A quote from one such review from a shi... excellent gaming magazine: "Graphics are good, Gameplay is good, Story is excellent, almost too complex for a mere mortal to comprehend, the big and bad daedra could have been less big and less bad and there should have been quests where you have to kill 20 wolves, but nothing can be perfect! Rating: 99.999999999999999999999%"

The worst thing that could happen is if Elder Scrolls V is even more dumbed down than Oblivion so the game can reach a broader playing community.

I really hope that Bethesda reads the forums takes their fans' opinions.