Anime is a legitimate art form. Anyone who doubts this has never enjoyed works of art like Cowboy Bebop of the incredible movies by Hayao Miyazaki.

I would choose anime one hundred fold over live action. The only really good live action fantasy movie has been Lord of the Rings so far, but I think anime suits Tamriel better. It would be relatively easy to replicate the stylistic appearances of characters and settings in Tamriel in an anime setting.

Of course it's an art form. But on the whole it's pretty bad. Last time I saw people try to make an anime series out of a game it was terrible. Have you seen Halo: Legends?

I think that's more 'law of adaptations" than any sort of statement of anime in general. Then there's what I call the "law of exports." The only anime that gets exported from Japan is the really awesome stuff (like Cowboy bebop and Gurren Lagann) or the REALLY bad stuff. They usually don't export the "average" stuff, as far as I can tell. But I also mentioned two game adaptation animes that were good in my post.

Honestly, I'd rather not have a movie at all, I'm just saying the only way I think it could do the series justice visually is through the anime style.

Yes I have. And the Animatrix, which was actually really good. And Batman: Gotham Knight which was also very good.

I'm sure if Bethesda decided to do this thing they'd hire a really good animation crew to handle it. They wouldn't settle for a poor quality product.

As I remember, Animatrix wasn't even Anime, just animation.

Is Batman: Gothan Knight the one were Bruce learns to not feel pain and the kids tell all the stories of when they saw Batman? How was that good?

Anyways, I'm not going to get anywhere by arguing what's good and what's not...

For the love of God. How did it come to this? People actually considering an Elder Scrolls anime?



...and therefore, if - I say IF - an Elder Scrolls movie is ever made (God forbid) it has to be live action.
As for the "God forbid"-part, I just can't see anyone making an Elder Scrolls movie, and making it good.

So basically, visual style dictates story quality? More or less, if the Bethesda writers were to write something, but it was presented using the general art style associated with anime, it would automatically be bad?

This statement has zero logic. Congratulations. Aside from which, maybe try watching some. There are good ones. I understand opinions differ, but seriously, everything from a particular art style, regardless of writing, acting, visuals, etc.?

Something to read, actually for everyone because off of this forum people tend to act this way about video games:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PublicMediumIgnorance

But I do agree that a TES movie is a bad idea. Then again, I used to think that about novels as well.

I choose anime.

Specifically from the Animatrix, the episode where the kid jumps from the roof of his school. That particular style would be suited for the Lives of the Saints. Unless Kirkbride does the work himself, anime is next best medium. A live action film would take itself far too seriously and the budget would mostly be spent cg imagery. The pen is better suited for this task.

If it had a huge bugdet and the CGI was believable then I wouldn't mind a TES LA, but if not then anime would be a much better meduim as it could depict the more fantastic elements of the world without having to spend millions of dollars on making the argonians look like anything else then dudes in rubber suits. And because of changes in the game industry, it's likely that something will be depicted differently between two games and an anime adaptation will be able to show the general feel and atmosphere of a location/whatever without having to show all the details of it.

I'd say a live action film... After seeing Avatar, it's not utterly unfeesable, whereas an Anime for me, would ruin everything.

The problem is, would anyone be willing to spend that kind of money making a video game adaptation movie? I agree, if they could get that kind of budget, sure, but realistically, I don't know.

I would prefer a TES movie to be animated, but I don't think Anime would do the series justice. It would be great if they used the art style in the http://www.imperial-library.info/rgbooks/page.shtml?-1, but I don't think it would come off as great as it did in the comic.

If we're looking at this 'realistically' there wont be one at all.

Another way it may not be too bad is if they used a cinematic style like that of the Final Fantasy film.

Live action only if is any good.

Oh god, please NO ANIME, if anything, live action with a large budget, or excellent CGI.
Anime would ruin TES.

Live Action
A)Theres a chance it wouldn't be so bad as to end the universe
B)It would be over quicker

I'd prefer an animation, but just not in the anime style.
The idea of The Elder Scrolls, a specifically American video game series, being made into an anime, an 'art' and animation style once specific to Japan but now badly 'copied', seems quite 'naff' to me.
Why would Bethesda choose the style for a film based on their games to be copied from an 'art' style from the other side of the world, when they can produce a film in a local or totally original art style unique to them. The anime style is being used for nearly bloody everything nowadays... only to attract an audience of emos who have a false sense of being intellignet and cultured, and childish sociophobes.
Non Japanese based companys who choose their films to be made in anime style are either lazy, have no imagination, are narrow minded, or think for some reason that anime is the only non live action film medium that is 'mature'. Which is b*ll*cks.
I could go into telling you my opinions on anime, but I don't want to come across as a big headed smart ass (which I assure you i'm definately not)

Apart from that, The Elder Scrolls shouldn't be made into a live action film either, because we'd probably end up with the infamous Uwe Boll butchering our beloved video game series

Anime is weird and I don't like it.

If it was going to be animated, I would definitely prefer a quality anime studio like Bones over a CGI production or western animation studio (dear lord...I still get shudders from that Dragon Lance cartoon...).

That said, I think the style of TES lends itself better to live action, specifically something like a big-budget HBO miniseries such as Rome, etc. TES calls for an epic plot with a lot of world-building, giving us details into the history of the land and whatnot, which would be difficult within the time constraints of a movie.

We'll have to see how the Ice and Fire miniseries turns out...

I like that. I think an HBO miniseries (or something similar) could really do the show justice. It needs to start out humble enough to get us acquainted with the world, its races, and how the world works. Then, as it goes on, the story unfolds, villains, allies, etc. are revealed.

Although, I would not be adverse to an anime in the style of Berserk or something (of course, not as absolutely brutal, but I enjoyed the large army battles and unit tactics employed).

Hmm, a miniseries actually sounds like a much better idea, but like I said the only way to make a live action TES would be with an Avatar-level budget. If it were to be an animated series, hell guys, studio GAINAX! They can do dark and angsty (Evangalion, which is where the fallacy that all anime is dark and angsty comes from) or something idealistic and hot-blooded yet still deep and character-driven, like Gurren Lagann, which is one of the best shows (animated or otherwise) ever and is Evangalion's tonal opposite.

@ nobody in particular: And seriously, why do people seem to think all anime is dark and angsty/emo? We've all seen dark and angsty/emo western shows, but we don't think all of them are that way. Dumbasses.

I can just imagine it now: Vivec and Nerevar, to fight the evil Dagoth Urgenome, jump into the Numidium. Their works cry out "GIGAAAA MANTEELLLAAA BREAKEEERR" as Anumidium is demolished, and Ur crashes to the ground. "GOOOO!" calls out Vehk-and-Vehk, throwing Nerevar. With Sunder and Keening in his grip, he strikes the Heart with all of this might. Dagoth Urgenome vanishes in a Mundus-wide explosion (which doesn't seem to hurt or damage anyone or anything in the vicinity).

I'd watch that show. Oh yeah.

If that's sarcasm, then that's hilarious. if it's not, then it's a wall banger.

I'd have to go with anime. Done by the right studio, with the right writing and right visual style guidance behind it, *coughMKcough,* it could be deep and moving and immensely enjoyable. Whereas live action, to me, generally tends to fall flat when exploring grossly alien concepts with truly unique perspectives and aesthetics.

And a big "lolwut" to all the angsty anime-hatred displayed towards purportedly automatically angsty anime. C'mon, people, it's not automatically DBZ by the medium. I guess Watchmen's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcEo-5so72E was angsty BS too, eh?