I can only imagine both things would turn out really really bad. I don't really know, i don't want any of them but if i had to chose i think i will go with the live action. A TES anime just wouldn't feel right. On the other hand, if i had to chose between Live action and a regular Cartoons (with some nice CGI), i would most definitely chose the cartoon.

If the movie was done by Uwe Boll I would cry, cry,and cry some more. And possibly give up on TES.

Anime with good voice acting.

Anime is unbearable, thereign lies my answer.

Better they make a terrible anime that I have no inclination to see rather than a terrible live action which I might weaken and view.

so what do i choose? the rope or the gun?

If there was an anime , which I hope they just stick to books and games. If I see a moe side arc , will we go insane. Heck I love moe but not in my TES!

I guess I'd vote for live action.


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I think anyone from any video game franchise ever would have most of its fanbase cry of they learned Mr. Boll was making a movie. Although I think Bethesda are smarter than that and care too much for their flagship series to inflict that man on it.


Uh... I keep hearing that, what is "moe?" Aside from a lovable side-character on The Simpsons?

I choose option C

©Suicide by neck stabbing

live Action, no question in my opinion. Nothing against anime, but I got out of that stuff when i was 12 or so...

I've seen some pretty atrocious anime.

That said, I do think that the TES world would translate fairly well to tat medium...but even better to live action. As long as the artistic direction is chosen correctly (Lord of the Rings > Avatar) it would prolly be pretty cool.

So have I. The thing is, I've also seen good ones. And bad live action (my god, my god, have I seen some baaaaaaad live action). But you yourself said my other response:


I think IF TES were ever made into a movie, no matter what medium it was the art direction would be the biggest thing, both for writers and actors and directors/animators.

But then again, this is all just "what-if."

Another reason I think any sort of TES animation of any style (eastern or western) would be ideal is because of the reasons I first stated of it being easier to get across for less money, but also for a more selfish one. I am sick of people assuming that all animation is just kiddie movies (a phenomenon known as the Animation Age Ghetto) because it limits the artistic vision of people who want to make animated films with serious stories but run into hurdles because producers will either force them to make it live action or force them to change it to be kid-friendly. It's really a pain in the ass.

Live action if the resources of the modern film studio and lore of the series are properly utilized. Anime is just atrocious.

I'm choosing the gun and a cyanide capsule(choice c in this thread).

Man, you guys are really gonna have kittens when the Elder Scrolls comic book comes out.

... http://www.imperial-library.info/rgbooks/cyrus_index.shtml

There are many good and some great anime series out there.

All game movies so far svcked real hard.

You do the math.



But a great, epic TES movie would be a dream come true. An impossible dream unfortunately... :sadvaultboy:

I think I would go for the next level, have a MO-Cap team do it in the same magnitude of the Beowulf movie. That way everything from the fauna to Corprus could be realized without mixing CGI with human actors, and let's face it, with what we have left of human actors to do it, unless they are truly Morrowind fans, it would be terrible. It could get the Guillermo Del Toro treatment, but honestly, again, the budget would kill it.

Even if lovers of the Resident Evil games thought the storyline flat, they couldn't argue that the MO-Cap for RE:Degeneration was poorly done. Something like a Morrowind or Oblivion movie, would need this type of medium. Imagine watching the blight infected cutting off their own flesh, eating it, and having the cut area grow back deranged. Yeah, Mo-Cap/3D.

Anime wise the only person I would trust with this would be Studio Ghibli, and while they can do bloody and dark, they might miss something when it eventually would be put into Lassiter's hands for the American audience.

No...better to have Zemekis, Gaiman(who'd probably love the work), and that 3D team do it.

There used to a CGI animated series called http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LpHlB302t8 that had a very Elder Scrolls feel to it (or at least it felt that way when I was hung over on weekend mornings, watching it) - so if it was going to be animated, I'd want it that style. The Boewulf CGI movie was surprisingly good.

I think a live action film would be much better, though - and these days with digital cinematography, it needn't be horrifically expensive. Hmmm. Reminds me: I need to check out that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewBIp8uv58I film.

A character with cuteness , innocence , kinda clutzy and just plain welll ..... look it up.

Does sound out-of-place in any TES thing, game, anime, whatever.

Mocap CGI actually sounds like the ideal. Being TES is a video game series and Beowulf looked very much like a video game cutscene for two hours (which I consider a compliment).

I'm going to do my best not to get involved in the mudslinging coming from the crowd that never watched any anime other than pokemon, DBZ, or Sailor Moon, but I really can't help making some comment on it. I think TengenToppa was more on target than anyone else in the thread, to this point. I'm astounded at how many RPG fans can reduce the entirety of a medium to singular stereotypes, in light of how often that same thing happens to their own medium.

All things said, I'd prefer an animated film, and I'd also prefer style of animation that draws more on the look of the games, especially on what Morrowind looks like with all the visual mods out today. It's simply the Elder Scroll look I'm most used to. But personal preferences aside, I'd rather see them outsource the animation to a Japanese studio. Why? I can't remember the last time I saw a good serious, 2D animated film handled by a western studio. Sadly, it seems like they've abandoned that for 3D cg. I'd rather have a stylized look than the uncanny valley effect, which would require a much larger budget. I'm sure there's some exception I'm missing, but I digress...

As for the film itself, I'd like to see a series of short original stories, rather than attempting an adaptation of one of the games. Kind of a format along the lines of Heavy Metal, without the cheese factor obviously, before some [censored] complains about that.

I know right just like they tried and failed at halo legends

The above. Even if they did an Anime, Id watch it. But its not something I would prefer. Live action is the lesser of two evils here.

As much as I like anime, I'd hate to see an Elder Scrolls anime. Now an animated film done in the traditional styles of Titan A.E., Atlantis, and so on, then yeah, I could see it happening, and possibly liking it. As for a live action film, as long as neither Fox nor Uwe Boll got their putrid hands on it, I'd be fine with it, provided the special effects weren't that of a Syfy channel original movie, like Dungeons and Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God.