Elder Scrolls 5 May Be a Direct Sequel to Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls 5 is rumored to be a direct sequel to Oblivion.
Eurogamer Denmark reports that Bethesda Game Studios is currently working on The Elder Scrolls 5. However unlike Bethesda's previous four installments, the new addition is supposedly a direct sequel to the latest chapter, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, which was released back in 2006 for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
"This source not only confirmed that the game is in current production, but also spoke briefly about the content--with fantasy-sounding phrases like Dragon Lord, something with The Blades--and that voice acting for the characters in the game is currently happening in the weeks to follow," said Eurogamer Denmark Editor-in-chief Kristian West who translated his story for Eurogamer.
"The same source confirmed, with official game documents in hand, that this will be the chronological sequel to what happened in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, which is the latest game in the now 16-years-old Elder Scrolls saga and by itself one of the better RPGs for PC and consoles," West added.
Bethesda Game Studios admitted back in August that its 90 or more staff members had been working on an Elder Scrolls title over the past two years. It was believed that Bethesda would follow the same pattern by releasing stand-alone chapters, however now it seems that the studio has decided to break the tradition.
During QuakeCon 2010 this summer executive producer Todd Howard said that the studio's current title would be announced soon, but didn't actually pinpoint a specific timeframe. "One thing I can say is that from when you first hear about it to when it's out will be the shortest it's been for us," he admitted. "It's pretty far along. When we show it, we want to show a lot, because there's a lot of game there to play right now."
Howard indicated that the new title will look and perform incredibly well on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. "You almost feel like you have a new console when you see the game," he said.
if anything please a new engine! I hate that one they used for morrowind/oblivion
If its out on consoles I can't see it being massively overhauled. Possible that they might tweak it a bit more from fallout which was a big improvement from Oblivion but fallout was sometimes graphically buggy which was a shame (More than I remember Oblivion being). Also fallout had some nice mechanics which would be nice to see. Hope they completely redo the levelling system too. I guess using the same engine is why they're doing a direct sequel rather than a total new game. TBH I'm slightly disappointed at that, Cyrodiil was unimpressive compared Morrowind. Morrowind felt like it had far more unique locations.
The one thing I hope they bring into TES V that TES IV had was the little colllectible in-game book series that you could collect and read. There were so many sets of books you could find and collect just to get a bit of history on cyrodil and in some instances morrowwind. The in-game lore stories were a treat to read. I wonder if the previous TES games had that too.
Oh well guess I gotta add another game(TES V) to the "waiting" list.
I wish they were, Bethesda has a terrible track record of buggy games.