Bethesda clarifies MMO claims, Elder Scrolls V statements

I really hope they change the leveling system. I hate that every enenmy is exactly the same level as you, so you never get ahead and you never get behind. You just set the difficulty down to easy and rape everything in the game instantaneously.

i hope they change stats too, running with 100 athletics is not a pretty sight.

I'd rather have it play like Oblivion where the enemies leveled up with you to keep a balance and let you strategize a way to defeat them. In morrowind with the enemies preset to levels once I got super powerful i was killing them with one swing.

Either way I can't want to see what they pull together next game.

I'm kind of on the fence with enemy scaling. I do like the idea of the game always being challenging, but at the same time it removes the feeling of progression.. I liked that in Morrowind you'd eventually be super powerful, to the point where you could even take out a God.

The compass, fast traveling and random loot definitely need to go though. They killed any sense of exploration and adventuring.

Enemy scaling was just crap for an RPG. Why have a world to explore if nothing is going to eat you unless you're low on health? Half the fun in RPGs is exploring areas that you find have high level creatures and loot. The scaling was incredibly dumb, and probably one of the biggest reasons Oblivion got so much hate.

Well, I think they fixed some of these problems in Fallout 3. The leveling is there, but not quite as drastic. At low levels raiders can take you out if you're not careful. At around level 15, you start blowing their heads off in one shot. It still took me a while to kill deathclaws at level 21.

I think they also got fast travel right in Fallout. Once you find a place, you can travel there. If you haven't found it yet, you have to walk.

These are easily things they can incorporate into the next ES.

As for the leveling system, I think that will have to be similar,. because that is kind of what makes it an ES game. I love that using your sword makes you better at using your sword. But leveling up your character is definitely not intuitive, so I expect some changes...

I liked the morrowind system where you had to be very careful in certain areas when you were a low level because the enemies there would be way tougher than you were but the loot there was far more valuable than anything you had.

You cannot sleep in an owned bed. That's why you kill the guy first.

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You sir have a disturbed mind... and I like it :D

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I have morrowind on steam, just got crossover on my macbook, but for some reason MORROWIND WON'T LAUNCH.

Arena and Daggerfall are free man, there's no need for them to be on the XBLA.

For the next Elder Scrolls, it better go back to its Morrowind roots of unique environments, a non-crappy DarnUI style interface and more factions like the Great Houses. Oblivion was pretty horrid until the enchancement mods showed up.

I know, if you read above you would see that I have been running Daggerfall. I would not mind playing a non-buggy version of this or Arena on XBLA for some achievements. ID made money on their games, time for Beththesda to do the same. I would love a remastered version.

To each their own. Morrowind is bigger than Oblivon, Daggerfall bigger than that. I think the turn-off for many is the sheer scope and freedom of the games. Always a good idea to start with thieve's guild quest. These missions teach you essential skills and afford an opportunity to make a lot of septims early.

Yeah New Vegas is gonna rock, playing poker with Mutant Hookers and snorting lines of CroKane

Yeah I agree, guy said "Don't expect it anytime soon" and some people read that as "It's not in the works." Two completely different things.

I agree and so do many Scrolls fans I know. Co-op would be nice maybe up to a small party tops. No need for an mmo. The game may still maintain its historical feel with a party assisting a main character. An mmo does not fit the universe. I could say that choosing a guild or house would be the way you might pick a class but it limits the historical scope of the game. The plot of all the games is that the player is fulfilling a prophecy laid out in an elder scroll. Not shit ton of dudes like in wow. I think Fallout is a better fit than the tameriel for an mmo. Fallout I would be all-over.

ye thats right

Exactly. I would have always assumed The Elder Scrolls V wouldn't surface until the next console generation started. Unfortunately, it is becoming more and more evident that it won't be happening for a long, long time. 2012 at the absolute earliest. That is a mighty long wait for some Elder Scrolls, especially if the team has ideas and the fans are clamoring for TESV.

Enough time has passed that you'd expect another game by now, the planets just haven't aligned though, as you'd also be expecting all three companies to be announcing next-gen hardware too. I'm still hoping Bethesda is developing TESV for current console and PC hardware, just because I'm dying to play something new from the series. I'm sure they could still push something impressive out of PS360 while still keeping things fresh. Maybe just add that extra bit of stylization. I'm keen on waiting for the next cycle if I have to though, I still fondly remember being floored by Oblivions initial gameplay footage on the OXM discs and would love to feel that again.