Rumor: Bethesda Making Direct Sequel to Oblivion

[thethingthatlurks]

Uhm...k? Look, I love me my TESs as much as the next nerd, but Oblivion isn't exactly something worth aspiring to. I like to think of it as the hot blonde from high school: great looking, but oh so fucking shallow, obsessed with idiotic things, uncultured, and she'll be dead and forgotten (drunk driving accident) after ten years. Why yes, I hated high school...

A number of things would HAVE to get fixed:
-Scaling enemies
-Stop right there, psychic guards
-Main story
-And:

How many voice actors will they have this time? 4?

Why yes, that would be a 400% increase if I am not mistaken.

 

[Shale_Dirk]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pleeeease

Move support with nav-control/mocap hybrid left hand, mocap right hand.

ability to use a shield and strafe at the same time, cast spells (a la Sorcery) or attack w/right hand. It would have working archery and crouching would activate sneaking. Plus with the body tracking, you could lean around corners and...

*sigh*. It won't happen. I really gotta get on making that nav-control/mocap hybrid and selling the design back to Sony

 

[microwaviblerabbit]

I personally wanted to go to the Black Marsh...
Well, Skingrad had better be fixed!

Blue Lantern?

OT: Black marsh would be sorta cool. Maybe a world where all the racism is directed at the humans not the lizard men.

Oh yes please, it's time for the Argonians to kick ass and chew bubblegum

Also if the rest are like my elite super thief its going to be a pretty awesome/dangerous place to live.

Indeed. Any country where the citizens, and even the trees themselves, worship the god of death (Sithis), things are gonna' be dangerous. Things like the Hist would be out in the wild, along with swamp dwelling dragon creatures (Wamasii), werecrocodiles (WERECOROCDILES!) and giant bird things (Hackwings).

Not to mention the river tube/tunnel thing they use for transport (The Underground express) - if that was the quick travel system that would be awesome.

 

[Zer_]

I hope they use id's Tech 5 engine instead of the shitty Gambryo engine.

 

[blankedboy]

A direct sequel?.. really?..

This just sucks... Oblivion is the flatest, dullest 'rpg' I've ever played.. and now we're getting 'more of the same'.

definate no buy.

Yeah. I'll buy it out of the hope it'll be like Morrowind, but if it continues the current trend, I'll be very dissapointed with this dev.

Noooooo! What about Skyrim! Or the Black Marsh! Or....that....island that I forgot the name of...

Summerset Isle, I believe.

I'd want Black Marsh personally. Cyrodiil became a tad boring after a while. There just weren't enough varied content in it, like it was in Morrowind (Dwemer ruins, Daedra, random caves, mining caves, ancestral tombs... You get the idea).

Hopefully Black Marsh wouldn't just be... A marsh, you know. In Morrowind, when you were trecking along the way to some city, you could find something that piqued your interest. Small, insignificant at fist, maybe just a cave. Turns out there were slavers there, or some cult. You kill them and find some great equipment or something else of value.

Experiences like that makes the game come alive, and that was something Oblivion didn't acheive. Seen one Aylied ruin, seen them all.

Agreed. And Summerset Isle is far too small to base a game in... the Black Marsh would be interesting, but I think it should include two lands. Preferably Elsweyr and Valenwood, that'd be badass.

 

[Piction Froject]

Ok here's my list of thing to fix and add to for the next Elder Scrolls Game.
1. Much longer Guild Quests, i could finish all the guilds in about 12 hours if I played several at a time also they didn't seem to actually make an impact on your character or the game except you got some renown from other characters.
2. More boss battles, sure there were a few and some places were like bosses themselves but I personally want to fight a god or whatever those statues were of that I did quests for.
3. Better customization of weapons. I want to actually have the ability to enchant a weapon to the extremes and then go out and just wreak havoc upon the the imperial city or just mess with the dark brotherhood.
4. Make the difficulty modify itself to suit my character's strength.
5. Change the NPC's so they act more human and don't constantly give you that death stare.
6. Make the shops change their stock to fit your character level and accomplishments, cause I had the same stuff in the same shop when I hit level 20 and only got half decent equipment from NPC's that I killed(who usually were part of my guild)
7. Add some things to the Arena, like maybe being able to choose the NPC you want to battle then bet on them, or do like a fight night thing where you could train them. Also don't allow us to kill the Grand Champion so easily just from doing some quest.
8. Vary the number of ways to enter and exit a dungeon. add some new traps to the dungeons to make them a little more interesting to navigate...I'm thinking lava pool, with a monster you have to fight while crossing. Just a thought.
9. There will need to be legendary weapons of each type of fighting style. You know one for bare hands, swords, staffs, bows and arrows, mace's, axe's, maybe gun's? also legendary armor for both heavy and light, only accessible to those who have one as a main attribute, also a legendary shield. All these need to actually be worthwhile, maybe even needed to fight a final boss?
10. Ability to gather a army(fable like) who you can use at certain points in the game, maybe even set some as a rank like a lieutenant. Cause i could do some damage with a group made of a dark brotherhood assassin, a mages guild mage, fighter, theif, I mean I mean making groups would be even better.
11. A story that will put Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion to shame.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

I don't care what it is, just give me more Elder Scrolls.

 

[Necrofudge]

I do hope this is a lie.
I would love the idea of a new Elder Scrolls game, but a direct sequel seems stupid. I'd much rather have a new area of Tamriel to explore rather than sitting around in Cyrodiil again. Hell, I'd even be willing to go back to Vvardenfell (assuming a lot has changed since the god leaders are all either dead or mortal now) and the rest of Morrowind at this point.

 

[djw175]

I was under the impression that it was set 200 years in the future. Maybe I'm insane. Scratch that, definately.

 

[GodofCider]

A sequel to Morrowind would be even better

Agreed.

 

[Warthur]

I am absolutely and completely baffled as to why all you guys think "direct sequel" means "the exact same place".

The Empire Strikes Back was a direct sequel to Star Wars. It didn't revisit Tattooine or the original Death Star.

 

[Jossu]

Bethesda has fooled us before. TES5 could be a FPS in modern day Britain for all we know.
So yes, don't judge it simply by the wordings 'direct sequel.'

 

[cybran]

no.. nononononononnono, bethesda, dont do this. Now you're shooting yourself in the foot. most players want a NEW gameworld with a NEW story. Dont continue on the bullshit storyline in oblivion.

Oblivion was great because it had great new graphics, and alot better gameplay than Morrowing had. The gameworld or the story wasn't half as good as the one morrowind had. So if you're going to use the same gameworld while continuingthe same story I will be VERY disappointed. Cause I dont see you guys brining much new to the table in terms of graphics and gameplay this time around.

But I guess you might surprise me. But if this turns out to be some generic sequel to oblivion that didn't require any effort at all, then the elder scrolls series is dead to me.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

I hope we see something about it soon or get information. I can only play so much Morrowind and Oblivion, even with a million mods installed.

I'll also need a sweet computer when it comes out. No way will I buy a console version when I could get a bunch of awesome mods, and my laptop can barely run Oblivion properly. I can't wait!

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I want to do and say something that I don't normally.

And that is,....

"SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!"

*cough* Thank you.

 

[Adamc-mh]

I've fought mudcrabs more compelling than...what this dude says.

Eh...someone had to fit that in here somehow.

You sir, you made me lol :L

 

[Argtee]

A sequel to Morrowind would be even better

I agree!

I am still excited that there's going to be a new Elder Scrolls game, but I'd much rather have a sequel to Morrowind than Oblivion.

Still, I'm excited!

 

[DayDark]

The eurogamer person has translated it into chronological sequel so I believe that is what he meant.

 

[geldonyetich]

You mean Fallout 3 and New Vegas weren't direct sequels? Could have fooled me.

 

[Sneaky Paladin]

How many voice actors will they have this time? 4?

WHOA doubling the amount of voice actors? Good on Bethesda.


Also. I want any new place as long as it isn't Black Marsh or Cyrodiil. Something colorful.