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Elder Scrolls 5 Rumor

Eurogamer.net points to Eurogamer Denmark where there's a rumor that Bethesda Softworks is currently developing the fifth installment in their Elder Scrolls series of role-playing games. They have a translation of the report from Eurogamer Denmark editor-in-chief Kristian West, who offers an English version of the report, though this doesn't provide much clarity on their source for the rumor. "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," goes the translation. "The same source confirmed, with official game documents in hand, that this will be the chronological sequel to what happened in The Elder Scrolls IV: 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."

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8. Re: Elder Scrolls 5 Rumor Nov 23, 2010, 11:31 Beamer
 
Oblivion got too repetitive (closing gate after gate), the designers decision to level the majority of all creatures and NPCs with the players was terrible, and all the caves were generically identical.

But you didn't need to close gate after gate. In fact, if I remember you only needed to close one.

Not that I'm disagreeing entirely. I got lost in gate closing, too. I first broke the game by building a suit of armor 125% chameleon, making the game pointless as nothing could ever see me (something people here thought I was an idiot for complaining about, but it let me break the game), then I spent hours going into all these stupid gates closing them to be some kind of sick completionist, in part for experience and in part for the random reward you got (which was never worth a damn), and I never made it past here. The game ground to an entire halt until I got sick of it.

Much like letting me break the game, letting me become such a completionist that I got bored seems like a game design mistake. Yeah, most people would do the smart thing and not bother, I bothered until I was sick.

Those two points did some serious damage to the game for me, but are my only real complaints. Other than that I loved the whole thing. Yeah, the creatures leveling with you was annoying but I was ok with it. Yeah, the NPCs not leveling with monsters was insanely annoying (haha, they just kept "passing out," standing up, and "passing out" again), yeah the infinitely identical caves as a bit of a bummer, but the overall product was way, way more than the sum of its parts.
 
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