[starbug]

Well according to http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=277273&site=cvg Elder scrolls 5 is in production and is going to be a direct sequel to Oblivion.

"Voice acting work for the game's characters is apparently being carried out at we speak."

"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,"


If this proved true i will be doing my happy dance as i love the elder scrolls games.

[General Battuta]

Seems like it's running on Gamebryo again instead of Id Tech 5.

Writing it off as a no-buy if that's so.

[Ransom]

To be honest I wrote it off on the principle that it is a Bethesda game but Gamebryo certainly doesn't help

[Herra Tohtori]

stop right there criminal scum

nobody breaks the law on my watch

I'm confiscating your stolen goods

now pay your fine or it's off to jail

[Nemesis6]

Seems like it's running on Gamebryo again instead of Id Tech 5.

Writing it off as a no-buy if that's so.

Why the obsession with ID Tech 5?  

Also, rumors.

[General Battuta]

Seems like it's running on Gamebryo again instead of Id Tech 5.

Writing it off as a no-buy if that's so.

Why the obsession with ID Tech 5? 

No obsession at all. Zenimax Media, which owns Bethesda, recently acquired id. They announced that they would be leveraging the cutting-edge Id Tech 5 engine across their subsidiaries, including Bethesda. Many were hopeful that this meant the end of Bethesda's terrifyingly bad, immersion-destroying, glitchtacular implementation of the ancient, abandoned Gamebryo engine.

No such luck, apparentl.

[Nemesis6]

Ohhh yeah. Would actually be pretty interesting to see the megatexture technology being utilized. Oblivion had some problems with LODs, distant land textures, even when somewhat mended with higher resolution textures and such, so that would have been an obvious plus.

I always liked Oblivion, mostly for its modding potential. The stuff some people made for it, just insane!

[Topgun]

Gamebyro is so buggy it borders on the ridiculous and idTech 5 will probably be open source eventually.

EDIT: While it seems that they won't be using id tech, they won't be using gamebyro either

Bethesda Game Director Todd Howard explained in a separate interview with IGN that his game would not use id Tech 5. The studio's new engine built for its upcoming title is more beneficial to creating huge, open-world games, such as Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, while id Tech 5 is better for more contained environments.

"We decided to really reboot our technology after Fallout 3, so we had been making plans for that and started doing some things. The id thing came along later, so it's a mix of that plus the kinds of games we do are a bit bigger and more dynamic.

~
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/111/1112467p1.html

[NGTM-1R]

It's a no-buy for me since it follows off Oblivion. Which was the worst Elder Scrolls game ever made. If you're not going to blank-slate I'm not going to blank-slate you.

[Turambar]

as long as you can mod the everliving **** out of it, it'll turn out decent in the end

[Nemesis6]

as long as you can mod the everliving **** out of it, it'll turn out decent in the end

Indeed. Qarl's 3.0 Parallaxed texture mod, for example, made the game look quite nice.

[Grizzly]

I found that Oblivion and Fallout 3 kinda required mods to be actually fun for me. Which is a problem.

[Topgun]

Yeah oblivion (and even Morrowind) just suck without mods. I won't buy V until someone has made a smooth leveling mod and a static world mod.