Rumor has it......

So rumor has it that Bethesda's current project in development is the next Elder Scrolls game and will be a direct sequel to Oblivion. The timing makes sense to me as Oblivion was released way back in 2006, but a sequel? I'm not so sure about that part but as long as the player starts with a new character and is in some way imprisoned to begin with, then this will be like the Elder Scrolls we all know and love.


Another part to this rumour is the question: will it be an MMO? I for one hope not, although the Elder Scrolls universe is expansive and could fit right into the mmo genre it would seem from what I'm reading on forums the fans don't wont an mmo conversion. With the mmo market getting crowded and more big titles to come releasing an Elder Scrolls game as an unwonted mmo would be a bad move for Bethesda.


What we do know for sure is that Bethesda has built a new graphics engine for this rather then using id's Tech 5 engine. This would mean we can expect Elder Scrolls 5 will not likely look as good as Rage but will in Bethesda tradition have a very open world environment as opposed to Rage's semi open world environment. Apparently the game is also far into development, Bethesda have said that the time between official announcement to release date will be one of the shortest for the company. 


Personally I'm looking forward to this assuming it's not an mmo, and hopefully the widely disliked enemy scaling will be replaced by something more akin to what's found in Risen where some locations in game are occupied by creatures that are too tough for a low level character. I'd also like to see Bethesda take a leaf out of Mount & Blade when it comes to horse combat. Any mounted combat would be nice!