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    Bethesda Softworks is an American publisher responsible for franchises like The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom, and more. Previously a part of Zenimax Media, Bethesda was purchased by Microsoft in September 2020.

    What is Bethesda Softworks working on?

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    #1  Edited By Vinny_Says

    I went to their website and only saw Rage, Brink, Demon's forge(?) and Fallout new Vegas as games "in development". But all of those games are developed by id, splash damage, inxile, and Obsidian. Are they just going to stop working on games and let their purchased studios do all the games from now on? Are they working on sequels to Elder Scrolls? Fallout? Did I miss an announcement?

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    #3  Edited By Adamsons

    It better fucking be TES.

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    #4  Edited By gingertastic_10

    Hopefully a new bowling game.

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    #5  Edited By Vinny_Says
    @InfamousBIG: ha!! I would actually like to see a new IP even if it's oblivion-like. Maybe set in Africa, or Aztec mexico
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    @blacklabeldomm: Yeah.  I wouldn't mind another TES game, though.  But a new IP like you mentioned would be bueno.
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    #7  Edited By GunslingerPanda

    Elder Scrolls V. Wasn't it accidentally confirmed in the synopsis of the new book(which is average, btw)?

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    #8  Edited By Paulus

    Personally i'm hoping for an id tech 5 based elder scrolls. Hopefully quakecon will shed some light on on this question...

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    #9  Edited By Thegerman
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    #10  Edited By Vinny_Says
    @Thegerman: Isn't that being developed by Interplay?
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    @Thegerman: Interplay is working on that one.
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    #12  Edited By MysteriousBob
    @Thegerman: Not being made by them. 
     
    I want Fallout 4. Screw Elder Scrolls, there's enough fantasy RPGs in the world.
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    #13  Edited By damswedon

    Where's Wally? 2

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    I would like a Morrowind remake with pretty new graphics and better AI. Assuming that TES V will never happen.

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    #15  Edited By Vinny_Says
    @hematurge said:
    " I would like a Morrowind remake with pretty new graphics and better AI. Assuming that TES V will never happen. "
    Will they fix the thing in that game that lets you beat it in 7 minutes?
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    @blacklabeldomm: Wouldn't  be Morrowind if they did.
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    #17  Edited By KingdomKey
    @MysteriousBob said:
    " @Thegerman: Not being made by them.  I want Fallout 4. Screw Elder Scrolls, there's enough fantasy RPGs in the world. "
    And there isnt enough post-apocalyptic games huh?
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    #18  Edited By Vinny_Says
    @KingdomKey said:
    " @MysteriousBob said:
    " @Thegerman: Not being made by them.  I want Fallout 4. Screw Elder Scrolls, there's enough fantasy RPGs in the world. "
    And there isnt enough post-apocalyptic games huh? "
    name 10...
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    #19  Edited By KingdomKey
    @blacklabeldomm said:

    " @KingdomKey said:

    " @MysteriousBob said:
    " @Thegerman: Not being made by them.  I want Fallout 4. Screw Elder Scrolls, there's enough fantasy RPGs in the world. "
    And there isnt enough post-apocalyptic games huh? "
    name 10... "
    i could easily if sequels count...and thats just off the top.=) Point is, Post-apocalyptic games are  getting tired. Not saying the fantasy setting isnt tho.
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    #20  Edited By Vinny_Says
    @KingdomKey: please do...I could really go for a game like that right now, any help would be appreciated.
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    #21  Edited By aaron_sK
    @blacklabeldomm said:

    " @KingdomKey said:

    " @MysteriousBob said:
    " @Thegerman: Not being made by them.  I want Fallout 4. Screw Elder Scrolls, there's enough fantasy RPGs in the world. "
    And there isnt enough post-apocalyptic games huh? "
    name 10... "
    Hehe... you must have forgotten which site you were on. This is GB, dude, they got lists for all that shiat: 
     
    http://www.giantbomb.com/apocalypse/92-4640/     
     
    ^ There's 36. 
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    #22  Edited By alternate

    They always deflect when asked about TES.  I think it is one of those poorly kept industry secrets - like Twisted Metal but they are not liars like Jaffe :D - but until is goes official it remains like that.

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    #23  Edited By thatfrood
    @blacklabeldomm said:
    " @KingdomKey said:
    " @MysteriousBob said:
    " @Thegerman: Not being made by them.  I want Fallout 4. Screw Elder Scrolls, there's enough fantasy RPGs in the world. "
    And there isnt enough post-apocalyptic games huh? "
    name 10... "
    Stalker SOTC
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    Metro 2033
    Fallout 1
    Fallout 2
    Fallout 3
    Gears of War 1
    Gears of War 2
    Gears of War 3
    Darksiders
    Rage
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    #24  Edited By Vinny_Says
    @aaron_sK: thank you! Should I check out Metro 2033? This site really is awesome!
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    #25  Edited By Gabriel
    @blacklabeldomm said:
    " @KingdomKey said:
    " @MysteriousBob said:
    " @Thegerman: Not being made by them.  I want Fallout 4. Screw Elder Scrolls, there's enough fantasy RPGs in the world. "
    And there isnt enough post-apocalyptic games huh? "
    name 10... "
    Fallout 3 
    Fallout New Vegas 
    Rage 
    Mad Max  
    Left for Dead 1 and 2 
    Dead Rising  2 
    Darksiders 
    Metro 2033-and 2034 
    Various S.T.A.L.K.E.R games
    Half Life 2
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    #26  Edited By grilledcheez
    @MysteriousBob said:
    " Screw Elder Scrolls, there's enough fantasy RPGs in the world. "
    Go to HELL
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    #27  Edited By Vinny_Says
    @Gabriel: thank you. Will check out metro 2033 
    @ThatFrood: thanks! Metro 2033 is coming up a lot
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    #28  Edited By Jimbo

    It has to be an Elder Scrolls game right?  Oblivion was far too successful to just drop the franchise entirely, but they obviously made the right call in postponing development to concentrate on Fallout 3 - I assume that's what happened at least.
     
    There are now two big franchises for that style of RPG and they own both of them.  My guess is a new TES game for next year, but because they are their own competition, they will keep it under wraps until Fallout Vegas is out of the way.

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    #29  Edited By aaron_sK

    Look at it this way: they took four years between Morrowind and Oblivion, and six years between Daggerfall and Morrowind. It takes a little bit of time to build a game that take you flipping years to finish. 

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    #30  Edited By nickux

    Yeah I remembered thinking the same thing awhile back. It makes me nervous because we haven't really heard much of anything since the last of the Fallout 3 DLC shipped. The real bummer is when they eventually announce it- we'll likely be waiting a year or more after that until it comes out.

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    #31  Edited By Vinny_Says
    @nickux said:
    " Yeah I remembered thinking the same thing awhile back. It makes me nervous because we haven't really heard much of anything since the last of the Fallout 3 DLC shipped. The real bummer is when they eventually announce it- we'll likely be waiting a year or more after that until it comes out. "
    but wouldn't it be so awesome if they pulled a xbox360s and said it was shipping the week after. I would litterally shit my pants.
    But secrets are poorly kept in this industry so my pants are safe for now
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    #32  Edited By ProfessorEss
    @Fragstoff said:

    " something really buggy  "

    ...but so awesome you won't even care.
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    #33  Edited By Vinny_Says
    @ProfessorEss said:
    " @Fragstoff said:

    " something really buggy  "

    ...but so awesome you won't even care. "
    The bugs make their games weird and awesome at the same time
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    #34  Edited By Soulglove

    You say you looked at their site, but you didn't bother looking in their jobs listings? They are looking for people familiar with the Elder Scrolls 4 construction set. Take that as you will.

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    #35  Edited By Vinny_Says
    @Soulglove said:
    " You say you looked at their site, but you didn't bother looking in their jobs listings? They are looking for people familiar with the Elder Scrolls 4 construction set. Take that as you will. "
    Didn't they use the same construction set for fallout 3?
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    #36  Edited By Soulglove
    @blacklabeldomm said:
    " @Soulglove said:
    " You say you looked at their site, but you didn't bother looking in their jobs listings? They are looking for people familiar with the Elder Scrolls 4 construction set. Take that as you will. "
    Didn't they use the same construction set for fallout 3? "
    Like I said, you can take that how you want. Either they are making another Elder Scrolls, another Fallout, or something similar with the same construction set. I always thought they should tackle the Shadowrun universe and make an open world game from that.
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    something new would be awesoem

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    #38  Edited By stoppre

    Elder Scrolls...

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    #39  Edited By Dr_VonBoogie

    I'm sure they'll announce a Elder Scrolls game soon. Then when they do you can start waiting 2 years just to play it. Hopefully they're developing a new game engine to run it.

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    #40  Edited By armaan8014
    @InfamousBIG said:

    "   

    "
    Thank You!
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    #41  Edited By Supermarius
    @blacklabeldomm said:
    " I went to their website and only saw Rage, Brink, Demon's forge(?) and Fallout new Vegas as games "in development". But all of those games are developed by id, splash damage, inxile, and Obsidian. Are they just going to stop working on games and let their purchased studios do all the games from now on? Are they working on sequels to Elder Scrolls? Fallout? Did I miss an announcement? "
    Bethesda Softworks is actually the name of Bethesda's recent publishing business. It doesn't make games of its own, its just their 3rd-party publisher part. Apparently their in-house developer bit is called Bethesda Studios. It doesnt seem to have its own website but I beleive it is commonly known it is working on a new elder scrolls.
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    #42  Edited By ArbitraryWater

    The unanounced but inevitable Elder Scrolls V. That, or a poorly conceived Elder Scrolls MMO meant to compete with World of Warcraft.

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    #43  Edited By Supermarius
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    #44  Edited By MrKlorox

    Another Vampire the Masquerade game, perhaps? Who's got that license right now anyway?
     
    @Supermarius said:

    " Was googling Bethesda publishing and stumbled across the "No Mutants Allowed" forums again. Man. There is no worse videogamer in the world than a hardcore Interplay Fallout 1 & 2 fan.  They hate fallout 3 and Bethesda so much it's insane. It looks like some sort of parody forum, but its not.
     http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=732381&sid=2a0a14efb770c5609cb66defaceab1ab "
    It's fun to talk shit about people behind their backs, isn't it? You're an even bigger joke to them, you realize.
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    #46  Edited By Supermarius
    @MrKlorox said:

    " Another Vampire the Masquerade game, perhaps? Who's got that license right now anyway?
     
    @Supermarius said:

    " Was googling Bethesda publishing and stumbled across the "No Mutants Allowed" forums again. Man. There is no worse videogamer in the world than a hardcore Interplay Fallout 1 & 2 fan.  They hate fallout 3 and Bethesda so much it's insane. It looks like some sort of parody forum, but its not.
     http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=732381&sid=2a0a14efb770c5609cb66defaceab1ab "
    It's fun to talk shit about people behind their backs, isn't it? You're an even bigger joke to them, you realize. "
    They did it first. They think everyone who enjoyed Fallout 3 is a simpleton who cannot appreciated the perfection that was Fallout 1 & 2. One of the posts, referring to the popularity of Fallout 3 said. "Millions of flies can't be wrong, eat shit" Um, yeah. That kind of hyperbolic rhetoric is indefensible. It's one thing to not like a game. Its entirely another thing to believe that everyone who thinks differently from you is mentally inferior.  If a person presumes everyone who disagrees with them is stupid, then they are a bad person. I have no sympathy for them.
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    #47  Edited By ArbitraryWater
    @Supermarius said:
    " Was googling Bethesda publishing and stumbled across the "No Mutants Allowed" forums again. Man. There is no worse videogamer in the world than a hardcore Interplay Fallout 1 & 2 fan.  They hate fallout 3 and Bethesda so much it's insane. It looks like some sort of parody forum, but its not.
     http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=732381&sid=2a0a14efb770c5609cb66defaceab1ab "
    Oh dear. Those people. I occasionally post on a Might and Magic forum, and while the clientele there is fairly bitter that New World Computing continues to no longer exist, all while raging against the injustice of all those damn Americans and their shooters and their watered down RPGs (etc, etc.) they don't compare to those guys. Then again, as someone who isn't a huge fan of either of the original Fallout games, I feel no shame in laughing at NMA. However, if someone were to bash on Might and Magic, I might actually have to side with the people I just mentioned. It works both ways, I guess. Then again, Ubisoft hasn't messed with the M&M franchise in quite the same degree as Bethesda did with Fallout. Heroes V was basically just a modernized Heroes III (which of course, led to people complaining that it was too similar. Unpleasable fanbase indeed.)

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