Fallout 4 development began with Skyrim port for XONE

ATTF: "Fallout 4 began development long before the PS4 and Xbox One had their final hardware figured out. This meant that once it was, the team at Bethesda has to become familiar with the systems so they could get their game running. To do this, according to an interview with Game Informer, the team ported The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to the Xbox One."

[AizenSosuke]

Interesting; an Skyrim port for XONE and then made fallout 4 out of that template. Very intriguing!

[Neonridr]

makes you wonder what happened to said port.. ;)

[scark92]

Well I hope it is not gone down the.. 'Port'a Potty!

[Thefreeman012]

I'd imagine they would wait until closer to elder scrolls 6 announcement to Get people hyped. Surely they wouldn't do it any time near Fallout 4.

With that said it would be cool to receive the same mod treatment that Fallout is getting

[UltraNova]

I hope they decided to can it and let the team focus on elder scrolls 6 instead. Or better yet use that time to bug test the hell out of F4!

[someOnecalled]

its crazy because people was criticizing gfx of this game and was bashed, and now this news comes out. people state how the tend to use the same engine and assets for too long, but people get upset for stating the obvious.

im glad they always focus on gameplay and lore, but like COD devs i wish the would just make a new engine and up their gfx.

[Satyre28]

Skyrim coming to X1 confirmed. Willing to bet anything anyway that it will be on the list of games in the first batch of BC, seems like Bethesda and Xbox are having that duo relationship.

[2pacalypsenow]

I would much rather have a remaster than the same 360/Ps3 version

[FastRedPonyCar]

At best you would get the PC version's "high res" texture pack and better draw distance and that'd be it. ...and I use high res rather sarcastically because they were a blurry joke compared to the 4K parallaxed textures that the modders cranked out.

[Randostar]

Todd Howard told people "Don't hold your breath" when he was asked if we would see that port any time soon.

[FastRedPonyCar]

Likely will not happen until they have it running on PS4 as well (which now that they have fallout on PA4 shouldn't be difficult since it's built off skyrim's engine)

[Heyxyz]

Very interesting.

[generic-user-name]

I'd prefer a remastered Oblivion myself.

[scark92]

Yeah same!

[Randostar]

They would literally have to redo the ENTIRE game's assets. All the models look soooo terribly dated now.

[generic-user-name]

That's fine by me, I loved Oblivion for it's quests not it's assets.

I'll never forget how disappointed I was in Skyrim's Dark Brotherhood questline compared to Oblivion's.

[-Foxtrot]

@generic-user-name

Thieves guild aswell

Didn't feel like I was doing enough stealing in that quest line. Just finding out about the Nightingales.

Dark Brotherhood should have had more quests like the Whodunit one. That was awesome and if they did one like Skyrim but on a much bigger scale it could have been epic

http://elderscrolls.wikia.c...

[generic-user-name]

@Fox

Loved the Thieves Guild in Oblivion too, especially that final quest. Amazing.

Whodunnit was brilliant but my favourite part was when you've to try to find the traitor, I remember when I went into that lighthouse and saw the mother's head, for some reason I felt like I should take it even though I didn't need to and then when I returned to see what happened to Lucien, I dumped the head on the ground because I knew one was the killer, I was utterly shocked to see that the killer actually let out a gasp as I did. I never expected any of the NPCs to react to me dropping anything on the ground, but because I randomly did that, I knew who the traitor was and it was one of my favourite moments in gaming.

[sullynathan]

Worst TES game made.
Dumbed down from morrowind, by far the most generic setting of the series,stupid oblivion gates.
Why would you want this?

[Allsystemgamer]

Skyrim was even more dumb down dude. Can't create spells? Less skills? Come on now. Sky rim was a MUCH more casual game than oblivion.

It was the first TES I didn't finish.

[sullynathan]

Difference is that Skyrim didn't have as many broken elements like over leveled enemies.
At least Skyrim's combat was much better.

[FastRedPonyCar]

Oblivion was awful compared to skyrim and the ever so superior Morrowind.

Thankfully, there is a dedicated team of modders rebuilding Morrowind from the ground up using the Skryim engine :D

https://tesrenewal.com/

[Allsystemgamer]

Oblivion was a way better game. The story was better. The quests were more than "go get my sword". The quests in skyrim were boring and the game had MANY features taken out from oblivion much like oblivion from morrowind.

[BallsEye]

Best ES that ever came out, and I've played all of them (including 2d ones). Skyrim is the worst so far. Oblivion was a masterpiece, true jump to next gen. It had more simulation going on than Skyrim (NPCs even changing clothes for sleeping, having a good memory,etc) Morrowind was almost just as good.

[brando008]

Oblivion remastered is my pipe dream right now haha

[ScorpiusX]

If that's the case then release that port and make some cash off it and Fallout 4 . Do what's right Bethesda release that bad boy .

[Miacosa]

Oh boy lets hope that it's not as buggy like Skyrim was on launch month.

[XhiXExtreme]

No conformation from Hines = fake