Bethesda Does Not Want Anyone Else To Touch The Elder Scrolls Series

GameBlurb: "The Elder Scrolls Series has been in good hands with Bethesda for awhile now but what if they decided to hand it out to an external developer? It ain’t happening anytime soon."

[BitbyDeath]

Why would anyone want them too?

[tdogg06051991]

It's Bethesda's world and it should stay that way, they know what makes it good.

[ASSASSYN 36o]

Why shouldn't be a word used when talking about game developers. The answer is always profit. While bethesda has obviously been balls deep in making skyrim. Ex. An external developer had the fallout series in development at the same time. 50% profit to Bethesda, 30% to obsidian and the 20% to miscellaneous cost. It allows a developer to pump out many games and still profit with little to no work.

As a consumer, that won't work for me. Fallout Vegas was a low quality adventure compared to the first fallout on consoles. I won't buy a elder scroll game unless Bethesda made it.

[Bigpappy]

You are correct about Fallout. But, 'The Elder Scrolls' defines Bethesda, so no one else gets to touch it unless the team falls apart. Even then I think Bethesda will still want to make it in-house.

[MAJ0R]

I would prefer the Bethesda from 10 years ago before TES was consolized

[Gordo789]

really? playing fallout new vegas now and honestly I find it much improved over fallout 3. I think it is because they had a lot of the original guys from fallout 1 and 2 working on it.

[slayorofgods]

Slightly off topic but a scary thought; Companies like EA seem to want everything they can get.

Stay independent Bethesda, it is always sad to see talented developers getting bought out.

[wolokowoh]

Umm I know what you are trying to say but there's a few things you don't know. Bethesda is a ZeniMax Media company.They were acquired back in 1999. They're not independent and haven't been for a long time. ZeniMax Media's worth in the billions but could theoretically be bought by EA. I could see why you'd be confused though. After all Take-Two were the ones how published Oblivion back in the day. ZeniMax is actually similar to Take-Two but smaller. Take-Two owns Rockstar and 2K Games and EA tried to buy them but let the deal expire.You hardly ever hear about Take-Two doing something but rather its subsidaries, just like ZeniMax. Take-Two publishes or owns all of these games but most people think the companies who work are independent. You never here Take Two in regards to most of these games but they're the funds behind all of them
BioShock series
Borderlands
Civilization series
Grand Theft Auto series
L.A. Noire
Mafia series
Manhunt series
Max Payne series
Midnight Club series
MLB 2K series
NBA 2K series
NHL 2K series
Red Dead series
Bully
Serious Sam series

[Bay]

Maybe if they worked alongside another studio, that could work. Otherwise, keep it Bethesda.

[junk3d]

Obsidian did a great job with Fallout: New Vegas but that's because many of the original Fallout devs made up the team. Here, well Bethesda is the only one that knows their universe well enough to do it justice.

[kaveti6616]

fallout new vegas is a bullsit "go fetch me this/go fetch me that" game. amateur modders make better games than obsidian.

[flyingmunky]

I don't think they did as bad as kaveti indicated but the whole game felt like a big dlc pack to me. I played the first game like 5 times and I can't even drag myself through one round of new vegas.

On second thought I think I'm in total agreement with kaveti.

[Brownghost]

@kaveti6616 you and other people are such graphic whores these days and aside the bugs new Vegas was an amazing game with a great story with the fallout 3 feel still the game would have looked better with the skyrim engine

[kaveti6616]

No, I'm not. But it's pretty obvious that Obsidian put very little effort into New Vegas considering they didnt' add any new assets and they didn't improve upon the visuals at all. This means that they basically just created a mod to Fallout 3 and sold it for 65 bucks.

The story is a joke so I don't know what you're talking about. There's always a few people out there who irrationally support Obsidian. I don't know how they built up such a dedicated fanbase considering they have never EVER made a good game on their own.

[Stakenborg]

If I can't tell it doesn't really matter honestly. New Vegas came out fine.

[danielle007]

You couldn't tell the difference? I could definitely tell with Fallout New Vegas after playing the poo out of Fallout 3. I really couldn't get into New Vegas. The story and locations were just sub par to me.

[Kiroe]

Good. They should always keep it that way.

[firemassacre]

lol..touch the elder scrolls

[Kee]

This news story seems like a PR cover-up because people flipped when they said this:
http://n4g.com/news/807591/...

[femshep]

good

[femshep]

may i lawlz at the disagree for me wanting elder scrolls to stay true to its not and not have another company ruin it

pathetic ghost disagreers are

[ATiElite]

As long as PC modders can touch elder Scrolls I'm happy.

Bethesda makes a buggy mess of a product plus the mod community makes some awesome enhancements.

Never out-source because only company employees care 100% percent about the product they make....out sourced people can careless.

[dalibor]

That's b/c the game is huge. A lot of coding needs to be done and developers don't have all the time they need. I'd imagine given more time the coding would be more structured.

[PattHpapong]

Branding is a huge factor in any marketing related products. Every solid titles should stick with the team that made them what they are in the first place. Staff should only be changed if the game wasn't doing well. It's practical to change studios, but if it can't be done right, don't do it at all. Just look at what happened to Devil May Cry...

[CrescentFang]

Exactly how publishers (I'm looking at you Japanese publishers) should keep their games and let no one touch it. I think Silent Hill is the biggest franchise to get hit by this, but I guess they couldn't help it since the key people left Konami... but even if that happened they should have left it alone...

[Gordo789]

Oblivion was a pretty decent game after modding to fix the horrible leveling system, and Skyrim isn't out yet, so maybe some people here are counting their chicks before they've hatched by saying that only Bethesda can make a good elder scrolls game.

[MasterD919]

SkyRim looks amazing and I'm completely fine with them handling the Elder Scrolls series but please Bethesda...Let Fallout go to a decent and loving developer who can give it the care and love it needs!

[kookie]

This is how it should be.

[barb_wire]

Well, since ZeniMax own Bethesda and id software - maybe Carmack can rustle up a new engine for them to use on the next 'Elder Scrolls'.. that's of course if the 'Skyrim' turns out subpar.

[frostypants]

Why not just link directly to the EDGE article?! Why do we keep giving click traffic to these stupid sites that just summarize other peoples' content???