Next Elder Scrolls: An MMORPG??!!

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Just read in a website that the sequel to Oblivion could very well be an online experience like World Of Warcraft, and it may be out in 2011 or 2012.
Oh I do hope this is NOT true.
Oblivion was in my opinion the best RPG, and the best single player adventure of the current-gen consoles. No other game equalled it when it came to immersing you in it's gameworld, the beauty of it, detail, and things to do. While games like DragonAge: Origins and FFXIII may have had better storylines, they are linear games and they work better with a good tale to tell.
But with Oblivion, it wasn't the story/main quest that kept you hooked: it was the idea of jumping into a fantasy world and living another life, and it did that better than any other game i've played.
So I hope Betheseda keep that for the next one and DON'T make it an MMORPG, because that would kill the series and their reputation.
 
I'd like it a bit more like Red Dead or such, with the option to play singleplayer alone or online cooperatively, with a limited number of players. Regardless, that rumor is about a year old atleast, and I don't see anything coming out within the next 2 years, Bethesda has been quite assertive they aren't working on a new ES game.

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God forbid, if they are daft to enough to want to soil the ES series with an online multiplayer mode, then I hope as you say make it optional and not an integral part of the game. Maybe you could be given the option of doing completed quests again co-operatively or against other's online, with the goal of getting more XP to use in your single player adventure.

But if they're not working on a new ES game then what the hell are they doing? It's not as if they got a huge workload at the moment - they're recent lineup of games, although published by them, is not actually being developed by them:
Fallout: New Vegas by Obsidian and Brink by Splash Damage

People have been screaming out for the next Elder Scrolls game for a while now. Betheseda need to listen and start giving us what we want.

Mind you they'll probably want to take a few years out so they can find out how to make they're future games bug-free, unlike Fallout 3.

Ah well, looks like it's DragonAge for the forseeable future........
 
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Oblivion was in my opinion the best RPG, and the best single player adventure of the current-gen consoles. No other game equalled it when it came to immersing you in it's gameworld, the beauty of it, detail, and things to do.
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You should give Demon's Souls a try. I've put in a some 3 times the amount of time I did in Oblivion in that and still chasing a platinum. Not the same "type" technically but DS has superior gameplay. I would not be interested in Elders scrolls 5 MMORPG unless it was ES4's wolrd in an MMORPG format with ES5 still in the pipeline.
 
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You should give Demon's Souls a try. I've put in a some 3 times the amount of time I did in Oblivion in that and still chasing a platinum. Not the same "type" technically but DS has superior gameplay. I would not be interested in Elders scrolls 5 MMORPG unless it was ES4's wolrd in an MMORPG format with ES5 still in the pipeline.
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Like I said, if the next ES does turn out to be an MMORPG, I will personally go to Betheseda HQ and dump a load of manure at their door. It's one of the few game series left that doesn't need online multiplay. Dev's these days think that a game won't sell unless they include some sort of online multiplay mode, and unfortunately they tend to eventually focus on that and leave the single player experience lacking.
Some of the best gaming of my life has been on the PS2 as single player experiences.
Don't get me wrong, the majority of FPS shooters and racing games should include online multiplayer because they work so well when playing against human opponents.
But in the case of sprawling epic RPGs like Oblivion, online multiplay shouldn't even be considered.

And as for Demon's Souls, I have heard that it is monumentally difficult. Sorry, but as with all RPGs, I like to start slow and easy and build my character up. I want the game's difficulty to progress as my character and the story progresses.
I think DS would just frustrate me and I would give up.
 

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