The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Announced for November 2011

Bethesda took advantage of the Video Game Awards this weekend to announce the fifth installment of the Elder Scrolls series, titled Skyrim. The game is planned for November 2011, and a teaser trailer has been posted on the Elder Scrolls website. Details are sparse, though the game will apparently run on an "all-new" engine.

Re:What kind of name is Skyrim?

[gman003]

By the Nine Divines, we've got an imbecile on the loose. If you paid attention to the series lore, criminal scum, you would knot that Skyrim is the northernmost province of Tamriel, north of Cyrodiil, east of High Rock and west of Morrowind. The main inhabitants are the Nords, but ruins from when the land was in the hands of the Aldmer remain. Major cities include Winterhold, a major center of learning, and Solitude, famous for it's role as the fortress of the Wolf Queen, Potema.

Also, this is the same game series that thought "Elsweyr" was a good name for a province. You get used to it.

Re:Windows-only game?

[gman003]

Uh, gamers don't use Macs. At all. Not because of the hardware (although even the most pimped out Mac pales before a fully-loaded custom rig), but because of the software. The drivers on OS X are terrible - significantly slower, and with many missing features. It's not a good gaming system - for people that will meticulously adjust timings on RAM to improve performance, a 20% performance cut to switch to Mac is just not logical.

And, unlike you, I will back this up with citations. The current survey (of gaming rigs running Steam) is:

• 45.50% Windows 7
• 26.29% Windows XP
• 23.05% Windows Vista
• 4.71% Mac OS X
• 0.31% Windows 2003
• 0.11% other, including everyone using Wine

That's a terrible percentage. Every version of Mac OS is being beaten by Vista alone in a landslide. There's honestly no need for them to release a Mac version. And, actually, Sony at least does allow keyboards/mice to be used in games. However, very few games are programmed to actually use them.

Re:The new engine is ID Tech 5, AKA the RAGE engin

[TimboJones]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/32009/All_New_Game_Engine_For_Next_Elder_Scrolls.php [gamasutra.com]