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Started by Janichsan, May 03 2012 10:44 AM

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#1 Janichsan

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Posted 03 May 2012 - 10:44 AM

Well, I think I already mentioned elsewhere that I'm not that fond of the Elder Scrolls games (at least the more recent ones I played), but I nevertheless think it's noteworthy that an MMO spinoff has been revealed. Wondering why I posted this in "Mac Adventures, RPG and MMOs"? Take a guess...

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#2 Tacohead

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Posted 03 May 2012 - 01:09 PM

Uhh I never expected to see this franchise on the Mac - in any form - so this is really surprising. But I'm mystified that this is what they finally decide to test the Mac market with. Or does Bethesda have absolutely nothing to do with this?

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Posted 03 May 2012 - 02:40 PM

Tacohead, on 03 May 2012 - 01:09 PM, said:

Or does Bethesda have absolutely nothing to do with this?

There isn't much difference between Zenimax (who made the announcement) and Bethesda.

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#4 doh123

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Posted 03 May 2012 - 04:27 PM

makes more sense if they want it to be huge and take on WoW. No one will be able to take on WoW without Mac support.

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Posted 03 May 2012 - 05:26 PM

Maybe the takeover of id has paid off after-all in a newfound acceptance of Mac and/or sales of Mac RAGE turned out well.

I wonder what engine they are planning on using? Using Skyrim's engine would indicate a higher level of graphics than most MMOs target and opens the door to Mac support for Skyrim and other future non-MMO Elder Scroll games. (Will there be anymore non-MMO Elder Scroll games?) Will they be using Cider?

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Posted 03 May 2012 - 09:25 PM

Tacohead, on 03 May 2012 - 01:09 PM, said:

Uhh I never expected to see this franchise on the Mac - in any form - so this is really surprising.

I've been playing Skyrim on my iMac through Cider pretty much just after it came out. (flawlessly without a hitch or bug.) You can probably also play through Wineskin but i haven't tried. As recent events have shown, native games aren't always better. I'm pretty sure you can play ever other ES game through Cider or Wine as well.

Janichsan, on 03 May 2012 - 02:40 PM, said:

There isn't much difference between Zenimax (who made the announcement) and Bethesda.

Zenimax owns Bethesda and publishes stuff. Given Bethesda is the one who makes the games I'd say there's a significant difference.

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Posted 04 May 2012 - 01:05 AM

Janichsan, on 03 May 2012 - 02:40 PM, said:

There isn't much difference between Zenimax (who made the announcement) and Bethesda.

Bethesda = Bioware
Zenimax = EA

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Posted 04 May 2012 - 05:23 AM

Sneaky Snake, on 04 May 2012 - 01:05 AM, said:

Bethesda = Bioware
Zenimax = EA

That would only be true if Bioware's heads Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk would have founded EA and one of them would be EA's CEO...

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Posted 04 May 2012 - 05:45 AM

This all makes sense now, i wonder how long it's been in development for. It's as if they've had a slow plan to create some real hype around the series and then finally introduce a real money making model to showcase a new adventure

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#10 Janichsan

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Posted 05 June 2012 - 02:04 PM

For who's interested: a new trailer (showing no gameplay again) and and interview video with actually in-game graphics.

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Posted 19 July 2012 - 09:13 PM

ZeniMax Media is a holding company that owns a number of studios.

ZeniMax Online Studios is the company developing the MMO, Bethesda is not.

Bethesda Softworks is the publishing branch of ZeniMax Media and does publishing and distribution for all brands.

Bethesda Game Studio is the branch that Develops the actual games, SkyRim, Fallout etc.

The engine is a internally developed cross platform MMO engine / Tool set, It is not the same as the Bethesda Engine.

The Mac port is a proper port, not w Wine wrapper or emulation library.

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Posted 19 July 2012 - 10:38 PM

TheBunny, on 19 July 2012 - 09:13 PM, said:

The engine is a internally developed cross platform MMO engine / Tool set, It is not the same as the Bethesda Engine.

Why do I read everywhere that they are going to use HeroEngine ?

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Posted 19 July 2012 - 10:51 PM

doh123, on 19 July 2012 - 10:38 PM, said:

Why do I read everywhere that they are going to use HeroEngine ?

They used it for prototyping.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 06:24 PM

doh123, on 19 July 2012 - 10:38 PM, said:

Why do I read everywhere that they are going to use HeroEngine ?

Because years back...

Hero Press Release

The internet then runs with it.

Unfortunately 90% of the speculative posts at the end of game news stories are just plain wrong
and / or are written with no understanding of how the actual game industry works.

One of my favorite examples I see over and over is "This MMO will Suck, Because Star Wars Sucked, Because It was based on the Hero Engine and that sucked etc"

The truth is know one has yet to ship anything on the Hero engine out of the box.

Every large company using it had the source code and did heavy modifications to make a AAA level Game.

The same goes for many console games that say they used Engine X.

A lot of the time the engines are a starting point to get up and running and then are heavily modified.

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 09:24 AM

New Screens, etc

We held a press fest last week...

http://tamrielfoundr...so-media-event/

This link has some picts of the studio

http://www.mpogd.com/news/?ID=11149