Bethesda To Announce ELDER SCROLLS MMO IN May. More Like RL Oblivion, Right?

Bethesda is set to announce an Elder Scrolls  MMO this May, in an announcement that will take the series in a direction that can only make too much sense.

Tom’s Guide:

An industry source that wishes to remain anonymous revealed the name of the new MMO to us, and confirmed that the game would take place a full millennium before The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Using the  Elder Scrolls Wiki timeline  as a guide, Elder Scrolls Online will likely take place during the “Second Era,” or several hundred years before any of the other Elder Scrolls games. This information was corroborated by two additional sources before publication.

Elder Scrolls Online will have three playable factions, according to the tipster. Not much is known about the factions, except each is represented by one of three animals: A lion, a  dragon, and a bird of prey (either a phoenix or an eagle, we aren’t sure).

A May 2012 announcement would likely be followed by some sort of presence at E3, the annual Los Angeles video game convention.  The  game  would also be shown at Quakecon 2012 in August, along with id Software’s Doom 4 and several other titles.

The fact that ZeniMax and Bethesda are working on an MMO is hardly a secret, as  related job postingshave been on  ZeniMax’s website  for  quite some time now. What remained unknown until now was the universe in which this MMO would take place. While some were certainly hoping for a Fallout MMO of some sort –  a game that ZeniMax and Bethesda control the publishing rights for  — that is not to be the case.

It may be heretical to say so, but I’m not particularly excited about this. I loved the living crap out of Skyrim, and one of the biggest reasons was that it was a quite solitary journey I could take on my own. Disconnect from the feed-tubes across the internet and soldier on through snow and fire. Man, I’m sounding old as fuck.

What do you all inter-folk think?