I don't think they're working on tesV because I know somewhere a few years back i read that they said that they weren't planning to make another tesV ever.
Such insolence, such arrogance, must be punished!!!
I must admit - I can only see an MMO Elder Scrolls as turning out like Runescape or a similarly horrible game.
I'll pretend I didn't read that since I'd never want an MMO for the Elder Scrolls series
I'm glad to hear about the clarification on the rumours regarding TES V. I'd heard that they had planned to annonce the game right after they had launched their second novel on the Elder Scrolls series, though.
To be honest I would love it, if they do make it. But instead of using just the old system, they team up with DICE and EA. Oblivion with Destructible environments. Strong magic attack, blows a hole in a wall. Or Craters a wall, or puts a crater in the ground. The Ability to clean and repair your weapons and armor; and not just through a button press but a mini-game. Of course blood can stain your weapons and armor, need that for the cleaning system. Limb removal, but much more realistic than Fallout (Because you are slashing someone with a sword, also even though Im suggesting a mature game you cant slash up and already dead body). Grab and throw system. The ability to set up traps and camp fires. Oh, last thing to add to this: Interactive fire.
Imagine you launch a fireball at a house. It would catch fire, then you can pick up a stick or something wooden and use it to get fire on a stick. You can then use this to set fire to another house. Then if that wasn't enough, a day later the citizens actually rebuild. Not just overnight, they actually rebuild. But if you do it at night, they may die in the house, which makes it vacant, which means you can own it.
Thanks for that link on clarifications. It's more or less what I expected but it's good to have it cleared up. And an MMO wouldn't have been bad, but there are already soo much of them that I wouldn't see the point in it and probably wouldn't even play it.
And keeton, I like your ideas, but I don't expect to find such things in the next game already. I just hope they put more effort in the story and setting, like they did in Morrowind. I won't be satisfied with another standart fantasy world and story like in Oblivion (except Shivering Isles, those were great ).