As The Elder Scrolls Turns 30, Bethesda Issues Brief The Elder Scrolls 6 Update
As The Elder Scrolls Turns 30, Bethesda Issues Brief The Elder Scrolls 6 Update
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I can’t wait to play this game in 2029, then it’s only another 7 year wait for Fallout 5!
Genuinely believe that this game is going to make or break Bethesda as a gaming giant again. If this fails..
After Starfield, I’m keeping my expectations low. I can’t be heartbroken again.
Great, I will keep expectations low after Starfield and we will wait until 2030 probably for TES6
We can only hope that the reaction to Starfield convinced them to scrap everything they may have done for ES6 and start from scratch.
Lmao they slipped a “Slyrim” typo past the editor
I’m genuinely worried about elder scrolls 6…
Starfield was an unmitigated disaster and it give me zero confidence in es6
Are they going to hire actual writers this time ?
I worked at Bethesda in the Fallout 4 days as a technical director. The place was a mess. It was a revolving door of recent grads with very little in the way of cemented senior talent. Zenimax was actively making worse products via bad market research and a complete misunderstanding of their established customer base. I jumped ship and eventually left the gaming industry as a whole. I heard around 2018 that they were making a massive hiring push for senior talent for new projects. Nothing I’ve seen since has indicated that it improved anything. It blows my mind that they could have access to the minds on the id Software team and not take full advantage of it. I have very low hopes for ES6.
“…playing early builds. ”
Bullshit.
After how boring Starfield was, my expectations couldn’t get any lower
Bethesda has killed so much of the hype for the game. Personally when first saw the teaser I was excited. But since starfield, since getting estimates ln when the game might come out. I lost all all excitement for it.
To me until the game shows game play and we learn concrete things about it, I pretty much stopped caring entirely.
I’ve honestly never been so nervous about a game release. Starfield left me hopeless tbh
Strange…there was no mention of Blades…Todd must have forgot
I was excited for this game before I played Starfield, now I don’t care. I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than disappointed.
Hey Todd, in case you’re browsing these comments by some off chance I’d like to let you know that Starfield was a MASSIVE disappointment and if ES6 is anything like it then y’all are in big trouble lmfao
Said that I can’t even get a little excited for TES6. They have had too many fails in a row for me to expect anything good.
Possibly a hot take: they’ve waited too long and my hype is gone. Too many Bethesda missteps from when that announcement occurred to now.
I’m in two minds.
Part of me thinks “The problems with Starfield are so widely discussed and so obvious in hindsight, that surely they just need to fix them for ES6 and we’ll be all good”.
Like – don’t have a painfully slow opening, don’t have a load of empty space with nothing in it, make sure you have memorable characters and don’t have mechanics that are thematically jarring. That’s all stuff they’ve done before and they just need to do it again. Throw in some ideas from BG3 and other successful RPGs that have come out since 2011 and you can’t miss.
But another part of me wonders if the top brass of Bethesda – who were trailblazers in their youth – are simply out of ideas and creatively spent. Not lazy or greedy or stupid – but just that they don’t have it in them anymore.
I hope it’s the first one.
All I’m going to say is I am thankful for Starfield. Because of how terrible starfield is, I am no longer excited for TES6 which means this won’t be an agonizing few years wait for TES6!
After Starfield, I could honestly care less.
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I can’t believe I was still in my teens when I played Skyrim, and I will be almost 40 by the time TES6 comes out.
Looking forward to buying Elder Scrolls 6 a year after release on a 50% off sale after modders have fixed all of the issues.
> putting a minimum of 17 years between it and Skyrim
That is just unbelievable in retrospect. Acclaim and visibility for the Elder Scrolls was at an all-time high post-Skyrim. Who would’ve thought the next entry would arrive nearly two decades later?
At this point I’m conflicted as to whether or not having it on ice for so long was a good move or bad move for Bethesda. I guess we’ll see…
I have a bad feeling this game will feel just like Skyrim, ie no advancement whatsoever besides graphics in over a decade
Take as much time as you need, and hopefully you learned a valuable lesson with procedural driven worlds. I don’t expect TES6 to have the same problem as Starfield.
Get ready for an enormous beautiful open world filled with….. procedural generation….
2028 at the earliest I’m sure I read 2026 at the earliest a couple of years ago? This is taking A LONG time someone born when Skyrim was released will be almost or actually an adult when this next one comes haha. I just hope it’s great like Skyrim but who knows ..I will likely be near 40 when it arrives which is a scary thought haha.
After the launch of Starfield it is clear that Bethesda is pretty much dead. The repetitive dungeons, the weak narratives, the poor world-building… Bethesda owes everything to the releases from the 2010s, when they could get away with all these faults because the scale of their games was unheardof. That is not the case anymore. Their game design philosophy has not evolved since Oblivion-Skyrim, and there’s just so much you can get away with before that catches up to you. Fallout 4 was already divisive due to these reasons, and Starfield was a hot mess. There is virtually no reason to be excited for TES6.
“To celebrate 30 years of Elder Scrolls, we are pleased to announce that the new elder scrolls VI will be coming out in 2041, exactly 30 years after Skyrim’s launch. This will allow us to skip 2 console generations, while still using an engine from a decade ago.”
Not looking forward to this new release cycle. As always, people will get unreasonably hyped and toxically attack any dissenters. The game will release to middling praise, if not outright hate. It will be defended and the playerbase will die shortly after. Months later, we’ll get honest reviews of people saying it wasn’t the best.
100 dollars they are still using same engine