By the time this game hits the market it’s target audience will be significantly diminished by having passed away from natural causes.
So far, in the time between Elder Scrolls V and and VI, I have:
- graduated high school
- graduated college
- gotten 3 jobs
- started and advanced in my career
- gotten married
- had 2 kids
Oh my god, I’ve just realised how much of my life has passed. Similar timeline to you. I’m starting to think my kids will be teenagers by the time it comes out.
There’s even a chance, if the time between releases increases, I might not make it to the next one after this.
similar boat- graduated middle school, high school, and undergrad of college, and working on my master’s now. I’ll be married and have kids by the time the game comes out, if the world hasn’t ended by then
Meanwhile, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Re-release-master-vamped 3 Toaster edition is likely six-plus months away
Baseless speculation here, but my gut tells me that Microsoft is going to put a remaster-focused studio to task on a current-gen Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim triple pack, a la the Master Chief Collection, to tide people over.
Remastering Skyrim is the easy way out, but Oblivion is still trapped on the 360 (if you don’t have a PC) and Morrowind is the darling title of the franchise that people would love to see remastered (and was recently used as an example by Nvidia on “how to remaster a game”). Remaster the earlier two and then just shove the Xbox One copy of Skyrim Anniversary Edition in there for funsies is something people would get behind, more than just another port of Skyrim alone.
While I’d love a Morrowind remaster (not remake), it’s incredibly unlikely since Todd Howard himself is against it.
What would even be the point of an official remaster when you can combine the OpenMW engine with a mod pack? And there’s Skywind the great remake still in the making…
A 4K60 Oblivion with a much much improved draw distance would be fantastic! I’d buy that in an instant on my Series S
I am amazed people are still buying Bethesda games. I was done with them after Fallout 4. I see Starfield hype… no thank you Todd. I am keeping my money.
I liked Fallout 4. There were things that I didn’t like as much as New Vegas, sure, but I don’t see alternatives that are doing a better job, and that’s really the bar that counts.
I had a blast.
Bethesda games scratch a unique itch it’s hard to describe and no other studio is able to fulfill it.
Fallout 4 had its missteps for sure, but it’s still a pretty fun game. What about it made you quit Bethesda?
Yeah, even back then, I had a feeling that they just announced it so that people would actually shut up about it and leave them alone.
Really gonna be like 16 years or more between elder scrolls games, feels bad man
So much pressure on Starfield to be good.
Even good isn’t really good enough, it has to be great.
It’s made on the same engine as Skyrim and Fallout 4 so for all intents and purposes this is going to be like any other Bethesda game. So, if people want Fallout 4 in space with procedural worlds and companions then I guess it’ll be what they’re looking for. But my belief is it’s going to feel like a last gen game with a sheen of current gen on top.
Yeah, that’s why I wasn’t that hyped when they announced it. Unlike when they announced Fallout 4 when it was only like 6 months away? That’s the type of announcements I prefer. 6-12 months away as opposed to announcing it then it being like a 5-10 year long dragged series of promotions and teasers.
They only teased it this early because people were unable to understand that ESO is not made by Bethesda Game Studios and won’t be a hindrance of TES VI being made.
This statement was made during a hearing, so he said whatever is best for his case as long as he doesn’t lie. In my opinion the statement has zero value as an official statement.
I get that modern games are time consuming to make, but we’re getting well past the Duke Nukem Forever and Daikatana timelines here… and the longer it takes the more disappointing it always seems to be.
They’re making other games. They haven’t been working on elder scrolls. They can’t do more than one game at a time.
They released a teaser trailer 5 years ago. It’s surprising to me that the game wasn’t being worked on in all that time.
That was just a CGI landscape, not really a teaser
outsourced to people knowing how to do CGI trailers
What do you think is more likely to release before we all die? TESVI or The Winds of Winter?
Both of these will release before the ending of Hunter X Hunter
As long as they’re still making money selling ES:O expansions, why devote the resources for an all-new game?
Also, the teams behind ESO and the mainline titles are not the same. The main team that made Skyrim, Oblivion and the others is focused on Starfield now, and probably for the next three-ish years with the post-release content.
They are two different markets. You can also buy the next elder scrolls have while paying for ESO.
One is a single player game, the other is an mmo with that mmo feel.
It sucks to wait but it would suck a lot more if they fucked up the franchise. My asshole is already puckered because of Starfield.
At this point I have faith that they can pull off both a long wait, and a shit game.
