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Starfield’s Reveal by Bethesda Is Still A While Away, But Pete Hines Believes It’ll Be Worth The Wait
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Be lucky to get this by 2023. Elder Scrolls 6 will be one of the last major releases of the PS5/XSX generation.
Yeah, weirdly combative. It's their choice to announce the title of the game and then literally never say word one about it ever again.
I don't get why every tiny detail about video games needs to be a state secret. They're not ready to show footage, fine. How hard would out be to share a few words about what the game is like? Is it first or third person? Is it set in our galaxy in the future, or a totally fantastical setting? Like the most basic and general information possible. It's just kind of baffling to me that they want to sell us this game, but simultaneously they take people's basic curiosity and interest in it and turn it into this big adversarial thing.
Well yeah, add 4-5 maybe more years to whatever Starfield's release date is for TES6.
Oh no doubt. If they hadn't announced ES6 with Blades it could have been another Diablo: Immortal fiasco. Short term it was a smart move, long term these crazed fans will be bugging them nonstop until we get info and release.
Bethesda can fuck off to be honest. Off the horrible F76 launch and pulling out of Elder Scrolls Legenda (where I spent over 1000EUR on cards), couple with their inability to release jankeless games, and I'm so over BGS.
Why? Bethesda reveals and releases games in the same year lately. It's still very much possible.
Elder Scrolls Online is a different team, Zenimax Online Studios. Whatever the main Skyrim team has been doing for the past 4 years, it's between Fallout 76 and Starfield.
Also I'm in support of them dropping the name Elder Scrolls 6 and just calling it Skyrim 2 for marketing and profit purposes. Casual buyers don't care about the name 'Elder Scrolls'.
I worry we're in for another Fallout 4, as in a game made in a vacuum while other games come out and surpass it.
So true. I've been looking forward to a proper sequel to Skyrim for almost a decade now :/.
At least Obsidian is working on big budget RPGs now. Will help the wait.
Expecting more from CDPR and Obsidian when it comes to open world sandbox games next gen than Bethesda.
Going in to this gen Bethesda, BioWare and Blizzard were my favorite devs. And they all kinda face planted.
Going in to this gen Bethesda, BioWare and Blizzard were my favorite devs. And they all kinda face planted.
I thought this would be a launch window game for next gen. Now, who knows? Late 2021? Later than that?
My guess:
Starfield - 2022.
The Elder Scrolls VI - 2025-2026.
I.e.
Starfield will be out before Grand Theft Auto 6 but GTA6 will be out years before TES6.
Starfield - 2022.
The Elder Scrolls VI - 2025-2026.
I.e.
Starfield will be out before Grand Theft Auto 6 but GTA6 will be out years before TES6.
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Hard to justify an exclusive next gen title on launch, especially with the budget and scale of a typical Bethesda RPG. Much easier to do it a year or two later, when the install base can justify leaving 10s of millions of potential old-gen customers behind.
At least that's if it is next-gen only. If it's not, WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING?
Yeah, I guess there are 2 schools of thought on this. I think Oblivion probably benefited by coming out early in 360's lifespan. There weren't many other games to draw attention away from it. The 1st Bioshock is another example of this imo.
Games were MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH cheaper to make 15 years ago. Faster too.
Also back then, selling a couple of million was considered a successful launch. Now, Bethesda expects to sell 10+ million copies of their mainline titles. It'd be hard to move that many units of Starfield at (or around launch) if both MS and Sony's new boxes are supply-constrained.
Yep. But while Skyrim was built on DX9, and later enhanced for DX11 the sequel or successor to Skyrim (ES6) is likely being built on DX12 / DX12 Ultimate.
for what it's worth, we'll get the closest thing to a fresh Elder Scrolls experience before then. There's two teams remaking Oblivion and Morrowind in Skyrim respectively. So a remake is better than nothing.
The Skyblivion project is much further along and I wouldn't be surprised if it's ready to release at some point in 2021 and since it's a mod it's completely free you just need to have both Skyrim and Oblivion with their full DLC/content. aka the GOTY editions.
When the last of Skyrim's DLC came out I naively thought ES6 could be a 2016-2017 game. Never did I imagine it could be a ~15 year wait...
More than anything I think that shows how much dev times have expanded. In the PS3/360 gen you could expect 2-3 year dev cycles. I don't even know where we're at anymore, probably always 5< years now for big games?
More than anything I think that shows how much dev times have expanded. In the PS3/360 gen you could expect 2-3 year dev cycles. I don't even know where we're at anymore, probably always 5< years now for big games?
This is a great way of putting it. It was a game that probably would have been received a lot better (not that it wasn't received generally well, but there were glaring issues) had it been a 2011 game.
So crazy that they skipped the xbox one / ps4 generation for a new elder scroll mainline title. I hope starfield and es6 will be worth the wait.
Man I don't even want to think about another gen without a Elder Scrolls game. That would be nuts.
I can say that Bethesda planned a reveal for this year, back in late 2019, at least from what I have heard. Think Covid really hit them hard.
If Elder Scrolls has a voiced protagonist and forced backstory I'm out
That shit destroyed the immersion of Fallout 4 so thoroughly for me. Like in Skyrim you can be whatever and ignore the Dragonborn stuff for most of the game. In Fallout 4 you will always be a variation of a war veteran who's wife gets killed and child gets abducted.
That shit destroyed the immersion of Fallout 4 so thoroughly for me. Like in Skyrim you can be whatever and ignore the Dragonborn stuff for most of the game. In Fallout 4 you will always be a variation of a war veteran who's wife gets killed and child gets abducted.
Zero chance of that ever happening. The Elder Scrolls brand remains very strong, especially with new players introduced via ESO and Legends.
I'm not the biggest fan of Pete's approach to PR (though it isn't as... oddly hostile if you hear him saying these things instead of just reading the lines) but yeah, there's not a whole lot he can say right now. That's fair.
It's the same team of 200-300. Absolutely no way that game comes out in 2023. This isn't the year 2007.
I'm pretty sure it is. Geoff interviewed Todd Howard back at E3 in 2018 and Howard described the game as a "next-generation" single player experience.
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Take your time Bethesda, god knows you are in dire need to release an RPG that is actually polished and modern.
And can we please talk about pickpocketing? The other day I was on the subway and this fellow kept searching in my pocket! I remained patient because he was clearly low level, but at some point you just gotta get off!
And can we please talk about pickpocketing? The other day I was on the subway and this fellow kept searching in my pocket! I remained patient because he was clearly low level, but at some point you just gotta get off!