They also announced TESVI at the exact same conference, so you somehow believe they are releasing both games next year...max? As in, you think they could come out in 2019?
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The Elder Scrolls VI | First Tease & New Engine Technology
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They also announced TESVI at the exact same conference, so you somehow believe they are releasing both games next year...max? As in, you think they could come out in 2019?
Morrowind was also that the game that literally just turned the empire into the roman empire. Oblivion tended to be pretty generic at times too.
Fallout 76 was released last year and BGS averages around 3 years between releases. Starfield has already been confirmed to be a next generation title. TESVI won't be for a few years after Starfield.
I really really hope they have completely changed how they do animation. That is my main issue with TES/Fallout games as a whole, the poor animation quality gives it so much jank, and for a studio with as deep pockets as they have it never made sense why they couldn't have better animation, use mo-cap (didn't they even buy a mo cap studio even before Skyrim was out? I remember them talking about it).
I'm glad to see them putting Shirley into the game, loving seeing her adventures on youtube and hope she'll get to enjoy the new game.
I'm glad to see them putting Shirley into the game, loving seeing her adventures on youtube and hope she'll get to enjoy the new game.
Starfield and TES VI were only shown at E3 last year to prove that Bethesda was still committed to large single-player experiences.
No not neccesarily, any original assets would need to match the quality of the base game though.
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Don't think about the CK (or any engine, for that matter) as an isolated variable. The Creation Engine is just a toolset filled with proprietary tools and middleware, like Havok. If they are changing their renderer, animation, physics and editor, it essentially becomes a new thing altogether (at least for the most part). There are still some things limiting what they can do, such as their cell streaming technology (which they rely on given how many individual IDs their engine has to track), or the fact that the CK is very CPU-bound, but these things aren't impossible to solve. If you play Fallout 4 and Fallout 3, for example, the amount of worldspace cells vs interior cells is much different, or the amount of detail within the renderer.
It's crazy to me that an entire generation is going to go by without Bethesda releasing an installment of their biggest franchise. Feels like wasted profit to me.
Last gen got two, and ESO + the Skyrim remaster came this gen. Irritating, but not that big of a deal.
Plus, the leap in tech from Skyrim will be that much wider. That seems to be the point for taking so long - to make a real splash.
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Sure but like I said, Morrowind draws from enough influences that overall you'd never say the world is most closely resembling Ancient Rome. There's enough diversity there that it feels like its own unique space.
Oblivion is the worst when it comes to this so we're in agreement there. So painfully generic, especially coming off the back of Morrowind.
BGS didn't make 76 (the main team at least). It was mostly a production of BGS Austin
Not just animation in every layer imaginable but also AI. The AI needs big emphasis in quality of life improvements.
Literally, the execrable town Guard behavior is flat out so unsatisfactory and miserable, that the only good it did was serving as comic relief for YouTube content creators.
Bethesda nails a unique open world experience like no other. They have that down. They just really need to focus on narrative, gameplay and AI for their next attempt at open world games.
Truth. Gimme less realistic locales and more fantastical ones. Giant mushrooms, ashen wastelands, huge plant buildings. Things like that are what made Morrowind really stand out vs Skyrim and Oblivion
So in today's The Elder Scrolls 25th anniversary celebration panel, the leads at Bethesda Game Studios / Zenimax Online sat down and discussed the past, present and (briefly) the future of The Elder Scrolls franchise. We got our first glimpse at some of the technology that we can expect from BGS's future projects (including Starfield), but more prominently The Elder Scrolls VI. So it seems that they're using a new photogrammetry technology to capture the scenery and make it look more authentic than it their past games, as you can see blow.
Obviously the environment is very reminiscent of Hammerfell, and coupled with the reveal trailer, I think we can put two and two together and pin-point the location of TES VI — either Hammerfell or Ilaic Bay (which is the region that combines both High Rock and Hammerfell). Since Ilaic Bay is home to one The Towers from Tamriel (The Direnni Tower), and said structures have been a key location on most past Elder Scrolls games, I think this is a given.
It is also cool to see that BGS will be adapting Quixel megascan technology to their engine, as you can see here, and they have a new renderer/lighting engine implementation from Enlighten Global Illumination middleware tools (which they are testing in Fallout 76 currently, actually). All in all, I'm just glad that BGS is turning around and improving their engine tech. We already knew they were modifying their physics and animation tools for Starfield, but all of this confirms pretty much an entire overhaul of the Creation Engine.
Also, really nice that they got around capturing (and immortalizing) Shirley Curry as an NPC in The Elder Scrolls VI.
I'm almost convinced that we won't see TES VI until 2024, releasing on the 30th anniversary of the series, with Starfield launching with the next-gen consoles on 2020.
6 years from reveal
To release? No.
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I think it's likely — Todd Howard even said today during the panel that is going to be a very long time until they can even talk more about TES VI. Starfield will release at the minimum on 2020, and TES VI is either three or four years after that.
Throw some captain in.
Oh shit, deleting and re-adding lol.
Its almost as if Fallout 4 and Fallout 76(as a cheap spinoff game done by a completely different studio) were always intended to be hold overs until technology improved more on the consoles for them to go crazy with a complete engine overhaul.
Not excusing the disaster that was Fallout 76 of course, that game should not have existed. But i kinda guessed Bethesda was behind the scenes updating their pipeline to take advantage of a huge jump in technology many years ago, as soon as they said that there would not an elder scrolls game this gen.
Not excusing the disaster that was Fallout 76 of course, that game should not have existed. But i kinda guessed Bethesda was behind the scenes updating their pipeline to take advantage of a huge jump in technology many years ago, as soon as they said that there would not an elder scrolls game this gen.
Imagine being 82 year old Shirley and waiting for this game...
Fallout 4 had a couple of words for each conversation option. Fallout 76 has no NPCs at all. I fully expect Fallout 5 to be a combination of only enemy creature NPCs and a emoji type of communication system for the handful of human NPCs there are.
NPC: Can you please save my son?!
Player Character: :'(
She got an inside look and seems to be having a good time still playing Skyrim, I think she's just fine waiting!