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Howard wouldn't go into specifics about the sequel to the Elder Scrolls' enormously well-received 2011 instalment Skyrim but did offer this update on its development:


"The [new Starfield] technology, Creation Engine 2, is sort of built for both. It's like a new tech base. The vast majority of our development development work is on Starfield right now but everybody works on everything so the projects kind of intertwine.


"It's good to think of The Elder Scrolls 6 as still being in a design [phase]… but we're checking the tech: 'Is this going to handle the things we want to do in that game?' Every game will have some new suites of technology so Elder Scrolls 6 will have some additions on to Creation Engine 2 that that game is going to require."

Apologies if there's a thread already out there for this but I looked around and couldn't see anything.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gaming/...e-lucas-2009-todd-howard-talks-indiana-jones/
In the interview it's only briefly mentioned, it was pretty obvious to anyone who'd been following Bethesda recently that starfield was going to be their main project for a while and this just sort of confirms it, I don't imagine we'll get any gameplay for es6 for a good 5 years at the earliest unless I'm misunderstanding something here, to me that's a hard to swallow concept, that one of the biggest open World Series will of nearly gone 20 years without a new entry, as game development becomes more and more demanding and with Bethesda wanting to make more than just one franchise,
if we get dlc for it like with the other games I could easily see us being on 6 past the 20 year anniversary for Skyrim.

I've always been an advocator for a company taking as long as they need to craft a game, goodness knows the amount of crunch and other crappy stuff staff have to deal with on these projects is usually immense, and rushed games rarely live up to the hype, but it's become clear to me, that following the hype cycle and awaiting news on these types of games isn't feasible for me anymore, by the time 7 comes out I will probably be 3 times the age I was when oblivion came out.

What do you make of that concept? I realise not everyone cares about this particular franchise and many people's favourite series are currently shelved or dead meaning the wait for anything meaningful there is even worse, but it's still a hard to grasp concept for me that decade plus waits for new entries are where we are right now.
 

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2025-2026 at the earliest for this, unless MS resources expedite development rapidly, which it may or may not.

long term, I think what Microsoft is gonna probably want to do is heavily invest in BGS to a point where each of their 3 major franchises has a dedicated studio tbh.
 

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The development of Starfield also contributes to the development of ES6 since they plan to use the same engine. We knew the wait would be long but it's not like they will have to develop an entirely new engine for it.
 

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Guess I'll slowly keep going through my second ever playthrough of Skyrim ten years later...
 

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I don't think it necessarily means that. For Starfield, it's longer because it's a new IP with a new engine. They have to make entirely new assets. There's nothing to reuse. They do have Elder Scrolls assets, though. Besides, as devs finish their work on Starfield, they'll move on to TES VI right after that, which will happen before November of 2022.
 
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2025-2026 at the earliest for this, unless MS resources expedite development rapidly, which it may or may not.

long term, I think what Microsoft is gonna probably want to do is heavily invest in BGS to a point where each of their 3 major franchises has a dedicated studio tbh.
I can definitely see this. Especially if Starfield takes off and is huge.
 

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I edited the thread with a direct quote.

I don't think we should be taking this so literally here. 2025 at the latest IMO.
 

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Considering how they're still working on starfield and BGS Austin is focused on 76, this isn't too surprising tbh.
Just insane to me that Bethesda of all companies to announce two games so far out from being finished, with all of their other games being announced to be released within 6 months of their announcement.
Only other game from them I can think of that did that is ESO.
 

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Thank god there's Skywind at least, though I'm sure we're still years away from its release. Starfield better be fucking amazing.
 

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Just goes to reinforce that IMO announcing titles soon before release is the better move.

It is also a shame that people interested in it would have to wait so long, yet the 7th gen had 2 entries, 5 years apart.
 

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Considering how they're still working on starfield and BGS Austin is focused on 76, this isn't too surprising tbh.
Just insane to me that Bethesda of all companies to announce two games so far out from being finished, with all of their other games being announced to be released within 6 months of their announcement.
Only other game from them I can think of that did that is ESO.
And ESO is a banger so good news?
 

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As long as they bring back the Morrowind team for the lore and world building, they can take all the time they want.
 

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With all hands on deck for Starfield, did anyone think it would be any different?
 

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I un-jokingly called 2026-2028 when they pointlessly 'revealed' it at E3 that one time. Seemed obvious given where they were with projects then, seems obvious with where they are with projects now.
 

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I imagine that under Microsoft, Todd Howard is gonna have to let go of at least one of the properties he usually oversees. I don't think Microsoft is gonna wanna wait 10+ years for sequels to franchises as big as ES and Fallout.
 

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TES VI will likely be released 3 years after Starfield, which is normal for second games in a generation for Bethesda. So 2025. 2026 at the latest. So that would be 15 years after Skyrim at the latest, not 20.
 

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I'm all for taking your time, but with this approach they will loose a whole generation of gamers who cares for The Elder Scrolls. A lot of people will see it as an "ancient" franchise at that point.
 

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It was kinda obvious all along, they're still totally swamped in Starfield developement and the game itself it won't come out until the end of 2022 (hopefully)
 

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Maybe '26 at a push. Starfield's next year but given the likely scale it could be pretty much content complete by the end of this year and then spend the rest of the time polishing/bug hunting whilst most of the team moves over to ES6.

Given that they'll already have the game engine and the experience to use it it shouldn't take anywhere near as long to put the game together as Starfield.
 

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This should have always been assumed. Now try thinking about when the next Fallout will be.

Although there are certain alternatives available for the development of that series now.
 

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I edited the thread with a direct quote.

I don't think we should be taking this so literally here. 2025 at the latest IMO.
It seems that even though it was mostly BGS Austin, Bethesda does consider Fallout 76 as part of their release cadence of 1 game every 3-4 years, so yeah I don't really think this game is as far out as some are making it out to be imo.

2025-2026 sounds about right I think.
 

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MS and Todd should consider another studio to work on BGS games. These massive gaps between games of existing IPs is crazy. The gap between Fallout 4 and 5 will be similar
 

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Wow, that's crazy. No idea why they announced this game 3 years ago. By the time it releases it'll be like 7 years after it's announcement, minimum.
 

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it's absolutely insane that Skyrim hasn't had a real, single player follow up and probably won't for 15 years after its release.

To put that in perspective, the amount of years between Skyrim and it's follow-up is going to probably be at least the same amount of time between Daggerfall and Skyrim. In that time period, Bethesda released Morrowind and Oblivion, not to mention the other games they made in that time frame, and ALSO not to mention that, in this time period, developers had to adjust first to the full 3D tech revolution, and then to HD development standards starting in the PSWii60 gen.
 

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This is such a bait-y thread title.

The suggestion that they wouldn't get ES6 released until next decade is pretty absurd, and not at all suggested by the link.