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.