New elder scrolls still 5 years away
New elder scrolls still 5 years away
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The Elder Scrolls 6 Still 'Five+ Years Away', PlayStation Version Undecided - IGN
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I honestly don't understand why anyone is surprised by this, or why it makes them have a negative opinion of Bethesda Game Studios.
I understood when they announced that TES VI was in development that it wasn't in active development at this time, but that the announcement was to quell the fanbase who thought TES had been entirely abandoned.
Skyrim took 3 years, Fallout 4 took 4 years, Fallout 76 took 3 years (but wasn't a mainline game), and Starfield took 5 years, which is the longest development time for mainline games by... one year, the horror, and it's an entirely new IP with space systems that I'm sure took additional time to develop engine-specific features to support. I anticipate TES VI will be a larger and more ambitious game than Skyrim and will be influenced by how they've developed Fallout 4 and Starfield, so seeing it release in 2028 with a 5 year dev time vs. Skyrim's 3 seems entirely reasonable.
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Yup. No one should be surprised and this is far better in a lot of ways.
This is how Bethesda has worked for decades now. One game at a time, developed over several years. Have someone else develop/oversee the non-mainline games (eg. New Vegas, ESO) but work on all the mainline games with singular focus. No splitting teams or any of that.
The difference is the teaser. Usually, they drop the teaser, announce the game, it's out in a few months. Although, they also teased Starfield early, but I think some things like the pandemic and the acquisition had a larger effect on the development time.
About a year after Starfield, they'll probably get deep into TES: VI pre-production. Maybe a bit of writing will be done, but they'll probably still be bouncing ideas (which I think they have quite a few already) off each other for a few months and seeing where it goes from there.
I'm guessing major development begins around mid-2025 and they work on that for next three or so years. Maybe a 2028/2029 release. Day one exclusive on next-gen Xbox, probably.
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I think having one team that works on all the mainline games contributes to BGS games being what they are. I imagine it contributes to cohesion and knowledge transfer among the devs between games, which helps maintain consistency in output over time. In an age of AAA teams churning through devs with burnout and crunch, it seems like BGS keeps a team together that has multiple years of experience collaborating, and that's a good thing.
Re: the teaser... imo, in the context of the time, people were going to believe TES had been entirely abandoned if they didn't release that teaser. Since BGS had alternated TES and Fallout to that point, there was the expectation that TES 6 would be the next game after Fallout 4; but instead, in 2018, they announced, "Fallout 76 is next and Starfield after that, and we haven't forgotten TES, it's just 3rd in line." If they'd only announced FO 76 and Starfield, TES fans would have blown up about the franchise being dead.
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That's long enough away to release Skyrim at least three more times.
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Any game that's been in development for so long is going to be a hot mess.
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I didn't even think it was in development. Weren't they only working on Starfield?
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Yeah, with how huge their games are, they might be "developing" multiple games at once, but it means they're in the pipeline with some specific stuff handed out to people who don't have projects for the main game they're working on, not that they're actually making multiple games at once. The games are too big for that.
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Last time Bethesda said anything about the Elder Scrolls 6 they said it was in preproduction. I doubt they'll really start working on it until Starfield is out.
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Meh, I don't care, Skywind is all I'm waiting for. :D But who knows when this will be finished...
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At this point I don't even care. I'm sure I'll still buy it when it comes out, but they've lost my enthusiasm with the milking dry of Skyrim instead of developing something new.
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They developed Fallout 4, wasted time on 76, then developed Starfield. They can only actually make one game at a time, and the scale they build for takes 4-5 years for a game. I can understand thinking elder scrolls was going to be next before we knew Starfield was a thing, but once we did the best case was always going to be 4-5 years after that.
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That's not what I meant by not making anything new, I meant in the elder scrolls series. Instead of developing anything new in that line like the fans have been begging for, they just keep releasing Skyrim over and over and making release announcements for Skyrim, over and over like it's something new.
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Open world games have been shit lately but you can always rely on GTA and TES to really build a believable fun world to play in. Insanity that they can sit on this IP for so long knowing the market is dying for a solid open world RPG and knowing TES will sell no matter what.
Microsoft really has no idea how run game studios or they're gearing up to take over the world.
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the market is dying for a solid open world RPG
Whether they hit the mark is still TBD but starfield fits this definition; it’s not like they’ve been sitting on their hands.
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insert Matt Damon aging gif
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I believe it, I think that panning shot of rocks and grass was probably all they had, made public just to confirm that they weren't finished with the elder scroll series. Other projects took priority.
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At this point I'd prefer if they just went Paradox on Skyrim and released a bazillion DLCs with real content, like Dawnguard or Dragonborn was.
I would be happier to play Skyrim level graphics than something that may never arrive.
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I mean yeah, the only reason people have to believe elder scrolls 6 is in development is that teaser from 2018, and honesty they probably only made that teaser to temper expectations.
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As I recall Tod Howard went on an interview almost immediately after that trailer and outright said that any real development on the next Elder Scrolls wasn't happening yet and wouldn't be till Starfield was done. Now that Starfield is almost out the door I'm sure more resources will be shifting over towards ES6 soon but that means development is barely beginning. They did claim they put Starfield development on pause to build a feature they wanted to include in ES6 though so they likely have at least some basic concept work done on some level.
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The Glder Scrolls VI
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I still think we'll see TES6 around the same time we see Half-Life 3 and the next Game of Thrones book.
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Probably still using the same engine since Morrowind, and don't forget to pre-order!
It just works!
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