The Elder Scrolls 6 will take longer to come out than the original five games combined
If you had told 23-year-old me that the brand new copy of Skyrim I was holding would be the last mainline Elder Scrolls game I'd play until I was in my 40s, I would have kicked you out of my house.
There's always Blades, I guess...
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The Duke Nukem Forever of The Elder Scrolls universe...
On the other hand, they've gotten really good at releasing Skyrim!
If I don't have Skyrim on my TV remote by the end of the year I'm rioting
It takes a lot of time to decide on what parts of the game will be sold as DLC and which celebrity voice actor they'll spend 90% of their budget on.
It's Sir Patrick Stewart again, but he voices every part.
Hot take
That's not necessarily good or bad. It's just the fact that they refuse to form a second decision and only work on one title at a time. And I don't fault them for being tired of the same two IPs over and over again. ESO has been doing pretty well for new elder scrolls content, Skyrim is still as relevant as it was the last 6-8 years and stsrfield is shaping up to be either a massive success to get them back to their good reputation or the death of the studio.
Seriously why would they invest so much into tesVI already if starfield could Literally cause them to lose any sense of a good reputation and possibly be shoved aside by Microsoft as a dead weight studio that works way too slow and not worth the time and effort.
At least Skyblivion is getting closer. 2024 or 2025.
It's not official, but I never played Oblivion, so I have high hopes for experiencing it re-imagined in a modernish engine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1q1nXLDjB8
That means the game is going to be supernatural :)
A new half life game came out since Skyrim. And it's been 3 years since then.
It probably won't be worth the wait honestly... I feel like they've dropped nothing but disappointments since Skyrim.
We'll see. If Starfield is as bland as it looks from the Direct I'll definitely be writing off ES6. I hope it's good though.
Todd and Hines' dream of simplifying everything got old in Oblivion.
Edit. Oh damn I didn't realize your comment was 11 days old.
Idk, there's some really interesting gameplay they have improved on since Skyrim, like companions, settlements, etc. Personally I can't wait to have a TES game with those improvements even if the story is so-so.
I'm not sure what the distribution of resources has been on the design-side of things at Bethesda, but they've had some kind of hand in the following games since Skyrim:
I know several of those are strictly under the Bethesda Softworks publishing side of things, but even on New Vegas the game design branch helped out here and there. I imagine they've been overloaded with working on how complicated Starfield actually is.
Still, it's a little bizarre that things have only been taking longer and longer as time goes by.