Bethesda boss Todd Howard sure is coming out with some corkers recently. Speaking to IGN about The Elder Scrolls as a series, Howard mentions The Elder Scrolls VI. Right now, we know next to nothing about the game other than it likely takes place in Hammerfell, and that it's almost certainly going to be a PS5 release. And yes, it's probably going to be a long time before we hear anything worthy of note -- it's not going to appear at E3, and Starfield is Bethesda Game Studios' next project anyway.
But yeah, The Elder Scrolls VI still turns up during this interview. Howard speaks about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and how it's still a blockbuster title a whopping eight years after its original release. Thanks to the game's high replay value and external factors such as mods, Skyrim remains an immensely popular game. Crazy when you stop to think about it.
And naturally, Howard wants the same from The Elder Scrolls VI. "[The success of Skyrim] lets us know going into Elder Scrolls VI that this is a game we need to design for people to play for a decade at least. At least," he said. The double us of "at least" really sells that one.
Bethesda gets a lot of criticism -- and sometimes it's fully deserved -- but it's hard to deny that its games have a kind of magic to them. They must, otherwise people wouldn't still be playing Skyrim, or even The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, for that matter. There's something about the single player Bethesda role-playing game that hooks people and refuses to let them go. Here's hoping that Howard and his team can deliver again when it comes to The Elder Scrolls VI.
Let us know if you're still playing Skyrim in the comments section below.
[source youtube.com, via gamesradar.com]
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If you keep re-releasing it like Skyrim then it sure will be lol
so don't release it as an broken buggy mess that looks like a mid gen PS3 game then
As weird as it sounds I think what keeps people playing is the bugs.
Like yeah its a solid RPG beneath it all, but the bugs are so varied and hilarious people play just to find them.
Then you have the modders taking a very malleable game and code, fixing it, running with the bugs...it has legs based on leaving the door open.
Is this guy doing a filibuster?
Just like Fallout 76?
I'm really worried about this gmea now with what he's been saying. They seem upset that people still play Skyrim but there is nothing they can do to milk more money from them. I still play Skyrim because it was a great game, bugs and all and more so because it was complete even before the expansions, if the next goes down the Fallout 76 route as a live service I don't even know if I'll be interested in it. I'd just rather have a big huge world with meaningful stories to find, not some microtransaction riddled husk of a game
@carlos82 You watched the Jimquistion. π€
I would have love too hear that he said that it should be a good game but thats not important. π
@Flaming_Kaiser π€«
Using the same crappy engine as well. Nope I won't even touch this trash. Even COD has made a new engine, though I never imagined Activision would make it ever. Shame on Bethesda! With all the juggernaut sales from Fallout 4 and Skyrim, they won't even make a new engine to fix their terrible buggy gameplay and last gen graphics.
Not if Bethesda sticks to using the Creation Engine. They need to get with the times or just stick to re-releasing Skyrim.
Letβs see how they try to monetize it, because at this point Bethesda has too many shareholders to please than just putting out a nice SP with two expansions like Oblivion. Hopefully with the train wreck of 76 and Starfield out next they can learn some lessons before launching it.
For people to play this for a decade, it needs to run on an engine not created before the beginning of the previous decade.
I agree that it needs to run on a new engine to last 10 years, and even then, that would be going some to last that long. In the meantime, ESO latest Elsweyr is pretty good; have been playing today
By play for decades does him mean it will be decades before it's in a playable state.
Todd you are a total fool with a bad case of verbal diarreah
The charm Skyrim and Fallout 4 has is, you always discover something new. Be it weapons, clothes, people, places etc. There's the insane amount of dialogue available for different scenarios and outcomes depending on player choices. Just had my Fallout 4 platinum and still love it. I'll try to plat Skyrim SE too. I definitely see the effort put into F4, no wonder we haven't had any new game except 76 using F4's assets.
The graphics are fine only the character models should be improved. Most of the assets, objects are more detailed than half the games out there trust. That Bethesda hate is getting old, it's not like they got a gun to your head to play their games.
So the next ES game will be a live service game
Same **** engine
Buggy as hell
pass
Considering Skyrim was released in 2011 (PS3/360/PC), 2013 (Legendary Edition), 2016 (Special Edition PS4/One/PC), 2017 (Switch/PSVR), and 2018 (Windows VR)...10 years is more probable than not.
Bethesda catches a ton of doo doo but in reality, even buggy AF, they have always offered some hella content minue 76 for 59.99.
@carlos82 Totally agree with him personally.
@TheArt What hate they make the terrible choices. They get away with too much stuff anyway. The last game just was too much of a insult.
Honestly after Todd's straight up BS pr events for fallout 76, his Elder mobile game and his completely delusion recent interview with IGN I believe he alone is the reason why Bethesda has been failing. He tarnished their reputation and won't trust the Bethesda name until he's gone.
@Flaming_Kaiser That's how some of you choose to see it. 76 might be a disaster but 4 is a solid SP game. And if people keep whining instead of finding a game they think it's better, then I guess it's tough love. Deep down they know there aren't too many alternatives with that much scope as Bethesda's games.
@Suikoden. π And whinge that its all Sony's fault for not allowing unfiltered mods needed to fix their crappy game engine once again for another game!
As i said in the e3 thread-they couldn't show off the elder scrolls Vi yet as they knew after fallout 76 they HAVE to get the ps5 exclusive backwards flying dragons just right! π
Well that's a nice big wish by Todd Howard. My big wish is that i could run like Hayes, hit like Mays, field like Brooks, and played 3rd base in the majors.
@Flaming_Kaiser same here, one of the few online to just tell it how it is
If somehow they manage not to f this up, I forgive all of their past mistakes.
@TheArt I love how they fixed the mist problem on the PS4 by removing the mist. π€£π€£π€£π€£
This is the safest bet known to man. Skyrim will still be popular in another five years. Considering Skyrim was made in the first half of the LAST generation, I can't imagine how ridiculous the next installment two generations later would be.
Maybe finish the game before releasing it instead of never like every other Bethesda games
@Flaming_Kaiser I didn't know about no mist. Perhaps beneath their talent of making addictive looting games they find it hard fixing bugs.
I agree that Bethesda's single player games, specifically Elder Scrolls, is truly special. I think the world building and lore of Elder Scrolls is completely unrivaled by any other series. Nothing else even comes close in terms of achieving what Todd Howard once said was his vision- "To create worlds that the player just wants to be in." That said, where Elder Scrolls will need significant improvement in the future is its combat system which was somewhat dated in 2011 and totally behind the times today. Looking at what Action RPGs have done since then (i.e. Monster Hunter, Dark Souls, etc) I think the biggest challenge for Bethesda will be developing a system that competes with today's quality RPG mechanics while staying true to the Elder Scrolls formula. From a very base standpoint, Elder Scrolls has widely been played in first person over the years but I don't see how that can work in a way that keeps up with standards for quality in RPG combat. All this being said, Lord knows they will have taken enough time to figure it out.
@TheArt π Its a weird company one of the most terribly made games. I would love too see if you combine their stuff with the Guerrilla engine.
Skyrim was a great game I didn't get around to playing until the Switch port, which was pretty decent, flying horse bugs and all. Right up until about 200 hours in when I did one of those fortify enchanting loops and then proceeded to create armour that could carry the entire weight of the game world inside as well as super buffed dragonbone swords that killed everything with a single love tap. Then laughed hysterically when I found and exploited another loop which allows infinitely chained dragon shouts and proceeded to push the Ebony Knight right off his clifftop. After that I was kinda done.
"Play for a decade at least"...
Well, no problem Todd, if you keep using that obsolete engine, it'll take at least a decade just to load it
does that mean how long it will take them to finish it after release
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