By the time this game hits the market it’s target audience will be significantly diminished by having passed away from natural causes.
So far, in the time between Elder Scrolls V and and VI, I have:
- graduated high school
- graduated college
- gotten 3 jobs
- started and advanced in my career
- gotten married
- had 2 kids
Oh my god, I’ve just realised how much of my life has passed. Similar timeline to you. I’m starting to think my kids will be teenagers by the time it comes out.
There’s even a chance, if the time between releases increases, I might not make it to the next one after this.
Yeah, even back then, I had a feeling that they just announced it so that people would actually shut up about it and leave them alone.
Yeah, that’s why I wasn’t that hyped when they announced it. Unlike when they announced Fallout 4 when it was only like 6 months away? That’s the type of announcements I prefer. 6-12 months away as opposed to announcing it then it being like a 5-10 year long dragged series of promotions and teasers.
They only teased it this early because people were unable to understand that ESO is not made by Bethesda Game Studios and won’t be a hindrance of TES VI being made.
As long as they’re still making money selling ES:O expansions, why devote the resources for an all-new game?
Also, the teams behind ESO and the mainline titles are not the same. The main team that made Skyrim, Oblivion and the others is focused on Starfield now, and probably for the next three-ish years with the post-release content.
Meanwhile, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Re-release-master-vamped 3 Toaster edition is likely six-plus months away
Just in time for the Xbox X Series SSX Tricky
I am amazed people are still buying Bethesda games. I was done with them after Fallout 4. I see Starfield hype… no thank you Todd. I am keeping my money.
Bethesda games scratch a unique itch it’s hard to describe and no other studio is able to fulfill it.
Baseless speculation here, but my gut tells me that Microsoft is going to put a remaster-focused studio to task on a current-gen Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim triple pack, a la the Master Chief Collection, to tide people over.
Remastering Skyrim is the easy way out, but Oblivion is still trapped on the 360 (if you don’t have a PC) and Morrowind is the darling title of the franchise that people would love to see remastered (and was recently used as an example by Nvidia on “how to remaster a game”). Remaster the earlier two and then just shove the Xbox One copy of Skyrim Anniversary Edition in there for funsies is something people would get behind, more than just another port of Skyrim alone.
While I’d love a Morrowind remaster (not remake), it’s incredibly unlikely since Todd Howard himself is against it.
What would even be the point of an official remaster when you can combine the OpenMW engine with a mod pack? And there’s Skywind the great remake still in the making…
