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.
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.
Agreed, Bethesda hasn’t been idle in the time since Skyrim came out. Granted their last few titles have been somewhat hit or miss but to say they’ve not been making anything new would not be accurate.
I didn’t love fallout 4, but it clearly had a lot of work put into it, and a lot of people really did like it. It wasn’t that far off from what I wanted it to be.
I do think 76 was a misstep, but I don’t think it was a metal gear survive level disaster of an idea. It’s not like nobody asked for co-op fallout, and a lot of games with similar core ideas around that time were pretty successful. It’s just not what I’m interested in and not something they have experience with, and they made some bad decisions.
Starfield is going back to what they do best, which is a single player game with a massive world and complexity from top to bottom. I’m extremely hopeful. Obviously until it releases, we don’t know, but that 45 minute direct looked damn good. I just wanted Skyrim/fallout with modern gunplay and in space, but “you can be a space pirate” means it might capture the need I’ve had since Assassin’s Creed Black Flag for the first time, too. It really does look truly expansive, though.
I also absolutely want Elder Scrolls 6, but this looks like there’s a good chance it will justify the wait.
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.
But that’s the point. That’s what they’ve been doing instead of making another elder scrolls game. They’re not “elder scrolls studio”. They’re Bethesda. It’s only possible to do one game at their scope at a time and they take half a decade to make.
They can’t both give you another Elder Scrolls and make the other stuff they’re making.
Probably still using the same engine since Morrowind, and don’t forget to pre-order!
It just works!
That’s long enough away to release Skyrim at least three more times.
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.
Meh, I don’t care, Skywind is all I’m waiting for. :D But who knows when this will be finished…
