The Elder Scrolls 6 is unlikely to release for at least “five-plus” years. That’s according to Xbox boss Phil Spencer, …
It can be assumed there will be a gap at least 17 years between Skyrim and TES6.
That’s honestly ridiculous.
It’s unfortunate, honestly. I care MUCH more for Elder Scrolls as a franchise over what they are doing with starfield, and I’ve been waiting for another one since my first playthrough of Skyrim when it launched on xbox 360. At this point I’m more excited for skyrim mods like skyblivion and skywind than anything bethesda is doing.
It could be worse. I’m in the camp that wants Fallout 5 (not that there’s anything wrong per se with TES, just not top of my list), and they’ve said that they aren’t even starting on that until after the next Elder Scrolls game that you want is done, so…
It feels like the hype for this game already died a year or two ago… let alone lasting five more years. There’s nothing wrong with ensuring quality by having longer development cycles, but a nearly twenty year gap? They dropped the ball hard on maintaining momentum. Even worse, that means they’ll be courting additional delays due to the usual hiccup of entering a new console generation and potentially having to tinker with the game engine mid-development…
I loathe teasers. I know they’re made for hype but with products like this that take years to complete I feel like they’re just edging fans. I would much rather they wait to have a complete product to showcase than repeating stuff like cyberpunk 2077.
At this point I’m more excited about community projects like Skyblivion, Skywind or Beyond Skyrim than the next official game with how long it’s taking. Skyblivion is planned to release in 2025 and their new roadmap shows how close to the finish line they are.
Yep. Skyrim grandma will never see the game released. The prophecies have come true, it seems. Grade A Toddy
Game development times are getting completely out of hand at this point. I really hoped that the advancement of game creation technology and more advanced engines, we would have seen sped up game development, but for the past decade we’ve seen nothing but the opposite go the point it’s just ridiculous now for some games.
This also poses the other question - who thought it was a good idea to show an ES6 teaser if the game was the better part of a decade out at the time of the teaser?
Finding it harder and harder to think I’m gonna give a shit for TES6, and I love the series.
Yeh I remember how people were so hyped for Half Life 3 for years. Then how long it was taking became a meme. Then people pretty much stopped giving a shit about the Half Life franchise entirely.
Bethesda are risking that happening to their most valuable IP.
It was 4 years from Morrowind to Oblivion. 5 years from Oblivion to Skyrim. It’s been twelve years since Skyrim. It’s been five fucking years since they released the teaser trailer for Elder Scrolls VI. I can feel myself already losing interest.
