Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls series grows stronger and stronger with each instalment, but for all of its plaudits however, it was not without its flaws.
Bethesda will do as Bethesda does, tormenting us with talk of a playable build of TES 6 on the 30-year anniversary of The Elder Scrolls series.
Playable builds is always good to know sounds like they've started full production. Still BR awhile but good to know development is goin smooth.
Whilst Elder Scrolls VI might be good, I speak on behalf of the ENTIRE N4G community when I say we'd much prefer Starfield 2 first.
I won't want a Starfield 2 at all.
Give me ESVI and Fallout 5... on Playstation ofc
ES6 at 30 fps? Not really, thanks. Good thing the industry has evolved since Bethesda was great.
"Playable builds is always good to know sounds like they've started full production. Still BR awhile but good to know development is goin smooth."
It will probably be a launch game for the next gen Xbox.
Fingers crossed
I lost a lot of enthusiasm for Elder Scrolls VI after playing Starfield. It was interesting, but it was still a massive disappointment for me. Elder Scrolls is different from Starfield in many ways, but I can’t bring myself to trust Bethesda with anything anymore.
yeah i'm definitely going to wait a month after reviews and see what people really think of the game instead of it being day 1.
That one-two combo of Fallout 76 AND Starfield does not give me a lot of hope for the future.
I think it’s because some were hyping Starfield to be this ‘generational’ masterpiece when it just turned out to be an okay/good game.
David Pierce, better known as Chesko in the Skyrim modding community, is now a Senior Designer at Bethesda Game Studios currently working on the upcoming TES 6.
Bethesda's Head of Publishing Pete Hines that The Elder Scrolls VI has already left the pre-production phase and is in 'early development'.
Jesus. So we’ve got such a long wait
Also these guys refuse to let Fallout go, by the time we get Fallout 5 it will be 2030 or something
They need to swallow whatever pride they have and just let Obsidian do it. Microsoft could support Obsidian a lot…I mean they did New Vegas will a shit budget and small time frame and it was probably better than Fallout 3 in places.
Obsidian is already completely busy with Grounded (which did very well and likely may even get a sequel at some point), Avowed, The Outer Worlds 2, and whatever Sawyer is cooking up next (maybe Pillars 3?). This about a Fallout game by Obsidian is currently just a fantasy from the fans.
The point is if they get those games out they can start on it
Another is they should have been given this right after the purchase of Zenimax and put things in motion. Instead they greenlit Outer Worlds 2 but why…we have Starfield now. Do they really need two similar Space RPGs.
Also I couldn’t give a shit about Grounded if it means more Fallout sooner
Obsidian already made the best fallout game in recent times, there's no way Todd's ego would let them potentially make a better ES too.
"Patience is a virtue." - William Langland {English Writer]
"Good things come to those that wait." - Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie [British Poet]
"You can't rush art." - The Cleaner [Toy Story 2]
Definitely gonna have to wait till next gen, possibly cross gen but definitely around that transitional time at the soonest.
Just went through first idea/complaint with skyrim and he's already wrong. hes talking about guards and how if you nick them they'll attack you until your dead. When in fact if you sheathe your weapon they will forgive you. Like seriously at least research guard AI before complaining about them.
Edit: problem 8: again fixed in an dlc, than there is an update that allows you to infinite level and thus getting every perk so it's not important to respect when you can become God.
Than the rest are just glitch problems or performance issues that skyrim needed to even run on those consoles. I don't really care about any of these 10. Not not of these is really an extra inclusision or creative feature
1. Better writing.
2. Better quest design.
3. Modular quest design.
#3 is probably what bugs me most about Bethesda games, since there's no real reason to expect decent quest design or writing in the first place. I just really hate constantly getting sidequests that require you to travel across the ENTIRE map. Most quests should be fairly self-contained in a particular region. IE, in Skyrim, most of the quests you pick up in Whiterun should only involve locations and NPCs in that region--like the "D&D mini-module" Black Isle took with all of the big regions in Baldur's Gate II back in the day.
1. Better quests, seriously the Brotherhood line was the only one that was immersing and felt exciting.
I think the best thing is just not to make the main character the god damn Messiah or something, where all the prophecies wank him nonstop. It's cool to have me do all this stuff but it takes away from the stakes a lot. Too grand a scale and nothing feels spectacular anymore.
I felt the Dragon story itself should not have been in the story, or just a build up subplot for a sequel while the Civil war had better focus rather than just a couple of sieges and a final battle.
2. VA variety, when some major character sounds like the Riverwood trader it just feels awkward.
What I'd like to see in future releases:
1. Better animations. Currently they've barely improved on third person animations since Morrowind. There's so little of them, they feel clunky and unnatural, it makes combat feel like playing with dolls.
2. More perks! It was a great move to finally allow precise customization with Skyrim, but I'd really love to see even a bigger choice. So that every character would be truly unique, or could call themselves a specialist in their respective school
3. Great spell variety. Ever since Morrowind there was a tendency for less and less spells followed with Oblivion and Skyrim. I'd even go as far as say spell customization went poof after Morrowind's glorious days.
4. Sexy armours! Immersive armours are fine and all that, but when playing a female character, I'd at least like to have a choice whether I want to feel pretty or not.
5. Mana regeneration is fine and dandy in Skyrim, but thing is, sword and shield is still the way to go. I wanted to be a mage, I started as a mage, but when I picked up a shield I noticed that it's just way easier to just chop through everything while protecting oneself with a shield.
6. Spears! Spears! Spears! Spears! Spears! And helberds with fancy attacks! They were awesome in Morrowind, why were they even removed after that I don't know.
At least two of these on the list are only applicable to consoles, valid gripes perhaps (I played it on PC) but not a problem with the series necessarily. Most of the other complaints seem to be pretty dumb too, they want the series to be something it is not. I do agree that combat improvement is important though.