I would be surprised if it released in 2026.
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Shit, if they haven't started it yet, it better not be coming out in 2026. I want at least four years of peaceful development without them rushing it and burning out the devs. I want good stories and plenty of werewolf content. And no gamebreaking bugs like Cyberpunk, whose campaign got glitched for me.
And no gamebreaking bugs
...with Bethesda? You'll have to wait for the community patch.
To be fair a game like elder scrolls might even need a whole decade of proper development to avoid gamebreaking bugs, Skyrim took 6 years and we got the civil war quest line..
If there's not plenty of werewolf content I'm sure modders will fix that. "Other" kind of content too I'm sure. :3
Oh goddamnit, another creation engine game?!
a wholly new engine would almost certainly break mods or atleast make them harder to make as janky as creation engine can be it's the best engine for modding there is and bethesda games absolutely need modding and not just cause the glitches
I'm out of breath from reading this.
then breathe
We used to blame the Bethesda jank on their last engine, Game ryo. Safe to say that it's not the engine at this point.
Creation Engine is based on Gamebryo.
Then making a new engine won't fix the problem, because it'll just be based off creation engine.
They don't need to make one; they can use one of the many engines that already exist and can do everything their games try to do, but with far less jank. Unless they somehow manage to insert it in regardless, which I would not put past them.
Why would a company with multiple blockbuster franchises completely scrap the engine they're made in?
Because the engine is behind the standard set by decade out games
Weird that they keep hitting the ball out of the park.
Or they can keep using the same engine with the same issues because gamers will definitely buy their next title en-masse despite the previously mentioned issues. Eg. Starfield
To be fair, the engine has been overhauled since the original CE. So, while it’s not “new” it’s also not “the same engine.”
They tend to do that by tacking on new jank without removing (much) of the old stuff, though, presumably because they have base assets and scripts that they're constantly re-using. Or, differently put: As long as Papyrus will still be in the thing I seriously doubt they're giving any thought to technical debt. Already in Skyrim people rather used the UI to script stuff (because that's Flash and ActionScript is at least remotely sane and fast) but ultimately it's SKSE (that is, native dlls) for anything that isn't a lag fest.
It's not so much that CreationEngine is easy to mod, it's that it's what a gigantic community of modders are used to and have developed tooling for (you can get by with little to no use of CreationKit which is an abomination all on its own). Stockholm Syndrome at its finest or we'd have seen much more content for RedEngine which is far technically superior (and yet CDPR is abandoning it for Unreal).
Hehe. ES6 may become the longest/farthest postponed game since Beyond Good and Evil 2, the later now saying it will be released in 2025... maybe 😂
Baldur's Gate 3 comes to mind. It was announced in 2002 and launched in 2023. They even had to cut all the content about black hounds.
Star Citizen might take the cake, I say as an original Kickstarter backer of Star Citizen.
What's the current state of that? Haven't really kept up with SC news for years mow.
Most resources have been diverted to the single player campaign for a while. (Squadron 42)
They communicate what is being done for the persistent universe (Star Citizen) but it's a slower trickle of features due to the resource allocation.
Generally, they made some really great gameplay engagements over the years but features are being prioritized based on the S42 needs. They only update on S42 once a month, but the updates have been looking like they are nearing feature completion (community speculation, not announcement) just due to them moving more toward bug fix/QA type stuff in recent months.
The next big information dump is scheduled for October at the convention that's coming up.
They've given up on giving dates because the community is very unforgiving if the dates are missed. And in software, dates are almost always missed.
It's still moving towards completion. At a snail's pace but it's moving. To their defense they've done some really cool tech with the game engine and stuff but idk if that justifies the timeline imo.
My money is spent regardless though, so I'll zoom around in my leather interior ship whenever it does release.
So better than Elite: Dangerous then
Lol arguably, you can actually walk around the interior of your ship in SC. The FPS portions are pretty good. But last time I played (like two years ago) I fell through a staircase.
I should give it another go soon.
Same as usual…
The Elder Scrolls is the best series I've stopped caring about.
Judging by Starfield, they need all the time they can possibly get. It's gonna be a long'un.
Obviously
Wait we are expecting new consoles by 2026?
Why wouldn't we? The PS5 is already 3* years old, most cycles are around 7 years
Bad title. Will be console exclusive. Not saying it will be next gen.
That’s what I was wondering. Do they know something? I would’ve assumed ps5 have enough tech to get to 2026
Pretty sure this is referring to platform exclusives and not next-gen consoles.
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A document released as part of the FTC v. Microsoft case confirms what was long expected: The Elder Scrolls VI isn’t going to launch for a few years, and it isn’t coming to PlayStation.
And much like Bethesda’s most recent games — Starfield and Redfall — it’ll be available on both PC and Xbox when it does launch.
In a statement about exclusivity attached to The Elder Scrolls VI section of the chart, which comes from an interview with Xbox head Phil Spencer in GQ, Spencer said, “In order to be on Xbox, I want us to be able to bring the full complete package of what we have.
The Elder Scrolls VI was first revealed back in 2018, though we haven’t heard much about Bethesda’s next fantasy adventure since then.
That would include Starfield, The Elder Scrolls VI, and the upcoming Indiana Jones game.
This reveal is just part of a deluge of new details that came out of the case today, including Microsoft’s plan to stream PC cloud games, Activision Blizzard’s briefing on the next Nintendo Switch, and Microsoft’s reaction to the PS5 announcement.
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ES7 won’t come until 2050
And be released anually until homo sapiens is no more.
So probably around 2052?
I could have sworn they mentioned targeting 2026 years ago when the teaser trailer dropped. I’m honestly surprised that it hasn’t been pushed back further with everything that happened with the studio in the years since.
Considering the chart still lists Starfield's release date as "H1 2023", it was probably made before Starfield's delay and Spencer's comments on it being 5+ years away are probably more in line with their current outlook.
I'm pretty sure Elder Scrolls 6 never existed and was just made up to distract people from all the overreaction to Creation Club.
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Wouldnt it skip all future playstation consoles anyway?