The Elder Scrolls VI Catch-all

No details yet, not even a title. Any guesses as to the location?

Not a lot to go on obviously, but if you look at the right side of the screen at the 8 second mark, it sort of looks like a mini dinosaur, a raptor or something on the ridge. The drums, the dry landscape make me think of Hammerfell.

Looks like High Rock to me, home of the Bretons.

High Rock is a province in the northwest section of Tamriel. Most of the province is inhabited by the Bretons, who have divided the province into multiple Breton city states and minor kingdoms. The northern tip of central High Rock also contains Orsinium, the City-State of the Orcs. High Rock encompasses the many lands and clans of Greater Betony, the Deselle Isles, the Bjoulsae River tribes, and, by tradition, the Western Reach. The rugged highland strongholds and isolated valley settlements have encouraged the fierce independence of the various local Breton clans, resisting integration into a formal province or Imperial identity. Nonetheless, their language, bardic traditions, and heroic legends are a unifying legacy.

Subscribed to this thread. I will check back in 2020 when we get a release date announcement.

TheGameguru wrote:

Subscribed to this thread. I will check back in 2020 2024 when we get a release date announcement.

FTFY.

With Fallout 76 and Starfield being their next releases I really doubt any significant work has been done on ES6. The teaser trailer is probably the most tangible thing about the game so far.

That was a little underwhelming. Probably there to try and stop people bleating on about ‘Next Bethesda announcement - Skyrim on a Gameboy!’

You’d imagine (or hope) ES6 will be released on a brand new engine, which could explain lack of real footage and release date.

It’s weird though, weren’t Bethesda sort of praised for announcing games 6 months before their release as a strategy? Now we’ve got a game announced that will take years to come out.

Well that was barely an announcement, they didn’t even release the full title.

My guess is we get fully Next-Gen Systems (not the halfway next-gen's we've gotten so far) in 2021. I doubt it'll be a launch tittle, so probably more than a decade after Skyrim came out.

Sorbicol wrote:

That was a little underwhelming. Probably there to try and stop people bleating on about ‘Next Bethesda announcement - Skyrim on a Gameboy!’

And stop complaints about the other Elder Scrolls stuff being talked about without a mention of VI.

Certis wrote:

Looks like High Rock to me, home of the Bretons.

High Rock is a province in the northwest section of Tamriel. Most of the province is inhabited by the Bretons, who have divided the province into multiple Breton city states and minor kingdoms. The northern tip of central High Rock also contains Orsinium, the City-State of the Orcs. High Rock encompasses the many lands and clans of Greater Betony, the Deselle Isles, the Bjoulsae River tribes, and, by tradition, the Western Reach. The rugged highland strongholds and isolated valley settlements have encouraged the fierce independence of the various local Breton clans, resisting integration into a formal province or Imperial identity. Nonetheless, their language, bardic traditions, and heroic legends are a unifying legacy.

Yeah, that's the one place they haven't gone since Arena, right? As in, not even in Elder Scrolls Online?

I'm not sure that Redguard disqualifies Hammerfell.

See you in 2025
Seems like such a pointless announcement.

The point was: “Yes, we actually are working on VI so please don’t ignore these other Elder Scrolls products we’re featuring out of frustration.”

Guess I'll sub to this thread too. See y'all at the next E3!!!

Spoiler:

Maybe

Was there a point to that trailer? Because I actually think I feel less informed than before I saw it. I think it ranks along side that live action one for skyrim in terms of usefulness.

Sure, the point of the teaser was to officially announce they're working on it.

Only point of the trailer was to tell us that it officially exist. So we stop wondering if they are actually working on it. Todd Howard sort of hinted it that way.

It was a 30 second long eyeroll and drawn-out SHUUUUUUUUUTTTTT UUUUUUUUPPPPPP from Bethesda.

Making people shut up with an empty trailer seems like the entirely wrong way to do it

Shadout wrote:

Making people shut up with an empty trailer seems like the entirely wrong way to do it :D

The trailer should have been a dark screen with the words

ELDER SCROLLS VI

OK FINE, WE'RE WORKING ON IT

Now that would have been fun.
Maybe at the end of the joke trailer with Skyrim on Everything.
It will be out after you can play Skyrim on your fridge, promise.

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Let's see how long until we can post first impressions.

Shadout wrote:

See you in 2025
Seems like such a pointless announcement.

That seems pessimistic without good reason. 11 months passed between the announcement and launch of Skyrim.

Bethesda has always been pretty good at announcing fairly close to release.
But supposedly this game is in something like early concept state.

Todd Howard offered a little more detail on the status of Bethesda's next two major projects, Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6. "I would say Elder Scrolls 6 is in pre-production, and Starfield is in production. It's a game we've been making for awhile," Howard said. "Starfield is playable. Elder Scrolls 6, not in that way yet."

Keighley mentioned that several years ago, Howard said the technology didn't yet exist for the next Elder Scrolls he wanted to make. Is that technology ready now? "It's getting closer," he said with a laugh. "I don't want to spoil anything yet. I think the teasers we put out are announcing the game, and ones of tone. How does the game feel? Hints at where it's set, for both Starfield and Elder Scrolls set. Even for us, though, redoing that music and putting it up there, even we get goosebumpy. We can't wait to have everybody be able to play this game. But that's us, too. We want to play it."

Eidt: Okay, 2025 is an exaggeration of course, but it sounds like 2021 at the very earliest, probably later.

If they are creating a new engine for the game they can take as long as they like to be honest. The creation engine is very long in the tooth now.

Quite intrigued by Starfield too. They can get on with that first, be good to see a shiny new IP

Best to take any talk from Bethesda about a new engine with a whole shaker of salt. They consider the Creation engine used by Skyrim and Fallout 4 to be a new engine as well, not just an improved version of the Gamebryo engine used by Morrowind, Oblivion and Fallout 3.

steinkrug wrote:

The point was: “Yes, we actually are working on VI so please don’t ignore these other Elder Scrolls products we’re featuring out of frustration.”

Exactly this. They wisely chose to announce something rather than let the lack of announcement be the lead story.

I just assumed that was a view from the plane prior to the jump. Elder Scrolls IV: Battle Royale. You heard it here first.

Asking the important questions;

If I buy this PC:

Will it be able to play this game?