Board Thread:Future TES Titles/@comment-1600847-20160628201243/@comment-9062114-20160629154631

Draevan13 wrote: Zippertrain85 wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but they did something similar with Fallout 4 as well. I know Todd Howard said that he doesn't like showing off Bethesda games before they're almost completed, since there isn't enough content to keep people satisfied That was in 2013, he said Bethesda wouldn't talk about Fallout 4 for "a while". They announced it 2 years later.

I'm definitely going to buy the Skyrim remaster now, if it's going to be 3 years or more until we get a new single-player Elder Scrolls.

Hopefully some good expansions come out for ESO too, the last 2 were kinda lackluster. I hate to tell you Draevan, but if the game really isn't even in Development by Mid-two-thousand sixteen, 2019 release date might be too generous. I mean, Skyrim took around five years to make and say they release in November 2019, that's three and a half. TES VI is probably going to be bigger and expansive so it will probably take LONGER than that to come out. Plus, they have other franchises to juggle like Fallout, Doom, and Wolfenstein that might warrant sequels. I would say realistically, if they start development late this year at earliest a 2022 or so release date might be more realistic.

That is insane though, that a follow up to Skyrim would take 11 or 12 years to make. To put that in contrast, Skyrim came out NINE years after Morrowind. Someone who was twenty when Skyrim came out would be 32 when TES VI comes out, they might not even be interested in the series anymore by that point, they might have a family, they might have a full time job, etc. I get these games take time to make (well), but making the fans wait over a decade for a sequel to a franchise that lives off of world building and expansion just makes zero sense from a creative & business standpoint. Sorry for ranting, but if they seriously are not developing it after almost FIVE years, I will be pissed!

It's especially ridiculous considering how successful the game was, and how much easy money a sequel would be, besides starting all of these gamble franchises one after another for the next couple of years, not breaking them up with a booming franchise sequel just seems nonsensical. Plus, Skyrim is one of the few TES games that actually had a cliffhanger in it (What happens to the Aldmeri Dominion and the "Second" Great War!?).