If you had told 23-year-old me that the brand new copy of Skyrim I was holding would be the last mainline Elder Scrolls game I'd play until I was in my 40s, I would have kicked you out of my house.
That’s not necessarily good or bad. It’s just the fact that they refuse to form a second decision and only work on one title at a time. And I don’t fault them for being tired of the same two IPs over and over again. ESO has been doing pretty well for new elder scrolls content, Skyrim is still as relevant as it was the last 6-8 years and stsrfield is shaping up to be either a massive success to get them back to their good reputation or the death of the studio.
Seriously why would they invest so much into tesVI already if starfield could Literally cause them to lose any sense of a good reputation and possibly be shoved aside by Microsoft as a dead weight studio that works way too slow and not worth the time and effort.
Idk, there’s some really interesting gameplay they have improved on since Skyrim, like companions, settlements, etc. Personally I can’t wait to have a TES game with those improvements even if the story is so-so.
If you had told 23-year-old me that the brand new copy of Skyrim I was holding would be the last mainline Elder Scrolls game I’d play until I was in my 40s..
Wow, that's rough.. at least I'll have something to play in my 40s 😅 Maybe TES 7 will be out by the time I retire as well.
I’m not sure what the distribution of resources has been on the design-side of things at Bethesda, but they’ve had some kind of hand in the following games since Skyrim:
Elder Scrolls Legends
Elder Scrolls Online
Elder Scrolls Blades
Fallout Shelter
Dishonored
Redfall
A Million Different Skyrim Iterations
I know several of those are strictly under the Bethesda Softworks publishing side of things, but even on New Vegas the game design branch helped out here and there. I imagine they’ve been overloaded with working on how complicated Starfield actually is.
Still, it’s a little bizarre that things have only been taking longer and longer as time goes by.
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