At this point, I just want to play something that doesn’t remind me of an Xbox 360 game. The combat in a game as critically acclaimed as The Witcher 3 wasn’t very fun, but it’s way more imaginative than Skyrim’s.
What if magical abilities worked the same way that your Dragon Shouts worked in Skyrim, so you can use magic without having to give up a weapon?īethesda needs to think big in terms of combat. It would be interesting to see a separation between weapons and magic in the sense that you don’t necessarily need to equip one or the other. What The Elder Scrolls 6 could use is a complete and utter gameplay overhaul, making combat feel smoother than before, which is a lot to ask for, as most Bethesda-developed games are janky as all hell. While we haven’t seen any gameplay for The Elder Scrolls 6, we imagine it’s going to be reminiscent of the previous first/third-person action role-playing games. Jeff Grubb (opens in new tab) also claims that Elder Scrolls 6 is planned as an Xbox exclusive. And thus, Elder Scrolls 6 could be looking like a 2025 release. Industry insider Jeff Grubb (opens in new tab) states that Fable will launch in 2023, so that means that The Elder Scrolls 6 could launch in 2024, but Fable could also get pushed back to 2024. "We'll decide what makes the best sense for our audience when the time comes, and I can't really project today what that looks like," Howard said.Īccording to insider Tyler McVicker (opens in new tab), it's entirely possible that The Elder Scrolls 6 won't launch until 2026 to 2027, which is a long way away.Īccording to Phil Spencer, Fable will launch before The Elder Scrolls 6 does. Todd Howard did say in an interview with (opens in new tab) that The Elder Scrolls 6 being an Xbox exclusive is "hard to imagine." However, the latest biggest bombshell was Microsoft buying Bethesda, so that may or may not affect the release date of The Elder Scrolls 6.
Since the Summer has come and gone, it's more than likely we won't hear about The Elder Scrolls 6 until Bethesda's next event in 2021.
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It’s likely to hit PC, but will it land on the Xbox Series X and PS5, or will it overshoot their life cycles entirely? Anything is possible given how little we know about this game. We don’t even know what consoles it’s going to land on. We imagine that the earliest we’ll see it is in 2024, considering Bethesda has to get through an entire sci-fi RPG first, and we all know how long that’s liable to take (hint: a very long time). Overall, we’re not expecting The Elder Scrolls 6 to show up for at least a few years. In fact, you can still play that game on an Xbox Series X if you still have the disc and didn’t give it away to your friend’s kids like some kind of well-meaning goof before going to grad school.Īnyway, as Sam White explains in the GQ feature, Microsoft has had an unofficial partnership with Bethesda Games since 2002 with Xbox as the “lead console” for development, long preceding last year’s acquisition of the studio.Director and executive producer of Bethesda Game Studios, Todd Howard, actually told IGN at E3 2019 that “everyone should be very patient,” and just before nonexistent E3 2020, Peter Hines, SVP of global marketing at Bethesda, tweeted: "If you’re coming at me for details now and not years from now, I’m failing to properly manage your expectations.” While The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Skyrim were released on both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 at launch, the Xbox was alone among the three major consoles of the sixth generation to have the processing power to run The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. In an interview with GQ magazine, Xbox head Phil Spencer confirmed that the long-awaited sequel to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the yet-to-be-subtitled Elder Scrolls 6, will be exclusive to Xbox consoles and PCs. Good news, bad news, or ugly news, we’re getting another direct ripple from the Microsoft acquisition of Bethesda.
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