ghashul ( @ghashul@feddit.dk ) 44•9 months agoI would be surprised if it released in 2026.
Wahots ( @Wahots@pawb.social ) 32•9 months agoShit, 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.
barsoap ( @barsoap@lemm.ee ) 27•9 months agoAnd no gamebreaking bugs
…with Bethesda? You’ll have to wait for the community patch.
hyorvenn ( @hyorvenn@jlai.lu ) 11•9 months agoTo 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…
Jimbo ( @Jimbo@yiffit.net ) 7•9 months agoIf there’s not plenty of werewolf content I’m sure modders will fix that. “Other” kind of content too I’m sure. :3
Wahots ( @Wahots@pawb.social ) 5•9 months agoAs much fun as werewolf penis is, I want real story development, haha. Questlines, explore the affliction, marginalized werewolf underground societies, maybe even a remote village where everyone, men/women/children are werewolves and/or other types of were creatures? I feel like there’s plenty to explore aside from the yiff and relationship type stuff!
Jimbo ( @Jimbo@yiffit.net ) 3•9 months agoHaha yes this is fair.
maybe even a remote village where everyone, men/women/children are werewolves and/or other types of were creatures?
It was some time ago but I’m pretty sure I did a quest in The Elder Scrolls Online that had something like this… Not sure where it was but it was a good side quest with its own hidden area
Squirrel ( @Squirrel@thelemmy.club ) English27•9 months agoThe Elder Scrolls is the best series I’ve stopped caring about.
LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) 17•9 months agoOh goddamnit, another creation engine game?!
Phuntis ( @phuntis@sopuli.xyz ) English18•9 months agoa 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
Squirrel ( @Squirrel@thelemmy.club ) English16•9 months agoI’m out of breath from reading this.
Phuntis ( @phuntis@sopuli.xyz ) English2•9 months agothen breathe
Erk ( @Erk@cdda.social ) English1•9 months agoA new engine would just have to have a new mod API. Plenty of engines have mod APIs. Nothing’s really stopping them, but they really love driving creation engine onward for some reason.
Phuntis ( @phuntis@sopuli.xyz ) English4•9 months agobethesda is not making a whole new engine from scratch that just isn’t happening if they switched engine it’d probably just be to a licensed engine like unreal and that sucks for mod support the reality isn’t creation engine vs a from scratch in house engine that supports modding just as well but with less jank it’s creation engine vs unreal or something else maybe but not in house and there’s no other engine out there that currently exists that’s as good for modding
fox_the_apprentice ( @fox_the_apprentice@lemmynsfw.com ) English2•9 months agoPlease consider using punctuation!
falsem ( @falsem@kbin.social ) 11•9 months agoWe used to blame the Bethesda jank on their last engine, Game ryo. Safe to say that it’s not the engine at this point.
ag_roberston_author ( @ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org ) English31•9 months agoCreation Engine is based on Gamebryo.
AnonTwo ( @AnonTwo@kbin.social ) 4•9 months agoThen making a new engine won’t fix the problem, because it’ll just be based off creation engine.
🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English5•9 months agoThey 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.
millie ( @millie@beehaw.org ) 24•9 months agoWhy would a company with multiple blockbuster franchises completely scrap the engine they’re made in?
WeLoveCastingSpellz ( @WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.fmhy.net ) 6•9 months agoBecause the engine is behind the standard set by decade out games
millie ( @millie@beehaw.org ) 8•9 months agoWeird that they keep hitting the ball out of the park.
sickday ( @sickday@kbin.social ) 6•9 months agoOr 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
KairuByte ( @KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 6•9 months agoTo be fair, the engine has been overhauled since the original CE. So, while it’s not “new” it’s also not “the same engine.”
barsoap ( @barsoap@lemm.ee ) 2•9 months agoThey 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).
Nioxic ( @Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English15•9 months ago30 fps on a not very good looking game full of bugs
Cant wait to pirate it
amio ( @amio@kbin.social ) 11•9 months agoJudging by Starfield, they need all the time they can possibly get. It’s gonna be a long’un.
WarmSoda ( @WarmSoda@lemm.ee ) 10•9 months agoObviously
Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English9•9 months agoI’m pretty sure Elder Scrolls 6 never existed and was just made up to distract people from all the overreaction to Creation Club.
ILikeBoobies ( @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) 9•9 months agoThat puts it at “at least” 15 years after the last entry in the series
Hard to imagine it will have much of a fan base
d3Xt3r ( @d3Xt3r@beehaw.org ) 5•9 months agoBut Bethesda could very well release a Skyrim Extra Special Edition in the interim, and fans will lap it up, no doubt. Jokes aside, there are many large fan-projects in the works which fans are looking forward to, such such as OpenMW, Skyblivion and Skywind, not to mention more “normal” mods for Skyrim itself, so I doubt the interest in the franchise is going away any time soon.
millie ( @millie@beehaw.org ) 2•9 months agoTo be fair, Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 came out in the 90s.
ILikeBoobies ( @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) 1•9 months agoI would have attributed it’s success to the success of Divinity and DnD
sadreality ( @sadreality@kbin.social ) 8•9 months agoWait we are expecting new consoles by 2026?
TowardsTheFuture ( @TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ) English4•9 months agoBad title. Will be console exclusive. Not saying it will be next gen.
jonsnothere ( @jonsnothere@beehaw.org ) 2•9 months agoWell, Xbox and PC exclusive.
TowardsTheFuture ( @TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ) English2•9 months agoYeah sorry meant that.
giantofthenorth ( @giantofthenorth@lemm.ee ) 3•9 months agoWhy wouldn’t we? The PS5 is already 3* years old, most cycles are around 7 years
johnthedoe ( @johnthedoe@lemmy.ml ) English1•9 months agoThat’s what I was wondering. Do they know something? I would’ve assumed ps5 have enough tech to get to 2026
navi ( @navi@lemmy.tespia.org ) 8•9 months agoPretty sure this is referring to platform exclusives and not next-gen consoles.
- manapropos ( @manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com ) 7•9 months ago
ES7 won’t come until 2050
massive_bereavement ( @massive_bereavement@kbin.social ) 2•9 months agoAnd be released anually until homo sapiens is no more.
Zorque ( @Zorque@kbin.social ) 6•9 months agoSo probably around 2052?
interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 1•9 months agoAh, I see you’re an optimist
BigBananaDealer ( @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ) 1•9 months agotodd howard wont be leading es7. es6 and fo5 are his last
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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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thejml ( @thejml@lemm.ee ) English3•9 months agoI 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.
comicallycluttered ( @comicallycluttered@beehaw.org ) 4•9 months agoConsidering 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.
ampersandrew ( @ampersandrew@kbin.social ) 2•9 months agoCompany Losing Market Share to Competitor With Exclusive Games Bought Studios To Make Their Own Exclusive Games