
Two competitors wiggle their swords at each other until one of their souls leaves their body and they crumble in a heap like a mannequin that’s been pushed from a tenth-floor window.Ĭhivalry 2 provides the perfect template for how high-fantasy combat could work in an RPG. This can’t simply be the clumsy melee combat of Bethesda games past. That’s what The Elder Scrolls 6 needs to course correct.įor us, one of the key things that will set The Elder Scrolls 6 apart from its predecessor is the combat.

Dialogue options have never felt thinner or more inconsequential. It’s also clear that the Bethesda story-telling style is wearing thin. What if it’s not actually that different? A big reason that Fallout 4 is (harshly) looked back upon with disappointment is that despite the superficial changes that Bethesda made, it’s not all that different from the games that came before it. However, if it’s a buggy mess, which has very much been the MO of Bethesda on consoles, will players put up with it? If Starfield is a triumph, a genuine leap forward and doesn’t feel like a suped-up Bethesda game, then it will have all the goodwill in the world going into The Elder Scrolls 6.

Starfield will really set the table for Bethesda in terms of how this game is going to be received.
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Sure, at first it’s fun to reminisce about what it was like in 2011, but soon there’s this lingering feeling that we all should have moved on, and no matter how rose-tinted the stories are, all you can remember is the five times your save has been lost, or the PS3 version that would break in bigger and more explosive ways the more you played it. In 2022, Skyrim is hanging about like that guy you always see in the pub when you go back to your home town. Between Fallout 4’s terrible console versions and the Fallout 76 saga, it’s not quite at the peak of its powers, like it was when The Elder Scrolls 6 was first announced. However, recently, Bethesda Softworks had endured a bit of a rough patch. A developer that holds the keys to so many of the biggest franchises in modern gaming.

There’s a hunger for The Elder Scrolls 6 that is unique to Bethesda. That’s pretty much universally agreed upon, even by Todd Howard.Īt the time, he admitted that it was announced so that fans would stop asking about it, but in reality, it’s done the opposite. The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced too early.
