Finally, I can’t wait for a new fresh face to over promise me games.
I know Todd is kind of a silly guy and people have mixed opinions on him. But it will be pretty weird to be in a gaming industry without him. Like him or not dude is a legend
I mean, yeah, by the time it’s out he’ll be nearing his 70s
He’s 52, if it takes 8 years before ES6 comes out He’ll be 60. If they milk this one as hard as they did Skyrim he’ll be long dead before ES7. Hell, I might be dead before ES7
After he dies, he will wake up in the afterlife, and hear a familiar voice say “hey, you’re finally awake”.
I think he said could be his last “Elder Scrolls game” not last game?
Considering it might not go out for at least 7-8 years, if not 10, I’m not suprised.
Yeah he’ll be nearly 60 maybe over if it gets delayed at all. That’s a career.
The first time exiting the sewers in Oblivion, looking up at the sky, water and landscape on the Xbox360 was just magical. Todd’s had a great run and his creations from TES and Fallout are once of my favorite games franchises.
Was Morrowind for me. Climbing out of that prison galley to find myself in that foggy alien swamp with the rumbling groans and sorrowful cries of the nearby silt strider. Realizing shortly after that if I could see it lying around, it had value, and I could pick it up and keep it or even sell it if I wanted to. The world felt so mysterious and hostile. I had no idea what strange sights lurked out in the mist. That brown, dusty, ancient world always felt like I was cracking open a tome rich with lost customs and mystery.
I love Elder Scrolls as well, but I kind of wish people would just give him this for now and stop badgering him about the next game. We know we’re getting it, we know it won’t be for a while, and yes, that sucks, but let the dude enjoy his passion project.
This has been a decades-long project for him, creatively and conceptually. Something he wanted before he even got a job at Bethesda. Like, there’s a significant amount of history with him wanting to make a space RPG, but only when “the tech is advanced enough”.
Whether it lives up to expectations is another story. No game ever lives up to every expectation, but even if this lives up to a few, I think he’ll consider it a success.
My only concern about post-TES: VI is who takes over for the series. I kind of trust Howard to put someone he believes in to take over, but it’s not going to be the same regardless. Maybe someone who works on ESO would be good, but I don’t know.
But in the meantime, I’m just going to (hopefully) enjoy his passion project and I can wait a few more years for the next Elder Scrolls. I know it’s become kind of a meme that it’ll be another decade or two, but I honestly don’t think it’ll be that long.
Skyrim came out when I was a freshman in high school. By the time ES6 comes out I will be nearly 40, or in my 40s. Wtf are they waiting on for this game to take so long?
Open world games like Skyrim are hard to make, and modern expectations are making them even harder.
People are shitting on Bethesda for taking so long, but no other developer has managed to make a worthy competitor in the decade+ since Skyrim released.
Kingdom Come Deliverance is good, but I agree overall.
Kingdom Come is a solid game, but it’s also still a very narrow game compared to Skyrim. You play as a specific character and the “sandbox” nature of the game is much more limited.
It’s more like the Witcher where you can roleplay slight variations on one person, rather than Skyrim where you can role-play as a vast array of potential characters.
Yeah, the sad fact is that no one has even come close to creating a Skyrim-like. The Witcher 3 had imitators like the recent Assassins Creed games etc. but there is still nothing quite like The Elder Scrolls.
This kid I know worked for a landscaping company that worked on Todd Howards yard and he would always piss in Todd’s bushes. He also said his wife was actually a nice person. Still pissed in his bushes tho.
…like to be mean? Or just because he had to go?
To be “edgy”. They are more someone I know than a friend, however.
