Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard has confirmed that Elder Scrolls 6 is still “a long way from release.”
This game was first iroduced at the E3 exhibition in 2018 with a short teaser, and at that time it was still in the pre-production stage. Since then, no new gameplay footage or information has been released. Howard said in an ierview with GQ magazine:
The game still has a long way to go. I ask the fans to be patie and not to worry.
He added that he prefers not to announce the release date of the games early so that players don’t have to wait too long:
I would like to iroduce the game when I can release it very soon. My ideal is this, and of course I’m not saying that this is exactly what happens, but I like to be sile for a while and then suddenly the game appears.
Reconstruction of Oblivion
When asked if it’s possible that The Elder Scrolls 6 will be out of the blue like the Oblivion remake, he replied:
It can be said that it (renovation of Ablivion) was a kind of experime and the result turned out well.
Howard also meioned that hundreds of Bethesda employees are currely working on Fallout-related projects; Including Fallout 76 and several other projects, one of which is probably the remake of Fallout 3. Bethesda released a remastered version of Oblivion this year and recely released a Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition with all the expansion packs. Howard previously confirmed that The Elder Scrolls 6 will be Bethesda’s next big game after the curre Fallout projects, with Fallout 5 in developme after that. In an ierview in 2023, he said that maybe he shouldn’t have iroduced the game so early:
I have thought about this a lot. Maybe I should have iroduced the game in a more informal and easy way.
In the end, Howard said about the team’s main goal for making this episode:
We wa The Elder Scrolls 6 to be the ultimate simulation of a faasy world, and depending on how much time has passed, there are new ways to achieve that goal.
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