Update: We didn't expect it but it happened - Elder Scrolls 6 has been confirmed.
The game made an extremely brief appearance during Bethesda's Showcase at E3 2018.
We saw nothing but a short clip of a logo which you can see below.
For now that'll have to be enough.Original article continues belowThe Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim may be able to boast that it still has millions of daily players, but were willing to bet that despite their ongoing love of the game these players would be very much interested in news of Elder Scrolls 6.
Probably because we are some of these very players ourselves.The Elder Scrolls is one of the biggest RPG franchises around and though its recently moved into MMORPG territory with the Elder Scrolls Online, we havent seen a new mainline title since the launch of Skyrim in 2011.It hasnt felt like seven years since we first played Skyrim thanks to the numerous DLC packs, the recent remaster, and the incredible mods that are out there.
But while we continue to enjoy them, its always fun to speculate about what will be coming next.Clearly were not the only ones weve traversed the internet to uncover all the rumors it holds and weve gathered all the most plausible news right here for your perusal.Now that the game has been confirmed, everything feels a little more real.Cut to the chaseWhat is it The highly anticipated sequel to the Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimWhen can I play it Not soonWhat can I play it on PC is a safe bet, as well as the latest console generationsElder Scrolls 6 release date when can I play itWe might as well get the bad news out of the way first youre not likely to be playing The Elder Scrolls 6 any time soon.
The good news, however, is that its been confirmed you will be able toeventually.The game was confirmed during Bethesda's E3 2018 conference but nothing more than a logo was given.
We don't even have a subtitle or a release year.
Todd Howard said that the game will be coming after Starfield, the company's next big IP.
That means Elder Scrolls 6 could be years away.Elder Scrolls 6 trailer when can I watch itThe only footage we have of Elder Scrolls 6 is a very short clip of the game's logo.
Other than that, you might be waiting a while to see more.
We think E3 2019 is a safe bet.
Or maybe it'll leak beforehand.Elder Scrolls 6 what do we know so farBethesda is a busy studio: not only is it working on a brand new IP, it's also continuing to develop for Elder Scrolls Online and it's taking on the long commitment of Fallout 76.
And that's only in its main RPG franchises.
It's still got plenty going on elsewhere with mobile games, Dishonored, Prey and others.Thanks to Todd Howard, we know Bethesda is working on two huge new titles simultaneously, though their developments are staggered.We now know that one of them must be Elder Scrolls 6.Having returned to Skyrim after some time away, Howard compared it to seeing an old friend from high school, adding that the time away had given him the chance to see Skyrim as a gamer for the first time.This, to us, would be the perfect time to start applying this new perspective to the next title in the series.At the very least we can say we know it wont just be called Elder Scrolls 6.
Theres going to be a colon and another word to round the title off if previous releases are anything to go by.Where will it be setWere also willing to bet that like all the other games in the series its going to be set in the continent of Tamriel, the map of which is below.Previous games have taken us to Highrock, Hammerfell, Morrowind, Cyrodil, and Skyrim.
Valenwood, Elsweyr and Black Marsh are the biggest places left to explore.
Though theres still much of Morrowind left to explore, we imagine much of that will be covered in the upcoming Elder Scrolls Online title.So, Valenwood, Elsweyr or Black Marsh.
Which looks most likely Rumors online are heavily pointing towards Black Marsh, the home of the worlds reptilian Argonian race.There isnt actually any solid reason for this rumor, but its swampy marshlands and network of islands would make for an interesting geographic change for the series, though its a geography that would leave itself open to comparison with the Witcher 3.
Its probably the region of Tamriel that we know the least about so Bethesda would have plenty of room to be creative.That said, Elsweyr would also be an interesting geography change with its dry plains and harsh badlands that the Khajit call home.It would certainly be nice to find out more about the culture of either the Khajit or the Argonians so both of these extremely different settings have an understandable appeal to fans.There is, however, weight to a rumor that Elder Scrolls 6 could be set in Valenwood.
Valenwood is the home of the Bosmer and its an area of Tamriel that Bethesda hasnt explored much.The rumor that the game will be set here is based on a reported internal Bethesda memo from all the way back in 2014.
In this memo, Bethesda employees were reportedly wanted against using the terms Fallout: Nuka World, Elder Scrolls VI or Project Greenheart.Though it was initially believed to be a fake, Fallout: Nuka World ended up being a big DLC release for Fallout 4 which gives slightly more weight to rumor that Project Greenheart is in fact the codename for the next Elder Scrolls title.
The fact that Greenheart is a city in the verdant region of Valenwood makes this even more interesting.Forest and jungle settings are hard to get right in games and itd be really interesting to see Bethesda get creative with the part of Tamriel thats said to have rejected civilization and embraced the wilderness.It's hard to tell from the short E3 clip we have of the game but our first impression is that the game world looks a lot more like Valenwood or Elsweyr than Black Marsh.What features can we expectHomebuildingA feature that were fairly certain will be included in the game to some degree is house building or town creation.
Skyrim introduced the idea of designing and maintaining a homestead with its Hearthfire DLC, which Fallout 4 expanded upon with the introduction of its settlement mechanic and the Elder Scrolls online built upon again with its Homestead DLC.
This leads neatly into a further expansion of such features in the next Elder Scrolls title as it felt not-quite-finished in Fallout.It would be a feature that would actually fit in particularly well with the rumored Valenwood setting, if it involved the player adapting to the wilderness in the way the resident Bosmer have with their treetop cities.
In a similar way the player used debris and junk to craft their settlement in Fallout, they could use their natural environment to do so in Elder Scrolls in a nice contrast.A whole new storyIn a recent interview with Gamespot, Todd Howard said that Bethesda is looking into how exactly it tells stories in its games.Howard noted that Skyrim and Fallout 4 take slightly different approaches to stories, with Skyrim leaving things more open to the players vision and Fallout guiding them more firmly through a storyNow he says the studio are looking how to tell a better story in an open world.
He said each of our games we've had successes and failures and if you ask us internally, we have new ideas that we want to explore in the future because we feel like we haven't really cracked it yet the way we think it could be.Being aware of the differences between Skyrim and Fallouts approaches to storytelling and the fact that both have positives and negatives suggests that the next Elder Scrolls title could strike some kind of balance between giving the player completely free reign and telling a story around their character.Its hard to deny that The Witcher 3 has had a massive impact on what players expect in terms of including an engaging story in an open world game.Though we dont in any way want Bethesda to just churn out a Witcher copy (were not sure itd be possible anyway) it does put a certain amount of pressure on Bethesda when it comes to achieving high-quality environmental and quest-based story telling.Something we dont expect to see, though, is multiplayer.
Skyrim certainly doesnt suffer from a lack of multiplayer and it wouldnt really make all that much sense to incorporate any online multiplayer gameplay with the Elder Scrolls Online still rolling along.Virtual realityIt's not a certainty by any means but the fact that Bethesda released a full VR experience for Skyrim means it's not out of the question.What would we like to seeWell, something wed like to see and fully expect to see is improved graphics and reduced bugginess.
The remastered version of Skyrim showed just how far things have come visually since the games first release so we fully expect any title following on from it to be of that standard if not much higher, depending on how far away the game is.Theres actually a fairly good chance that the game could be created using an entirely new game engine after it created an entirely new engine for Skyrim we dont think its unlikely Bethesda will do the same for Elder Scrolls 6 and any Fallout sequels.The Bethesda game studio in Montreal is currently looking to hire an engine programmer so its well worth watching this space.g2JWWBjxT2om3YX2uwiES4.jpg#