I love the Elder Scrolls series, but I'm not convinced that 6 will be good. Owned by Microsoft in this age of AI shit.

New version = old version + ai?

This may be unpopular, but I think this is great news.

Skyrim became one of the best-sellign games of all time in part BECAUSE of how great it is to see your character get ragdolled into the lithosphere by a giant, or to watch the chaos of spawning thousands of wheels of cheese on top of the throat of the world and watching them roll down.

An Elder Scrolls game that was built around having realistic physics, or being restricted to more cinematic movement and knteractions, would lose a key essence of what made the earlier games great.

I don't want engaging combat in Elder Scrolls. If I want combat that I have to pay attention to, I'll go play a Souls game or a fighting game or one of the thousands of games that have tried to be "Skyrim with better combat" that have languished in obscurity because they miss the point.

Anyone who believed that they would switch to Unreal Engine is delusional.

Loading screen after loading screen after loading screen, but hey you can put a cheese wheel in funny places.

This is actually a good news and I am glad creation Engine will be used, The best part of Bethesda games are the modability creation engine and its predecessor provide. Unreal engine is not moddable and is not even beginner friendly, while someone like me can fire up Geck or creation kit and do a full fledged quest mod.

My unpopular take- I’m glad of this, the best part of the Elder Scrolls games are the ridiculous physics bugs. If a mount giant can’t send me to Jupiter in one hit I don’t want to play

this shuts down rumors that bethesda will move to unreal engine for ES6

It shuts down rumors that Bethesda will move to pure Unreal Engine for ES6, though I never believed that to be the case.

I see the Oblivion remaster as a bit of a proof of concept of sorts - the potential to have the world, scripts, logic, and physics running on the Creation Engine that devs (and modders!) are intimately familiar with while running the visuals on a separate Unreal Engine layer.

Shedding the need to do extra work on fancy lighting and graphical effects so they can focus on optimizing the bones / structure seems logical to me, but then again this is the diluted Microsoft-era Bethesda we’re talking about so who knows.

we can assure you the game will look better than starfield and surely totally not in development hell at all

If history repeats itself, ES6 will be a completely different game to Skyrim

Everything complained about will he cut, nothing new will be added

I'm sure they're well aware that the biggest knock on Starfield are its forgettable plot and universe and too much loading screens. It'll be less of a problem in an Elder Scrolls game as it's building on a great lore foundation and it's a region rather than a bunch of planets. I'm sure in the 7+ years later I expect to actually play the game, loading screens won't be much of a problem. Improved graphics will be a given. It won't set the world on fire but it'll look firmly like it belongs in the PS5 generation which is good enough for me

Ok and does it run optimized on old hardware and Linux? I'll easily skip it if it doesn't. 😜

Surely no one is surprised by this?

At this point there is nothing that they could do to make Creation Engine feel "new". I don't understand why they keep beating that dead horse.

A couple of months ago, I had some extra money, so I bought Starfield because I had an itch to go back into my Crimson Fleet character.

The problem was that a couple of weeks before that, I had also purchased a game that I had wanted for years, but could never justify spending the high price of new games on, Red Dead Redemption 2. In comparison, Starfield just felt so....lazy... in ways both big and small, beyond the common issues like repetitive dungeons, barren worlds, loading screens, etc...

The biggest thing I noticed immediately was the effect of bumping into people as you're walking. If you compare a Rockstar Game (Or even an assassin's creed game), where npcs will make a comment, will move out of the way, get upset, etc... Whereas in Bethesda can't be bothered to do anything except slide you to the right when bumping into a character, who doesn't react or flinch in any way.

I started noticing those little things fucking everywhere. And I have to believe that little limitations like that are because it's running on an engine that is older than dirt.

That isn't really saying that much. It could still be a creation engine that has a UE5 renderer on top. Like the Oblivion remaster.

If they go for a small-ish hand-crafted world, this is probably the best tool for the job. I don't really care for loading screens when I enter/exit buildings..., I care for a compelling narrative within an amazing world, something I haven't seen since Morrowind.

Also please revamp your animation system

We need more diversity in game engines, not less, so I'm fine with this

ES6 is powered by shutting up and going away

Good, I take loading screens than unreal slop

For all the hate we've given Creation Engine over the years... I think we can all agree it's still infinitely better than Unreal will ever be.

So they aren't using OpenMW ...

Ugh... and I am not even surprised if they lean on the modding community to fix the damn game... AGAIN. Don't get me wrong, the fan community has done some phenomenal strides, but maybe... like for example with Project Zomboid, despite being a much smaller dev team, has a HUGE modding community, and they then hire them on to expand their team. Sure Beth does that too, but you'd think they'd improve or switch engines to something with gusto. And seeing the lukewarm reaction to Oblivion Remastered, throwing a layer of Unreal over top a very dated engine doesn't fix things.

Sooooo more flipping carts and horses?

I look forward to it being released and rereleased for the next 15 years...