It’s been a decade since The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim came out and there’s still no sequel in sight. Though Todd Howard, director and executive producer at Bethesda, is finally opening up about what’s going on with Elder Scrolls 6, IGN reported Tuesday.
“Would you plan to have the kind of gap we’re having between Skyrim and the follow-up? I can’t say that’s a good thing,” Howard said via IGN. “Do I wish I could wave a wand and the game we wanted to make just came out? Absolutely.”
Howard goes on to say there were several projects Bethesda Game Studios wanted to do before returning to the world of Tamriel. One of which being Fallout 76 and the other being the upcoming RPG Starfield.
“We felt doing something like Starfield. We’d been wanting to do something else for a long time and play in a new universe, so if not now — I’m going back in time, we started right after Fallout 4, so 2015 — if not now, when? It felt like, if we didn’t do it then, the ‘when’ could be ‘never,” Howard said via IGN.
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It seems like a pretty cut-and-dry answer: Bethesda wanted to work on something besides Elder Scrolls for a bit. It’s understandable since RPGs with the scope of Skyrim take several years to make. According to Howard, development on Starfield began nearly six years ago, and we’ve still not even seen it! The story trailers are pretty sick, though.
Bethesda isn’t ramping up development on Elder Scrolls 6 until after Starfield comes out on Nov. 11, 2022. So if you factor in that it took seven years for the scifi RPG to release, then Elder Scrolls probably won’t see a new entry for a long, long time.
Elder Scrolls 6 might still be a long way off, but hey, maybe the Skyrim: Anniversary Edition will scratch that open-world RPG itch for now? Probably not. Make sure to back up your mods for that re-release, by the way.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
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