The Elder Scrolls VI

[ProphetofGanja]

[neatoman]

Reminder that this teaser came out seven years after Skyrim was released and it has been another seven years since. In that time Bethesda decided to let modders sell their additions as DLC, secured the rights to make those part of the game proper going forward and made a different but similar mod selling venture.

How much you wanna bet they'll make another edition of Skyrim including all the new paid mods before they release TESVI?

[rav4ge]

Originally Posted by neatoman

How much you wanna bet they'll make another edition of Skyrim including all the new paid mods before they release TESVI?

Funny, I was thinking something similar recently. Like what if Beth reinvisioned and revitalized Skyrim thru congruent mods and released a "Skyrim: Community Edition?"

If you look at a mod list like Nolvus, it addresses many of the original game's weaknesses and bolsters its strengths. Nolvus plays like Skyrim Dark Souls and it's awesome, whereas Vanilla Skyrim combat feels floaty and unsatisfying.

Sadly I think Beth like to honor their original visions. They're not even big on visual remakes or remasters. So maybe this is out of the question. See the Todd Howard quote from that previous link below.

I’m happy that you can play Morrowind now on an Xbox One, as it’s backwards compatible. I’m really happy that Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and others are making it easier for people to play [older games] as they were played at the time. I actually prefer that over remasters. I’d rather you play Morrowind the way it was … I think the age is part of its identity.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by neatoman

Reminder that this teaser came out seven years after Skyrim was released

Was it before or after they release Elder Scrolls Online? Let's hope they're not like Rockstar, just content to sit there getting drunk on monies from that.

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Was it before or after they release Elder Scrolls Online? Let's hope they're not like Rockstar, just content to sit there getting drunk on monies from that.

Online was released in 2014, so this teaser came out afterwards. Though it should be noted that Online isn't technically a Bethesda Game Studios title, Bethesda Softworks published it but Zenimax developed it.

[Andrew NDB]

The title is Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel.

[neatoman]

The title (sorta) leaked earlier, so I'm not at all surprised at the title. Guess it's less likely that another edition of Skyrim will release before this now that we have a title confirmed... Maybe...

Anyway, I came across this video a while back where the (sorta) leaks are discussed and contains speculation that the game world will not be Hammerfell in full but instead just western Hammerfell far from the Skyrim/Cyrodiil border, with most oh High Rock added making up for it. Not quite sure how much I am willing to believe that speculation, Skyrim and Oblivion contain all of Skyrim and Cyrodiil, so it's not like the invisible is within the in-lore borders. Then again, Morrowind vanilla is just Vvardenfell and the DLC really just expanded it to Mournhold and Solstheim, not to mention that the title "Sentinel" seems to be an homage to Daggerfall as it's named after a city state and not the province. That last one being important because Daggerfall did indeed feature a partial High Rock, partial Hammerfell hybrid setting. And I suppose they always want to save some area for later DLC, like Orsinium or Dragonstar.