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>TES6 was confirmed to have switched from pre-production to full production by Pete Hines two years ago as of August 30 2023
Elder Scrolls bros, Skyrim 2 has been in full development for two years... what does that mean?

>>718391131 (OP)
Nothing, we're not getting a new TES game until Zenimax pulls the plug on ESO. Which isn't anytime soon.
>In June 2019, it was announced that the game had reached 13.5 million players lifetime.[106] As of January 2020, over 15 million units had been sold.[107][108] Pete Hines called The Elder Scrolls Online the most successful Bethesda game from 2017 to 2021.[109] By 2024, the game had generated $2 billion in revenue.[110]

2 billion.

>>718391131 (OP)
It means it's not coming out until at least 2028

>>718391131 (OP)
It means I'm just going to keep playing modded Morrowind and Skyrim.

>set in nigland
yawn, shant be playing this

>>718391131 (OP)
>all the decent talent left Bethesda years ago
It means TES will go down the shitter even harder than before.

>>718391131 (OP)
>skyrim 2

>>718392218
Are these numbers fake?
I have never met anyone who has played that game. None of my friends or acquaintances. Nobody I talked to online. It just doesn't feel real.
I know some of you guys have because this is the video game board but like.
Who is this player base

>>718392696
>nigland
retarded secondary

>>718394257
>Who is this player base
It's big on consoles, and pay pigs are on every platform

>>718392218
ESO entered maintenance mode this year

>>718394401
At least we know that it's finally winding down

What if Elder Scrolls Online was gutted of all the MMORPG stuff and sold and repackaged as a single player experience? Would you play it?
I have played zero minutes of that game but I am aware it's got what almost every region of Tamriel in it now?

>>718394665
>it's got what almost every region of Tamriel in it now?

>>718391131 (OP)
With all the time it passed from Skyrim, they should have created quest and lands for all the Hammerfell area and all the little isles surrounding that region.

>>718394745
I would say that's pretty close to all of it

>>718391131 (OP)
What if they went with hammerfell to start, but had to change the location because of nigger fatigue. That would explain what's taking them so long.

>>718395693
modern bethedsa would probably self-combust if they tried to remove niggers or other woke shit

>>718395693
>>718395848
Are you fitting in yet Anons?

>>718395927
are you?

>>718394073
Combining two regions would be so based but what would even be the plot

>>718396137
Civil War between the Crowns and Forebearers spilling over into High Rock, or the money from High Rock is supporting the war

>>718394257
its mostly console players from what I can gather, but yeah its decently popular

>>718396137
Skyrim moved the timeline two centuries into the future and introduced the Thalmor as overarching villains. Kirkbride said pic related shortly after Skyrim's release.

>>718395987
I used to fit in. But then they changed what "in" was. Now what I'm with isn't "in" and what's "in" seems weird and scary to me.
It will happen to you.

>>718396628
not sure the relevance there, 4chan has always disliked blacks to a degree and after recent years everyone should hate the filth

>>718394257
>I have never met anyone who has played that game
Damn... That's a sociological study tier observation... If so then it means no one is playing it, you're absolutely right...

By the way, I've never met anyone who posts on 4chan so that surely means that 4chan is one person - me

>>718396541
>"First," Tosh Raka says, "is that we kill all the vampire snakes." Then the Tiger-Dragon Emperor wants to invade Tamriel.

>>718391131 (OP)
>started development 2 years ago
Dev cycles are absurd these days. starfailed took them nearly a decade to complete. Assuming TES6 is a rush job it will be ready 2030 at the absolute earliest. More than likely, by the time TES6 comes out, you could be born after skyrim was released and by a full legal adult by the time TES6 comes out.

>>718396137
Spreading the bnwo across Tamriel

>>718394745
This is great. Reminds me of how LOTRO basically has all of middle-earth /fully modeled/. Too bad they ruined ESO when they introduced level scaling.

>>718397510
ESO must have been so comfy before level scaling and the one tamriel thing where any race can go anywhere despite a war going on.

>>718396137
I hope it's something to do with the direnni. Maybe them trying to recreate the direnni hegemony.

>>718391131 (OP)
If they keep everything from Skyrim and:
>Improve physical combat
>Improve physics engine
>Improve AI
>Bigger map
>Voiced protag
I'm paying double, and sucking off mr Howard

>>718399570
>Voiced protag

>>718394165
Fallout 5: Morrowind 2: Ghosts of the Red Mountain.

>>718399669
Yea I loved it in Fallout 4, aka the best fallout game.

>>718396541
Kirkbride also said TES was done the moment Kurt left.
There's no hope.

>>718402538
>Implying Bethesda will be alive under Microsoft in 20 years
lmao, rememeber Rare and Lionhead?

>>718396541
>man desperate for attention talks about things nothing to do with him

>>718402750
Kirkbride is responsible for stuff like the civil war, thalmor and red year being a thing. He's going to have zero involvement with TES 6 on the other hand, look forward to it.

>>718404987
The only Kirkbride material in Skyrim is Heimskr quoting his fanfic "From The Many-Headed Talos", which is funny because he’s portrayed as a madman preacher, suggesting that’s how Bethesda views Kirkbride’s work. Everything else is just fan speculation, he didn’t write for or work on the game.

>>718407183
>suggesting that’s how Bethesda views Kirkbride’s work
>just fan speculation

That's precisely what you wrote. He obviously wasn't directly involved with the production throughout but he had input by way of Kuhlmann. Without him Morrowind wouldn't have gotten nuked by the meteorite for one, that's explicitly something that he suggested and vouched for.

>>718394665
You already can play most of it solo.

how will they mess up the mechanics

>>718401942
>"After 20 years at Bethesda Game Studios, Kuhlmann departed the company in September 2023"

>>718407183
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cZ6nMlbjpArQkzgpn0Ksf2NQoVM8gIY_HnY6vMt4fuY/

>>718394257
I played it before they removed levels.

>>718394257
I boughted but never played

>>718394165
Arena 6

>>718391131 (OP)
it means they almost finished it, realized it was shit even by their standards and it's being remade from scratch

>>718412438
Big if true

>>718394745
>has to pay a buttload of DLC to get most of the map
>tamriel is still not completed
>game is called tamriel unlimited
>this has been going on for 11 years btw
jesus christ what a disaster

>>718413607
not to mention they're adding in fan fiction landmasses but haven't released any content for Hammerfell besides basegame and the thieves guild DLC, really makes you think :-)

I feel like Bethesda really doesn't get enough hate for how long ES6 has taken. It's just absurd.

Even GTA 6 which has become somewhat of a meme for taking such a long time is only going to have a 13 year gap from the last one. There are people who were in university when Skyrim released that will be nearly 40 when 6 comes out. It's simply unacceptable, and the worst part is that if we're being honest, it probably won't even be that good.

>>718396541
>BUT KIRKBRIDE SAID
Kirkbride is a loser from several generations ago that is allowed to make a token contribution in the form of a book or line of dialogue. He vaguely claimed to sit in on some kind of pre-production lore meetings that, coincidentally, were completely unpaid and unsubstantiated by anyone else. He's a virtue-signaling woke attention whore that jerks off to Redguard and thinks the game genuinely improved racial ties. If it wasn't for redditors (the mutant bastard offspring of the bethesda forum bootlicker types) worshiping every vague insinuation he posts, he'd have been forgotten like he deserves. Also reminder that he's been hired for other vidya writing that completely fucking bombed, he's hopeless without actual writers and creatives surrounding him for him to take credit. Bethesda never changed.

say hello to your new... Redguards! will you take on the fight as the Hoondingborn? get ready for the adventure of a lifetime!

>>718415985
>woke attention whore
wokies have gone after him though for his "problematic" portrayal of "trans" and "non-binary" people like vivec and how he raped azura with his funny femcock, thoughever

>>718394745
>still no falkreath

>>718392640
Oblivion? Arena? Daggerfall?

>>718416463
Yeah, but they attacked him for being the wrong variant of woke, to them he was a heretic not a heathen. There's still an unbearable amount of tranny infatuation in his work, he was clearly psyched up heavily about Vivec's whole gender fluidity bullshit, it's just that he wasn't doing it step by step according to the radicals fifteen years in the future. Nonetheless, he's still a pro-tranny pro-faggotry anti-white anti-western lefty, it doesn't mean shit if the hive rejected him.

>>718415948
Anon, nevermind university dudes. There will be kids born the year Skyrim came out that will be able to buy TES6 legally when it releases. Little Dovahkiin won't be so little by then.

>>718417365
nta but:
>Oblivion?
lol, lmao even
>Arena?
No mods
>Daggerfall?
Yeah okay, gud game

>>718399669
The smartass options were funny

>>718415948
Bethesda is a small developer compared to the other AAA developers out there, they are currently at 250 people and they can only work on one game at a time.

>>718418190
Reminder Chris Avellone asked Bethesda permission to make a TES spin-off with the Creation Kit, a new game that was to Skyrim was New Vegas was to F3. Reminder they could've revived the Adventures side titles and allowed some other company to make a short, fun pulpy Uncharted-esque side game to further explore Tamriel in a time and place you won't see otherwise like Redguard showing you late 2nd Era Hammerfell under Imperial occupation. Reminder they instead decided to work on such beloved titles as Legends, Blades and Castles, and Todd deflects to "muh MMO is still a thing" when asked about why there hasn't been an actual new TES for 14 years and counting.

Bethesda being small for AAA standards is one thing, them utterly mishandling the IP is another.

>>718418937
Bethesda is selfish with their IPs and didnt believe it would take them this long to get to TESVI. Fallout76 being forced upon them by zenimax drastically delayed all their projects since they had to help make the game and spend years after fixing it.

>>718418937
>>718419154
>Reminder Chris Avellone asked Bethesda permission to make a TES spin-off
No he didn't. Stop spreading this lie. The person that asked was Feargus Urquhart, the CEO of Obsidian. And Bethesda was never going to work with him again after he tried to sue Bethesda Softworks during New Vegas's development and that he was part of the retarded Interplay suit that tried to sue for the rights to Fallout.

>>718419609
What did anon mean by this

>>718391131 (OP)
Just found out they hired someone who worked on Veilguard as a Senior quest designer.

TES 6 is fucking doomed

>>718421701
hey now, he was also the lead writer for Mass Effect Andromeda :^)

>>718409320
> Kirkbride is now taking credit for writing Keyes novel.
That tracks.

>>718421778
They have learned nothing.

>>718419908
That was never going to happen, especially since Avellone quit right after NV was made

>>718415985
Cope, Online writers say his autism is canon and it's better than what Hines made.

niggy skyrim will never release

>>718422171
Well if the online writers have spoken....

>>718394745
>All that missing Skyrim
Gents ... are thinking TES VI could ACTUALLY be Skyrim 2?

>>718394745
>Skyrim is the biggest game in the series by far
>the MMO doesn't even feature half of it

so now that its essentially all but confirmed to take place in hammerfell by one of the devs social media being filled with arab/moorish looking reference picures, what do you think of the setting?

the only thing i could see making me interested in the setting would be if it had lots of lush jungles and comfy tropical islands etc. but i dont know enough about the setting to tell if that will be the case. hostilely if its all desertshit i think it will be a flop

15 years a none of those giant conversion mods like Skywind or whatever are finished.

>>718421787
I mean
>he said he was responsible for it back in 2010
>nobody has ever corrected him
>Keyes has mentioned several times he used notes from both devs, UESP and the Imperial Library to make sure he got the lore right
>Kirkbride is known as "the Morrowind guy"
It's not a stretch to believe he was asked what he imagined happened to Morrowind after the Oblivion Crisis and he gave the idea for the whole "Vivec disappears so Baar Dau crashes like a meteor" thing. I doubt Bethesda would let a contracted external writer come up with huge Tamriel-changing events by himself.

>>718392696
You won’t be blond haired blue eyed nord who kills every r*dguard he sees?

>>718422171
Thinking that the writing of elder scrolls is either created by Kirkbride or Hines shows that you don't know a single fucking thing about who actually wrote anything in the games. Furthermore, that whole 37th sermon thing in ESO is hilarious, it's just Kirkbride basically saying his lore is defunct and that anyone preferring his bullshit should just make up their own canon instead of hoping that the elder scrolls actually follows it. They don't back his lore or his ideas, they're just letting the meme writer get in his dying gasps. I guess they took his Mnemoli thing and started running with it, but between that and Ithelia the new mary sue daedric prince, it's clear that they just wanted superpowered girlbosses filling the lore, same reason why they have Boethia being a sword-swinging anti-hero.

>>718422171
Pete Hines was never a writer, anon...

>>718423147
It isn't surprising at all that Kirkbride claimed credit for others work. He truly believes he is the fountain from which all TES lore springs.

>>718422327
>>718422392
https://youtu.be/X7IuvbEI4vM

>>718423413
Anon, re-read that slowly please

>>718423492
Zaric is trans now.

>>718423561
Didn't see anything in your post where anyone credited him with anything.

So again it isn't surprising Kirkbride took credit for others work.

>>718423774
I'm sorry for your autism, fren

>>718423814
Sorry Kirkbride isn't as important as you thought.

>>718424016
Given they just hired a woketard that worked on Veilguard there is a chance they will rehire him. He seems to be what they are looking for.

>>718424450
Kirkbride will never be taken seriously by Bethesda or hired for anything more than a small contribution after Knights of the Nine. Man was so butthurt about Cyrodiil being turned into a normal fantasy location that he went balls to the wall spreading his Pelinal bullshit. CYBORG HE'S A CYBORG DID I SAY HE'S A CYBORG HE'S A CYBORG ROBOT A CYBORG FROM THE FUTURE A T-800 AND HE'S GAY OKAY NOT REALLY BUT CYBORG HE'S A CYBORG ROBOT. That manic neurosis was what really started all this cringe cosmic horseshit.

>>718394257
>I personally don't know anyone who likes X so clearly my astronomically minuscule sample size must discern reality among the masses

>>718425298
>Man was so butthurt about Cyrodiil being turned into a normal fantasy location
Who wasn't

>>718425723
Most of the Elder Scrolls fanbase considering they all hopped on with Oblivion and Skyrim. You know damn well that 90% of asspain about Cyrodiil is from people that learned about the old lore and the changes far after the fact, as opposed to old fans genuinely upset upon release. For what it's worth, given Morrowind sales and playtime on Steam, it seems that there's far more people that moan about "old lore" than there are people that actually play the games featuring it.

>>718425723
Kids like anon who played Oblivion when they were 10

>>718391131 (OP)
so another fake game like starfield?

>>718425872
>Most of the Elder Scrolls fanbase
It sure wasn't at the time. You might as well say sales = quality

>>718394257
normies

>>718425872
>pulling a pic related because Fallout 4 has more players than Fallout 2
Kindly slice your wrists, shill

>>718396793
No, pre-2016 4chan didn't look at redguards from TES and think about IRL black americans like you do. You will never fit in.

>>718391131 (OP)
Only 4 more years until they announce it, 6 more years until they delay it, and 8 more years until I refund it!

>>718425983
That's what I'm saying though. In 2025, most Elder Scrolls fans started with Oblivion and Skyrim, and barely any of them went back to play through Morrowind. The actual fanbase of OG fans that started pre-Oblivion and were actually mad is incredibly small.
>>718426109
>MUH JET
Fuck Fallout and fuck its Lore, 50% of it is rewritten every game. They never established how that little fag's cow fart drug spread in the first place, I don't give any weight to any aspect of Fallout lore. Zero percent of it matters and is important enough to not be subject to potential change, and it was like that back with Interplay too. Bethesda is retarded but giving them shit for not "respecting" Fallout lore is moronic.

>>718426571
>That's what I'm saying
I'm so sorry for you

>>718391131 (OP)
I hope it is a thinly veiled remake of Arena including the procgen'd everything.
I don't give a fuck about side quests because the writing is going to be dogshit. I don't give a fuck about elaborate main quests where I'm the chosen one because it's going to be Emil Pagliarulo jerking himself off over how he wrote it based on his experience in bible camp when he was 12.

>>718425723
YOU DON'T GET IT ANON WE NEED A SECOND HIGHT ROCK, JUNGLE CYRODIIL WOULD BE TOO WEIRD
DID YOU SEE LORD OF THE RINGS, THAT SHIT'S CASH
WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR INTERESTING ELDER COUNCIL POLITICS, WE NEED TO SEND YOU TO CLOSE 60 COPYPASTED OBLIVION REALMS
THE EMPEROR'S DOPPELGANGER HEIRS? NEVER HEARD OF 'EM, COME ALONG NOW, PRIEST BOROMIR IS GONNA GO REPURPOSE BATTLESPIRE'S PLOT

>>718399669
>voice BAD
The unfathomable damage caused to all post-2015 Bethesda games by autistic retards who insist on their character being voiced by their own autism lisp.

>>718426571
Go to sleep Pete, before I break your kneecaps

>>718391131 (OP)
>Dragon Age Veilguard writer was hired for TES6 quest designer

Beyond dead on arrival.

>>718392218
what are you on about
they are made by completely different teams

>>718426817
kek

>>718425872
Nobody gives a shit about Morrowind attempting to retcon Cyrodil into a jungle.
Go find an article written about it.
Go find a YouTube video on it.
Nobody cares.
> Some do.
Those tens of fans will just have to cope as they see fit.

>>718426307
/k/ used to call darkies Redguards.
Lurk more tourist.

>>718426826
You're a fag for parroting another nerd's vidya rage. You're unjustified. Huge swathes of Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Fallout 4 don't make any practical sense (WHAT DO THEY EAT?) but you hyperfixate on the jet in the vault thing because other fags freaked out about it. And yeah, Hines said it didn't matter and made you feel stupid for caring about Fallout lore, but you deserved it. Fallout lore is fucking retarded and nonsensical, it has always been this way, the fucking plot of the first game is started through a blatant star trek easter egg.

>>718426817
member when there was supposed to be a Caius Cosades cameo in Oblivion? I member

>>718426109
>muh jeeeeeeeeeet
>nobody could EVER add text entries to a terminal post-war even though there are many examples of that happening even in new vegas

>>718427187
>b-but post-2016 /k/ said