Thread 718788508

>7 years ago already
What was their plan?

>>718788508 (OP)
to shut up retards who kept asking

There wasn't one

>>718788508 (OP)
Their plan was to shit out trash like Starfield and expect people to gobble it up.
Unfortunately for them: Starfield flopped so they had to start over fresh with the goal of actually trying to make something good.

>>718788508 (OP)
They wanted to do the 11/11/11 thing again, but they missed the boat with 2/22/22 so now they’re waiting for 3/3/33.

knowing todd, full ai slop

>>718788653
since when there are 22 months in a year?

>>718788508 (OP)
Scam Microsoft by dangling that announcement in front of them
I fucking hate how long games take to come out these days. I guess Bethesda does subcontract spin offs to other studios, but those spin offs are gay things like Elder Scrolls Legends instead of actual entries like New Vegas now.

>>718788508 (OP)
To drive up hype ahead of the Microsoft acquisition

>>718788508 (OP)
Their marketing department should be publicly executed

>>718788824
>he doesn't live on Alpha Centaura
ngmi

>>718788508 (OP)
to appease shareholders, not (You)

>>718788508 (OP)
CEOs and the upper management are completely disconnected from reality and only see numbers. teasers like this are basically a whip for developers to start shitting out the game fast. we are currently making a teaser for a game that has zero assets done lmao

>>718788508 (OP)
There was no plan. TES VI is vaporware. And now Bethesda is hiring people from Veilguard to work on it. It's over.
Unless they remove anyone that worked on Veilguard from the project I won't give them any money. I will not give any of those people a single cent.

>>718788642
I wish

>>718788653
>they missed the boat with 2/22/22
You know I think there's someone out there who didn't miss that though.
You think he's a big fan of Morrowind?

>>718788824
Europoor

>>718789516
it is a popular game in that country, so it's not an impossibility

>>718788508 (OP)
Bury criticism of Fallout 76. It's a shame they blew their load this early because they desperately needed to save it for when Starfield flopped.

>>718788508 (OP)
its been 5 years since the mass effect 5 trailer dropped

>>718790586
I wonder if he plays a stealth archer murder hobo Bosmer every time like I do.

>>718788508 (OP)
The writer of Veilguard have join TESVI team lmfao

>>718791473
It really is a world of failing upwards.

>>718788508 (OP)
they were having a melty about Fallout 76 reception and wanted to placate people so they shat out a shortsighted "trailer" even tho the game hadn't even been storyboarded

>>718790837
They will announce Fallout 5

Then:
>Skyrim announced on December 2010
>first trailer released on February 2011
>game released on November 2011
Now:
>TES VI announced on June 2016
>first (and only) trailer released on June 2018
>...
>...
>...

I T J U S T W O R K S

>>718788508 (OP)
Bethesda published flop after flop: Prey, Dishonored 2, Colossus, Fallout 76, so they needed something big to cover it

>>718788508 (OP)
This "trailer" is older now than Skyrim was when this video was first shown.

they're cooking

>>718791542
Yea... why everyone that worked on failguard wasn't blacklisted is proof of how corrupt and retarded the industry is.

>>718788508 (OP)
lets gooooooooooo

>>718788508 (OP)
this shit was done to get more good will among fans because people were pissed off about fallout 76 and the fact that they were making starfield instead of another ES.
I think bethesda was using their past few games as experimental projects and they want their next elder scrolls to be some crazy next gen thing that blows skyrim out of the water.

>>718793349
>OH FUCK WE NEED GOODWILL AFTER FALLOUT 76
>wew, saved...
>OH FUCK WE NEED GOODWILL AFTER STARFIELD

>>718791572
>time between the orange box and alyx: 13 years
>time between fallout 4 and now: 10 years
>time between skyrim and now: 14 years

>>718791721
lol

>>718792291
the AAA industry is a club of retards that endlessly recycle failure hackfrauds

>>718788508 (OP)
Seriously why the fuck does it take so long for them to make games? Starfield shouldn't have had that much dev time for something so mediocre

>>718794996
You ever think that humanity as a whole has stopped and the aliens managing us like an ant farm from space have decided to disable our creativity with their moon beams just to see what happens?

>>718788508 (OP)
GIVE IT UP FOR YEAR 15

Their plan was woke being a big hit and the Hammerfell setting would make them big money. Now I think they're going to slap some highrock in and make Daggerfall 2, but with much less rpg elements.

>>718795832
i think society is literally just going on momentum. for example somebody living in their parents' house is ok for now but if they lose it, it's gone forever and they can never afford another to replace it. all of society is like that, sooner or later everything needs maintenance or replacement and it's just becoming prohibitive to do. everything will fall into disrepair as all money and jobs just evaporate into ether and no new life can grow

>>718788508 (OP)
skongers felt only a fraction of our misery

>>718788831
Bethesda straight up declined to have New Vegas-style side games for TES developed by other studios. I guess they wanted ESO and Legends and those other shitty mobile spin-offs to be the things keeping everybody occupied while TES VI doesn't release, but MMOs and mobile shit alike are a particularly noxious poison for lore and writing, so i will forever hate them for it.

>>718797531
What do you mean anon, everybody loved Blades and Castles and they added so much to the TES setting
>are a particularly noxious poison for lore and writing
Reminder Legends (a fucking card game) retconned Titus Mede II being a badass during the Great War wielding Goldbrand in combat and went "ackshually he was injured by the Thalmor 5 minutes before the battle so the nameless Legends protagonist was the one clad in faceless armor leading troops in battle and people just thought he was le Emperor!"

The fact of the matter is that there just isn't any chance ES VI isn't going to be utter trash. Shartfield and FO:76 prove Bethesda have absolutely zero creative vision or competent developers left to actually craft an immersive world or make a fun game. It's fucking over.

remember last year I think it was, when Bethesda paid a bunch of journos to write "ES6 is totally in a playable state and it's just like le skyrim trust us bro" clickbait articles

over a year later and still complete radio silence

Hopefully they start actual production any year now, and we can hope to see a release before 2040.

microsoft to buy them out
companies like to show off their porfolio

>>718799257
the Imperials have always been a bunch of liars who steal credit from (You)--the player. the Imperial dynasty are nothing but stolen valor, and the real finale of TES should be the entire TES world bowing down to suck your cock because you're their GOD

>>718788508 (OP)
They were going to use Starfield as the foundation to build this game on but everyone hated how fucking ugly it was so they started over.

>>718788508 (OP)
>7 years ago
>its real

>>718799257
It's fucked because lore is unironically the biggest thing Legends has going for it. The card art is all soulless generic artstation slop drawn by random chinks and redditors who clearly have no passion for the series and have only ever played Skyrim and ESO if any TES game at all

>>718788508 (OP)
From the beginning of gaming to the early 7th gen devs could shit out a new game every 1-4 years that managed to innovate or at least improve upon their previous releases in major ways. Now it takes 10+ years to get a new game and all they focus on is dumb eye catching shit for normies like graphics or the size of the map while ignoring optimization, bug fixes, attention to detail that was already in their 15 year old games, and making it actually FUN. Fucking suits ruin everything

>>718800197
t.

>>718788508 (OP)
Developing Creation Engine 2, realistically they are waiting for the new gen consoles to enter production before even bother developing shit

Starfield was absolute kino and gave me hope that Bethesda can make good games again. TEVI might not be dogshit.

>>718801404
lol

>>718788508 (OP)
I literally forgot about this

Honestly any game that goes over the 5 year dev time mark is bound to be shit or at least fail to live up to the hype one way or another. Its overbaked.

The only exception I'd say is GTA / RDR because of Rockstar's autistic attention to detail explaining the long dev cycle, the games live and die on TECHNOLOGY moments captivating players.

But TES doesnt do that.

>>718795890
Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim all released within 15 years.

>>718794996
Fucking hell

>>718794996
dead ips

It's like beyond good and evil 2, if it manages to come out now it will be guaranteed 100% absolute dogshit

>>718788508 (OP)
Real answer: They announced the Elder Scrolls Blades mobile game and didn't want a Diablo Immortal situation. Which is kinda funny in hindsight given that Diablo IV came out years ago now and Elder Scrolls 6 is still nowhere to be seen.

>>718788508 (OP)
>ZeniMax/Bethesda Softworks wants an online Fallout game
>Buy some studio that was working on another multiplayer game, cancel the game and rebrand them to Bethesda Game Studios """"""""""""""Austin"""""""""""""""""
>Want to trick fanbase into thinking it's a BGS game
>Have Todd announce the game on a stream
>Then have him show off the game at E3
>Doesn't want people to think that they've pivoted to making MP games, so he throws TES6 trailer in there to placate their fans
That was the plan. They probably didn't anticipate Starfield being so divisive though.

>>718788508 (OP)
what will release first, TES 6 or Persona 6?

>>718802229
Good thing TESVI just started development in 2023, they got about 3 years before release.

>>718788508 (OP)
Steal from another DnD campaign module but without getting caught this time.

>>718788508 (OP)
To calm down the drama that was caused by Fallout 76. Seriously, the initial reception of 76 was so bad, they had to tease TES VI to calm the waters. One of the few times they genuinely got scared, same with Starfield that fell short of expectations

>>718788508 (OP)
Their 9000 year old game engine is stonewalling them but Todd insists it's still fine because he's retarded.

>>718788508 (OP)
One of the best to ever do it.

>>718805151
Zenimax forcing them to work on fallout76 delayed all their games and the terrible reception had them doing post launch support to fix it before they had the chance to move to Starfield. F76 is the primary reason why all their games are delayed today and gave them a massive reputation hit just from trying to save zenimax from bankruptcy but then they got by MS so it didnt matter.

>>718805354
honestly, covid is the reason all their games got delayed. Covid fucked the industry hard. Smaller, not woke, better managed companies were able to recover a lot faster

>>718805739
Bethesda weathered through Covid fine because they were an inherently small developer with only 200 people, the issue with starfield was that a lot of the development was done in work from home situations so they couldnt communicate and gel everything together into one coherent piece which remains one of the bigger issues of the game about how it does not feel well put together which would have been easily resolved if they talked to each other like in their previous games. Hopefully with all of them back in the office again, TES wont face the same issues.

>>718803754
Persona 6 probably will release in 2027, meanwhile TES 6 might not come out in this decade

>>718805901
>small developer
>200 people

>>718788508 (OP)
They thought Starfield was going to be Skyrim 2.0

>>718805352
>t. knows nothing about game development but has heard a youtuber say "creation engine BAD"

>>718788824
euros don't use / in dates. they use a period so actually
2/22/22 implies that its the american date format. If it was 2.22.22 then you'd be correct in being confused, but your are actually just retarded.

>>718788653
this is it. they used demonic numerology to boost sales of their dogshit games.

>>718806054
BG3 had 2000 people work on it with multiple support studios.
Bethesda's problem is that they are a small developer compared to other AAA devs and the industry like CDprojekt has moved entirely into using an army of developers to add a ton of things that Bethesda cant do if they dont hire more.

>>718806319
Bethesda's problem is their denial with their lead writer being godawful at his job. People would deliberately ignore half the issues Starfield has mechanically if the world building and main narrative were New Vegas or Mass Effect 1-tier. When everything goes wrong with TES, players can fall back on Nirn's lore. Starfield has absolutely nothing, it's Fallout 4 but without Interplay providing the backbone to make people care.

>>718806557
They recently hired the bioware writer who wrote garrus, the genophage plotline and bioshock infinite burial at sea so it seems they are serious about trying to fix their shit writer situation.

>>718788831
>>718788884
>>718800132
This right here

>>718805901
yea i mean the wfh from covid is what fucked studios, not the disease itself lol

>>718806903
lol

Bethesda's success came from modders putting in thousands of hours of unpaid work. They then did everything possible to make their games unattractive to the type of player that is willing and capable of modding.
The first company to put out a game that makes it easy for AI to mod will be the most successful game company in history. Already entrenched companies will do everything they can to prevent making this game because it will be their last.

>>718807235
>Bethesda's success came from modders
Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Skyrim were huge before modding blew up in the normiesphere. Your average 16yo playing Oblivion/Fallout 3 on his 360 in 2008 didn't know jackshit about mods.

>>718806154
ERM AKSHUALLY EUROS SELF-FELLATE BEFORE EVERY POST

>>718806709
>dagothwave came out less than a year before TES6's announcement

>>718788508 (OP)
delay until Microsoft buy them and shut down the studio

>>718788508 (OP)
I don't want it.
It will the wokest and lamest game the world has ever seen before with some cringe social commentary storyline.

>>718788508 (OP)
>What was their plan?
No plan, Todd just resents having to deal with this fantasy shit when his real passion is boring nasapunk slop. Starfield was supposed to be his ticket to a total divorce from TES, relegating it to fodder for the mmo mobile gacha bin, except Starfield shat the bed and everyone hated it. Now he's stuck, making someone else's videogame, while his thing is crusting the toilet rim.