Often times trailers that early are used as a hiring tool, too. Cyberpunk’s original CG trailer was back in like 2012, and that game came out in 2020, but we know from an interview at E3 before The Witcher 3 came out that there was a very small team working on Cyberpunk before Witcher 3 was done, and Cyberpunk at that point was mostly just design documents.
Comment on Today, it has been 6 years since The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 months ago
Just in terms of timeline, Dragon Age 4 was teased at about the same time with the same level of teaser trailer. It’s releasing this fall.
So a full modern RPG being fully developed in that time by a smaller studio, and for elder scrolls we haven’t heard squat.
Who knows how DA will turn out, but we know modern Bethesda quality thanks to starfield. Not having any news in 6 years proves this trailer was made just to shut fans up
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 months ago
kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
And DA4 got almost remade to remove the live service features
What’s Bethesdas excuse?
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
they were working on starfield?
yamanii@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I wouldn’t dare to call Bioware a smaller studio.
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Pretty sure they flat out said this was true
dditty@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Yup:
“Bethesda and Todd Howard announced Elder Scrolls 6 when they did because of fan demand, or in the words of Skyrim’s lead designer Bruce Nesmith, because ‘the pitchforks and torches were out.’” Source
Elder Scrolls VI exits pre-production, development begins (August 2023)