Sounds like they already did?
Xbox is reportedly set to officially name The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel as soon as next month
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Necrifyre@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Last month former Bethesda veteran Bruce Nesmith – who was lead designer on Skyrim and a quest designer on Fallout 3, 4 and 76 – said he hoped the theories were true, because that would potentially lead to the ability to use boats and explore the water for the first time in the series.
What? You were able to buy boats in Daggerfall. Aside from exploring, yeah I get that. But no, it will not be the first time the series experiences boats. Maybe expanding them yeah but not experiencing.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
i think he just meant exploring the water for the first time, as in first time using boats to explore the water vs boats just being a sort of in game fast travel
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I used to be a shameless BGS fan, I have too much lore in my head, but… I am not hyped?
Even going into them positively, Starfield and F76 were just so… boringly disappointing. I even went into 76 drunk, with friends, a long time after release; how could a coop game possibly be so unfun?
I am just not confident BGS can possibly write interesting environmental stories anymore, or put interesting mechanics in their archaic engine.
justdaveisfine@piefed.social 1 day ago
Most of the game titles are regions, but isn’t Sentinel a city? Seems a little odd.
alpine_jim@piefed.social 1 day ago
The second Elder Scrolls game, Daggerfall was also a city, actually pretty near Sentinel, just across the Illiac Bay.
Arena was supposed to be a nickname for the whole continent of Tamriel. Oblivion is a place, but most of that game was set in Cyrodiil.
So only two of the five so far, Morrowind and Skyrim, have been named after whole provinces.
justdaveisfine@piefed.social 1 day ago
For some reason I recalled that whole starting region in Daggerfall being called Daggerfall. I must be misremembering the map.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 day ago
If that’s it I’ll be annoyed just because sentinel is such corporate word. It feels corporate doesn’t it? Yes it’s a city there, but it’s the “safe” sounding word. I’m just bracing for the next elder scrolls to be like Starfield. Toxic positivity and writing right out of big corporate thinktanks.
justdaveisfine@piefed.social 1 day ago
The only reason I can think of they’d do sentinel over Hammerfell is if they’re going to try and turn it into a double meaning as both the city/role. Not a great reason, but eh.
Jyrdano@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall comes to mind.
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Have they announced whether or not it will be Xbox exclusive?
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Do the opposite of Skyrim and only release it once. Hell yeah.
blunderworld@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Gee whiz I can’t wait. That probably means only another 5 years before we see a screenshot.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Only five years?
Fucking fuck this is amazing!!!
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They announced way too early, but the game properly went into production after Starfield, so sometime between 2027 or 2028 is a reasonable release window for their cadence.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Idk if “too early” is the right phrase. Cyberpunk had an initial announcement teaser 7 years before we got anything else about the game, and no one complains about that. In fact, ime, anytime it comes to CDPR they can apparently do no wrong even when they do the same exact shit every other game company does; just look at how people still glaze Witcher 3 even though it’s a very standard open world action RPG.
I’ve seen/heard that the ES announcement was made in order to let people know that it is indeed coming and will be made, rather than letting people think it should’ve been right around the corner.