>>722508304
never ever.

Todd will be put in an elderly care home before it comes out.

>>722508304
and just how Skyrim was really Oblivion 1.5
then ES6 will be Skyrim 1.5

same engine, mild improvements, while stealing all the best mods ideas.

>>722508304
Long dev cycle.
Openly support the murder of people they disagree with.
Hired a Veilguard writer to punch things up.
Tripling down on diversity.
If the rumors are true they are going back to Hammerfell. It will be the 4th TES game that included the entirety of Hammerfell.

It is over before it started.

>>722508304
Todd Howard is about to make you his bitch.

Suck it down.

>>722510278
>stealing all the best mods ideas
Fallout 76 and Saarfield already moved away from this. Settlement/base building system was made significantly worse in 76, it went in the opposite direction of what modders had been doing with 4. Saarfield removed any remaining parts that made it enjoyable and also ignored everything that was added by Sim Settlements, one of the most popular mods around.

Environmental hazard mods for Skyrim and FO4 were at some point half-assedly implemented in Saarfield, then removed from the final release, leaving behind only some traces that couldn't even be used as proper hooks for mods.

FO4 companions could be commanded and even used to open locks and terminals. Both FO4 and Skyrim had some way of either calling in reinforcements or conjuring creatures from other dimensions. Mods built upon this foundation and allowed for several followers and made various improvements to their AI. Saarfield doesn't have any of this and the follower AI is even worse than vanilla FO4.

Crafting and itemization got worse in Saarfield. It's outright impossible to create new types of crafting benches. FO4 and FO76 had an item category system and more categories could be created by modders. Saarfield doesn't have them and they can't be created, all existing recipes are one massive list with no ability to filter them.

>>722510640
Only Arena had entire Hammerfell. Daggerfall featured only the northern coastline, Redguard was set on one island off the coast of Hammerfell and ESO has the areas from Daggerfall and Redguard.

>>722508304
>It is now so comically long since it's been announced,
They didn't even start production when they announced it, they 100% sure started real work on the game once starfield released, so give it at least 4 or 5 more years until it releases.