>Kuhlmann revealed that, had he been able to shape the direction of The Elder Scrolls 6, he would’ve made it “like The Empire Strikes Back”.>“The Thalmor, the elven supremacists who were peripheral in Skyrim’s story and ultimately wanted to control all of Tamriel, would be the bad guys who come out on top, setting up TES7,” he said.>However, he doubts if Bethesda would have allowed an Elder Scrolls game with a “bad” ending and admits that, with the modern games industry’s lengthy production schedules, a cliffhanger would have been “completely unfeasible”.>Todd said, ‘Well, we want you to have an important role in the project.’ But what I wanted and what he wanted were different at that point.”Todd's ego strikes again.
>>731006224Bethesda makes chosen-one wank themeparks for glue eating toddlers, who knew?
>>731006224Dang, that would have actually been cool. Nice to know that whatever the fuck Bethesda wants is going to middle of the road beige.
>hey todd, remember how you promised me 11 years ago I get to lead on next TES?>no?>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>731006224Todd's a brilliant man and a natural born winner. Everything will be okay.
>directed by Todd HowardIt can't possibly be bad
Who even gives a shit about TES at this point
Hes right. Make a game with a cliffhanger bad ending and then 15 years for a sequel that might never come out?
>Promise you'll make me lead designer?>I swear to Todd
>>731006224TES6 has been in development for 15 years. There is zero chance it isn't good. Baldur's Gate 3 took like 7 years to make so TES6 will be at least twice as good and polished.
>>731006224> trusting a manlet to have ethicsyou don't understand manlets
>>731007108Sure. Tell me more about the rabbits
>believing todd's lies
>I HATE THALMOR posters when TES VI comes out and they have to fight against thalmor for a redguard king
>>731006224>leaving out the part where bethesda is going for mass market appeal corporate slop
>>731007108Kenshi took 16 years (2003 to 2019), and it was miles better than any of Bethesda's output since Morrowind.
>>731006224>>731004989Why the fuck have you created two threads half an hour apart when there's already a thread up and has been for 23 hours you colossal fucking inbred.>>730947301
>>731007108>There is zero chance it isn't goodright, just like how Bethesda said that Starfield was a project 20 years in the making? Stupid Bethesdrone, god damn
Todd probably thinks the Thalmor aren't enough of a "marketing hook" like Oblivion gates and dragons are. TESVI is gonna have a fantasy zombie virus or some shit like that, a concept normalfags can understand
>>731008198this. It will be another Daedra invasion
>>731007108Why do we allow nonwhites to have internet access?
>>731006224Or how about the thalmor win and it turns out that having a high iq race running things turns out better than expected and people are happy and then the protagonist that fought against them (the mc) goes down as a complete retard of history in a twist of fate?
>>731008198frogslop
I've learnt my lesson. I was actually considering doing a modded fo4 playthrough, play the dlcs which i never got around to, until I heard they came out with the anniversary addition, which surprise surprise, was pure incompetence and greed. Never again man.
>>731007641Because the preexisting thread is too "nice" and the guy who made the this one and the other wants ragebait and mayhem, as made evident by the fact both of his threads include insults directed at Todd instead of just a neutral rundown
>>731006224Not the worst idea but why not start the game with the Thalmor controlling Tamriel instead so you could get your satisfying conclusion instead?
>>731006224Play chinese games
>worked on the bland and generic ES loreIt must be soul crushing.
>>731007108Zoomers never heard of duke nukem forever
>>731008198I was gonna say "they didn't do that with starfield", but I guess they probably don't want a repeat of that kek.
>>731006801Me, but I don't care about TES VI much because who the fuck has unironic faith in bethesda at this point?
>>731008198>Todd probably thinks the Thalmor aren't enough of a "marketing hook"The Thalmor are nazi coded, and they are very marketable as villains, just look at Star Wars
>>731006224People gotta stop hanging onto game dev companies and instead follow the people who actually make good shit.Bethesda will never make a good game again. All the people capable left that company long ago.
>>731011891Anon is talking about how they're not bombastic enough
>>731006419If that promise was made, that's a valid thing to be pissed about. That's big career-launching stuff.
How long until they marvelify TES like they did Fallout
>>731011621"Fully explorable outer space" was the marketing hook for Starfield
>>731006224It's insane to me that Bethesda thinks people care about playing through the story in their games, and doesn't just use them as sandboxes to fuck around in. On Steam, only 12.4% of people finished Skyrim's story, only 7.5% of people finished Oblivion Remastered's story, and Fallout has different endings with different achievements, but it's numbers are similarly bleak. Yet they were stupid enough to make playing through the entire story and doing multiple NG+ runs a central mechanic of Starfield, despite a tiny fraction of players actually playing through the entire story in their other games, and even with that incentive, it's only 19.7% that finished the story in Starfield. Is Bethesda really dumb enough to not allow a bad ending to a game in order to actually set up a story and plot line? Few would even see it, and even less than that would care. Just let the writing team do something kind of interesting.
Everything about tes6 feels like it isn't allowed to be better then skyrim
>>731007528Kenshi... My Beloved
>>731009659Most likely becouse orginal idea wasn't about thalmor winning and being in charge. But somebody else pulling strings. Or thalmor couping Aldmeri Dominion. Regardless. It would have been probably such wild twist that they felt like it needed whole game to set up. And next game would be how everyone is slave.
>>731013025Yup. It's perfectly fine so long you don't name next game something like part 2. That will make stupid consumers to think they have to finish part 1 to "get it".
>>731013025The NG+ stuff could have been a cool design decision, because it means they don't have to be as afraid of the player fucking up questlines or killing the wrong npcs or whatever. Just make sure reaching the NG+ can be done quickly if you know what you're doing, and you can give the player way more freedom to fuck the world up and not worry about the consequences. But they still made the game as restrictive as any other one so whats the point.
>>731006224>The Thalmor, the elven supremacists who were peripheral in Skyrim’s story and ultimately wanted to control all of Tamriel, would be the bad guys who come out on topThis is what I imagined what would happen before Elder Scrolls VI, not after it.
>>731007108>development for 15 years.if it ever does come out it will be the most underwhelming thing ever
why not pivot to an argonian sex slave market plotline as the main theme it would probably sell like crazy
>>731008198The main enemy could be an Undead Invasion from the Ideal Masters trying to consume every soul on Nirn.
I WISH we could end games with cliffhangers but lazy fucking n's need two fucking decades to make games now
>>731006224>like The Empire Strikes Back”>The uppity n'wahs are at it again. Gather our greatest magi and the army of farmtool warrior slaves bind their neck with spells of instant death if they dare disobey a single order. Trying to steal our home our livelihood destroy our great history.>It is time we cleanse this world of the lesser races >Bad guysn'wah please Todd its time you shut the fuck up and retire. TES belongs to the master race.
The Thalmor fucking suck as a villain group. I couldn't give less of a shit about them.
>>731007108It will look incredible and be massive.Where it will fail is story, characters, id politics, poorly executed gameplay lopps and bugs/broken fixes.
>>731014349>fantasy nazis suckbrown opinion
>>731014349They could have been cooler if they weren't such fucking jobbers.
>>731014636Hello Josh Sawyer nobody cares
>>731006224Kuhlmann was literally the only morrowind/PGE era writer left who still understood metaphysiscs of TES in Bethesda.
>>731014992Get better taste in fantasy, Jesus Christ.
They are going to turn the redguards from really tanned people to actual niggers in this new game arent they?
>731015897Nobody tell him.
>>731006471Thank you Rodd Toward, very true and insightful
>>731015520>disingenuous postSales volumes make people care, especially studios.Hot off the back of Fallout 76's disastrous release, Starfield's massive drop off of live players made people care, as that rejection bleeds into consumer confidence for their next product.They're 100% going to fuck up TE6 too. Buyers beware...
