What would they have to do to justify the 15+ year wait?
>>743217848add spears
>>743217848Sex without mods
>>743217898done, they are just as shit and shoddily implemented as staves in Oblivion/Skyrim
>>743217848The ability to open your own restaurant filled with cooking minigames.
Bring back spellmaking and add back all the spell effects that had been removed over time like levitation and mark/recall
I know a guy who works at Bethesda. There are three main reasons it's taking so long.1. George RR Martin is doing a lot of the writing.2. The game is going to integrate an LLM for more immersive dialog and stuff like that.3. Todd, like the folks over at silicon valley, has experienced a radical shift in politics after all the stuff happening the world. Thus, he has had to fire a lot of woke people on his team who weren't ideologically aligned.
>>743217848All they need to do is make it exist and it'll be the 2nd best selling game of this console generation behind GTA6.
>>743218170>Todd, like the folks over at silicon valley, has experienced a radical shift in politics after all the stuff happening the world. Thus, he has had to fire a lot of woke people on his team who weren't ideologically aligned.that explains the purges
>>743217848nothing its going to be woke pozzed horseshit like starfield
>15 yearsThat is roughly>The time gap between the SNES and the Wii>The time gap between the first ever Windows release (Windows 1.0) and Windows XP, as well as from Windows XP to Windows 10>Longer than the time gap between the original Xbox and the Xbox One>Longer than the time gap between the first Playstation and the PS3>Longer than the time gap between the first flip phone (Motorola Startac) and the first iPhone>Longer than the median time gap to enter college, get a 4-year degree, then enter a PHD program and finish it If you were 15 when Skyrim released, you're 30 now. If you were 25 when Skyrim released, you're 40. If you were 3 when Skyrim released, you're 18The entire Elder Scrolls franchise from Arena to Skyrim is 17 yearsThe Winds of Winter has been worked on for 15 yearsDoors of Stone has been worked on for 15 yearsDuke Nukem Forever took 14 years to makeStar Citizen was funded 14 years agoWolf Among Us was released 13 years agoAlan Wake 2 took 13 years to makeBoyhood took 12 years to makeMOTHER 3 took 12 years to makeDiablo 3 took 11 years to makeFinal Fantasy XV (originally Versus) took 10 years to makeMetroid Dread took 10 years to makeThe Last Guardian took 10 years to makeDead Island 2 took 9 years to make
>>743217848A breakthrough in creation engine technology that allows Aela to come out through the computer screen and tell you to make sweaty baby making love to her.
>>743217848>spellcrafting is back>mysticism is back and every school of magic has all of morrowind's effects plus more (including levitation)>every weapon type from daggerfall is back and they actually have different movesets, ranges, damage types and attack speeds that matter>guilds have good questlines and even side quests within them>guilds actually have rank requirements for services>big cities with proper interiors>attributes are back>perk trees are retained and aren't just +25% dmg>vampires and werewolves/boars have their own trees>factions other than "x guild" including daedric cults and vampire clans>good daedric quests with artifact rewards that aren't shit>factions and reputation>handcrafted dungeons that don't use modular block interiors and all feel the same>lots of sidequests, many of which have branching paths>housing system steals Fallout 4's settlement building so you can build whatever you want and decorate>NPCs look nothing like shartfield's and it doesn't use reblivion's UE filter>performance is shockingly good>perfect modding support on releaseLiterally not one of these things will happen, I'm just answering the question.
>>743217995this actually.A full job+crafting system.Minigames a la KCD for:>cooking>alchemy>farming>herding>mining>fishing>hunting>researchAlso native ability to build houses from scratch and obviously decorate them like Animal Crossing with furniture, etc.
>>743218170>LLMI know you are full of shit because there is no way to implement this on your average computer without forcing a connection to Bethesda's servers. Current computers are not strong enough on average to run an LLM on them locally.
Imagine if they just used AI and procedural generation for everything
>>743217848>justify the 15+ year wait?They dont need to "justify" it. Its a moot point anyways, new xbox CEO already smacked bethesda and let obsidian have fallout IP for another game and bethesda wanted to wait another 10 years before starting another fallout or something stupid.
Bethesda is a shell of what it was. It’s been 15 years. Skyrim SE with 500+ mods is a peak and totally unique gaming experience at this point anyways and is enhanced by the fact that you have to not be a scrub to serve it to yourself.
>>743217848I have been patiently waiting for this damn game since Skyrim. It’s hard to say honestly. I’ve literally watched LOU2 been produced released and reviewed along with Ghost of Tsushima and FO4 and FO76 and Dying Light 2 + The Beast while merely waiting for the next Skyrim release. Maybe they have been working on a soundtrack that is godly
>>743217848Starfield with swords
>>743217848skyrim with nignogs
>>743218980And it'll be the last fallout since Obsidian will make Avowed 2 and write Fallout on it.
>>743217848they haven't actually been working on it. they facial scanned that grandma then put it on hold while they outsourced all their staff to other Microsoft games
>>743222051Good, Fallout should have died long ago
>>743217848>>743217914sex without being video games.
>>743222002Skyrim with nogs would be hilarious. Just imagine random shootings over obscure meaningless parts of a barren mountain, nogs always randomly shooting over (muh respek dawg) but killing everyone except the one person that they intended. Their neighborhoods looking like the radioactive wasteland in fallout 4, because they have sub 70iq and don’t understand the simple concept of keeping their living area clean lolThen the Jarl comes out like the police chief in San Francisco did and says “we will no longer allow any more mugshots or stories to be written about in the local papers because we fear it will reinforce negative stereotypes”
>>743222298>Digits 2222And then talking about the crime rates, or the insane per capita statistics will be met with silence by the citizens of Tamriel and Solitude, or if your using an ai chat the numbers will be so high that the ai will tell you that it can’t quantify such numbers and glitch out before telling you that talking about documentable and available statistics and data is harmful and ending the convo
>>743217848Beeing able to build your own ship and sail it around like in AC Black Flag. I will not accept anything less at this point.
>>743217848The world would have to be like 100 real life square miles. Each town would have to have more quests and more interesting townspeople than Skyrim had. I'm talking like 60 hours main story and 300 hours side quests. With none of it being boring.More dungeons, more skills, more everything. Native VR support.They just can't release another regular Elder Scrolls game after 15 years, everyone will disappointed. They fucked themselves by taking so long.
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>>743218413By the time this game releases, I'll be as old as Todd Howard was when Skyrim released.
>>743218413Todd's decision will be studied for ages to come.
The game is just gonna be Fallout 4 and base building slop again. Instead of nukes being the things that destroyed everything, dragons did. I hope you guys like playing an ES game with only two handcrafted towns.
