re: The Elders Scroll VI: Sentinel

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I am excited to see how they handle level ups, and I hope for the ability to turn off level scaling.

I like the idea of having to avoid areas that are too high, but when I fully level up, I want to feel like a God.

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Yeah i agree games feel better when the world doesnt level up with you. It should never level down to your level at the bare minimum. Elden Ring didnt have enemy scaling and felt way better than games with it.

So it is the Louis CK joke.

Kids in school are told "you can be anything you want to be" (Morrowind enchanting)

In trade school they are told "you can be 8 things" (Skyrim enchanting)

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hat's a valid fear, and one I have, but you'd think the Elder Scrolls template and lore are robust enough to avoid that. Like, all they have to do is make a new world, update some graphics, and create some new story lines. Gameplay and mechanics have been pretty similar across the series.

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I don't disagree with any of this. If ESVI did end up bombing (behind Starfield), frankly, I think that would almost be it for Bethesda - it would require a major restructuring at the very least.

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Bethesda doesn't have anything close to that.

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They can always sell Skyrim again (and again).

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If it isn't a generational hit, Bethesda is likely still done

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Fallout IP is currently printing them money, they aren't going anywhere. Doomsday scenario would be the fold anything that's not producing Fallout content, but they aren't closing.

I think I am the only person on the planet that loved Starfield.

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This is how I know most of you only half arse read stuff before you post.

Obsidian is working on another Fallout spinoff.

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And it was moved to Obsidian, as part of a restructuring from Microsoft. Cancelling basically all Obsidian projects.

The dev was to fall under Bethesda, but Xbox decided to put it on Obsidian.

The presumption is to have Bethesda focus on ES6, which we haven't seen anything from in 8 years of development.

Anyone that thinks Bethesda can tank a ES6 disappointing because "muh Fallout"

. . .well I laugh at thee in my best Bioware impression.

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The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel has not officially confirmed its target platforms, though industry reports and Xbox's business strategy point to a release on Xbox Series X/S, PC, and Xbox Cloud Gaming.

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good

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Only because they were desperate for Fallout content and didn't want to wait for Sentinel to wrap up

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So your contention is that they were unconcerned about the pace of development?

Because that would definitely be a take

8 years and nothing to show, so they remove a spinoff from them and give it to another dev. . .cancelling that devs entire slate.

That shows direction. They want both out there, but they want Bethesda focused SOLELY on the tentpoles, in this case that is obviously ES6. If the rush was just to get anything Fallout out there, ES be damned, having the bigger studio pausing ES6 to hammer out the spinoff is clearly the shrewder move.

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When Microsoft had Obsidian and Bethesda under one roof, doing this seemed like a no brainer but no one ever pulled the trigger. That's on MS management.

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Perhaps, but not germaine to the point.

I have serious issues with Obsidian being directly under Bethesda, as we will never get anything as great or lore-consistent as New Vegas. I suspect NV2 will be more lockstep with 3&4, rather than NV.