So... About Elder Scrolls 6...

[@MrMattyPlays]

Don't miss my Elder Scrolls series retrospective to celebrate the launch of Starfield! We're really heating up over there! ;) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqC6XpZjiZ5mbdk

[@BattleBrotherCasten]

High Rock, Hammerfell and some of those small island chains I think will be ES6- doing all of Tamerial? we'd be here until 3050 my guy. Give me quality with alot of density over quantity.

[@silentzoner267]

theres literaly no new tech in starfield lmao wat u on about matty starfield is a £90 joke jus like bethesda at the min elderscroles will be no diferent unfortunetly.. i mean seriously the lack of effort in starfield has me worried for elderscroles

[@Goldenwhitewings]

@@silentzoner267honestly I hope the graphics are similar to elder scrolls six because those types of graphics are so much better then modern ones in my opinion

[@BattleBrotherCasten]

New tech for Bethseda ,yes.I see comments like yours and its ignorance to the scale of their games being so massive.That's why frame rate and graphics get tanked. No one makes games as big as they do and this game is many times bigger than Skyrim with multiple complex systems doing all kinds of calculations in real time.I'm amazed this game can even run on a console.@@silentzoner267

[@The_Atheist_Carpenter5625]

Honestly if Bethesda just bought Elden Ring and actually gave it a story with a coherent plot, that's what I feel like most people want ES6 to be. Badass weapons, Badass magic, Badass dragons, Badass boss fights...but in Tamriel with a real story.

[@Ty-wf6mg]

ES6 has been my number 1 most wanted game of all time since Skyrim came out. So the fact they’re officially working on it is beyond exciting.

[@duprebushnell2488]

great...now for the next 4 years all we gonna get is "UH OH...THE ELDER SCROLLS 6 RUMORS ARE HEATING UP" vids from Matty now 🤦‍♂

[@HowBoutDemBoyzz]

​@@duprebushnell2488so unsubscribe

[@justicetout]

See you in 5 years

[@Ty-wf6mg]

@@duprebushnell2488Seeing how it’s been in pre production/planning for 5 years maybe they’ll have it done sooner.

[@Epiousios18]

@charlieb308 They weren't "fully" working on the game for 8 years though. They spent some time working on Fallout 76 and Covid set the productivity of pretty much the entire gaming industry back by at least a year.

[@Kingzs]

The idea of Tamriel being completely playable doesn't sit right with me, I just think one of the best parts of Elder Scrolls games is the deep dive into the providence that the game is in. We really got to know Skyrim, Cyrodiil, Morrowind ect. deeply and I feel that will be lost by them spreading themselves too thin by doing all 9 providences.

[@KeithElliott-zd8cx]

kinda agree, like, one of the reasons the holds could have like, 15+ buildings that could all be entered, was because they were smaller towns, but there also wasn't dozens of them. better AI development tools can help some, but it'd be better to make a 'solid' region akin to skyrim's size or so, rather than like a full on continent of like, 6 skyrim ish regions. especially if the creation engine can only handle a skyrim ish region sized area already, so we'd basically need to load each of the 'chunks', then load bits inside.

[@pastaking3639]

9 capital cities in 9 provinces with different architecture, landscapes, factions, history, religion, Leaders, Kings, Queens, Daedric Princes. Matty is kinda insane if he thinks ES6 should have all of that and more, it would double development size minimum. 2 provinces tops High Rock and Hemmerfell.

[@Nekyo7788]

Imagine having that same level of worldbuilding across all of tamriel.

[@gabrielarkangelo]

What If they don't spread thin tho? After Starfield.. I think they could manage it.. it's not even one full planet, as Akavir would still be out.

[@KeithElliott-zd8cx]

@@gabrielarkangelo there's still only so much they can do. skyrim still took like 4-5 years. imagine several skyrims of dev time, with as much detail as skyrim... the reason they were able to do planets here is because they just let ai do 99.99999% of the work, and had some shit as filler randomly distributed.

[@NM-tl6pe]

Loving Starfield but Elder Scrolls is my jam.

[@P1MPST1K]

Same

[@Langelmaki]

I'm liking the game sp far too but dear God I'm having trouble with the map system! Hard to navigate!!

[@jameslindsay5889]

​@Langelmaki yeah I'm really enjoying it but the map system or lack of one is pants.

[@KC-py5vq]

Same, that I just love that type of high fantasy esthetic

[@claymathews8814]

Same

[@jonriker-rg9im]

please don't have them do all of tamriel...they won't be able to delve into the culture of each province enough to make each region have the depth it deserves. i think the "ultimate fantasy simulator" is more about gameplay mechanics, roleplaying opportunities, complimentary systems, and replayability than it is about having a whole continent. they can accomplish that vision in hammerfell and high rock, and that game will already be massive enough

[@isturbo1984]

if they use ESO as a template and not feel they have to create everything from scratch... yes, yes they can.

[@shard4756]

@@isturbo1984 No they cant. ESO is trash

[@th3thatguy631]

​@@shard4756I don't even like ESO but I beg to differ

[@TheGreatestJediOfAllTime]

We have BG3 now. Screw bethesda

[@Saustin97]

@@shard4756you must have not played eso. I hope a lot of those mechanics carry over

[@Saifoolah]

I honestly don’t want it to have all of Tamriel in one game. I think it’ll just lead to areas that are really cool in the lore to be underwhelming and not as detailed as they could be if they are focused on in their own games

[@TPGNutJam]

Yeah, I don’t want them to risk the provinces feeling similar.

[@reedscriven]

Absolutely, they could do a slightly bigger region than Skyrim but focus on depth and new mechanics.

[@Lynnfordthegreat]

Yes why would we want randomly generated elder scrolls game? Terrible idea honestly

[@narc440]

ES6 is rumored to also be able to play in high rock as well as hammerfell anyway, so it certainly will be massive for sure. Definitely doesn't need the whole continent of tamriel lol

[@jameswayton2340]

😂hilarious how matty is like “yea this is a great idea” while starfield JUST showed us this system does not work.

[@ryanhorner3908]

I'm liking starfield so far but the high fantasy setting of elder scrolls is peak for a BGS game

[@John-996]

I like starfield more due to how grounded it is. I have hard time getting into TES games due to them being fantasy.

[@devm2971]

@@John-996 complete opposite for me lol still love Starfield tho so far 👌🏼

[@cornfedturbojoe]

​@@John-996elder scrolls is bgs bread and butter, tes series is their best series

[@YourLocalStormcloak]

@@devm2971i’m saying, Elder Scrolls games are very immersive and a lot of the stuff is historical (obviously not the magic) but you know what im saying. Starfield has so many immersion breaking elements and I don’t feel like a character worth living through in it.

[@Aeneascid]

After playing through Starfield's procedural content, I'm hoping there's a huge improvement to that system before trying to add it into Elder Scrolls. You can make the excuse that space is actually empty so the limited creatures and structures makes sense. If I'm exploring Tamriel and it's as dead as the planets in the Navion system that will be a TRAGIC inclusion into the game

[@TheJackal1229]

IMO, I would more so prefer for procedural content to function on the periphery of the game or as a kind of "DM/random encounter" system. They should focus on stacking the game with deeper, hand-crafted, & more unique content first, and then use some procedural stuff to add content along the periphery of the more hand-crafted stuff. I think a lot of the content would also go a much longer way if they didn't design a lot of their content around everyone being able to experience all or most of the content in the game in 1 playthrough. I.E., how in Skyrim you can become the archmage without knowing a single spell (all you need is a fireball scroll).

[@victor95pc]

You can bet no improvement will be made and the game would be a total failure, but a lot of reviewers will still say the game is good.

[@Kaleb.F]

The idea of exploring all of Tamriel is enticing but my hope is that Bethesda was just trying something new with a new IP to make Starfield it's own separate experience. I'm absolutely loving that experience so far but I don't want Elder Scrolls to go there. I don't want miles of mostly empty terrain. I do however hope they bring the new and improved Starfield writing over the ES series!

[@unturned55]

I completely agree! I thinks it’s really unlikely that they will make all of Tamriel, at the most it will probably be Hammerfell and High Rock in the same game

[@John-996]

I do noth thing it will be its Like GTA, RDR and Bully all have differnt sized maps and follow differnt rules RDR2 has an 80 second rule while were Bully is like a 30 second rule. Differnt games will have differnt maps.

[@qwertyvypez]

It makes sense for starfield as most planets would be like that

[@qwertyvypez]

Actually I just thought about it again and having all of tamriel in the game would work. The main cities in each province would be hand crafted and also all the smaller settlements in each province. Then everything in-between can be procedural

[@andrejz8954]

Hmm, not such a bad idea. Maybe even have some main dungeons hand crafted here and there and I think it could work!@@qwertyvypez

[@marketingmark]

I really hope they focus on 1 or 2 regions that are packed with content and really deep.

[@alexhein1738]

Could be more than 2 regions

[@andrejz8954]

@@alexhein1738 nope

[@andrejz8954]

Even 1 done right would be quite enough @@alexhein1738

[@ddsjgvk]

​@@andrejz8954we live in the day and age games keep getting updated. It's more likely that 6 will have all the Provinces by the end of its life cycle and no 7. Even Todd said he wants a game with all the areas.

[@andrejz8954]

@@ddsjgvk Maybe. I'm just also saying that size is way overrated. Just look at SF for example. And, afaik, Skyrim was way bigger than Morrowind, but is inferior in all areas except gfx. I'd be completely content with one province done right and interesting than whole Tamriel Shallow as Skyrim.

[@sweptay]

Ive seen others say they think it will be set in hammerfell and high rock, as direnni tower is right in between those two regions, the tower has a lot of lore connections with the Thalmor, and also has a sort of hero prophecy attached to it.

[@isturbo1984]

That's just the boiling point of the resistance against the Thalmor. That doesnt mean the entire game will take place in that region. There are pockets of resistances and support for the Altmeri dominion throughout Tamriel. That is just one focal point. If anything, this just shines a light on the story setting, not the location.

[@RaphaelAmbrosiusCosteau51]

Oh I didn’t know anything about a prophecy being connected to that, do you have any videos you could link me to?

[@sweptay]

@@RaphaelAmbrosiusCosteau51 It's not really a prophecy from anyone in specific, but a sort of implied one by writing. There's a book in-game called "Once" written by a Direnni elf. He writes about how at maturity every Direnni elf is allowed to enter the Tower and touch a thing called the Zero Stone which wards the Argent Aperture, which is like magical locked door/portal, and that touching the Stone you feel a mystical power that no one has ever managed to tap into. They are apparently allowed to touch the Stone only once, and that near the end of their lives, some Direnni go back to the Stone and use all that they've learned to try get something to happen but so far all have ended up either dead or horribly disfigured.

[@NegativeNeal]

I think the full Tamriel idea won't work, or that it would feel more like ESO than ES5 with reduced dialogue across the map. But with their increase in dialogue per game with Starfield, maybe they could do a multiple regions thing instead.

[@bobbiemiles-foremaniii8747]

Please no full tamriel. More scope equals more boring. I'm afraid they're gonna go that way tho

[@bluehon14]

@@bobbiemiles-foremaniii8747 right, it’s better to make one region the best it can than doing all of Tamriel in a game, like for example es6 should be hammerfell and high rock but it’s shouldn’t include the other regions.

[@andrejz8954]

Agreed. They should try to make a smaller scale map, but much deeper mechanics/content. @@bluehon14

[@ddsjgvk]

Reduce dialogue. Dude it's not BioWare. We didn't get that with Skyrim.

[@andrejz8954]

And that's one of the reasons Skyrim sucks and Morrowind and NV are great ^^@@ddsjgvk

[@wezacker6482]

Good points. 1) Absolutely agree that they need to improve the 'feel' of melee combat. It has always been a weak(er) spot for them. 2) Disagree on scope, but that's a personal preference. I (almost) always prefer quality over quantity. 3) I am not (yet) sold on procedural content generation and AI in general. Why? See #2. 4) I also can't wait for ES6!!!

[@YourDadYoda]

Starfield is my first real attempt at a Bethesda game and I’m loving it. If ES6 is anything like it, then I’m already really hyped.

[@MrNeppaJo]

you should try more of their titles. imo they all more or less have the same overall feel just based in different settings

[@ryguy1483]

I hope for less building mechanics. Only building your house, nothing more. If WE gotta build the settlements and not Bethesda, again, I'll be quite annoyed *looks at Fallout 4*. Ridiculous

[@isturbo1984]

I dont believe it will be. I honestly dont think you will have to go through seven loading screens just to cross the threshold in between Cyrodiil and Skyrim.

[@Pseudowudoh]

I'm jealous, haha. You have thousands on thousands of hours of fun ahead of you if you so choose to check out more of their titles (which I fully recommend).

[@regulator18E]

​@@ryguy1483bruh the settlement system in FO4 is completely optional, what do you want to cry about next?

[@GustavusAdolphus2]

Elderscrolls 6 is and always has been hype

[@Pillock25]

All of Tamriel? The caves will be as empty as the ones in Starfield.

[@RedheadJack]

I think all of tamriel for ES6 is completely unrealistic and would be a complete mess. Starfield can't even match no man's sky on an open world technical level when it originally launched in 2016. The engine seems to have changed very little over the years and is absolutely limiting them on what they can do. I'd be totally fine with a Skyrim 2 Hammerfell with more content and deeper RPG choices and consequences

[@Cusey]

Yea I agree completely and the second half of this video he makes every point with why this is the move. Quality over quantity, always. Skyrim is already almost too big to see all of. I want to see big improvements in npc interaction, combat, skill trees and weapon and armor variety. Make each hour better, dont give me 1000 more hours.

[@TheDustyForest]

Honestly as great as it would be I don't think all of Tamriel is likely. But regarding exploring lots of different types of terrain, I think the Iliac Bay region is already pretty varied. High Rock is like the less snowy parts of Skyrim, Hammerfell is desert and middle-eastern influence, Orsinium is a mountain kingdom, etc.

[@chaserseven2886]

Nah making it take place in all of Tamriel is a bad idea

[@Brimwald]

Agreed

[@That_Jake_Guy]

Agreed. I definitely think the procedural content needs to be kept to a minimum in ES6. I understand it in Starfield considering you are literally exploring space, but it’s not fitting for the elder scrolls series. We need that Skyrim style exploration in ES6, just on a bigger (but not overly big) scale. I want a fully handcrafted world with 100s of unique locations, loot, characters etc.

[@MaxPainMSF]

Agreed, just one region is definitely better

[@Brimwald]

@@MaxPainMSF yeah go deeper not wider

[@devanthedoppler7238]

I think it’s a real possibility for it to be 2 regions, high rock and hammerfell. They are right beside each other and the environments would be an awesome dynamic to play across

[@brandonparada1570]

All i hope for ES6 is that we get that storyline that really draws us in. Even though Skyrim’s dragon born dialogue was straight forward and short in some area’s, it really knew how to work up that momentum.

[@tim3493]

I think the best use of all thier new crazy tech from Starfield wouldn’t be to make all of Tamriel, but to make a normal sized ES game without any loading screens!! like, even if it’s similar size to Skyrim and Fallout 4 but a completely seamless experience, i think that would feel amazing to play :) (great vid Matty, the starfield discourse is ridiculous rn)

[@intelliligibleverbose2340]

I think Hammerfell/Highrock would be a cool middle ground of truly vast world and a more focused open world experience.

[@fuckso2342]

Agreed. Doing all of Tamriel is too much. Hammerfell/Highrock is perfect. Bethesda needs to stop just focusing bland quantity and focus on quality and refining the game itself. Nobody gives a flying fuck of the quantity if its mostly randomly generated junk and the world does not feel crafted.

[@firescream2528]

@@fuckso2342 agreed completely , starfields precedural wasnt bad and it was preety beuatiful but the hand crafted on starfield was excellent . So for es6 having mostly hand crafted content would be amazing

[@sjones8832]

No Hammerfell sucks

[@erikhendrickson59]

Pretty crazy to think that it will be *_nineteen years_* between Elder Scrolls installments! (I think 2030~ is a relatively reasonable expectation)

[@Buderbukz]

Probably sooner due to next gen console for Xbox will probably come out around 2026 or 2027. Bethesda also needs a new engine. Unfortunately they most likely won't have one anytime soon nor the Elder Scrolls 6 be a game ran on a new engine.

[@WholeHolyHole]

@@Buderbukz it’s going to be 5 years minimum. 2-3 years is very unrealistic so don’t get your hopes up. Starfield was in development for 8 years. Starfield will be the only BGS game of this console generation unless they do something like a Morrowind remake.

[@shard4756]

@@Buderbukz It will be a 5 yr minimum. 2028 at the earliest, if were lucky

[@Buderbukz]

@@shard4756 @HolyBlowHole, yeah 5 years minimal is probably what will be. So 2028, then in typical Bethesda fashion delayed.

[@Buderbukz]

@@WholeHolyHole A Morrowind remake, GIBS!

[@duncan4325]

Potentially having all of Tamriel to explore in ES6 worries me a lot. Could have a situation of an in-game world that is vast as an ocean and as deep and as a puddle. Unfortunately that’s how I feel about starfield at the moment. It was just too ambitious and the world design suffered. Starfield made me appreciate Skyrim even more. Skyrim perfected exploration with wonders around every corner. Skyrim may not have had the best graphics but it is a BEAUTIFUL world. I have still never been sucked into a video game world as much as Skyrim. What makes me keep coming back to play Skyrim is not the combat, or the story, or the rpg mechanics; it’s the world. My perfect ES6 would be the world design of Skyrim, mixed with the companion design of fallout 4, and the customization options of Starfield (as long as those don’t interfere with the core game).

[@cory99998]

Fully agree, the environmental storytelling doesnt exist in Starfield from what I've seen so far. Partly the fault of the weaker worldbuilding not having a lot of material to make use of like TES and Fallout can, but something as simple as setting out on an adventure and getting lost in the world doesnt really happen for me in Starfield. It was a good attempt and it has heart to it, but it just doesn't compare to exploring in their previous games. And ngl, Fallout 4 suffered here too. Its just that the worldbuilding is so rich that you dont need to do a lot of handcrafting for it to be interesting. But it was definitely weaker. I'd rather them reduce their scope and do more handcrafting.

[@fuckso2342]

Bethesda games need more choice and consequences in quests. Their games feel like static playgrounds compared to many other rpgs.

[@TheJackal1229]

@@fuckso2342 Agreed. A flaw in their design philosophy is that they like people to be able to see and do everything on 1 playthrough. Emphasizing more on consequences & adding multiple layers of choices and approaches that totally change the course of what's available for players (meaning that they might hypothetically get locked out of or locked into some options, occurrences, or features) is necessary to create a more meaningful experience, IMO. There's an article recently where Sven Vincke of BG3 mentions the importance of focusing heavily on designing more fringe content even if only a fraction of the player base ends up discovering it. I think that BGS tends to focus more on crafting content that a large amount, if not most of their players will all experience, instead of more fringe discoveries (not saying that BGS games don't have fringe discoveries, just that their formula would naturally benefit from emphasizing this more).

[@fuckso2342]

@@TheJackal1229 Well said and the funny the thing Obsidian already showed how to evolve the Bethesda formula and add depth to it 13 years ago with New Vegas. Who bloody cares if you lock content away from people because they made choices in quests? That precisely is what adds replay value to an RPG. It makes the world feel real and lived in rather than some playground for the player.

[@TheJackal1229]

@@fuckso2342 I couldn't agree more. It's absolutely necessary for them to take this approach if they truly want to push their formula forward. Still, I suspect that Todd Howard and some of the execs at BGS disagree with this design philosophy from some of what they've said at some interviews in the last 4 - 5 years.

[@alekkonert158]

I actually hope the complete opposite. All of Tamriel in one game would water down the experience. What they need to do is look at making one province and making it vast, with densely packed cities, unique dungeons, items, and quest lines. And no base building and as little procedural stuff as possible. No fluff. Just Elder Scrolls how we know it but better.

[@universal_wisdom3416]

I can deal with Starfield being what it is. But ES6 can’t be anything short from perfect. Every single aspect of the game matters.

[@fireballs7346]

And u will be disappointed lower your expectations

[@universal_wisdom3416]

@@fireballs7346 There hasn’t been a single elder scrolls game that was bad. I don’t expect it to be perfect, but it needs to be.

[@fireballs7346]

@@universal_wisdom3416 nope i hope its very far from perfect...people like u need to learn to temper your expectations

[@universal_wisdom3416]

@@fireballs7346 Being a pessimist and leveling your expectations are two different things. Elder Scrolls NEEDS to finish on a high note, or it’ll be very bad.

[@CrazyD993]

Beth ain’t gonna do all of Tamriel. If that’s what you want check out the various mod projects looking to add that. Thinking pragmatically about it, say they make the whole of Tamriel in ES6. Where do they go when ES7 drops? It’s a franchise, and the bigger you go the more fans expect. So adding the whole of Tamriel would then become the map for every game going forward, that doesn’t seem sustainable for them to pull off. Beth do an amazing job of taking an area/region/province and building that as their ‘world’ and crafting that. That’s where they excel. I think other systems will be implemented. However, a whole Tamriel ES game is not where they’re going to go - at least any time soon imo.

[@ISGAMINGFORNERDS]

I agree with u big BUT for E7 when where all 90 years old but could we possibly get a new land or a new planet idk just saying

[@nxcrobutcher]

theres dozens of eras they can set future titles during and theres 2 entire continents on nirn we have never seen, we'll all be dead before elder scrolls runs out of potential content

[@malvikvran3737]

Bethesda will never set a main series game in the past eras. So long as Todd is in charge. But there are other continents other than Tamriel.

[@ant8ank2]

I really don’t see them doing the whole of Tamriel and I don’t even know if I want that. I’d be worried about the lack of theme from each zone and lack of hand crafted gameplay. It’ll expecting them to do the iliac bay with all of hammerfell and high rock. A reimagining of daggerfall but with modern capabilities

[@nmd1120]

I'm hoping ES6 is at least High Rock and Hammerfell + some islands. It'd be so awesome to be able to sail across the Iliac Bay and out to the islands in the Abecean.

[@kriddie88]

I'm personally hoping for Elsweyr/Argonia, although I think the regions would be a little too alien to appeal to a large crowd.High Rock and Hammerfell do seem to be the most sensible choice.

[@jonhawes5995]

Imagine there were some sea exploration as well! Nothing too crazy but some sea monsters, caves etc - would be so cool.

[@nmd1120]

@@jonhawes5995 100% agree, oceans in Bethesda games have been far too barren thus far

[@AstriaTVTruthExposed]

Playing starfield made me miss the lived in feeling of skyrim. I wish starfield had the exploration skyrim did.

[@Gbag34]

Matty my boy. You’re gonna have to bring back The Elder Scrolls VI Wishlist series at some point. When you do, just know I’ll be ready. >:)

[@GustavusAdolphus2]

We are all ready 100%

[@MrMattyPlays]

Hahahaha, an OG! Trust me, I know you'll be ready :D

[@infinitefretboard]

Considering the number one complaint about Starfield is the 1000+ planets (with many 0/10 reviews just for that reason), it doesn’t make sense for TES 6 to have a giant procedurally-generated world. There would probably be around 4 main towns, with everything else being empty. Large stretches of empty landscape with no characters. It’s really spreading them too thin.

[@L_H_Bruh]

An underrated mechanic in starfield that surprisingly doesn't get attention at all is the climbing feature, it's the first in any bethesda game and I can only hope they add more to it and also refine it in the future for new bethesda games, especially for fallout 5. I can only imagine that it's going to make exploration even more immersive and fun by the time fallout 5 comes out, imagine if we have to climb skyscrapers if it's set in NY

[@Ssecave]

walking, sprinting (both 1st and 3rd person) are great ! Climbing work 50% of the time but is great. stelath too ! A bit of a shame to see great animations like those but during dialogue it's back to Fallout 4/Skyrim...

[@ashtondillard6906]

Yea the movement in this game is pretty good. Definitely a step up from FO4. Sprinting, climbing, Jetpacking, sliding. It actually feels a lot like Destiny 2.

[@austinjones3226]

​@@ashtondillard6906you can slide? How?

[@KeithElliott-zd8cx]

"climbing feature" i mean, it's been talked about so much in skyrim, lol. having a jetpack also sort of makes it a tad redundant.

[@austinjones3226]

@@KeithElliott-zd8cx you can't climb in Skyrim

[@thedarkdescent2387]

Honestly I’d rather have them focus one 1 province and have realistic cities where every character is named with unique quests

[@Salvadorzin1]

I think they still are going to make ES6 in one particular region (Hammerfell + High Rock), but they will upscale the map to make it look like a real country in a continent. Villages with dozens to hundreds of houses, major cities with thousands of buildings and NPCs. Now they can do that.

[@shard4756]

This. Starfield is big but the towns are still tiny. They need to use the tech to focus on a region and make the cities bigger

[@naughtywizard]

Idk half of the fun of TES games is the small scale. Realistic cities are impressive but super boring. Small towns with lots of dense landmarks and short walking distances is classic bethesda game design.

[@matthewbelamont5800]

Someone make a GIF of matty saying “Tighten Up” with those hand movements 🤣 At 13:52

[@Epiousios18]

My theory is that ES6 is going to be set around the Iliac Bay, but at closer to a 1-1 scale. So while not all of Tamriel it would still be pretty huge with a variety of environments.

[@naughtywizard]

Hammerfell and High Rock at Skyrim’s scale is already pushing it

[@Epiousios18]

@@naughtywizard It depends on if they are using procedurally generated content or not (and to what extent). I also could see them focusing on the area around the Bay and not necessarily the entirety of the provinces. The Bay allows for the potential of using a "Ship" mechanic from Starfield which is one of the main reasons I expect it to be included.

[@SamuelProcédant]

Hi mr beast, idk you were a elder scroll's fan ! Happy to know it

[@pracitus]

You say they got the exploration so right? You need to check your eyes

[@outcast9784]

The scary part about this is I can’t wait for a new Fallout game, I’m 27 now, I feel like by the time I’ll be able to play another Fallout game I’ll be pushing 40+ and that’s scary af to think about. I can’t imagine other people a lot older than me in the same boat thinking this aswell

[@zucottimanicotti6450]

With how Starfield turned out I don't have high hopes for Elder Scrolls 6. Just going to stick with modded Skyrim.

[@Gelfling66]

To comment on the commander idea, I like the idea, but I don't want something that takes away from the individual character. I don't want to command an army in TES6, I want to be the army. I want to have the strength to take down hordes of characters. I like micro, commander style games, but I don't want TES6 to be one

[@thornescapes7707]

Pirate ships. Add in the open seas. Procedural generation from Starfield would work well, plus modders could have fancy islands. There's have been people asking for a good pirate game.

[@PhoenixChaos]

I mean would it be too obvious to make all of Tamriel explorable?

[@echotapout183]

After playing starfield I was thinking the same thing with ships and outpost

[@monkeybomb8215]

I swear, this man never slows down lol. He covered Starfield up to and after launch like a pro now converting the next big game! Appreciate all the hard work sir!

[@bad3032]

Matty, you're smoking crack on this take my boy! Lol. No way they're going to do all of tamriel.

[@naughtywizard]

Yeah this take is whack

[@cory99998]

I might be a minority here but I really hope TES6 doesnt use procedural NPCs to populate cities. For practical reasons this is easier on production and game performance but you lose the feeling of immersion. Another immersion breaker for me is not being able to loot what people are wearing and seeing that disappear from the body model. Both sound like small things but its part of what helps me feel like im actually in universe

[@MidoriOku114]

Having the entire map would be awesome in a way, but I feel as if it would mostly be filled with random, repeatable encounters. With most of the main stuff spread out and few and far between. I would rather it be a collection of several highly detailed and fleshed out provinces packed with content.

[@John-996]

Yeah that is the issue witg large worlds smaller denser worlds are the way to go.

[@ivangeorgiev4664]

I pray that Elder Scrolls 6 will be 100% hand crafted. Or at least they can have 100% hand crafted main map with skyrim/falloout 4 map size or bigger, and then this terrain can continue with procedural content. I don't like when procedural and handcrafted content is blended like in starfield

[@themonkysuncle]

I would love to see the Dwarves return to Tamriel alongside their technology

[@EyeOfMagnus4E201]

So if Starfield is Elder Scrolls in space, then an Elder Scrolls game where the Dwemer come back would be Starfield in Tamriel? That would be interesting!

[@ashtondillard6906]

@@EyeOfMagnus4E201what do you mean? The last sentence didn’t make any sense.

[@EyeOfMagnus4E201]

@@ashtondillard6906 If you knew about all the the accomplishments of the Dwemer it makes perfect sense. The Dwemer effectively had robots, computers of a sort, airships, and even spaceships. Their greatest creation was even a giant robot that Tiber Septim used to conquer Alinor. Much of their stuff was magic-adjacent but then any sufficiently advanced technology starts to resemble magic.

[@themonkysuncle]

@@EyeOfMagnus4E201 Maybe one these awesome modding teams who are making mods like Beyond Skyrim,might just turn one of the 100 or more planets into Nirn itself in Starfield

[@jgshaolinterrific5218]

Honestly after seeing that Crimson Desert trailer ES6 needs to be visually at that level or better

[@struggleryoutube]

After the pathetic flop that was Starfield i absolutely DO NOT want TES6 to encompass all of Tamriel. Clearly Bethesda excells in a focused experience, if it was all of Tamriel there would be AI generation and lots of boring meaningless content. Aka "can you deliver this letter for me? I'll give you 50 septims! All you gotta do is travel 50 miles and back!"

[@muffaloswolja8654]

The best thing Bethesda can do to get us truly excited for TES VI is dropping Creation Engine. That might honestly be more exciting than any announcement regarding locations or scope. Get rid of this engine. And put a god damn FOV slider in the game. Then it’ll be hype.

[@Tiredghosty]

It's so good seeing how you try to keep the positivity matty. Appreciate the good vibes always

[@Sir_Maximus_Hardwood]

He has to watch his tone if he wants those review codes and kickbacks. God damn shill.

[@clintonfaucette7991]

Th scope of Starfield is huge and enables me to live out my Boba Fett fantasy like no other game ever,can’t wait for the next elder scrolls

[@Zac_DB]

If they do the whole world, I’d like to be able to have my own ship to sail from place to place. Make it customisable like the Starfield ships but all wooden and stuff 😂

[@kokoanuttify]

All of Tamriel would be a bad idea. ESO already has this to an extent so I don’t see why they’d try and do the same thing with es6. Although procedural generation is always a given with Bethesda. The only places worth visiting after Skyrim would be cyrodiil, summerset isles, hammerfell and valenwood just cause I like wood elves and cities in the trees.

[@ethanosborn989]

I would choose a smaller hand crafted map over procedural generation in general. Maybe sailing could be procedural, but that’s so specific it’s unlikely. Eso is expanding to most of Tamriel so I would think they would try to focus on a relatively smaller scope. But I agree they would probably choose size over all else.

[@godless1014]

Starfields "expansive" universe is 99.9999% procedurally generated blandness. The bit that shines is that handcrafted .00001%. Starfields approach to exploration and discovery made me want to stay home. The worst thing they could do is bring that to ES.

[@5michael5]

I went to the other side of a planet where there was nothing and ran into a group shooting all the wild life.

[@TheAwesomeAlan]

My one dream for these games has always been being able to work your way up from any status and found your own town, watching it grow, and becoming the leader of your own prominent faction. Fallout 4 got closest to this with its settlement building system, but it's integration into the story was meh at best and it lacked a lot of the progression that would make for good roleplaying experiences. You weren't really the founder and leader of this town, you were just someone placing down structures or crops and letting other people move in to inhabit it. They also said this was optional, but it wasn't really due to the final quest and some missions overall. Starfield feels like a major step back in that regard and it's honestly a bit disappointing. I was hoping they would've expanded heavily on that system, making colony building a large and expansive venture out into space where you could colonize a planet with various settlements, growing a civilization - potentially networking that planet to other planets where you've done the same thing. Of course, if you wanted to do all of that. It'd be optional, but if you chose to do it, it would effect the story in some capacity. A dream Elder Scrolls would have the option to settle a small village and have it grow into a powerhouse of the region you're in, watching it grow and prosper, and having to deal with issues that the people have. There are so many flaws in Fable 3, but one of the best things it did once you were King was have your people approach you with various issues and you were forced to make a choice. Both had consequences, but that was the price you paid for being king. Eventually within the story of Elder Scrolls 6, if there was some kind of war broken out between two factions (hypothetically, since that's a bit too close to Skyrim's story), then you would be able to declare your allegiance to one side or the other, or staying neutral, or creating a potential third faction where you come out on top as king and are forced to sway other cities to your side. It's not enough to just be called the leader of a faction in Fallout 4's case. You weren't really the leader at all. You weren't telling anyone what to do, making any plans, controlling the minutemen, interacting with members of the group in any meaningful way - anything like that. You were just a stand-in with a meaningless title. It's a lot to ask for something that should be optional, but in a general sense, for a franchise that wants to be the king of all RPG's where you can "be anyone and do anything", is it too much to ask for an option to roleplay as a leader of your own faction or town and have it intertwine with the story if you choose to do so? Still gonna play the hell out of it regardless.

[@sleepngnight]

I still think ES6 will have two provinces, Daggerfall and HammerFell. Maybe also they have the Iliac bay, and islands in it. Both have a surprisingly good amount of biomes with different types of forests, plains, rocky terrain, mountains, hills, praries, in both provinces. Swamps in Daggerfall, and deserts in HammerFell. Also both provinces have just a history together. They also have similar names of types of weapons in the province name, dagger and hammer. I would be totally fine with just HammerFell. I just feel like they can do one more province now. Especially DaggerFall with HammerFell.

[@evilweasel6339]

I’m enjoying starfield but man hopefully ES6 comes very soon.

[@wranglerman270]

I just hope I live long enough to see it

[@patricklorran1960]

I'm a huge Bethesda fan, Morrowind is my fav game ever, love skyrim n starfield, but i gotta say, I've ZERO hype for tes 6. The amount of time that has passed, how little Bethesda has shown improvement in F4 and starfield and how far tes6 is away from us

[@naughtywizard]

Yeah and who knows how many of the original developers still work at the company

[@gearknight8870]

I think that they're going with high rock and hammerfell, but as a seamless open world. That means every dungeon, every castle, every ruin, every cave, and every gate in front of a city or town you can enter will have little to no loading screens.

[@mrkeller8000]

From what I have read, Starfield is an estimated 1,000,000 mi^2. Since Skyrim was 14.3 mi^2, it doesn't seem too crazy that it could span the entire continent.

[@farmsalot1233]

Ya but most of Starfield is empty and copy pasted. You wouldn't want that in a game like es6

[@joshua-ov4ne]

​@@farmsalot1233say you haven't played the game without saying you haven't played the game loser

[@mrkeller8000]

@@farmsalot1233 We going there? Sure. Let's say Starfield is remarkably 99.99% empty. That still leaves 100 mi^2 that *isn't* empty, more than enough to make up Tamriel considering the scale of the Skyrim.

[@RaphaelAmbrosiusCosteau51]

@@mrkeller8000yeah but you need to take into account just how many NPC’s the game would need to have, especially considering that after Starfield, nobody’s gonna wanna go back to the tiny ass cities of Skyrim. Also it just wouldn’t work with how the factions work in elder scrolls, I mean, I guess having like 3 different assassins and fighters guilds to join would be cool but it would probably just result in a bunch of mid questlines. On the other hand, they could just have one of each kind of guild, but it seems pretty unimmersive to me to, for example, only get to join the dark brotherhood when there’s no reason I shouldn’t be able to also join the morag tong. Well I guess joining both might not make sense, but it would be dumb if I was only able to join the dark brotherhood when the morag tong should also be an option.

[@brandonphilander661]

I'm a bit worried about the Creation Engine 2 being use to make ES 6.

[@TheCorpsehatch]

I could see Elder Scrolls VI be Hammerfell and High Rock combined. Deep down I really would like to see The Elder Scrolls VI: Tamriel with the whole of Tamriel.

[@naughtywizard]

Do you really want another procedurally generated Tamriel though?

[@mynqmeis123]

I remember back in 8th grade when skyrim came out still. I'm 25 now. Still one of the best games ever made. So wild its been 12 years and that game is still talked about today.

[@jondagamer4466]

The only reason why its still talked about is because of the presence of mods. Mods is whats keeping skyrim in the picture. You take the mods away and skyrim wouldve died years ago

[@TheFreckelz]

Based on hints given by Bethesda I'm pretty confident the game will take place around Iliac Bay between High Rock and Hammerfell. Given that these are two different nations of the Breton and the Redguard, it may focus on a large scale conflict involving the sovereign Hammerfell and the Empire. The Thalmor are also likely to play a bigger role in this game. This could work well with Bethesda's focus on having higher number of characters in a given area in cities and combat, which could make war battles much bigger than in Skyrim. Also, having two regions instead of just one would already make this game far bigger than Skyrim. All of Tamriel is honestly just a ridiculous idea and you know that. ESO hasn't even done all of Tamriel, and the biggest complaint about Starfield is how empty and soulless it is outside the hub cities. Personally, if Todd wants to be remembered well and this is his last game, then he should focus on writing and player choice. I know he loves big games so it would be impossible to have the depth of BG3 or New Vegas, but most longtime TES fans want BGS to go in that direction in terms of depth, characters, dialogue, and writing. Want the best fantasy simulator? Make an immersive game. How to be immersive? Make the writing good and your choices interesting. It worries me how little BGS takes into consideration the desires of their fans. It's clear they care far more about profit than making a good game their fans want, but they said the fact people hated the voiced protagonist in Fallout 4 only played a small role in not doing it in Starfield. AND THEY STILL DID (technically if you know the spoilers).

[@gethriel]

😂😂😂 "depth of BG3." What a joke. They got some things right but it isn't even technically superior to other offerings and it's main story is as hacknied and derivative as they come. Game full of edgelord companions and weak character creation: GARBAGE.

[@InterstellarAdventure]

Every so often, I get on KZbin and watch different videos on TES 6 just because I’m so excited for it.

[@Ty-wf6mg]

I would say having all of Tamriel would be a terrible idea. That’s what the ESO is for. Think the majority would much rather have one region like usual, extremely dense, with quality crafted content and places to explore.

[@Harry-pe2rl]

Hey Matty! You should do a wish list for Fallout 5 and maybe someone at Bethesda might watch! I really want it to be set in New Orleans with a creepy black magic/voodoo vibe with sweet jazz music on the radio…..

[@AW27s93]

Elder scrolls was my childhood. I have been waiting over a decade to see another release. You are so right, we fans are expecting it to be damn good! Loving Starfield in the meantime and am hopeful for an oblivion remake to tide me over…

[@HarambeKojima]

Supposedly, a remaster of Oblivion is in the works by a different studio. So...maybe you will get your wish. Although, I don't think the studio working on it has a great reputation.

[@AW27s93]

@@HarambeKojima I saw that! Let’s hope for the best… 🤞

[@worm82075]

Elder scrolls 6 is going to be centered on Illiac Bay. It's technically the same setting as Daggerfall but this time around we're gonna have the entire province of hammerfell as well as portions of High Rock, Skyrim and Cyrodiil that border the bay. The main focus of the game is going to be real time sailing.

[@Canderson_Beats]

Source?

[@patriotsouthern8123]

Patience homie we only just got Starfield. Let’s bask in the greatness for a minute.

[@Game4ALaugh]

I'm waiting on my lil bro to drop me his Series S so I can play. Me stuck on Sony

[@patriotsouthern8123]

@@Game4ALaughno one is stuck, Anthony, we all made choices.

[@Game4ALaugh]

@@patriotsouthern8123 ye it's an expensive decision. But at least there's the cheaper Series S to help with that. I want to have the choice.. I went 360 route and it was the best choice then.. now the problem is my Bethesda is on the side I was once with.. I had to choose my wallet tbh

[@Game4ALaugh]

.. then there's the PC option too. And I'm glad you replied bc I thought I was shadow banned with nobody interacting with me..

[@SenturosGaviannus]

A yes 6 cities will with in named random faces travellers and people that live there. Not to mention how much bigger the maps could be. We're it's not 3 mins run from from Riverwood to Whiterun. But like 30 mins to a town in that hold/county

[@isturbo1984]

I agree wit Matty, the discourse surrounding Starfield right now is toxic. TO BE CLEAR, that is because there are a lot of people who do not like the game for a variety of reasons, and those voices are getting shouted down and berated by the fanboys.

[@kennypowers1945]

Since starfield was a bit of a let down with open exploration I hope ES6 in a few years is much better in that aspect

[@LettaLeeJoy]

Frankly I think they should take some notes from BG3 and focus heavily on the role playing aspect. When I think ultimate fantasy simulator, I think a lot of crazy scenarios that can play out it crazy ways.

[@tastietoastbruh4166]

I found your channel 7 years ago when you were talking about your elder scrolls 6 wishlist. Nice to be talking about es6 again.

[@psychedelicJake]

I really hope something like chat gpt can be implemented into the npcs of elder scrolls 6. I would love to just be able to talk to npcs with a headset and that dictate how a lot of the game plays out. There’s a simulator for ya lol

[@iyziejane]

chat gpt mods exist for skyrim, that speak in the NPC's voice. It's surreal.

[@timothyconnelley6099]

I have a love/hate relationship with base/settlement building. I could lose myself for hours building, but then I'm like "I just wanna play quests." Definitely wanna build an outpost in starfield, but the time it takes to gather components will be painstakingly tedious.

[@AlexFaaborg]

I'm really curious what ES6 looks like, given the close collaboration between Microsoft and OpenAI. The Skyrim mods that had chatgpt train on all of the elder scrolls lore have been fascinating, and might shine some light on what Todd Howard meant when he said "ultimate fantasy simulator"

[@yeti112]

About the voiced protagonist, just have both options, a voiced a silent one. Let the player decide.

[@AstarionWifey]

YAS 👏

[@georgek2574]

you still dont get it, a voiced protagonist limits the amount of options due to needing the voice actors needing to voice every single line. it just wouldnt work

[@yeti112]

@@georgek2574 Is that so? If I remember correctly Skyrim had 1 or 2 dialogue options most of the time. In Oblivion it was every worse. Fallout 4 might have a dialogue system that constantly ended with the same outcome but all the options still were voiced. I might be wrong but I got the impression that Fallout 4 had more playing dialogue than Skyrim or Oblivion. So a voiced protagonist doesn't limit the amount of options.

[@georgek2574]

@@yeti112 Oblivion and skyrim were both made with very small teams given the scope of the games, hence the writing was very limited. starfield for example has over 4 times of the amount of voiced dialogue as FO4, for all of that to be properly voiced would be asinine. thats why BG3 went with a voiceless protagonist and it was the correct choice. a VP will always limit the writing and future expansions/DLC as the voice actor might not be avalible anymore. and ABOVE ALL a voice protagonist in ES would be extremely difficult as many races sound COMPLETELY different and you would need a male and female voice for those different races. i would much rather that budget go to other things

[@yeti112]

@@georgek2574 I do agree about ES. With all the races it would be difficult indeed, not impossible but probably way too more work to go through with it. As for Starfield I guess it still could have worked without losing dialogue but Bethesda would need extra scripters to implement all the lines if they don't already have them considering the size of Bethesda now. So I wouldn't say that a VP automatically limits the amount of dialogue, it always depends on how much resources the developers are willing to put into it. At the end what I'm trying to say is that I don't like how many people are just so against a VP when Fallout 4 did have a VP with more dialogue than previous Bethesda games. If the developer decides to use a VP, it should be optional but being against a VP from the very start is a bit of an overreaction. As you said, for something like ES can be complicated but Fallout should be fine as long as the developers got the resources.

[@marcoslef]

Hope ES6 brings a lot of innovation, Bethesda really needs to step up imo

[@gabrielarkangelo]

They did a lot of step up in Starfield.. but they should always shoot to the stars (pun intended).

[@issahumps]

@@gabrielarkangelo starfield is a downgrade compared to previous games. We had guards react to fighting in Skyrim just one example.

[@expressrobkill]

@@issahumpscant really say its a downgrade with so manny new systems. And the choices are more relevant that Skyrim’s were, and overall the game has been improved drastically in manny ways

[@georgek2574]

@@issahumps CE2 is improved in everyway possible. what you are talking about is simple scripting they didnt implement, that an update or mod could easily do

[@Jepicosity]

As far as scale goes, after having played Starfield for a bit, I'm really looking forward to what this new level of quality and writing looks like in a concentrated, handcrafted map. Hammerfell and Daggerfall would be plenty big for me. It will be really cool to see a more realistic scale compared to Skyrim's 20-person cities. Roleplay elements are really the only thing I'm concerned about at this point, Baldur's Gate 3 has spoiled me.

[@bendova_smith]

Idk if this is controversial or not, but I really think they need to allow fallout to be made from another studio. Considering TES VI likely won't be seen until like 2027-8 at the earliest, it kills me that we might not see another main fallout game until well into the next decade, and that hurts a lot imo. A FNV sequel would be great if that comes true, but I think it ought to be maybe pushed a little further than just one game

[@bendova_smith]

@@MrRaffles1234 yeah. I love a good Bethesda fallout game, but when their current cycle is one franchise that gets rotated every 6-8 years, I almost hope there's some corporate pressure to get them to diversify the developers that work on their franchises. Even if they're spinoffs and not main-line games, I'll take whatever I can get, so long as it's decent

[@iyziejane]

I've thought about that too, and I really doubt Microsoft is going to let Fallout sit out this entire decade. The industry also loves releasing high replay games across two console generations (current xbox and next-gen after this xbox). So I predict TES6 in 2026 and next Fallout in 2027.

[@killertortoise1]

Ngl I hope it's not all of tamriel, I just don't feel like they could add the kinda detail that's needed for something like that. Like I feel like the density of quests and quality just couldn't compare to something like Skyrim if you scale things up to the whole continent. I'm hoping for maybe a couple regions, maybe illiac bay, then just fill it with quests and high quality content. I just can't see how they could do all the huge settlement across the whole continent.

[@Dante037704]

Please just no base building or random generation. A hand crafted adventure game, that's all I want.

[@joeyripswell]

Just finishing up a level capped fire mage (19) as tribute to my WoW days. Ahzidal mask, Falmers helmet +45 regen, Adept destro robes, Daedric mail gauntlets +45 macika, Daedric mail boots muffle, Ahzidal ring of arcana, Ring of Destro 22% Thats whats so great about Skyrim. The platform lets your imagination run free!

[@pracitus]

They need to improve everything for TES6, Starfield only improved the lighting and gunplay

[@Mephilis78]

You are the first big KZbinr to say this. I've been saying this ever since Starfield was announced.

[@eatham.]

i'm gonna be honest i'll be quite pissed at bethesda if they make tes6 in creation engine again. they just need to move on if they took the time to use a proper engine i'm sure the game would end up so much better and technically advanced. they are just trying to retrofit a dying engine to keep using it they need to move on.

[@eatham.]

@smach2674 i get that but i just think it's limiting them so much. having to split their development between engine and game and it just being so old with so much technical debt i'd imagine. i just wanna see what they could do without being held down by it you know? but you are right i highly doubt they are gonna move away from it. sunk cost fallacy or something who knows.

[@iyziejane]

Todd Howard has suggested that TES6 will likely be his last time directing a game in that series, so I doubt they will use a new engine for that one. Perhaps Microsoft will create a new engine for TES and Fallout after Todd leaves.

[@eatham.]

@@iyziejane yeah that's fair i imagine todd will want to stick with creation engine since it's what they've used all along. probably easier than retraining and hiring new people to use something like unreal engine 5 too anyhow.

[@jakeenns6845]

I would love if they had all of tamriel but if they do it like starfield and have invisible walls separating regions I'd be pissed. If they do the whole world I better be able to walk from one end to the other

[@Williamgaming742]

U won’t be able to walk either way cause Tamriel has continents separated by water

[@georgek2574]

@@Williamgaming742 Tamriel is the continent....

[@Williamgaming742]

@@georgek2574 silly me I meant provinces, but they’re still provinces separated by water

[@TheDefiasBandit]

lder Scrolls 6: All of Tamriel and we start a crusade to Akavir.

[@bleb87]

Who cares. Im lost on jaffa I-A bro

[@anderporascu5026]

Elder Scrolls is my favorite fantasy series out of all of them. Jokingly if Lord of the Rings is First Fantasy and Final Fantasy as it is the end then Elder Scrolls is Prime Fantasy middle of the road. In seriousness I'd like to explore Akavir so that we can get lore from there instead of pure speculation, I get they are probably like the VooDoo boys in Cyberpunk but we know enough about the others particularly from ESO.

[@bork750]

I cant wait to play ES6 in 2030

[@jasmineeubanks3383]

"Starfield was a massive step forward on a technological level for bethesda." That's like saying switching from wooden to stone tools in Minecraft is a massive technological leap forward. They took a baby step forward with starfield.