The Elder Scrolls VIis easily one of the industry’s most anticipated games.
With that anticipation comes a horde of expectant fans all with the highest of expectations.
The question is, is it possible forThe Elder Scrolls VIto live up to the hype?
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I’m not sure if it can, even if it’s a fantastic game. You need look no further thanStarfield.
Maybe this is controversial on my part, but I foundStarfieldto be on par withBethesda’s strongest pre-existing releases.
It was perhaps overly hyped in its marketing with the 1,000 explorable planets and emphasis on being the company’s first new IP in 25 years but everything you can find inSkyrimorFallout4, you can pretty much find inStarfield- all set within a more ambitious wider world.
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What does that mean forThe Elder Scrolls VI? One Bethesda veteran, like me, is rather cynical about the matter.
Take a look atThe Elder Scrolls VI’s reveal trailer.
Former Bethesda designer Bruce Nesmith recently sat down to talk with Kiwi Talkzexplainingthat while he thinksThe Elder Scrolls VIwill be “an amazing game”, it’s one that will find it “almost impossible” to live up to player expectations.
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“[The]Elder Scrolls VIis undoubtedly going to be an amazing game, but it’s going to be compared to all the previous games that Bethesda made. Just like every studio’s games are going to be compared to their previous products,” he explained.
“Their expectations are going to be almost impossible to meet,” he says of the game’s fans, adding that “marketing departments just put their head in their hands and just weep” in such instances.
Nesmith touched upon how games scoring less than 95 on Metacritic are deemed a “failure” which I think we can all agree is a nonsensical notion we all need to move on from.
You need look no further than Reddit to already see those expectations in action.
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Some are tempered. “As long as it is likeSkyrimbut a little more, I’m happy,”wroteSirZooalot.
“Don’t wait 10 [plus] years between installments of a franchise and people might not have such high expectations of you, Bethesda,”saidDifferent-set-7022.
Topics:The Elder Scrolls,The Elder Scrolls 6,Bethesda
