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Elder Scrolls 6 will keep Skyrim’s approach to levelling and “traces” of its magic, says former Starfield designer"You can’t throw away everything, you can’t keep everything, you can’t update everything."
“You can’t throw away everything, you can’t keep everything, you can’t update everything.”
All that’s froma new interview with MinnMax, in which Nesmith - who started at Bethesda back in 1995, and retired in 2021 to write fantasy novels, including the Loki Redeemed series - reflected on his contributions to Elder Scrolls andFallout, and speculated a little as to the next Elder Scrolls game, which wasannounced back in 2018.
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All this follows what Nesmith terms the “triage” approach to creating sequels. “I do a talk for colleges and universities about sequels, and how to make a sequel, and at the time I created the talk it was forFallout 3toFallout 4, but it applies everywhere,” he said. “And basically it comes down to a triage system - you got to know what to keep, you got to know what to throw away, and you got to know what to do more of or improve.
“And you can’t throw away everything, you can’t keep everything, you can’t update everything, you’ve got to have something in all three of those buckets, you know. But three iterations down the road one of those buckets may be empty from what it was like three versions earlier.”
“The best time to start talking about it is six months before release. So only the fact that everybody was - you know, the pitchforks and torches were out, that was what got Todd to say ‘yes, we are going to do Elder Scroll 6 - I promise you it’s for real, it’ll happen!’ But I’m betting you won’t hear much in the way of details until a good six months before release, which is the way it should be - I think that’s the best approach and he’s proven that works really well, at least for Bethesda.”
Elder Scrolls 6 is rumoured to be set in Skyrim’s neighbouring region Hammerfell, homeland of the Redguards. Beyond that, we have only whispers and shadows. Oh, and that extremely out-of-date leaked Microsoft planning document from 2020, according to whichThe Elder Scrolls 6’s release date will fall in financial year 2024. Head of Xbox Phil Spencer recently stated that the game is"five-plus years” away.
