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Bethesda's Todd Howard briefly updated the highly anticipated The Elder Scrolls 6 installment today. Now, if only we could see it!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Call me cynical, but I firmly believe that ES6 is more useful to Bethesda as a perpetual 'carrot on a stick' than anything they would get from actually releasing it. The people that made Morrowind, Oblivion, and even Skyrim what they are no longer work at Bethesda, but the goodwill of the series remains in people's minds, and they associate that with Bethesda, even if a majority of their modern releases have been dumpster fires for one reason or another.

There's a reason we've gone almost 15 years without a mainline elder scrolls game, and I'm pretty sure it's because even Bethesda knows that they likely can't capture that magic again.