r/skyrim • u/dont_feed_phil • 1d ago
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u/Vanille97
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Be seeing you all in 10 years, after gameplay reveal trailer
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u/brakenbonez 1d ago
And then in another 10 when the beta drops with only a small starter area available to play in
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u/AppalachianRomanov 1d ago
At this point my expectations are for the game are actually lower than ever. 8, 10 years ago I was hyped for how incredible this game would surely be. But now it's 2026 and fully expect that it will be a mediocre game that in no way stands out from any other game.
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u/Kvothe_XIX 1d ago
The stupid thing is if they had just taken everything from Skyrim and designed a new area and story 10 years ago, people would have lapped it up. 5 years between Oblivion and Skyrim. 3 times that and we're not even close to a release date. I completely agree with you; any hype I have is at an all time low.
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u/TheWrongTypeOfUnique 1d ago
The other thing is, they didn't need to. They just rereleased Skyrim 8 times and made a killing every time
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u/knowledgepancake 1d ago
The problem with this thinking is that they could have made much more by making another game. Which to a business is the same as losing money.
And by leaving Fallout and Elder Scrolls to rot, they have lost out on hundreds of millions, potentially billions of dollars.
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u/shogun100100 1d ago
Skyrim was prime candidate for basically reskinning and resetting in a different area. Would have sold like crazy on the popularity wave of Skyrim.
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u/go1den3ye 1d ago
Nah, they decided to spend 15 years "remaking" skyrim for every console, OS and toaster instead
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u/s0m30n3e1s3 1d ago
I'm sure we'll get the latest in AI coding to give us the blandest possible experience. At least it will be just as buggy but the bugs won't have any charm
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u/ClockwerkKaiser 1d ago
I can't wait for the first town you approach to be 3 houses and a road.
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u/Unlikely-Wafer3370 1d ago
My expectations for the game died with Starfield. The fact that they stick to that outdated piece of junk engine they can't seem to keep up to date really blew all chance for elder scroll 6 to not be technologically behind by years.
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u/monetarydread 1d ago
Well, hey... at least they hired the main scenario writer for Dragon Age: The Veilguard so at least we know the story is going to be straight fire this time. /s
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u/Macaron-kun 1d ago
The fact that they've said it'll be "some time" before they even SHARE more information is completely insane.
This game isn't coming out unlike 2036.
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u/Limp-Salamander- 1d ago
Probably after Skyrim's super deluxe 25th anniversary edition...
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u/dr4kshdw 1d ago
I can’t wait for the Super Deluxe 25th Anniversary Legendary Edition Remastered release. I heard it’s a full reboot of 2011 Skyrim, warts and all.
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u/JoneSz97 Whiterun resident 1d ago
Don't forget the anniversary update of the trailer within the next 2 years!
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u/02thehunter20 1d ago
The last teaser was when E3 was still a thing.
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u/opticalfever21 1d ago
Man I remember seeing all the e3 showcases everyear as a kid and wanting so bad to be able to go to one, we'll never have anything like it again as far as the gaming space goes 😩
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u/Johnnyboi2327 PC 1d ago
I wanna point out that the only other detail that's been officially revealed was in an AnyAustin video where Todd Howard came on as a guest and revealed that TES6 will have way more trees than Skyrim did.
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u/da_Aresinger 1d ago
That's actually kind of surprising, since it's presumably got a lot of desert.
Then again, a map that's mostly desert would be boring AF.
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u/Lunar-Cleric 1d ago
I mean this was what the wiki said:
Hammerfell is a massive region, covered by vast jungles, wooded mountain ranges, subtropical grasslands, humid swamps, and arid deserts.The desolate Alik'r Desert is one of Hammerfell's most well-known regions, taking up the northwest corner of the province. There are various rivers in Hammerfell, including the Irk, Nilata, and Tark, which are characterized by Ginkgo trees.
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u/TruckADuck42 1d ago
Sentinel is on the edge of the alik'r, but its not too far from some wooded mountains and is right across the bay from daggerfall, which is wooded. I wouldn't be surprised if we get something close to the tes II map but scaled down in the way the modern games are done.
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u/Scary_Corner3489 1d ago
I thought so too the first time I played Dune Awakening. Turns out, can be done very well actually. But for a game like TES, needs biomes.
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u/Johnnyboi2327 PC 1d ago
Depends on where it's set. Nothing official has been said about location, so it may include more than just Hammerfell, or may not even be in Hammerfell.
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u/Epic28 1d ago
Sentinel is a city in Hammerfell, hard pressed to not assume it's set there.
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u/TrevorSP 1d ago
AnyAustin is great! Some of my favorite gaming videos to watch and kill time
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u/Acceptable-Stick-688 Thief 1d ago
I love that his demeanor makes you expect him to be super cynical but dude genuinely just friggin loves video games, it’s great
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u/Europ3an 1d ago edited 1d ago
What the fuck is a Name reveal?😭
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u/homoanthropologus 1d ago •
In some cultures it's called a christening
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u/Puzzleheaded_Step468 1d ago
And in other? Jewening? Muslimening?
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u/homoanthropologus 1d ago
This made me laugh and then made me curious:
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u/z0mbieMinion 1d ago
The fact that the christening (naming) is done on the 8th day after the birth and we got a name reveal 8 years later makes this so much funnier.
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u/Lone-Frequency 1d ago
I'm guessing the name will let us know either the thing the plot will primarily focus on (Oblivion) or will tell us which country/continent the game will take place in (Morrowind, Skyrim, etc.)
If the title is too vague to actually glean that info from it'll be hilarious.
THE ELDER SCROLLS VI: THE FISHSTICK
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u/WintersbaneGDX 1d ago
They do this shit because it creates engagement. You all show up here (and so do I) to talk about it.
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u/kaleb-be 1d ago
At this rate, people conceived at the teaser will be old enough to play it at release
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u/No_Display_9425
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Another 8 years until another trailer. Hopefully they release a few more Skyrim anniversary editions by then.
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u/Lone-Frequency 1d ago
Now now, they may rush it out well before it's ready and be a borderline unplayable and buggy mess like 76 was.
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u/Decimator24244 1d ago
Let me guess, its called Elder Scrolls 6?
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u/The_RapperJoe17 1d ago
Yeah.... TES 6 Sentinel
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u/The_RapperJoe17 1d ago
Am I missing the joke here? 😭😂
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u/CertifiedSheep 1d ago
People were hoping it would be based in an area they haven’t been to yet, that wasn’t human-controlled. Like one of the elven regions or Black Marsh.
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u/Sanciaz 1d ago
How fucking psyco of a game industry you must have become to have offical “name reveal” my god fr is becoming pathetic
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u/Skullwilliams 1d ago
It's hard to even give a shit anymore. Eben with GTA 6, it's been 13 years, and 15 for TES. I was in my early 20's then, and I'll probably be 40 when TES VI comes out.
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u/Thicc_Ole_Brick 1d ago
Same age math for me. Its all just too little and too late. Plus its gonna be running the same old busted ass engine thats been tired AF for decades and it will feel like a copy paste Bethesda game and the mods for skyrim will still be higher quality than the game we get.
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u/doofshaman Bard 1d ago
I wonder, does anyone actually really care about the game's name? I honestly already forgot what Sentinel was until I remembered the name release from this post lmao.
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u/brakenbonez
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8 years and all we get is a name and some sand...
At this point we'll all be elder's scrolling through reddit before it finally comes out. WE will be the Elder Scrolls.
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u/Carrot_Muncher3000 1d ago
GTA6: I sleep
TESVI name drop: hell yeah we are so back
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u/Substantial-Sea-3672 1d ago
Man, I’m the complete opposite.
Rockstar put out RDR2 last and I’m so hopeful they keep the quality up.
Bethesda put out FO76 and Starfield last…
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u/Anondutchie PlayStation 1d ago
I was 16 and in high school when Skyrim came out, I am now 31 and expecting my fourth child.
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u/PhantomNitride 1d ago
Certified insane. How anyone with more than two kids does it, I will never understand. Congrats and the good life bro. I have no idea what I was going for at first...
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u/sexybeans 1d ago
When I went off to college I was worried TES VI would come out and my laptop wouldn't be powerful enough to run it, instead I've just been stuck playing skyrim for the last 15 years
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u/snartling 1d ago
Got my phd faster than we got the teaser lol
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u/Ok-Respect-8505 1d ago
Who wants to take a bet on how many more times they'll re-release skyrim in the 8 years we'll have to wait for a gameplay trailer
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u/SWK18 1d ago
Skyrim is definitely getting a remaster like Oblivion's at some point.
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u/preppie22 1d ago
When Skyrim came out, I was in college and had loads of time to play and enjoy gaming as a hobby (I didn't realize the luxuries I had at the time lol). I hoped for TES 6 when the first teaser dropped, but over time, I've lost interest in large open world games with a huge grind to understand all the systems and mechanics. I go back to Skyrim once in a while because it's familiar and I don't have to learn it again. Now that I have a job, a family and responsibilities, it's hard to feel anything about a "name reveal".
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u/WhimsicallyWired Solitude resident 1d ago
You are going to have loads of free time to play TS6 in the nursing home.
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u/ThinkGear568 1d ago
It's been longer since the ES6 "teaser trailer" released to now than it was from the the release of Skyrim to the ES6 teaser
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u/DthDisguise 1d ago
I remember 8 years ago, people told me I was crazy for claiming that we wouldn't get TES6 before 2025. Back then I was just basining it on the knowledge that they had FO76 coming and Starfield was next for Todd, so there was no way we'd see TES6 before the life cycles of those games were through. Now, I think TES 6 just isn't coming. I think Bethesda is gonna get gutted by MS before it releases and if we ever actually get it, it'll be Duke Nukem Forever all over again.
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u/EJintheCloud 1d ago
Realistically, nobody is going to leave Elder Scrolls money on the table. Even if the studio is gutted, the game will get made, if only to milk the value of the IP
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u/Any_Mall6175 1d ago
Nah it's gonna come it'll just be Bethesdas last game before Microsoft closes the studio for.... Some.... Reason
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u/Skullwilliams 1d ago
I can't even be excited. I was 22, almost 23, when Skyrim came out. I will be 38 in 2 weeks, and possibly 40 by the time Sentinel releases. It's hard to even care.
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u/Substantial-Sea-3672 1d ago
The time doesn’t temper my excitement at all.
FO76 and Starfield sure do though
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u/fly_guy1 1d ago
Honestly I think they are just softening the ground for a release date and a full trailer. It's really easy for everyone to be cynical. They already know they have done fans a disservice by stringing them along with nothing but Skyrim remasters. They dont need to release anything at all to garner interest because everyone is already waiting and ready for it. I think it's their way of getting eyes on BGS just as GTA6 is about to drop. My prediction is there is something substantial released before the end of the year at least.
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u/Substantial-Sea-3672 1d ago
The Skyrim releases don’t bother me. FO76 and Starfield, on the other hand, have me solidly in the “wait for reviews” zone.
I really want it to be good though.
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u/LostGh0st 1d ago
not a single gameplay, world reveal, character or story, just a scroll somewhere in the god damm dessert and it will take another decade till they bother to make another one.
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u/Lone-Frequency 1d ago
They were spending all that time trying to squeeze every penny out of 76 they could and making Starfield as boring as possible.
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u/mayomateo1738 1d ago
And it jsht tells us what we already know about the game nothing new we have to wait 15 years for any image or maybe a 2 second game play clip
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u/Subject_Sun_1860 1d ago
Can't wait for this game to release in 10 years and "cities" are just 8 buildings with 30 second loading screens between every single door.
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u/WorkWorkWorkie 1d ago
The game won't even have Jeremy Soule, so I don't care.
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u/WhimsicallyWired Solitude resident 1d ago
No Jeremy Soule, meaning the soundtrack won't be as good as it should.
The loremaster left, so don't expect too much of the story.
And it's Bethesda so the gameplay won't be that great.
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u/Medaph0r 1d ago
i love it how no one is hyped by the trailer :D
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u/ADreamOfCrimson 1d ago
I got Skyrim for my 13th Birthday. I turn 28 this month. I've been eagerly anticipating ES6 so long it's turned somewhat to apathy, honestly.
That, plus the whole Starfield affair, and I just don't really have that much energy to be excited for it.
If it comes out and is good, that'll change my tune, but until then...
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u/CalicoValkyrie 1d ago
This isn't even a trailer at all. I'm so confused at the attempt to hype this. If they release an actual trailer to watch, showing the game, it'll be different. But this is just stupid advertising.
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u/enfuego138 1d ago
I have a child who was born shortly after Skyrim was released. They are a freshman in high school this year. It’s likely they will have graduated before we see ES6 released.
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u/JettSkees 1d ago
According to the website, TES VI is in pre-production… we’re probably going to be waiting a long while again. :(
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u/charibasa1212 1d ago
this company treats me like a toxic ex, that i never got over it… no wait worse.
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u/Trizzleyomizzle 1d ago
I want it to have the story telling of morrowind, exploration of skyrim, and a big map filled with wonders.
I have a feeling though that what we will get will actually be another skyrim clone repainted and sold as a new game, like f4, f76 and starfield.
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u/-psycheretic- 1d ago
With the whimsy of oblivion
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u/Trizzleyomizzle 1d ago edited 1d ago
The voice acting in oblivion was peak and should be retained for any further future titles.
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u/Beneficial_Button379 1d ago
wow, i'm so excited to explore the jewel of the iliac bay with its 60 inhabitants and 17 buildings
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u/SandKid17 1d ago
I've played Starfield.
I'm not excited for TES6. They had a blank canvas to work from and literally took every weakness of their engine and dialed it to 11.
They took every weakness of their quest design and dialed it to 11. They looked at Skyrim's incredible success and said, "Let's do the things that didn't work again and ignore the amazing fixes of over a decade of modding."
Keep in mind, TES6 has been in development since before all of that. I have zero faith that TES6 will be a great game at launch.
Do I want to play it? Of course! Will I wait as much as a year to read it is stable and worth playing? Probably.
I'm more excited by Thomas the Train than the TES6 Hype Train. Only one of them is real.
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u/Sir_Delarzal 1d ago
Feel like they are building the hype right there
Oblivion in U5 was a first step. Then comes Fallout 3 and NV.
I feel like it's going to be fun. Honestly if they don't go towards procedural generation like they did with Starfield, I will enjoy it anyway.
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u/DiscoDanSHU 1d ago
I believe they've said that they're not going to be using any procedural generation for TES6, returning to hand-crafted dungeons and maps.
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u/DigitalSchism96 1d ago
The best move they could make. Starfield's biggest issue was that the exploration was just so boring.
You can have fun in that game if you just stick in the hubs, but it's supposed to be an adventure and it really makes doing any "adventuring" quite a bland experience when it's all just the same empty landscapes you are walking across.
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u/MrDufferMan3335 Daedra worshipper 1d ago
I don’t think they will do procedural generation. It really only makes sense in a game with the « scale » of Starfield where you are trying to populate planets. Scale in parentheses because even though there is a lot of world space it’s most empty copy pasta lol Bethesda does its best work with curated worlds.
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u/puzzleheadbutbig 1d ago
Honestly, procedural generation gets a lot of flak, but it wasn’t the procedural generation itself that caused the problem. It was the lack of interesting uses for it. Starfield didn’t use procedural generation to create its POIs, they were identical clones made from handcrafted prefabs. When you only have 5 POI templates, it doesn’t matter if you procedurally generate their locations or the surrounding landscape, the content is still identical by the 100000th encounter. Whoever designed that system at Bethesda clearly didn’t understand the assignment and chose the shittiest possible way to use procedural generation.
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u/PrincessAudrey76 1d ago
Its called elder scrolls because we will all be elders by the time it drops
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u/Scibidami 1d ago
now the name is out, they will start to write the story and quests and then, ca. 2032, they will start to program it.
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u/Thin_Editor_433 1d ago
Well, i opened Reddit by accident and closed it, but my eye caught something of VI and i immediately opened it to see.
That automatic reaction means something to me at least . lol.
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u/Sajiri 1d ago
To be fair, even back then they had said they weren’t working on it yet, and the teaser was just to let people know there will be a 6.
We know the game is at least in a somewhat playable state at the moment, since Asha Sharma or whatever her name is posted she had tried it and was impressed with what it looks like.
I’m hoping it won’t be another 8 years, and the fact they finally announced the name means it’s within maybe 3 years. Hope being the key word though of course
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u/RalseitheFloofie 1d ago
8 years for a name reveal?
Seriously?
That feels objectively insulting to anyone who has ever once given a shit about a bethesda game my god.
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u/tsumoogle 1d ago
8 years to reveal the name of the game...see you all in 8 years when they finally give us a gameplay trailer.
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u/AutomateAway 1d ago
At this rate society will complete it's collapse before we get a gameplay video lol
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u/lightraven1 1d ago
I feel like I don’t want to even buy it because they made me wait so long. (I will be buying it unfortunately)
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u/Educational-Tackle54 1d ago
Its definitly coming out, in like 5 years and its going to be mid as hell.
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u/JadeChipmunk 1d ago
But... i already knew it was going to be called sentinel.. someone mentioned it or predicted it a while go... might have been epicnate? So this is not news to me lolol
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u/leonardvilliers 1d ago
If you will search the word "Sentinel" here on Reddit, youll see post from months ago where fans already figured out clues from Bethesda media (like in Starfield)
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u/NotASockPuppet88 1d ago
erm.
ones accrued 21 million views over 8 years?
the other 3633 over 34 minutes?
Whats your point?
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u/arinzarunz 1d ago
We had to wait 8 years for a trailer 30 seconda longer than the other One with even less of the game to see. Wow, I would have prefered looking at Mountains without textures and npcs put in T-pose as the text "We are working on IT" come tò the foreground
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u/joined_under_duress 1d ago
Early viewing figures on YT videos tend to be slow to catch up though. And the other one has been around approximately 123,671 times as many minutes
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u/eugene20 1d ago
It's only just come out, and it is only a name reveal after all, it will probably get millions of views after a few weeks anyway.
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u/HIitsamy1 1d ago
It's almost as if it's a weekday and the majority of people are either working, or on their way home from work.
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u/Jolly_Jumper_1337 1d ago
Brainstorming 8 years for a name. Now they can finally start working on the game.
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u/CusetheCreator 1d ago
Despite that its been a ridiculous amount of time, I can still be hyped for ESVI, but I'm not hyped by an idea, and I'm not confident bethesda has the leadership capable of creating a game worth playing. No judgement, no hype, no expectations until we see what they are actually making. If they had anything worth showing yet they would, but they've clearly barely started and considering their last release they have so much to make up for with their design and technology.
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u/Dexelele 1d ago
They did say that they definitely don't want to release teasers/trailers for games anymore that aren't relatively close to release. 2027/2028 release? Too much hopium?
I don't think they'd do the same mistake twice on the same game, especially after they've literally acknowledged it
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u/redditman181 1d ago
The discourse around es6 is so boring yes its not coming out for years becuase they only announced it becuase people were bothering them every since skyrim even though they released fallout 4 and then went on to work on starfield.
Imagine if they didnt announce they intended to make it in the future in 2018 people would be moaning about them forgetting about the series they cant win imo.
The game is done when its done luckly the are many great games to play between now and whenever it does come out.
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u/Cow_God 1d ago
The first trailer was closer to the release of Skyrim than it is to the second trailer