We got 4 mainline games in the first 18 years, which works out to a game every 4.5 years on average. We have been getting ports and remasters of a single game for the remaining 12 years. Idk what happened over there. Did the main TES devs just burn out? If so why all the ports and rereleases? Maybe they’re just sticking a revolving door of interns on those?
The original ES creators are long gone. At one point one of them even said he’s happy the company is successful but the games are not games he would have made.
Thier lore guy left after Oblivion.
Todd and Pete Hines have said before their goal is to streamline everything in each game more than the last. That also leads into their you must be able to win everything philosophy that dumbs each game down even further.
Thankfully there’s ESO. They actually have good writers on that. It’s probably the last good elder scrolls game, unless something drastic changes within Bethesda.
Then as a holdover we get Starfield, which pretty much shows there isn’t any creative talent allowed to breathe over there. My hopes for a solid future entry to the TES series died.
We got 4 mainline games in the first 18 years, which works out to a game every 4.5 years on average. We have been getting ports and remasters of a single game for the remaining 12 years. Idk what happened over there. Did the main TES devs just burn out? If so why all the ports and rereleases? Maybe they’re just sticking a revolving door of interns on those?
Edit - Oh I guess the TES mmo. Still though.
The original ES creators are long gone. At one point one of them even said he’s happy the company is successful but the games are not games he would have made.
Thier lore guy left after Oblivion.
Todd and Pete Hines have said before their goal is to streamline everything in each game more than the last. That also leads into their you must be able to win everything philosophy that dumbs each game down even further.
Thankfully there’s ESO. They actually have good writers on that. It’s probably the last good elder scrolls game, unless something drastic changes within Bethesda.
Then as a holdover we get Starfield, which pretty much shows there isn’t any creative talent allowed to breathe over there. My hopes for a solid future entry to the TES series died.