Seriously I’m in love with these podcasts, I feel right at home listening in. If I had it my way, I’d have these 3 guys as NPC’s in ES6. I was thinking something along the lines of 3 characters you’d find in a library somewhere bickering amongst themselves about the history of Tamriel.
Would be nice to set one up in one of a few locations like Hearthfire, but make it more rewarding to build this settlement, unlocking new quests and npcs etc
If they only let you make a single town but with options for different locations, those could be tied into the settlement's development to create a unique experience. A town in the mountains should be a different experience than settling on the coast after all. If there might be a battle to defend, those could play out very different with a coastal town having to fight at sea, while the mountain town is a close quarter infantry battle because you cannot easily get siege engines and horses through the terrain.
I would like to see the settlement building there but maybe many less settlements than fallout 4. However it'd be nice if the settlements could be a little larger before hitting your cap.
I'd like animations to evolve as you get better with skills. For instance; one-handed. With low one-handed you might swing your sword around with wild abandon while with a higher skill you might have more fluid movements when using said sword.
One thing I think is limiting is that I always want to play as a stealthy mage (not illusion one handed), but the quiet casting perk comes super late and you don't get sneak attack damage with magic
I imagine that was a complete lie and they've been working on since 2018 when they made the trailer at least. They've been known to lie to cover up things in the past such as w fallout 4
@@idipped2521 Not a lie. they've said hundreds of times that they don't go into "FULL Production" until the previous game is done. they never said "we don't start until the other game is done". They're in full production on Starfield right now and they're working on TES6 as well. When Starfield is done, they'll put more devs on TES6 and the rest of the team will do updates and DLC for Starfield. They also have more developers now, so they can do more on each game at the same time. So things could be different from 5 years ago.
On the bootless cats an lizards, easy fix for enchanting slots. If you played dragons dogma you can have painted nails that have perks. So no boots for them but toe rings or painted/enchanted nails
One thing I did like about Morrowind and being the Nerevarine, was how even to the very end you could choose to at least say that you weren't the Nerevarine.
You should do a character build that uses the dwarven black bow of fate and uses alteration and restoration to heal and use paralysis and destruction to help kill things and also uses saviors hide and other light armor
Plot twist: You play as Lokir of Rorikstead’s brother, who was supposed to meet him in Hammerfell. Now he must exact his revenge on the Empire for what they did to Lokir.
I know I've commented before on other videos but I would also like a podcast exploring the variations and lore among the Aedra and other forties in the elder scrolls like Akatosh, Lorkhan etc...
We don't really need attributes anymore, except for basic magic, health, stamina and maybe speed. Perks make them redundant, and Im fine with that. Id really rather have some unique race traits instead of simple stat boost.
I'm still waiting for an 18+ game set just before and during the Ayleid-Alessian war. 4 main ways: good Ayleid, maniac torture freak, obeying the Ayleids, killing Ayleids
The best way they could handle the start of the game is being detained at the border of a province and being asked about who you are and what you want to do with 10 or 15 options before being taken in because of a stolen piece of something on your person. Once you get taken into a prison, you get a new vegas style opening with character creation, you can admit to stealing that something or deny it, and if you deny it, boom turns out there’s pickpockets on the loose and doing stuff like this and you’re safe.
I'm honestly not very interested in JUST the Iliac bay region. They already did that in daggerfall. Would be interesting to see the northern parts of high rock and how they compare to Skyrim as well as the Dragontail Mountain range in Hammerfell vs the Alik'r
I mean tbf The Dark Brotherhood was a huge thing in Daggerfall I don't see why it wouldn't be a thing. Going to a dusty Hammerfell town for my new DB quest was my favorite part of TES 2
If the dragonborn becomes the champion of ole herma mora, would he not have knoladge of what the thalmor wanted or extended? Would he mot be in a position to counter them? Or am I misunderstanding the way ole herma Mora works?
#1 I would like to see gameplay elements that compliment the player's ability to roam freely throughout the game world, a hallmark of TES since the beginning. There have been mods in Skyrim which allow the player to tent camp, light campfires, etc. Having an entire range of crafting abilities in regards to the materials in the player's surroundings would be so cool. #2 I hope the houses/homebuilding gameplay is implemented with more variety and detail than past games. I think any structure in the game should be "ownable," at least through console commands, but hopefully by persuading the owner to sell it. I also hope the capability is added for a player to build his house by hand if he chooses, with lumber he milled from trees he felled, nails he made and footings he poured with cement he crafted. Rubble masonry, logs, bricks, straw and bark could be chosen for building materials as well. Fighting demons, collecting loot, marrying princesses and crafting spells are great. But what about making oil from birch bark to create glue, making a wooden spoon with a hook knife, or crafting traps to catch a marmot living in a rockpile? Details and nuance are what separate great games from amazing games, and I think most people here are craving another amazing game to last them 6 more years.
Ted Peterson mentioned one thing from morrowind that seems to have put a total stop to racial buffs and weaknesses. One of the redguard racial traits was lower intelligence. I'm not sure if they ever caught heat for it, but I could totally see that being a massive PR mess
Now that Microsoft has purchased Bethesda, the chances are there's going to be way less bugs - er - features in TES. Would you want silly bugs in TES6? Nothing game breaking but things like people riding horses by standing on them, mammoths falling out of the sky, giant chickens etc.
I feel like High Rock would be better as a DLC for Elder Scrolls VI Given the popularity of the Witcher 3 DLC Blood and Wine, I could see participating in a typical medieval style tournament (either representing one of the main kingdoms of High-Rock, Orsinium, or even just Hammerfell itself) only to end-up within the elaborate web of court intrigue and politics the province is known for.
If there is indeed some kind of war going on I hope they can kinda make it dynamic. With some settlements actually changing ownership without it being a story event, just based on the players actions. You did quests for faction A NPCs or even just attacked enough faction B NPCs in the wild? Well, now faction A gradually is winning the war because you actively supported A or hindered B enough to tip the scales. If you don't do anything or are playing both sides this should also be reflected in the environment. There needs to be some kind of rubber band system to ensure the war won't be over in just one week but if the situation changes dynamically if would further incentivize multiple playthroughs.
I completely disagree with people wanting more settlement building. It is not fun and should be taken out of Elder Scrolls entirely. The series can keep the buying and furnishing of homes, that's it.
Ultimately, where game design/philosophy is concerned (where skills or lack thereof, settlement building etc), if the game is more like Fallout 4 than it is Oblivion then it's not going to be the game anyone wants. Bethesda as a publisher seriously underestimate their audience in their pursuit of a more mainstream appeal (i.e the Keep It Simple Stupid catastrophe which even newer people to the franchise hated). As for setting, it has to be Hammerfell AND High Rock, both provinces are severely limited in their biomes and theme on their own but together they provide a nice bit of contrast and variety.
the downside I'd say to argonian is not being able to wear boots or certain helmets is argonians already have some of the worst stats in the game that don't give them very many advantages. Because I mean how often does water breathing and disease/poison resistance actually matter
If it's in Hammerfell, which I think it will be, I guarantee Bethesda will make the player the HoonDing and give them Sword Songs as their dragon shouts.
All I want is long sweeping land like ac origin's and the es6 trailer. Where it takes few in game days to go town to town.it seems that's where the game is going because even tod said theyr waiting till the technology gets there to release it. And the trailer compared to other cgi ens releases shows what it should look like
I feel like the Westworld character Lee Sizemore would work at writing on Bethesda. And he definitely wrote the Dragonborn and Civil War lines I'm suuuure.
I think given how long they are taking to make this game, they aren’t gonna feel the need to put in a flashy mechanic like sword singer abilities because they are taking the time to put immense amount of depth into the gameplay and stories. They won’t need a gimmick to draw people in due to everything else about the game being so high quality
Instead of traits returning I'd like to see a more meaningful standing stone system that gave big advantages and disadvantages. I still want the game to prioritise freeform character creation rather than making super important character decisions upfront that restricts your playstyle.
I'm gonna keep my expectations low and just hope it's decent and the bugs aren't gamebreaking. That not just a slight on Bethesda either, it seems like publishers releasing games broken, buggy, and half baked and letting the devs fix it later is becoming the norm.
Exactly, this is my last hope for gaming, everything is so soulless. More than effort and time I hope the love and depth they put into the previous game shows in this one. No sleazy micro transactions, bs DLC or buggy gameplay.
Elder Scrolls 6 starts with you as a prisoner on a ship in the illiac bay which is then waylaid by pirates or a storm. Ending with you washing up on a beach in a random location in either high rock or hammerfell. That would be pretty cool I think.
yes please some variety to keep things fresh on every playthrough, though speedrunners will have to come up with a standard for how to start the start lol
I just hope to live long enough to see its release, let alone the next fallout game. I'm guessing tes6 will be in 3-5years and fallout 5 will probably be after 2030
That's always been a thing. In skyrim if you play a dark elf(for instance) the racism is constant. Turn your speakers up because your race does effect npc dialogue.
@@OneTyler2Many But it doesn't affect you in any realistic way beyond guard dialog. It's ok for race to mean something. Even though Khajiit aren't allowed within the walls of cities in Skyrim, you walk in and out as freely as any other. It would be a small and interesting thing to have to earn your way in just because you are Khajiit. It would also add massively to replayability to have different races experience different things. It doesn't have to be a HUGE part of the game, but it would only add good things to the game.
@@bmariec88 I agree. Skyrim pretty much you can be what ever you want, pick any race, do any faction without any implications. So you can be an argonian who is also be one of the Companions, with barely any issue, and all starting stuff is mostly the same for joining any of the factions / guilds. Be an Imperial and join the Stromcloaks, or just any non Nord and join with no issue? That isn't good narrative. Random npc making snarky remarks is not an in-depth look at the world. If you want to be an Imperial and join the Stormcloaks? you get a different joining quest to prove your loyalty as opposed to a Nord or something.
@@bmariec88 Khajiit are allowed in Skyrims cities (J'zhargo and the Thalmor assassin in Riften), it's just the skooma trafficking Caravans which are banned (they're also banned from entry to Rimmen in the Infernal City/Lord of Souls novels iirc).
One thing that I would like to see is race specific dialogue. It was one of the good things of Dragon age. Speaking in the native language of Bosmer when you run into one. Or even if your character wasn't of that specific race but you were very knowledgeable and knew their language.
Building on that, I'd like to see race affect player interactions with NPC dialog and questlines; for instance Nordic culture is pretty wary of other races, especially elves, but the dragonborn never had any problems with being argonian, or khajiit, elvish or anything. If race offered a variety of pros and cons to navigating the "social" world, that would be more in line with the lore and add much to replayability!! Huh. Never advocated for more racism before.
@@kylepugh6607 Khajiit are banned from entering the cities in Skyrim, except if you're the main character, then nobody bats an eye, you can even become thane of everyhold Argonians are banned from living in Windhelm and not only can you buy property you can become thane and Ulfric's left hand man. So ridiculous.
Skyrim magic kinda sucks, it was my first elder scrolls game and I never played a mage but when I went back and played oblivion and morrowind I was drawn towards the mage play style because it’s so much better in those games with all the spell variety
41:00 Morrowind did this exact thing. Based on the Great House you joined (and they're mutually exclusive), there was a questline for building your own manor. This is really good not just for roleplaying but for replayability. Morrowind demands multiple playthroughs if you want to try out all of the different factions.
Yeah, but their current writing staff thinks writing is hard, so we can't have anything that isn't completely lineary. At best we get a "good ending" or a "less good ending" to choose between. And neither one makes a difference because you have to be able to keep playing afterwards.
I'm not sure though because one thing I appreciated about Skyrim was that you had the opportunity to do everything on one character if you're a total completionist, but I also made lots of specialised builds like one that only quested on solstheim. I think there's room for both, you can put up barriers to what your character can be based on your choices, but later choose to change those choices. Like if say you couldn't be a guard and in the thieves guild at once, maybe you could abandon and sabotage the thieves guild once you finish that questline to gain favour with the guards and start their quests.
@@martinatzejensen6787 The main quests have always been very linear to be fair, if anything it helps if they're a bit boring because it makes you go out and explore for side quests. In Morrowind the main quest is so cryptic at points you have no idea where you're supposed to go so you just sidetrack and explore, and in Skyrim you're so bored of bleak falls barrow that almost everyone fucks off after they kill the dragon and doesn't return to see the greybeards until much later.
I loved Morrowind, but those restrictions constantly frustrated me. You may find it great, me? Not so much. Forced restrictions in games drive me crazy.
@@martinatzejensen6787 Morrowind has very little voice acting, which means they could write as much story as they wanted. They can't make a game like that anymore
Me too. I hope that old fella that voices Tolfdir is still around when ES6 rolls out. Love his voice. Always surprised when I hear him in animated movies like Dead Space Downfall, and IIRC the actress that plays Aela was in Atlantis (the Disney movie).
@@runningcommentary2125 I wouldn't mind a caravan encounter where grey haired Lydia is following around an old grizzled mercenary, and complains about all the stuff she has to carry.
It's already set in stone that Shirley will be in Elder Scrolls 6. And M'aiq has been in ever elder scrolls since 2 I'm pretty sure. It would be unlike them to just not add him into the game. But I do think it would be a cool Easter Egg to see certain characters from Skyrim
Then don't. You don't have to buy everything that's put out. Hell, there's a good chance I'm not getting TES6 as well. They've taken their two current franchises in a horrible direction, so I don't have a lot of hope for either Starfield or TES6. But I'll be watching what comes with great scrutiny.
I am still excited for it and will most likely buy it, because it will show off the major engine changes that will also be used and built upon for TES6. It will also give us a hint what we can expect of TES6 and we will see if Bethesda learned from Fallout 4 and 76. You also shouldnt forget the modding community, because there will be blowing up Star Wars Mods everywhere.
@@patrickadkins2474 exactly and not to mention fallout only sucked because they wanted to try new things i mean there's still alot of fun to be had in that game and its something I'll still probably play from time to time for years to come, and fallout 76 are we really even going to consider that a fallout game? I can tell you even if they made fallout 5 exactly the same with the horrible dialog and choices and faction problems etc I would still probably buy it and millions of other people would to idk I feel like people give Bethesda way to much shit. after cyberpunk Bethesda might be the only company that I have an ounce of faith in anymore smh
@@patrickadkins2474 100% agree with you i miss classes to gave each playthrough that extra little umph to really make it unique. but thats another thing people totally take for granted like yeah morrowing might have been a little more Rpg based but come on the skills dragon shouts creating your own house the choices the easter eggs like skyrim just might be the greatest game ever created so I have no clue where anyone's getting that tes 6 will suck 😂😂
What bothers me the most in RPG's, is not being able to say No...Like skyrim, "Do this quest" cant say no, "Be guild master" cant say no, how can you call it options when you have no option to NOT do the thing thats trivial or breaks your character as an individual?
I wish we could see how far they are tbh. Have they got a few main quests finished?, the map mostly done?, only got character customisation done or only got the wabbajack in 4k UHD and nothing else? Give us something on how progress is going
The progress currently looks like Starfield. Nothing has been committed to TES6 at this point, except maybe the location (Hammerfell) and a very loose story idea (War against Altmeri Dominion + Daedra), end of list.
I thought they did a decent job role playing voice acting with custom made characters in Dragon Age: Inquisition, but text boxes might be best for role playing.
Agreed. Some people want to role play as older characters which makes immersion difficult if the voice is young sounding. Not that I even got to to my second character on cyberpunk before I dropped the game but I probably would have been frustrated with this snarky punk voice coming out of my older, reserved character. Plus it’s probably easier to create branching paths if they don’t have to keep paying a voice actor to voice the choices
@@turtle3527 That was my exact gripe with cyberpunk. Wanted my character to be polite and stern, but the voice and dialogue was so snarky and sarcastic I had to drop the idea lol
For another example, as great as Baldur's Gate 3 looks I think they're kind of doing it weirdly. They have the cinematic dialogue cutscenes of something like Dragon Age, but then a silent protagonist like Skyrim. So you get these scenes where everyone is all animated and talking and then the camera focuses on your character and it's just dead silence when you respond. The intro is even worse from what I've seen. There's a moment where you're literally getting thrown around in a falling flying ship and your character doesn't make any noise or really vocally react. It seems to me if you want to go the 3rd person cinematic route you kind of need to have a voiced protagonist.
I immensely dislike the "chosen, dragonborn, foretold hero" stories in games because I think it cheapens your accomplishments. It's not that you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps, relying on your own hard earned strength and intelligence to come out on top of nearly an impossible situation; fate made you. The "big bad" wasn't defeated because you yourself worked hard for that victory and earned it, but because "destiny" needed you to. Your decisions don't make a difference in the world, you were always going to do the things the world/gods/prophecy needed you to. While on this, I think this could be a pretty cool storyline. The destined hero says "Fuck Off!" to fate and does his own thing, no longer content being the slave of the gods, but the master of their own future.
That’s why I really enjoyed Oblivion. You were a literal nobody at the start and were working across the entire main story just to get the chosen one to complete his destiny. Every earned accomplishment meant that much more when I started from Zero. I still occasionally play the game just to experience the arena grind from zero to hero. It hits me in the feels every time.
As for the levelling system, I love Skyrim's approach of "level what you use" but would like to see attributes back. So for example, when you use one handed you level your strength, dexterity and one handed skill. No when you switch to a bow, you still get bonuses from your strength and dexterity but you have no bonus from skill. That would be more realistic and also make your warrior character better with every kind of weapon while still specialising in one specific weapon. And as they probably will go more in the aRPG direction maybe strength would reduce stamina cost of attacks, dexterity would make them faster and skill would add perks (and improve on stat bonuses) but damage difference wouldn't be that big to get rid of damage sponge NPCs. This way levelling a character would make them smoother and better to play to showcase your character actually growing in skill.
yeah this would be great, also more weapon variety please. It'd be cool of it was more like dark souls where different weapons attack differently. Even a basic blunt type damage vs thrust would be cool
@@donnyprocs fuck dont even talk about dark souls I've never been so mad whilst playing game and I was a 10 year old playing mw3 something like kingdom come would be cool where swords dont do well against enemies wearing plate armour whilst blunt weapons are perfect for it also bring back old weapons from morrowind
I agree, as good of a role playing experience having attributes set in stone (fallout) is, my first and longest playthrough is almost always just me going around and trying everything and when you’re playing for a long time, doing the same thing over and over again gets boring. I like to be able to switch it up and start doing magic or ranged damage when I get bored of melee. Plus it’s always nice to be able to just light some wolves on fire or something for like 10min to get enough quick experience to level up and put a perk point in your main tree that you’ve been waiting for
Not everything needs to be realistic. That's another "feature" that is ruining games. And the skyrim lvl system is a dumbed down and all together a down grade. Like always I'll wait for the mod community to fix bethesdas casual gamer mindset.
This is literally what they do. They also have microtransactions in FO76 to fund development for Starfield and TES 6, as well as to keep Zenimax happy, and in the future to keep Microsoft happy.
@@Darkxanderpresents well i mean Microsoft owns these companies now they'll make gamers happy rather than those Zenimax people who only think about money and ignoring quality of rhe game.
@@foxknight4465 You're thinking of Shareholders and Publishers. The Publisher in this case is Bethesda Softworks. Zenimax just owned all of it, pure profit without getting your hands dirty.
I agree, vanilla Skyrim is a power-fantasy path game that you min-max and roleplay. With mods like Realm of Lorkhan and Ordinator there's a lot more elements of give and take and so many perks that you can't feasibly do everything at once.
@@antoncid5044 yeah i mean in traditional RPGs you have to pick a path and you sort of become the expert character at that style, sure eventually with enough time your character can be godmode at everything. but in Skyrim you're basically given godmode early on and can become unstoppable with little to no forethought into your character design.
Did you not watch this podcast episode? Choice of path is choice two Just because there's less choice on the path itself doesn't mean there isn't a lot of choice in the game
@BlazedKnifeBlades cyberpunk is at least trying to be a different way to make games great again. Resisting in some way is still resistance. Better than most
Well, we dont hear these games underperforming at launch. And it's not like they are all cyberpunk bad, if anything muscle through till patches come out
I really hope they add back in some more depth to the game that they had in Morrowind and Oblivion, relative to the many stripped down systems in Skyrim. Extra depth in gameplay systems will help tons with replayability and give achieve Todd's dream of a TES6 that can stand for 10+ years.
I promise you, this will not happen. We’ve all seen the trajectory that Western RPGs are going down. Barring a huge shake-up, expect an even more anemic experience.
@@OrbitalDeathRay from my knowledge wasteland 3,divinity original sin 2 and pillars of eternity:dreadfire are all modern rpgs that do have deep systems so I wouldn't really lose hope yet
@@jonathanleon4966 Point taken. Those are all games from the middle market, though. AAA RPGs will only get blander. Cyberpunk is a perfect example of that, and the Elder Scrolls series is another.
We really do need bigger cities...and I’d like both High Rock and Hammerfell personally...in regards to the new factions discussion, they could have the Synod and the College of Whispers for mages, and maybe the Morag Tong and a new guild (or perhaps maybe just the DB if they really want to bring it back) for assassins
Morag Tong in Hammerfell/High Rock? That's the opposite side of Tamriel from where they are, and they're pretty much dead anyways. They should honestly create a new assassin guild, or remake the Brotherhood a bit (have it 'reform' between games). Also pretty sure the College of Whispers and Synod are both in Cyrodill.
@@arabiannights5301 CoW and Synod were present in the Empire before Hammerfell seceded (rising from the schism of the Mages Guild), it could be that the Synod have some influence in Hammerfell (and Colovia) because their less permissive views on necromancy and conjuration whereas the CoW would be more influential in High Rock (and Nibenay).
@@shalimarfox9441 I didn't know that's how ads worked lol. But that does make sense so I will gladly force myself to watch ads on this channel and a couple others!
i just want TES6 to have a very evolved much more refined fast paced revolutionary Epic combat wile keeping everything that made a good Elder scrolls game intact and true to it's soul
This partially has to do with the scale of the game. For comparison, the map of Red Dead Redemption 2 is twice the size of Skyrim, this allows for the map to be more conducive to travel by horse.
@@crabinijig8403 Yes, not just the scale that matters but the map design, rocks are everywhere in Skyrim and horses don’t run well with rocks in the way.
@@hazyhalfmoon skyrim id only use a horse to dupe myself up high hrothgard tbh. i think i enjoyed the mountainous terrain but before i learned the terrain, id always get stuck on cliffs when traveling to another city without use of roads. i would just default to fast travel a lot.
It's a Bethesda game. It's going to be more bug/glitch than game and Todd is banking on modders to fix the game on release like he's done with everything.
@@travisreid9530 that's why boycotting doesn't work. Is because most cowardly sheeple don't care and just want entertainment. So tyranny in game companies runs rampant.
The lack of “this or that” guilds really has definitely led to a feeling of zero consequences during playthroughs, and i really hope they Bethesda decides to bring those back
The Sly Todd''s masterplan: make a game world that includes only half (if not third) of High Rock & half of Hammerfell, release it, and then the modders will make the rest of it in the next 15 years or so. And in the meantime Bethesda will port the game on refrigerators and phones. Ingenious!
So much of what they claim to want is just a description of morrowind, and it seems like Bethesda forgot the gem that started the whole snowball. Should have never dumbed it down for the sake of selling copies. And for the love of God limit fast travel. Silt striders or witcher style direction signs. Need some insensitive to see the beautiful world they build other than towns or towers
Bring back attributes, noticeable race differences, classes, requirements for guilds, etc Attributes can be the ones they use in like DnD or Dragon Age (Con, Strength, Dex, etc) And I like a lot of race differences and such being less skill and more unique things like strengths and weaknesses that stick around I’d like separate perks for race, skills, attributes, maybe even all of them I would love the Tower plot, and the Thalmor as the big bad And I think it would be really cool to have just a few scattered dragons as like high level enemies I loved Mages, Thieves, and Fighters Guilds and the Dark Brotherhood but most important is that there are alternates, so additional options for each
Racial differences is a pretty big thing that needs to be in the game. In Skyrim I never felt anything different in the gameplay if I chose another race. I know it's not a good message, I don't care, but I'd like some mild racism in the game. Like if you're a certain race, the NPCs will treat you in different ways. Also the attributes and the build of a race should be different. Obviously a Breton would not be as strong as an Orc. Or as tall. I found a mod for Skyrim that added that in, I think it was called Racial Body Morphs. Now I could instantly decide if the elf I see is a dunmer or a bosmer because of their height difference. As for voiced protagonist, I think it could work with a TES game. Your character never speaks a lot, just asks some questions. Or answers briefly. That could be solved easily. In DA Inquisition, you had 2-2 voice actors for male and female characters, and they had a lot of dialogue. If that could be managed, I think Bethesda could hire like 6-6 different voice actors to speak those lines in the game. And maybe even have a slider to adjust the voice's pitch? And as for what I'd really like is immersive quests. Not like you get into a town, and someone approaches you 'hey, help me!'. Or get to the tavern owner and ask for a job. You're a stranger who just got there, why would they ask you? No what I'd like is something like, you get into town, and of course the tavern is the hub. You get in, the bartender is really laconic. But you buy something to eat and drink, or rent a room, now the bartender will be more jovial. So you can ask if there's any rumor or something to do, and they say 'yeah I heard X has a problem with something, and the local Y industry closed down'. Maybe not even a map marker just a log in your journal, so you can look up the mentioned people or places, and ask around there. Or then just sit down in the tavern, eat, and listen in what people are talking about, giving you clues. There still could be a simple bounty board, or sometimes someone running up to you offering a quest. But not as often.
I feel like in the main story you should be able to be evil, cuz imagine your character is pure evil in side Quests and then just goes and saves the world because there's no alternative to the main quest
es6 in 2045 gonna be lit For real though I hope starfield is good too and also gets a good modding community because it'll be a while before es6 :/ One thing I hope they improve in the game is the natural difficulty, I would like the game to have smarter ai, less cheesy stealth, and generally I would like it to be less easy to just completly break the game since i think that kills replayability quite a bit. And for them to have different ways of scaling difficulty other than just cranking up enemy hp and damage multiplier.
Two things I want from TES6: OPTIONAL settlement building, and better inventory management. I absolutely _love_ Hearthfire, especially being able to adopt children, so I'd love to see an expansion of that mechanic. I agree, though, that it should be optional, not mandatory, and players should have the option of building a settlement that suits them. Sure, a paladin, noble-type character could end up with a castle, but perhaps a more unscrupulous character could find a cave in the woods somewhere, build a fake house out front and expand the cave into a Pinewatch-style bandit hideout. A necromancer could move into an ancient tomb complex. Maybe you take over a Dwemer city. Options, is what I'm saying. Inventory management - I've got to admit that I find it a right pain in the arse remembering what I've stowed in which chest. Even more so is making the rounds jumping from one vendor to the next trying to find someone with enough gold to actually buy the stuff I've looted. I'd love it if we could get some built-in filters for inventory management, and perhaps a way to dump all of our unwanted stuff into a chest and have a steward or similar sell it for us over time. Perhaps we'd get lower prices that way, but it'd steamline the game experience so much.
I want to be able to visit all the dadric lords plains of Oblivion. Shivering isles was fun but I wanna see what kind of worlds Azura and nocturnal live in. I think the guilds in Oblivion were better than skyrims. I hope they rehaul the guilds and make them more eventful. The mages guild(collage) and theives guild were a joke. Especially when you become the guild leader and no one treats you as such.
Seriously I’m in love with these podcasts, I feel right at home listening in. If I had it my way, I’d have these 3 guys as NPC’s in ES6. I was thinking something along the lines of 3 characters you’d find in a library somewhere bickering amongst themselves about the history of Tamriel.
Omg! That would be absolutely amazing! Someone contact Bethesda! Quick!
It’ll be funny is Michael’s an Argonian, Scott’s a dark elf, and Drew’s a Breton
Bro I’m tellin you this has to happen!!!!!! Definitely would make elder scrolls 6 a 10/10
Have to be scholars arguing in a bar about different meta interpretations of the games UI just for the 4th wall break
@@realPrettySarah all with Australian accents lmao.
Completely agree about settlement building. It is fun, but it shouldn't replace pre built towns and cities
Would be nice to set one up in one of a few locations like Hearthfire, but make it more rewarding to build this settlement, unlocking new quests and npcs etc
Yeah, I'd rather have many locations start a town from scratch and defend one town than have two dozen terrible settlements that constantly need help.
If they only let you make a single town but with options for different locations, those could be tied into the settlement's development to create a unique experience. A town in the mountains should be a different experience than settling on the coast after all. If there might be a battle to defend, those could play out very different with a coastal town having to fight at sea, while the mountain town is a close quarter infantry battle because you cannot easily get siege engines and horses through the terrain.
I would like to see the settlement building there but maybe many less settlements than fallout 4. However it'd be nice if the settlements could be a little larger before hitting your cap.
I agree, a Hearthfire type of system but expanded would be awesome!
I love how Scott always starts with a sly smile, as if he can see all of us in our underpants
What? Where your mind at
hes a handsome man
He can imagine all of us in our underpants tho 😅
I'd like animations to evolve as you get better with skills. For instance; one-handed. With low one-handed you might swing your sword around with wild abandon while with a higher skill you might have more fluid movements when using said sword.
That's Rockstar levels of detail, I doubt Bethesda is capable of that.
Oblivion had that where u unlocked u new attacks and movements as you progressed
Not an Elder Scrolls game, but Kingdom Come: Deliverance had something like that, especially in regards to archery in that game.
@@asultan7049 very much agreed. Those are things that unfortunately I can't see anyone but modders getting at.
that would be really cool, but I wouldn't get to hopeful of something like that. Bethesda has never been to great with animations
One thing I think is limiting is that I always want to play as a stealthy mage (not illusion one handed), but the quiet casting perk comes super late and you don't get sneak attack damage with magic
Here's what I want in TES6... Dark elves that are voiced as they were in Morrowind.
You nwah
Are they still going with "Not working on ES6 till after Starfield is done"
I imagine that was a complete lie and they've been working on since 2018 when they made the trailer at least. They've been known to lie to cover up things in the past such as w fallout 4
@@idipped2521 Not a lie. they've said hundreds of times that they don't go into "FULL Production" until the previous game is done. they never said "we don't start until the other game is done". They're in full production on Starfield right now and they're working on TES6 as well. When Starfield is done, they'll put more devs on TES6 and the rest of the team will do updates and DLC for Starfield.
They also have more developers now, so they can do more on each game at the same time. So things could be different from 5 years ago.
They say it was in preproduction but will only be in preproduction until Starfield is done and out
They actually finished TES6 but have only one copy of the game and they sold it to Martin Shkreli
@@goon_kidd9106 probably not until 2023-2024
On the bootless cats an lizards, easy fix for enchanting slots. If you played dragons dogma you can have painted nails that have perks. So no boots for them but toe rings or painted/enchanted nails
One thing I did like about Morrowind and being the Nerevarine, was how even to the very end you could choose to at least say that you weren't the Nerevarine.
You should do a character build that uses the dwarven black bow of fate and uses alteration and restoration to heal and use paralysis and destruction to help kill things and also uses saviors hide and other light armor
Plot twist: You play as Lokir of Rorikstead’s brother, who was supposed to meet him in Hammerfell. Now he must exact his revenge on the Empire for what they did to Lokir.
I know I've commented before on other videos but I would also like a podcast exploring the variations and lore among the Aedra and other forties in the elder scrolls like Akatosh, Lorkhan etc...
Michael looks like he’s in an action thriller and has gone off the grid
Hammerfell for the Redguards! 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
We don't really need attributes anymore, except for basic magic, health, stamina and maybe speed. Perks make them redundant, and Im fine with that. Id really rather have some unique race traits instead of simple stat boost.
I’m also grateful Bethesda is taking their time with it. Like, I want to play it really bad but I don’t want a Cyberpunk situation
I'm still waiting for an 18+ game set just before and during the Ayleid-Alessian war. 4 main ways: good Ayleid, maniac torture freak, obeying the Ayleids, killing Ayleids
They need to do something with the aldmeri dominion and those towers that were talked about
The best way they could handle the start of the game is being detained at the border of a province and being asked about who you are and what you want to do with 10 or 15 options before being taken in because of a stolen piece of something on your person. Once you get taken into a prison, you get a new vegas style opening with character creation, you can admit to stealing that something or deny it, and if you deny it, boom turns out there’s pickpockets on the loose and doing stuff like this and you’re safe.
I would also like being a prisoner aboard a pirate ship or orcs. Since the traditional prison starting quests of old.
I'm honestly not very interested in JUST the Iliac bay region. They already did that in daggerfall. Would be interesting to see the northern parts of high rock and how they compare to Skyrim as well as the Dragontail Mountain range in Hammerfell vs the Alik'r
I mean tbf The Dark Brotherhood was a huge thing in Daggerfall I don't see why it wouldn't be a thing. Going to a dusty Hammerfell town for my new DB quest was my favorite part of TES 2
If the dragonborn becomes the champion of ole herma mora, would he not have knoladge of what the thalmor wanted or extended? Would he mot be in a position to counter them? Or am I misunderstanding the way ole herma Mora works?
I hope special big bad enemies are more difficult to fight. In Skyrim they just had more health and did more damage. I’d be down for some mechanics.
#1 I would like to see gameplay elements that compliment the player's ability to roam freely throughout the game world, a hallmark of TES since the beginning. There have been mods in Skyrim which allow the player to tent camp, light campfires, etc. Having an entire range of crafting abilities in regards to the materials in the player's surroundings would be so cool.
#2 I hope the houses/homebuilding gameplay is implemented with more variety and detail than past games. I think any structure in the game should be "ownable," at least through console commands, but hopefully by persuading the owner to sell it. I also hope the capability is added for a player to build his house by hand if he chooses, with lumber he milled from trees he felled, nails he made and footings he poured with cement he crafted. Rubble masonry, logs, bricks, straw and bark could be chosen for building materials as well.
Fighting demons, collecting loot, marrying princesses and crafting spells are great. But what about making oil from birch bark to create glue, making a wooden spoon with a hook knife, or crafting traps to catch a marmot living in a rockpile? Details and nuance are what separate great games from amazing games, and I think most people here are craving another amazing game to last them 6 more years.
Would love to see more elder scrolls 6 theories and potential story lines 😊
Very nice podcast to listen to while grinding yes indeed
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Ted Peterson mentioned one thing from morrowind that seems to have put a total stop to racial buffs and weaknesses. One of the redguard racial traits was lower intelligence. I'm not sure if they ever caught heat for it, but I could totally see that being a massive PR mess
i know exactly the keira metz line that michael is referring to in the witcher 3
Now that Microsoft has purchased Bethesda, the chances are there's going to be way less bugs - er - features in TES.
Would you want silly bugs in TES6?
Nothing game breaking but things like people riding horses by standing on them, mammoths falling out of the sky, giant chickens etc.
Id love an option for digitagrade beast races but why would that mean there would be no boots for them? Give them a shin guard or something
I feel like High Rock would be better as a DLC for Elder Scrolls VI
Given the popularity of the Witcher 3 DLC Blood and Wine, I could see participating in a typical medieval style tournament (either representing one of the main kingdoms of High-Rock, Orsinium, or even just Hammerfell itself) only to end-up within the elaborate web of court intrigue and politics the province is known for.
If there is indeed some kind of war going on I hope they can kinda make it dynamic. With some settlements actually changing ownership without it being a story event, just based on the players actions.
You did quests for faction A NPCs or even just attacked enough faction B NPCs in the wild? Well, now faction A gradually is winning the war because you actively supported A or hindered B enough to tip the scales. If you don't do anything or are playing both sides this should also be reflected in the environment.
There needs to be some kind of rubber band system to ensure the war won't be over in just one week but if the situation changes dynamically if would further incentivize multiple playthroughs.
12:26. This idea is literally Dungeons and Dragons Tabletop!!!
I completely disagree with people wanting more settlement building. It is not fun and should be taken out of Elder Scrolls entirely. The series can keep the buying and furnishing of homes, that's it.
9 years passed and nothing, where is it? 🥲
Ultimately, where game design/philosophy is concerned (where skills or lack thereof, settlement building etc), if the game is more like Fallout 4 than it is Oblivion then it's not going to be the game anyone wants. Bethesda as a publisher seriously underestimate their audience in their pursuit of a more mainstream appeal (i.e the Keep It Simple Stupid catastrophe which even newer people to the franchise hated).
As for setting, it has to be Hammerfell AND High Rock, both provinces are severely limited in their biomes and theme on their own but together they provide a nice bit of contrast and variety.
Damn Drews got a good voice
Tbh I’m more excited for Skyblivion because I think it will come out first.
Omgoodnwss, the nostalgia in the morrowind music. Normally, that music plays around balmora
the downside I'd say to argonian is not being able to wear boots or certain helmets is argonians already have some of the worst stats in the game that don't give them very many advantages.
Because I mean how often does water breathing and disease/poison resistance actually matter
If it's in Hammerfell, which I think it will be, I guarantee Bethesda will make the player the HoonDing and give them Sword Songs as their dragon shouts.
All I want is long sweeping land like ac origin's and the es6 trailer. Where it takes few in game days to go town to town.it seems that's where the game is going because even tod said theyr waiting till the technology gets there to release it. And the trailer compared to other cgi ens releases shows what it should look like
I feel like the Westworld character Lee Sizemore would work at writing on Bethesda. And he definitely wrote the Dragonborn and Civil War lines I'm suuuure.
When will you guys make a new modded skyrim build? Maybe an illusionist mage next time
I think given how long they are taking to make this game, they aren’t gonna feel the need to put in a flashy mechanic like sword singer abilities because they are taking the time to put immense amount of depth into the gameplay and stories. They won’t need a gimmick to draw people in due to everything else about the game being so high quality
Ok but will there be a better mechanic or close to dovakiin
Can we all just appreciate Drew's t-shirt 😉
Instead of traits returning I'd like to see a more meaningful standing stone system that gave big advantages and disadvantages. I still want the game to prioritise freeform character creation rather than making super important character decisions upfront that restricts your playstyle.
Needs to be "Yokudda" or "Akavir" or "Lyg"
At this point i dont even care how long it takes. I just want it to be a extremely good game that has alot of time and effort put into it
Agreed 1000%
I'm gonna keep my expectations low and just hope it's decent and the bugs aren't gamebreaking. That not just a slight on Bethesda either, it seems like publishers releasing games broken, buggy, and half baked and letting the devs fix it later is becoming the norm.
Exactly, this is my last hope for gaming, everything is so soulless. More than effort and time I hope the love and depth they put into the previous game shows in this one. No sleazy micro transactions, bs DLC or buggy gameplay.
@@amir_shaban_80 already happened and in progress ever since Morrowind.
bethesda has been on a downward path in terms of time and effort on their games lol
I hope my great grandkids describe this game to me at my tombstone when they visit the family plot.
I hope a time traveler from the year 2500 comes and tells me how it felt to be there on lunch.
I hope people don't overuse unfunny jokes in the future.
@Cornn You don't even have one so don't talk
@Elias-tz6fk you are guilty of a “whataboutism”
Describe how the first trailer was
Elder Scrolls 6 starts with you as a prisoner on a ship in the illiac bay which is then waylaid by pirates or a storm. Ending with you washing up on a beach in a random location in either high rock or hammerfell. That would be pretty cool I think.
This is just the beginning of daggerfall but with being a prisoner shoved in
@@lolihitler4198 callback! Iykyk
@@lolihitler4198 daggerfall start is always the same location isn't it?
yes please some variety to keep things fresh on every playthrough, though speedrunners will have to come up with a standard for how to start the start lol
Why not start as a prisoner on a cart being lead to your beheading
I just hope I’m young enough to appreciate TES6 by the time we get it.
I wish for you to stay young enough mentally, to appreciate things like TES6 regardless your physical age.
I just hope to live long enough to see its release, let alone the next fallout game. I'm guessing tes6 will be in 3-5years and fallout 5 will probably be after 2030
Lol true
Right? We're having to go visit a vampire's lair to be turned and become immortal
age has no precedence in TES appreciation. Just look at Grandma Shirley
There's a mod in Skyrim that generates names for random NPCs (including guards) based off their race. I think they could easily implement that in ES6
I want different races to be treated differently and the things you do makes people treat you better or worse based on your choices.
Only if there are "Witnesses". I dislike NPCs "Magically" knowing what choices you made, as if every NPC has the Orb of Vearmina.
That's always been a thing. In skyrim if you play a dark elf(for instance) the racism is constant. Turn your speakers up because your race does effect npc dialogue.
@@OneTyler2Many But it doesn't affect you in any realistic way beyond guard dialog. It's ok for race to mean something. Even though Khajiit aren't allowed within the walls of cities in Skyrim, you walk in and out as freely as any other. It would be a small and interesting thing to have to earn your way in just because you are Khajiit. It would also add massively to replayability to have different races experience different things. It doesn't have to be a HUGE part of the game, but it would only add good things to the game.
@@bmariec88 I agree. Skyrim pretty much you can be what ever you want, pick any race, do any faction without any implications. So you can be an argonian who is also be one of the Companions, with barely any issue, and all starting stuff is mostly the same for joining any of the factions / guilds. Be an Imperial and join the Stromcloaks, or just any non Nord and join with no issue? That isn't good narrative. Random npc making snarky remarks is not an in-depth look at the world. If you want to be an Imperial and join the Stormcloaks? you get a different joining quest to prove your loyalty as opposed to a Nord or something.
@@bmariec88 Khajiit are allowed in Skyrims cities (J'zhargo and the Thalmor assassin in Riften), it's just the skooma trafficking Caravans which are banned (they're also banned from entry to Rimmen in the Infernal City/Lord of Souls novels iirc).
One thing that I would like to see is race specific dialogue. It was one of the good things of Dragon age. Speaking in the native language of Bosmer when you run into one. Or even if your character wasn't of that specific race but you were very knowledgeable and knew their language.
Building on that, I'd like to see race affect player interactions with NPC dialog and questlines; for instance Nordic culture is pretty wary of other races, especially elves, but the dragonborn never had any problems with being argonian, or khajiit, elvish or anything.
If race offered a variety of pros and cons to navigating the "social" world, that would be more in line with the lore and add much to replayability!!
Huh. Never advocated for more racism before.
@@kylepugh6607 trust me. I come from D&D and it rubs me the wrong way when I see orcs And elves getting along. Fantasy racism is a good thing!!
@@kylepugh6607 Khajiit are banned from entering the cities in Skyrim, except if you're the main character, then nobody bats an eye, you can even become thane of everyhold
Argonians are banned from living in Windhelm and not only can you buy property you can become thane and Ulfric's left hand man.
So ridiculous.
I hate becoming the leader of every freaking thing ever!
And still getting treated like a new recruit
@@ivartheboneless5969 hey Leader, i got a task for you, now go do it, while I just stand around here and wait for you to come back afterwards!
Scott looks like the older bully brothers friend in a 90s movie. The second bully.
LMAO
that's really accurate for some reason
Hahaha kinda true. I bet he has a motor cycle that parents don’t approve of.
And Michael looks like he's gotten married recently, and stopped caring about his appearance
@@georgecrowcroft9260 I think he is in a hangover 2077
I hope they bring back mysticism, spellcrafting, more powerful alteration/mysticism spells like mark/recall and levitation, just improve magic!!!
same, mage has always been my favorite way to play, and skyrim kinda dumbed it down a lot.
Skyrim magic kinda sucks, it was my first elder scrolls game and I never played a mage but when I went back and played oblivion and morrowind I was drawn towards the mage play style because it’s so much better in those games with all the spell variety
41:00 Morrowind did this exact thing. Based on the Great House you joined (and they're mutually exclusive), there was a questline for building your own manor. This is really good not just for roleplaying but for replayability. Morrowind demands multiple playthroughs if you want to try out all of the different factions.
Yeah, but their current writing staff thinks writing is hard, so we can't have anything that isn't completely lineary. At best we get a "good ending" or a "less good ending" to choose between. And neither one makes a difference because you have to be able to keep playing afterwards.
I'm not sure though because one thing I appreciated about Skyrim was that you had the opportunity to do everything on one character if you're a total completionist, but I also made lots of specialised builds like one that only quested on solstheim.
I think there's room for both, you can put up barriers to what your character can be based on your choices, but later choose to change those choices. Like if say you couldn't be a guard and in the thieves guild at once, maybe you could abandon and sabotage the thieves guild once you finish that questline to gain favour with the guards and start their quests.
@@martinatzejensen6787 The main quests have always been very linear to be fair, if anything it helps if they're a bit boring because it makes you go out and explore for side quests. In Morrowind the main quest is so cryptic at points you have no idea where you're supposed to go so you just sidetrack and explore, and in Skyrim you're so bored of bleak falls barrow that almost everyone fucks off after they kill the dragon and doesn't return to see the greybeards until much later.
I loved Morrowind, but those restrictions constantly frustrated me. You may find it great, me? Not so much. Forced restrictions in games drive me crazy.
@@martinatzejensen6787 Morrowind has very little voice acting, which means they could write as much story as they wanted. They can't make a game like that anymore
I want some recurring voice actors or just characters for the nostalgia: Nazir, Karliah, M'aiq, etc.I also want to see Grandma Shirley.
It would be nice to see Serena or Paarthanax again. Maybe even Lydia as a joke.
Me too. I hope that old fella that voices Tolfdir is still around when ES6 rolls out. Love his voice. Always surprised when I hear him in animated movies like Dead Space Downfall, and IIRC the actress that plays Aela was in Atlantis (the Disney movie).
@@runningcommentary2125 I wouldn't mind a caravan encounter where grey haired Lydia is following around an old grizzled mercenary, and complains about all the stuff she has to carry.
@@bloodsweatandbeers4684 Sadly he’s not. George Coe passed away in 2015.
It's already set in stone that Shirley will be in Elder Scrolls 6. And M'aiq has been in ever elder scrolls since 2 I'm pretty sure. It would be unlike them to just not add him into the game. But I do think it would be a cool Easter Egg to see certain characters from Skyrim
DOOM team needs to make a pelinal whitestrake genocide simulator to fund TES6 and keep people busy to buy time
Aylied Genocide DLC
PLEASE ive been saying this for years
REEEMAAAN!!!
YEEAAAAAAAAAH
At this point I almost don’t want to play Starfield just to spite it for being the cause of my lack of new Elder Scrolls game
Then don't. You don't have to buy everything that's put out.
Hell, there's a good chance I'm not getting TES6 as well.
They've taken their two current franchises in a horrible direction, so I don't have a lot of hope for either Starfield or TES6.
But I'll be watching what comes with great scrutiny.
I am still excited for it and will most likely buy it, because it will show off the major engine changes that will also be used and built upon for TES6. It will also give us a hint what we can expect of TES6 and we will see if Bethesda learned from Fallout 4 and 76. You also shouldnt forget the modding community, because there will be blowing up Star Wars Mods everywhere.
@@patrickadkins2474 exactly and not to mention fallout only sucked because they wanted to try new things i mean there's still alot of fun to be had in that game and its something I'll still probably play from time to time for years to come, and fallout 76 are we really even going to consider that a fallout game? I can tell you even if they made fallout 5 exactly the same with the horrible dialog and choices and faction problems etc I would still probably buy it and millions of other people would to idk I feel like people give Bethesda way to much shit. after cyberpunk Bethesda might be the only company that I have an ounce of faith in anymore smh
@@patrickadkins2474 100% agree with you i miss classes to gave each playthrough that extra little umph to really make it unique. but thats another thing people totally take for granted like yeah morrowing might have been a little more Rpg based but come on the skills dragon shouts creating your own house the choices the easter eggs like skyrim just might be the greatest game ever created so I have no clue where anyone's getting that tes 6 will suck 😂😂
the only gripe I really have is I reallllyyyyyy wish they gave you more meaningful choices that had an impact on the world and story itself
What bothers me the most in RPG's, is not being able to say No...Like skyrim, "Do this quest" cant say no, "Be guild master" cant say no, how can you call it options when you have no option to NOT do the thing thats trivial or breaks your character as an individual?
Atleast in eso you can just delete the quest from your log
"This is Elder Scrolls, you're not gonna have magical telepathy phonecalls..."
Dreamsleeve: Are you sure about that?
Also
*A new hand touches the beacon*
"Hero, you will is low. Watch that."
You guys forgot the dwemer so quickly... Im so dissapointed. 😔
"You can't just go around mining asteroids, that's boring"
-frowns in No Man's Sky
They just need a Thalmor taking over the world simulator.
You mean taller supreme albino cave elves? Sounds familiar.
No, they need a Doom style Pelinal Whitestrake game
OR ME
Or a dragon invasion simulator
We need a super cut of scott saying "you know what i mean" you know what i mean?
I was just going to make my own cheeky comment about this. "We all know what you mean bro"
I wish we could see how far they are tbh. Have they got a few main quests finished?, the map mostly done?, only got character customisation done or only got the wabbajack in 4k UHD and nothing else? Give us something on how progress is going
Engine overhaul. Quests are probably not even on paper if I can guess.
I don't think they've even agreed on the location let alone asset development at this time..
Maybe just the word "fetch" underlined a couple times.
@@ilikestuff9250 remember the quest with Saadia, I feel like they've known that it will be in Hammerfell since before Skyrim was realesed.
The progress currently looks like Starfield.
Nothing has been committed to TES6 at this point, except maybe the location (Hammerfell) and a very loose story idea (War against Altmeri Dominion + Daedra), end of list.
I thought they did a decent job role playing voice acting with custom made characters in Dragon Age: Inquisition, but text boxes might be best for role playing.
Agreed. Some people want to role play as older characters which makes immersion difficult if the voice is young sounding. Not that I even got to to my second character on cyberpunk before I dropped the game but I probably would have been frustrated with this snarky punk voice coming out of my older, reserved character. Plus it’s probably easier to create branching paths if they don’t have to keep paying a voice actor to voice the choices
@@turtle3527 That was my exact gripe with cyberpunk. Wanted my character to be polite and stern, but the voice and dialogue was so snarky and sarcastic I had to drop the idea lol
For another example, as great as Baldur's Gate 3 looks I think they're kind of doing it weirdly. They have the cinematic dialogue cutscenes of something like Dragon Age, but then a silent protagonist like Skyrim.
So you get these scenes where everyone is all animated and talking and then the camera focuses on your character and it's just dead silence when you respond.
The intro is even worse from what I've seen. There's a moment where you're literally getting thrown around in a falling flying ship and your character doesn't make any noise or really vocally react.
It seems to me if you want to go the 3rd person cinematic route you kind of need to have a voiced protagonist.
and as mentioned in the video, its still more of an RPG than Cyberprank 2077
I immensely dislike the "chosen, dragonborn, foretold hero" stories in games because I think it cheapens your accomplishments. It's not that you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps, relying on your own hard earned strength and intelligence to come out on top of nearly an impossible situation; fate made you. The "big bad" wasn't defeated because you yourself worked hard for that victory and earned it, but because "destiny" needed you to. Your decisions don't make a difference in the world, you were always going to do the things the world/gods/prophecy needed you to.
While on this, I think this could be a pretty cool storyline. The destined hero says "Fuck Off!" to fate and does his own thing, no longer content being the slave of the gods, but the master of their own future.
That’s why I really enjoyed Oblivion. You were a literal nobody at the start and were working across the entire main story just to get the chosen one to complete his destiny. Every earned accomplishment meant that much more when I started from Zero. I still occasionally play the game just to experience the arena grind from zero to hero. It hits me in the feels every time.
Same with red dead. The story feels much more down to earth and it had better explanations for things and not “you are he chosen one”
You know what might be really cool? Invert it. Make the villain the destined hero, who told destiny and fate to go to hell and does their own thing.
Or you could choose whether or not to side with the "bad guy".
My evil vampire character would never try to stop Alduin. She'd join him.
@@ASNS117Zero That's essentially Mirak.
As for the levelling system, I love Skyrim's approach of "level what you use" but would like to see attributes back. So for example, when you use one handed you level your strength, dexterity and one handed skill. No when you switch to a bow, you still get bonuses from your strength and dexterity but you have no bonus from skill. That would be more realistic and also make your warrior character better with every kind of weapon while still specialising in one specific weapon. And as they probably will go more in the aRPG direction maybe strength would reduce stamina cost of attacks, dexterity would make them faster and skill would add perks (and improve on stat bonuses) but damage difference wouldn't be that big to get rid of damage sponge NPCs. This way levelling a character would make them smoother and better to play to showcase your character actually growing in skill.
Yeah I think skyrim had the right idea with the new perk trees etc it just needs refinement to be possibly the best leveling system in any rpg game
yeah this would be great, also more weapon variety please. It'd be cool of it was more like dark souls where different weapons attack differently. Even a basic blunt type damage vs thrust would be cool
@@donnyprocs fuck dont even talk about dark souls I've never been so mad whilst playing game and I was a 10 year old playing mw3
something like kingdom come would be cool where swords dont do well against enemies wearing plate armour whilst blunt weapons are perfect for it
also bring back old weapons from morrowind
I agree, as good of a role playing experience having attributes set in stone (fallout) is, my first and longest playthrough is almost always just me going around and trying everything and when you’re playing for a long time, doing the same thing over and over again gets boring. I like to be able to switch it up and start doing magic or ranged damage when I get bored of melee. Plus it’s always nice to be able to just light some wolves on fire or something for like 10min to get enough quick experience to level up and put a perk point in your main tree that you’ve been waiting for
Not everything needs to be realistic. That's another "feature" that is ruining games. And the skyrim lvl system is a dumbed down and all together a down grade. Like always I'll wait for the mod community to fix bethesdas casual gamer mindset.
Big Brain: Bethesda only resells Skyrim to fund TES6
This is literally what they do. They also have microtransactions in FO76 to fund development for Starfield and TES 6, as well as to keep Zenimax happy, and in the future to keep Microsoft happy.
@@Darkxanderpresents well i mean Microsoft owns these companies now they'll make gamers happy rather than those Zenimax people who only think about money and ignoring quality of rhe game.
Funny how no one ever considered that, and just called them greedy bastards as if they spend 0% of that money on the game and all on themselves.
@@foxknight4465
if microsoft cared about making gamers happy there would be no x-box exclusives, there'd be a windows version for everything they own.
@@foxknight4465 You're thinking of Shareholders and Publishers. The Publisher in this case is Bethesda Softworks.
Zenimax just owned all of it, pure profit without getting your hands dirty.
I'm gonna be an old man by the time I finally get to play. Guess I have something to do in retirement.
As much as I like Skyrim, its actually more of a power fantasy than an RPG
I agree, vanilla Skyrim is a power-fantasy path game that you min-max and roleplay. With mods like Realm of Lorkhan and Ordinator there's a lot more elements of give and take and so many perks that you can't feasibly do everything at once.
@@antoncid5044 yeah i mean in traditional RPGs you have to pick a path and you sort of become the expert character at that style, sure eventually with enough time your character can be godmode at everything. but in Skyrim you're basically given godmode early on and can become unstoppable with little to no forethought into your character design.
Those are not mutually exclusive things. Dungeons and Dragons is definitely a power fantasy and It definitely counts as an RPG.
Did you not watch this podcast episode?
Choice of path is choice two
Just because there's less choice on the path itself doesn't mean there isn't a lot of choice in the game
@@trashpanda5869 wrong
Daily reminder not to buy this game day one or pre-order. Make Bethesda work for it this time.
Then they would just have a bad launch and wait, like they did with 76.
... I probably still will though...
@BlazedKnifeBlades cyberpunk is at least trying to be a different way to make games great again. Resisting in some way is still resistance. Better than most
@@zullumaster123 why tho. You dead get nothing from it except a broken video game
Well, we dont hear these games underperforming at launch. And it's not like they are all cyberpunk bad, if anything muscle through till patches come out
I really hope they add back in some more depth to the game that they had in Morrowind and Oblivion, relative to the many stripped down systems in Skyrim. Extra depth in gameplay systems will help tons with replayability and give achieve Todd's dream of a TES6 that can stand for 10+ years.
I promise you, this will not happen. We’ve all seen the trajectory that Western RPGs are going down. Barring a huge shake-up, expect an even more anemic experience.
@@OrbitalDeathRay from my knowledge wasteland 3,divinity original sin 2 and pillars of eternity:dreadfire are all modern rpgs that do have deep systems so I wouldn't really lose hope yet
@@jonathanleon4966 Point taken. Those are all games from the middle market, though. AAA RPGs will only get blander. Cyberpunk is a perfect example of that, and the Elder Scrolls series is another.
@@OrbitalDeathRay but... cyberpunk failed aside from pre orders
@@timyuusis3372 I didn’t argue that it didn’t. We’re talking about bland, shallow AAA action RPGs, of which Cyberpunk is another great example.
We really do need bigger cities...and I’d like both High Rock and Hammerfell personally...in regards to the new factions discussion, they could have the Synod and the College of Whispers for mages, and maybe the Morag Tong and a new guild (or perhaps maybe just the DB if they really want to bring it back) for assassins
Morag Tong in Hammerfell/High Rock? That's the opposite side of Tamriel from where they are, and they're pretty much dead anyways. They should honestly create a new assassin guild, or remake the Brotherhood a bit (have it 'reform' between games).
Also pretty sure the College of Whispers and Synod are both in Cyrodill.
@@arabiannights5301 CoW and Synod were present in the Empire before Hammerfell seceded (rising from the schism of the Mages Guild), it could be that the Synod have some influence in Hammerfell (and Colovia) because their less permissive views on necromancy and conjuration whereas the CoW would be more influential in High Rock (and Nibenay).
Daggerfall with its "110000" inhabitants (and it has been some time since that estimate) = 15 houses; a church and a palacino; I can see it 😆
The only boys i don’t skip ads for. I wish you fruitful new year, Scott, Michael and Drew! :)
Wait skipping adds hurts the channel ?
@@MichaelCastronova They get revenue from it. So if you don’t skip it, you’re supporting the channel even more!
@@shalimarfox9441 I didn't know that's how ads worked lol. But that does make sense so I will gladly force myself to watch ads on this channel and a couple others!
i just want TES6 to have a very evolved much more refined fast paced revolutionary Epic combat
wile keeping everything that made a good Elder scrolls game intact and true to it's soul
"They don't need to over monetize ES6" Press F to doubt
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Better horses. I don't want to feel like I can walk faster than my horse can run.
unless a perk can help you
This partially has to do with the scale of the game. For comparison, the map of Red Dead Redemption 2 is twice the size of Skyrim, this allows for the map to be more conducive to travel by horse.
@@hazyhalfmoon oblivion felt good, it was an achievement once you can run faster than a horse
@@crabinijig8403 Yes, not just the scale that matters but the map design, rocks are everywhere in Skyrim and horses don’t run well with rocks in the way.
@@hazyhalfmoon skyrim id only use a horse to dupe myself up high hrothgard tbh. i think i enjoyed the mountainous terrain but before i learned the terrain, id always get stuck on cliffs when traveling to another city without use of roads. i would just default to fast travel a lot.
Btw, does anyone else notice Drew’s face cam is not lined up with the fudgemuppet logo?
Oh God I see it now
Lay off the skooma my friend
i hate you why would you do that?
>:(
I do now
What sort of monsters can we expect from hammerfell
Goblins, giants, assassin beetles, dunerippers, giant serpents, harpies, giant scorpions among others.
@@Scotttjt Giant Sand Worm’s of some sort ?
@@Scotttjt I’d still like a video going in to these more tbh, thanks thow lol 😂
Sees a desert "where is it show me it come on"
(Giant sand worm)
"YEEEEEESSSSS!!!!!"
Sload
It's a Bethesda game. It's going to be more bug/glitch than game and Todd is banking on modders to fix the game on release like he's done with everything.
Boycott Todd. Alas, people will buy/pre-order.
@@travisreid9530 that's why boycotting doesn't work. Is because most cowardly sheeple don't care and just want entertainment.
So tyranny in game companies runs rampant.
@@usern4metak3ns lol "sheeple"
@@travisreid9530 yup that's what I can the majority of people. They are lambs to the slaughter... Sad.
After the disaster of 2077, all hope has been put back into ES6
Baldur's Gate III and Elden Ring in my case. :P
The lack of “this or that” guilds really has definitely led to a feeling of zero consequences during playthroughs, and i really hope they Bethesda decides to bring those back
The Sly Todd''s masterplan: make a game world that includes only half (if not third) of High Rock & half of Hammerfell, release it, and then the modders will make the rest of it in the next 15 years or so. And in the meantime Bethesda will port the game on refrigerators and phones. Ingenious!
The Elder Scrolls 6? More Like Skyrim 2
Blades 2
That’s what it’s going to be unfortunately
yeah i have a pretty bad feeling about this game. bethesda goin downhill fast
Wait... Bethesda is cancelling hammerfell? Lol pathetic
Lel
Beard looks great Michael!
Scott's got a 90's cut, I'm feeling it.
Looks good on him.
@Bitter Butter drew is a beautiful man
So much of what they claim to want is just a description of morrowind, and it seems like Bethesda forgot the gem that started the whole snowball. Should have never dumbed it down for the sake of selling copies.
And for the love of God limit fast travel. Silt striders or witcher style direction signs. Need some insensitive to see the beautiful world they build other than towns or towers
Bring back attributes, noticeable race differences, classes, requirements for guilds, etc
Attributes can be the ones they use in like DnD or Dragon Age (Con, Strength, Dex, etc)
And I like a lot of race differences and such being less skill and more unique things like strengths and weaknesses that stick around
I’d like separate perks for race, skills, attributes, maybe even all of them
I would love the Tower plot, and the Thalmor as the big bad
And I think it would be really cool to have just a few scattered dragons as like high level enemies
I loved Mages, Thieves, and Fighters Guilds and the Dark Brotherhood but most important is that there are alternates, so additional options for each
Absolutely. I still desire a chance to join the Silver Hand and utterly destroy the Companions.
Just noticed Drew's Iron Maiden T. Respect.
Unrelated question: what prompted your channel name? Why call yourself a chocolate idiot? 😅 I love it.
They wont tell...
Racial differences is a pretty big thing that needs to be in the game. In Skyrim I never felt anything different in the gameplay if I chose another race. I know it's not a good message, I don't care, but I'd like some mild racism in the game. Like if you're a certain race, the NPCs will treat you in different ways. Also the attributes and the build of a race should be different. Obviously a Breton would not be as strong as an Orc. Or as tall. I found a mod for Skyrim that added that in, I think it was called Racial Body Morphs. Now I could instantly decide if the elf I see is a dunmer or a bosmer because of their height difference.
As for voiced protagonist, I think it could work with a TES game. Your character never speaks a lot, just asks some questions. Or answers briefly. That could be solved easily. In DA Inquisition, you had 2-2 voice actors for male and female characters, and they had a lot of dialogue. If that could be managed, I think Bethesda could hire like 6-6 different voice actors to speak those lines in the game. And maybe even have a slider to adjust the voice's pitch?
And as for what I'd really like is immersive quests. Not like you get into a town, and someone approaches you 'hey, help me!'. Or get to the tavern owner and ask for a job. You're a stranger who just got there, why would they ask you?
No what I'd like is something like, you get into town, and of course the tavern is the hub. You get in, the bartender is really laconic. But you buy something to eat and drink, or rent a room, now the bartender will be more jovial. So you can ask if there's any rumor or something to do, and they say 'yeah I heard X has a problem with something, and the local Y industry closed down'. Maybe not even a map marker just a log in your journal, so you can look up the mentioned people or places, and ask around there. Or then just sit down in the tavern, eat, and listen in what people are talking about, giving you clues.
There still could be a simple bounty board, or sometimes someone running up to you offering a quest. But not as often.
I feel like in the main story you should be able to be evil, cuz imagine your character is pure evil in side Quests and then just goes and saves the world because there's no alternative to the main quest
es6 in 2045 gonna be lit
For real though I hope starfield is good too and also gets a good modding community because it'll be a while before es6 :/
One thing I hope they improve in the game is the natural difficulty, I would like the game to have smarter ai, less cheesy stealth, and generally I would like it to be less easy to just completly break the game since i think that kills replayability quite a bit. And for them to have different ways of scaling difficulty other than just cranking up enemy hp and damage multiplier.
Two things I want from TES6: OPTIONAL settlement building, and better inventory management. I absolutely _love_ Hearthfire, especially being able to adopt children, so I'd love to see an expansion of that mechanic. I agree, though, that it should be optional, not mandatory, and players should have the option of building a settlement that suits them. Sure, a paladin, noble-type character could end up with a castle, but perhaps a more unscrupulous character could find a cave in the woods somewhere, build a fake house out front and expand the cave into a Pinewatch-style bandit hideout. A necromancer could move into an ancient tomb complex. Maybe you take over a Dwemer city. Options, is what I'm saying.
Inventory management - I've got to admit that I find it a right pain in the arse remembering what I've stowed in which chest. Even more so is making the rounds jumping from one vendor to the next trying to find someone with enough gold to actually buy the stuff I've looted. I'd love it if we could get some built-in filters for inventory management, and perhaps a way to dump all of our unwanted stuff into a chest and have a steward or similar sell it for us over time. Perhaps we'd get lower prices that way, but it'd steamline the game experience so much.
I want to be able to visit all the dadric lords plains of Oblivion. Shivering isles was fun but I wanna see what kind of worlds Azura and nocturnal live in. I think the guilds in Oblivion were better than skyrims. I hope they rehaul the guilds and make them more eventful. The mages guild(collage) and theives guild were a joke. Especially when you become the guild leader and no one treats you as such.