Valve has famously always struggled to count to three. After more than a decade each since their flagship series' most recent entry, Rockstar and Bethesda are finally ready to count to six.
Grand Theft Auto and The Elder Scrolls Fight The Battle Of The Sixes
For most players, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Grand Theft Auto 6 is the most anticipated release on the gaming horizon. It might be the most anticipated release ever. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Grand Theft Auto 5 was the hit to end all hits, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Red Dead Redemption 2 boasted . But fans of Rockstar's urban crime series have waඣited 11 years fo💃r a GTA 5 follow-up, and they're still waiting. Grand Theft Auto 6 is finally set to launch next year, and it would take a disaster for it not to be the biggest game of all time.
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Further on the horizon, I can just barely make out the mountains of Tamriel. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced all the way back in 2018, as Todd Howard took the stage at Bethesda's E3 press conference to cast the studio's vision for then-upcoming Fallout 76, and lay the ro♛admap for the future. Starfield was also announced that day, five years before it actually hit store shelves, while TES6 got a CG trailer that told us basically nothing.
Given that 17 years will likely pass between mainline Elder Scrolls games (assuming 6 hits in 2028, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:which is likely the earliest it would), Bethesda will have an oceanic amount of hype to live up to. People who were newborns when Skyrim came out will graduate from high school the year its successor arrives💃. People who graduated from💎 high school the year Skyrim launched will be in their mid-thirties.
Bruce Nesmith, a former Bethesda senior designer who worked on the studio's classics like Oblivion and Skyrim and its recent, less-beloved games like Fallout 76 and Starfield, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:spoke this week about the difficulty of what B𒆙ethesda 📖is attempting with The Elder Scrolls 6.
"Elder Scrolls 6 is undoubtedly going to be an amazing game, but it's going to be compareꩲd to all the previous games that Bethesda made," he . "The 30-year-old who is making a piece of art, who's a professional artist, he can't control the expectation because he's got all this history — it's there whether he likes it or not, and the same is true for the fans who want to buy Elder Scrolls 6. Their expectations are going to be almost impossible to meet."
Grand Theft Auto 6 Will Get Hype To End All Hype
I agree with Ne𒈔smith, but I also suspect that Grand Theft Auto 6 won't have the same trouble. Despite the 12 year wait, I fully expect gamers to greet it as the second coming of Gaming Jesus. It's hard to imagine The Elder Scrolls 6 enjoying the same reaction. Why is that? Why are the two series so different?
Well, for one, they're made by two very different teams with two very different track records. Bethesda hasn't had a true, no-asterisks win in years. Starfield did well out of the gate, but was quickly overshadowed by the surprise hit that♌ was Baldur's Gate 3. The space exploration RPG now has Mixed reviews on Steam. Fallout 76 was an unmitigated disaster at launch that has clawed its way back to earn the community's goodwill the way live-service games often do given a long enough timeline. And Fallout 4 was well-liked, but has proven increasingly divisive over the years thanks to its shallow role-playing and heavy emphasis on building. You honestly might need to go back to Skyrim for Bethesda's last real win.
That isn't the case꧂ for Rockstar. Its last major release, Red Dead Redemption 2, was a GOTY winner and, though its slow pace and mechanical fiddliness made it somewhat polarizing at the time, its reputation has only gotten stronger over the years. It's now generally viewed as one of the masterpieces of the PS4-era. GTA 5, likewise, is seen as one of the defining games of the PS3-era, and has maintained relevance for over a decade (and three console generations) thanks to GTA Online. Rockstar has had some misses (the universally despised Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition comes to mind), but those have been smaller scale mistakes than Bethesda's. And, apart from that botched remaster, Rockstar's most recent releases have both been GOAT contenders.
The GTA games have been consistently great, and consistently era-defining. But, 13 years out, Skyrim is beginning to look like a fluke. While Rockstar merely has to keep the winning streak alive, Bethesda has to pull out of a tailspin. If it manages to pull it off, though, The Elder Scrolls 6 will be all the more beloved. Though it's the sequel to one of the best-selli🐼ng games of all time, The Elder Scrolls 6 is somehow an underdog.
We Need Fallout🤡 5 B🔴efore The Elder Scrolls 6
At this ♛rate, the TV show𓆉 will be finished with several seasons under its belt before we get a new Fallout.
