Elder Scrolls 6 And Starfield To Mark Bethesda's "Largest Engine Overhaul Since Oblivion"

So they'll just update their Morrowind engine again, just like always. In other words, it'll look better, but still be complete shit. Awesome.

Ah that's cool, Skyrim in the Northern region, and oblivion in the south region in one map... Not bad, sadly the graphics are showing their age.

Let's just hope these modders turn out like new Vegas, more developers the better.

So basically 30 years of gamebryo, fantastic.

I would be fine with a delay in game releases if it was built on a newer game engine. Better physics, smarter enemy AI, and more on a faster leaner engine would be great.

I miss John Carmack who seemed to pump out new game engines ever other year.

An overhaul is a good thing. Yet, it's treated in post after post here like putting patches on the knees of your old jeans. One does not want to reinvent the wheel with every new project; build upon the successes while changing the pain points.

Fairly confident many commenting don't understand that many games are built on overhauled engines. Unreal, Quake and Source are all examples.

While I'm not holding out hope that ES6 or Starfield will revolutionise anything any more than previous Bethesda games have I'd be apprehensive to make any claims as to what and will be based on this story.

Ok, so it's an overhaul of their current engine.

Note how he's not saying it's a different engine, nor a new engine.

It's an overhaul, and it can only be an overhaul of their current engine (because obviously, you don't overhaul a "new" engine). So it's basically confirming that Starfield and ES6 will run on an "overhauled" version of their "Creation Engine", which itself was an overhaul of GameBryo (which was running Morrowind, Oblivion and Fallout 3; then became Creation Engine with Skyrim and Fallout 4).

We all know what an "overhaul" of GameBryo looks like, it's nothing amazing. The difference between Morrowind and Oblivion was pretty decent, especially for the time, it seemed to be modern enough of a leap for the year (around 2005 or 2006 period, it was fine). The difference between Oblivion and Skyrim was also sort of decent, but not as big as Morrowind Vs Oblivion. And the difference between Skyrim and Fallout 4 was about as "ok" as Oblivion Vs Skyrim, I.E. nothing too crazy either. It's basically been like giving diminishing returns as the years and generations pass.

Then came Fallout 76, supposed to be representing the "latest" in a revised version of their Fallout 4 build... aaaaaaand yeah, we know how that one turned out like.

So there you go people, Elder Scrolls 6 will STILL run on GameBryo / Creation Engine, whichever name you prefer to give it. It will most likely have stiff animations again, terrible facial expressions, horrible first-person models and animations for character arms and hands (and atrocious first-person combat), very sensible game physics that overreact to the slightest touch and the same console commands we've known since Morrowind (because same freakin' engine).

I would NOT be surprised if ES6 will still run on the same 'grid' pattern where the engine has to load 6 exterior Cells (by default, but can be modified in the .INI files) around the player, and necessitating loading screens for almost every interiors you enter (Caves, Forts, Houses, Castles, etc).

Don't get me wrong, I WANT them to do good with ES6, and I want that game to be amazing. But I'm absolutely not expecting anything out of it. Coming from Bethesda, "overhaul" doesn't mean amazing.

I was honestly pretty happy with Skyrim other than combat and inventory management for the most part. If they haven't managed to fix that part, it will be seriously disappointing.

Also, I hope they cut off the exploitability too hehe. Dragon armor enchanted to reduce spell cost to zero was fun for about 2 hours and then pretty much reduced the game to boring lol

I'm sure it will "just work" though...

Will never, ever, waste my time one minute on that trash bugged out engine again

Is anyone surprised? Oblivion is held together by masking tape. Yet it is still my favourite Bethesda RPG besides Morrowind.

16 times the overhaul maybe?

Pretty sure some people either don't remember or never saw how big the difference in the engine was from Morrowind to Oblivion.

So, their new engine will be brought up to 2013 then? Lol.

They should just purchase the Frostbite engine... this thing kicks some serious ass.

And this is supposed to tell us a lot? All their last games were 10 years behind in graphics AND optimization. And i bet you its MS that forces them to work for once 😂😂😂

If ESVI and Starfield already now are confirmed to be on the same engine, chances are they won’t release too far apart. Starfield 2021 and ESVI 2022 or 2023 please =)

I hope that means a brand new engine and not the same one they've been using for 17 years...

So if Microsoft is playing the long term with gamepass, then how cheap it is definitely going up. On the other side of this, GameStop and other game retailers should be worried should Xbox succeed in this. Last but not least, gamers will lose in the end should physical game competition go away, almost guaranteeing a digital only future.

I'd like it if most people and critics alike would finally acknowledge how broken and buggy and stiff their games really are. They're a creative studio but the technical side of things never holds up.

but can we "look forward to over 200 differentendings" ?!

but is it "sixteen times the detail" ?!

Microsoft would be wise to keep Todd busy on something else for a while.

The engine thats been upgraded and overhauled many times over the years and still has some of its original bugs and limitations, Now even under MS control Bugthesda are going to continue to release buggy games that crash and need tons of patches to fix.

I've enjoyed all of Bethesda Game Studios' past games, despite their clunky engine. I avoided Fallout 76, mostly because I generally don't play multiplayer games.

Hopefully this engine 'overhaul' means Starfield will be less buggy, and the Microsoft acquisition will improve their QA department.

Unlike some other people, I'm not writing Bethesda off because they produced a poorly received game in Fallout 76. Every developer can drop the ball now and then. I also believe that Zenimax pushed them into making a multiplayer focused game, which has never been their strength.

Time will tell, of course, if Starfield can show a return to form.

I guess I can live in fallout 76 now, no timer or catalogue removal...

Dam I can become the person I always wanted, oh my gawd hope there no scalpers in that game.

Their engine is a buggy mess of outdated crap, there's no point in "overhauling", they need to throw it to the bin and build a new one or use an existing actually good one.

"Todd Howard says"

This is the exact moment in time when I realized whatever was coming next was complete BS.

PlayStation has definitely sucked when it comes to acquiring new studios, All they got recently was insomniac which already made PlayStation games

I hope they actually put care into the game unlike with Fallout 4 which felt so stale and manufactured

oblivion is in top 5 omg games besides crash bandicoot, halo 1, gta iii and gta iv so good news

This is a better deal than TicToc for MS. It actually makes sense.

x16 times the detail, like bs FO76 :)

Good.

MSFS2020 shows what MS and their developers can do with game engines.

On the other hand, Halo: Infinite shows the opposite :P

So they are still using the same crappy old engine what a let down.

Meh. They said something like this before and it turned out not to be true. Maybe MS will make it true. We'll see.