The elder scrolls 6 confirmed by todd howard at e3 2016

It is the perennial problem with the studio, emblazoned across all their games, that they know their scope is big enough that enough people will put up with their most egregious issues for the sake of the rest of the experience. It seems fair to say that Bethesda knows that any new Elder Scrolls (offline, clearly) will sell eight-hundred squillion copies even if its extraordinary open world and myriad quests were packaged with a hand that kept reaching out from the screen and poking you really hard in the eye. Most of the things that are rubbish about Skyrim were rubbish about Oblivion too, which doesnвЂ™t inspire an enormous amount of hope that the team will ever eradicate the problems that plague their genuinely excellent games. Of course, you could argue this is a problem even more endemic. (I mean, five years to create a special edition, and at no point did anyone think to maybe even speed up the achingly dreary and agonisingly slow opening sequence.) So this is a game that not only feels a bit ragged (albeit occasionally rather pretty), but one that really goes to some efforts to frustrate by still featuring all the things that were rubbish with it half a decade back. Five years is a long time in gaming, and with what I can only ascribe to BethesdaвЂ™s singular dedication, theyвЂ™ve made a special effort to preserve all the bugs and weaknesses of the original release, rather than fix them like a lesser developer might think to do.

Restarting Skyrim in its marginally better engine with its equally dreadful NPCs, itвЂ™s hard to entirely settle back into a once-familiar game and enjoy it all over again. What are the features I would love to see in The Elder Scrolls VI: Hammerfell? What are the series' tropes that could use a tweak? I've expounded on this below. With SkyrimвЂ™s Special Edition managing to feel not that special, itвЂ™s put me to thinking about what it is I want from the next Elder Scrolls game.

The elder scrolls 6 confirmed by todd howard at e3 2016