Read more at:
7 long years ago, Bethesda announced the existence of The Elder Scrolls 6. And since then, we’ve had nothing. That is not going to change anytime soon, either, according to Todd Howard.
Bethesda’s big boss did an interview with GQ and the article opens up with Howard addressing the elephant in the room: ” The Elder Scrolls 6 is “still a long way off”.
“I’m preaching patience,” he told GQ interviewer Sam White, presumably from inside a protective bunker designed to withstand the oncoming onslaught from Elder Scrolls fans. “I don’t want fans to feel anxious.”
I passed anxious years ago, Todd. These days it’s more like a desire for companies to stop announcing things long before they should be.
Later in the interview, Howard provides some good news, stating that developing The Elder Scrolls 6 is currently “the everyday thing.”
At the same time, he also confirms they have hundreds of people working on Fallout related stuff, including Fallout 76 and “some other things we’re doing.” That’d be Fallout 3, right Todd? Right!?
Interestingly, VGC reported on Howard’s interview, and more specifically referenced the “other things” as being the Fallout 3 remaster: “…VGC understands, is a remaster of Fallout 3, similar to this year’s The Elder Scrolls Oblivion: Remastered.”
Oblivion Remastered is gloriously janky, wildly nostalgic, and sneakily ambitious. With stunning new visuals and smart tweaks, it’s a love letter to 2006 that knows better than to fix what fans adore. It’s not perfect—but it’s perfectly Oblivion.
It’s unclear if VGC is simply reporting on what they’ve heard prior – after all, the existence of a Fallout 3 remaster was actually leaked years ago in the infamous Nvidia leak – or if this is new confirmation they’ve acquired from a source behind the scenes.
Regardless, it isn’t just VGC – plenty of other people have reported on it, including the reliable NateTheHate. Virtous, the same team that handled the Oblivion remake, have also been reported as working on the Fallout remaster.
Even Todd believes it has been too long between games, telling GQ that, ” I think it’s also good for an audience to have a break – The Elder Scrolls has been too long, let’s be clear. But we wanted to do something new with Starfield. We needed a creative reset.”
He’s not wrong about the time-gap. It has been 14 long years since The Elder Scrolls IV: Skyrim came out.
Finally, Todd Howard even hinted toward a desire to shadow-drop The Elder Scrolls 6 when it’s ready. While replying to another question, Howard said “My perfect version – and I’m not saying this is going to happen – is that it’s going to be a while and then, one day, the game will just appear.”
The interviewer hones in on this and points out that Bethesda already did it with the Oblivion remake, so would Howard really consider it? “You might say that was a test run. It worked out well,” replied Howard.
Of course, Microsoft and Xbox are the final decision makers here and it’s unlikely they’d like possibly their biggest game ever just be dropped onto the market like that. But…imagine for a second they did. It’d be kind of cool, right, to just wake up one day and it’s there, ready to play?
