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I know they are going to just have Inon Zur do ES6 instead and it will be terrible, soulless and samey with too much loud brass like all his music

Inon Zur also made some decent to great soundtracks, he's also worked on stuff like New Vegas and DA:O. The problem is that's he's never given proper direction. With Bethesda he's brought in in the preproduction stage and given shit like 'It's in space, and there's combat' and told to make two hours of music. His two choices were to make something bland but could fit anything or good but almost certainly clash with the finished game.
 
At this point, I think we should be asking from the opposite direction. What reason should we think it isn't going to be a train crash?
The only thing I could point to is that the reception to Starfield clearly rattled Todd a little bit, but rather than a 'we fucked up, time to double down on our strengths' admission it was more like the bewildered slackjaw confusion a boomer has when looking at the pin pad at the grocery store, so it's slim he will realize that Skyrim 2 is a safer bet than trying to make something else.
ES6 is very likely not going to be Elder Scrolls in anything but name, the writing is on the wall. Each game they had less and less of what made ES, ES.
Pretty much. Not only did they lose Soule, but the art director who gave Skyrim it's timeless aesthetic fucking died, Fallout 4 was their new guy and we got GIGANTIC BIG RETRO FUTURE STUFF and toilet bowl armor as a result.

Elder Scrolls 6 will probably lean really hard into the Middle East aesthetic and eschew most of the other design influences that could make them a bit more interesting.
They'll probably have some generic Arabic but "we wuz" type lore shoved in it, ticking as many boxes as possible
I unironically expect that there will be some retconning about how Redguards were the first true men on Nirn. Tiber Septim will be retconned into being a nigger.

I also really expect that Redguards will no longer be the dedicated black race, and you will see suspiciously dark-skinned Imperials and Nords running around as well.
so many characters will be Essential we won't even be able to have funny ethnic cleansing videos where a Nordic chad cleans the Redguard stink out of Hammerfell.
Starfield literally does not let you kill a single named NPC, regardless of how inconsequential they are. So yeah, you won't be able to kill anyone.
 
and you will see suspiciously dark-skinned Imperials and Nords running around as well.
I'm sure in Oblivion & Skyrim they exist (Severio is my best bet in this).
Now, if you mean with the nigger gene... well, that could be a problem.
 
I unironically expect that there will be some retconning about how Redguards were the first true men on Nirn. Tiber Septim will be retconned into being a nigger.
Reminds me of how there's an ancient vampire lord in ESO that leads the Gray Host to conquer Skyrim, and then you see him
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Oh shit, It's Blackula!
 
Is Todd a cynical Microsoft lackey, who only wants to make money, or is he a prisoner, who's still passionate about making games, but unable to adapt to the scale of the company and expectations from his parent company?
 
Is Todd a cynical Microsoft lackey, who only wants to make money, or is he a prisoner, who's still passionate about making games, but unable to adapt to the scale of the company and expectations from his parent company?
Todd has cared more about Fallout since Bethesda bought the IP. He doesn't give a fuck about fantasy settings. Look at his D&D builds, they're always two-handed barbarians. He's close to retiring so he gives even less of a fuck about TES so will fill it with whatever DEI shit Micro$oft tells him to. So expect obese nigger women being the true heroes of Tamriel while White men have to be punished and stripped of their power.
 
Todd has cared more about Fallout since Bethesda bought the IP. He doesn't give a fuck about fantasy settings.

I'm not arguing against that Todd is hostile to magic, but I thought it was Emil that couldn't give a shit about ES, which is why he chooses to write shitty side quests instead of being a shitty lead designer for every other project BGS does.
 
Todd has cared more about Fallout since Bethesda bought the IP. He doesn't give a fuck about fantasy settings. Look at his D&D builds, they're always two-handed barbarians. He's close to retiring so he gives even less of a fuck about TES so will fill it with whatever DEI shit Micro$oft tells him to. So expect obese nigger women being the true heroes of Tamriel while White men have to be punished and stripped of their power.
I know he doesn't really care about magic, but he had been playing fantasy games before he even joined Bethesda. I think he's probably buckbroken and fed up with the company while pining for the good old days, like Will Shen.
 
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I know he doesn't really care about about magic, but he had been playing fantasy games before he even joined Bethesda. I think he's probably buckbroken and fed up with the company while pining for the old days, like Will Shen.
I don't think Todd has cared about vidya anything since releasing Oblivion. Once he got his hands on that Chevy Chase mansion and the garage of fast cars, that was that.
 
Hammerfell is funny to me, because any real-life faction who tries claiming ownership of the Redguards is retarded.

The Redguards are Arabs. However, they're locked in an eternal Arab Spring between the first settlers (ironically the rebels in this case) and the old nobility. Plus there's the whole... um... cosmetic thing.

The Redguards look like African-Americans, sure, but they have such an evil history on the Tamrielic stage that claiming ownership of them is ridiculous:
  • The two inner factions are both descended from either sociopaths or mass-murderers; a Redguard is either a Forebearer (someone descended from the Swordsingers who participated in the destruction of Redguard Atlantis and the genocide of its people), or a Crown (someone who has the old plantation money from their ancestors in Redguard Atlantis). There is literally no equivalent to the African-Americans in their history, since none of them were brought to Tamriel by slaveowners, with the possible exception of the lesser Crowns.
  • They've participated in numerous genocides. The Forebearers annihilated Redguard Atlantis (Yokuda), the last Tamrielic humans without any Atmoran or Elvish blood in them (the Nedes), and most of the Orcs (which they called "giant Goblins") at least twice. Their ancestors annihilated the Elves of Yokuda. If Bethesda tried connecting them to African-Americans, it would go about as well as when The Woman King was coming out and tried painting the Dahomey slavers (black women) in a positive light.
Of course, the background events of Skyrim ended both the Forebearers and the Crowns by having them mesh together to fight off the Thalmor, so I don't think much (if any) Redguard history will be portrayed... beyond visiting the undersea Yokudan wrecks in a similar vein to visiting Draugr barrows in Skyrim.
 
Sheet they got wakanda? Das our peepo!
They're bringing back Redguard Wakanda led by Gregorius Floyde
if im being perfectly honest, wokeshit is more of a minor concern for me with TES VI,im more concerned about Todd's arrogance, Todd is known for telling fans to shut the fuck up and just let them develop without showing anything first, like Starfield for example, a lot of the side content is just not memorable at all, except for the Crimson Fleet and that one quest with the clones of FDR and Genghis Khan it was just mid (I also thought the Freestar Collective questline was okay but I completely understand why im in the minority with that), so most of your playtime is either the MQ or basic radiant quests where you go to an outpost and kill a bandit or whatever, Todds marketing strategy is a fucking problem and he should never be trusted with that area of development, if we get another Windhelm murder mystery in VI im going to be disappointed
Most disappointing of all is that, if Fallout 4 is anything to go by, so many characters will be Essential we won't even be able to have funny ethnic cleansing videos where a Nordic chad cleans the Redguard stink out of Hammerfell.
thats usually the first thing that gets modded out in BGS games
 
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I think there's a sliver of hope that TES6 won't be woke-ified. At this point it's clear that the pendulum has swung substantially to the right, you've got companies lining up to kiss Trump's wring that you never would have dreamed of a year ago. In addition, I think Bethesda and Microsoft must know that TES6 is Bethesda's last shot. Once is bad luck, twice is coincidence, thrice is a pattern. They didn't drop almost ten billion for Bethesda to pump out shit games that won't sell consoles. Plus the most woke thing they've put in as far as I can remember was the black Russian pirate in Starfield which is retarded but not as bad as Dragon Age. I'm huffing industrial grade copium as I type this.

I can't see how setting a game in the dedicated black guy province can avoid being woke though. Literally anything they do is going to be hyper analyzed for any potential racism.

ALSO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TODD STOP WITH THE RETARDED INVENTORY UI, YOU STRUCK GOLD WITH OBLIVION AND THEN ABANDONED IT.
 
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