Translation: it's the same shitty gamebryo they're always using.

i have appropriately low expectations.

I love the Elder Scrolls series, but I'm not convinced that 6 will be good. Owned by Microsoft in this age of AI shit.

If history repeats itself, ES6 will be a completely different game to Skyrim

Everything complained about will he cut, nothing new will be added

New version = old version + ai?

Loading screen after loading screen after loading screen, but hey you can put a cheese wheel in funny places.

Anyone who believed that they would switch to Unreal Engine is delusional.

This may be unpopular, but I think this is great news.

Skyrim became one of the best-sellign games of all time in part BECAUSE of how great it is to see your character get ragdolled into the lithosphere by a giant, or to watch the chaos of spawning thousands of wheels of cheese on top of the throat of the world and watching them roll down.

An Elder Scrolls game that was built around having realistic physics, or being restricted to more cinematic movement and knteractions, would lose a key essence of what made the earlier games great.

I don't want engaging combat in Elder Scrolls. If I want combat that I have to pay attention to, I'll go play a Souls game or a fighting game or one of the thousands of games that have tried to be "Skyrim with better combat" that have languished in obscurity because they miss the point.

This is actually a good news and I am glad creation Engine will be used, The best part of Bethesda games are the modability creation engine and its predecessor provide. Unreal engine is not moddable and is not even beginner friendly, while someone like me can fire up Geck or creation kit and do a full fledged quest mod.

this shuts down rumors that bethesda will move to unreal engine for ES6

It shuts down rumors that Bethesda will move to pure Unreal Engine for ES6, though I never believed that to be the case.

I see the Oblivion remaster as a bit of a proof of concept of sorts - the potential to have the world, scripts, logic, and physics running on the Creation Engine that devs (and modders!) are intimately familiar with while running the visuals on a separate Unreal Engine layer.

Shedding the need to do extra work on fancy lighting and graphical effects so they can focus on optimizing the bones / structure seems logical to me, but then again this is the diluted Microsoft-era Bethesda we’re talking about so who knows.

My unpopular take- I’m glad of this, the best part of the Elder Scrolls games are the ridiculous physics bugs. If a mount giant can’t send me to Jupiter in one hit I don’t want to play

That isn't really saying that much. It could still be a creation engine that has a UE5 renderer on top. Like the Oblivion remaster.

we can assure you the game will look better than starfield and surely totally not in development hell at all

Ok and does it run optimized on old hardware and Linux? I'll easily skip it if it doesn't. 😜

Unpopular opinion: The gamebryo/creation engine itself isn't that terrible considering almost every item is physics based. I love the engine for something like Fallout. Starfield... There are things they could have done with it to make it better. But Starfield did show that as proof of concept, vehicular traversal is doable.

The issue with Bethesda isn't the janky ass engine. The issue with Bethesda is Emil and his shitty writing.

Bethesda...Bethesda never changes.

I'm sure they're well aware that the biggest knock on Starfield are its forgettable plot and universe and too much loading screens. It'll be less of a problem in an Elder Scrolls game as it's building on a great lore foundation and it's a region rather than a bunch of planets. I'm sure in the 7+ years later I expect to actually play the game, loading screens won't be much of a problem. Improved graphics will be a given. It won't set the world on fire but it'll look firmly like it belongs in the PS5 generation which is good enough for me

We need more diversity in game engines, not less, so I'm fine with this