Games Inbox: How big will The Elder Scrolls 6 be?

The Wednesday letters page begins to resent Hollow Knight: Silksong, as one reader is doubtful Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds will beat Mario Kart World.

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A whole new world
I’m going to guess we won’t learn anything about The Elder Scrolls 6 at the Tokyo Game Show, so that means the only other chance of a reveal this year is at The Game Awards in December, but I’d still say that was probably less than a 50% chance.

As far as I understand, the best guess for the setting is Hammerfell, which is probably true for the fact that it’s a cool name for the game. But I’ve become interested in the fact that the first Elder Scrolls game had the whole of the continent in it. I also assume Elder Scrolls Online does too by this point.

I don’t want to be sacrilegious, but I did get a bit fed up of the whole Scandinavian look for Skyrim, which didn’t have much variety beyond gloomy looking forests and snowy mountains. Personally, I’d like to see more variety in the future and something that includes the capital again.

Failing that, maybe something on a new continent. It’s just we’ve technically already had a game set in Hammerfell, even if it was one most people didn’t play, and thanks to the MMO all the different lands have been covered quite a bit already. This isn’t like Fallout where they refuse to go outside the US for reasons. They could just make up something completely different for Elder Scrolls 6 and I think that would be best.
Rich

Spend to earn
Interesting review of Shinobi: Art Of Vengeance. Personally, I think the fact that it’s good is less important than the fact that it doesn’t do anything new. Because what do you after that? Make another one that’s basically the same? By that time the novelty’s already gone and you’re back to the original problem and the reason the series died out in the first place.

2D retro games are fine and everything but they’re never going to be any more than a nostalgia novelty, unless they do something really unexpected, which this doesn’t. I realise the obvious answer, of making a 3D game, is going to be expensive but there’s no getting around the fact that that’s the only solution.

If Sega’s ‘super games’ were dependent on Xbox I imagine that’s gone down the swanny but the only way Shinobi or any of these other games are going to stay relevant is if they spend a lot of money on them and I just don’t see that happening.
Ishi

Rogue opinion
I have to admit, that The Rogue Prince Of Persia game does not look appealing at all to me. The graphics are worse than Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown, and I’m really sick of roguelikes. It seems like Prince Of Persia is doomed to always fail nowadays, ever since Assassin’s Creed came on the scene, basically.

I think at this point it’s obvious that 2D games aren’t doing anything for anyone with this franchise. The only thing that’s going to work is a new Sands Of Time style game but considering The Lost Crown was still filled with generic rage I don’t think Ubisoft has learnt any lessons in the last 20 years. At this point the franchise is just dead to me.
Trepsils

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Super Capcom Kart
I’m not sure how Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is ever going to be better than, or even as good as, Mario Kart if the handling is already being described as stiffer than an older game, which in itself wasn’t that amazing. The handling is half the game. The other half is the characters, which Sonic easily loses on, and the track design, which I dunno but I already don’t like the idea of the second lap being basically chosen at random.

Don’t get me wrong, Mario Kart could do with some serious competition, but I really don’t see that coming from Sonic Team. It’s a shame other more reliable developers don’t try but I think everyone gave up somewhere around the Xbox 360 era. There’s been a lot of talk of Capcom lately but they’ve done very few racing games in their time. Maybe they could have a shot of it, they’ve definitely got the characters for it.
Grackle

Who cares if it works?
I wouldn’t trust ‘AI’ to tell me my name, so I don’t know why people are asking it for complex answers on how to beat video games. It’s purely because it takes a couple of less clicks, and people would rather that than put in more effort to get an answer that’s actually correct.

That blows my mind but that’s basically the heart of why AI has taken off so much. People would rather put up with half the quality for half the effort, which is madness to me. I’m beginning to think real AI should take over and just put us out of our misery.
Monty

Thoughtless date
Is anyone else being put off Hollow Knight: Silksong the more they hear about it? The way all these other games are having to rush to get out of its way seems so unfair. These aren’t mega budget games triple-A games we’re talking about, these are little indie games that have probably put their life savings and all their spare time into making them.

People compare the situation to GTA 6, but we know the release date for that a year in advance. Any other game that gets caught in its exhaust deserves everything that’s coming to it. But for absolutely no reason Silksong gets a surprise release date annoucement that completely messes up all these other fellow indie games.

It just feels arrogant and self-centred to me. Considering everything going on in the games industry at the moment you’d think developers would want to team-up and help each other, not make life difficult for each other for no reason. It’s not like the surprise announce was any benefit to Silksong, it just hurt other people.

Maybe it’s not my business, but I was already not that interested in the game, since it seems super hard and part of a style of a game I’m not super into, but this pushed me over the edge and made me take it off my pre-order list. Somehow I think the developers will survive without me, but I don’t like to reward bad behaviour.
A38302

The new norm
They say Nintendo are hard to understand, but purposefully forcing developers to make Switch 1 games instead of Switch 2? I mean, that just sounds like they’re trying sabotage themselves. I literally cannot think of a single reason why that would benefit them and a hundred reasons why it would hurt them.

I think we’ve got to accept that Nintendo are being affected by the same things that turned Sony into a shadow of its former self. I don’t fully understand what those reasons are but in just a year Nintendo has gone from top of its game to a weirdo company making decisions that seem to make no sense. If Sony is anything to go by that’s not a temporary thing, and they’re not going to go back to normal, that’s just how things are now.
Tom Meadows

Reluctant switch
It seems to me that Nintendo didn’t want to release the Switch 2 yet and reluctantly did so to avoid more leaks ruining its launch.

It’s kind of giving me New Nintendo 3DS vibes in a way.

They must have a massive stockpile of Switch OLED/Lite/OG to sell and don’t want sales to drop off further if all the third party games Switch production (no pun intended) to Switch 2.

Let Mario Kart and Donkey Kong be enough for the early adopters and boom! Hit out the big guns when they are ready to really get the Switch 2 going.

Backwards compatibility can still see new Switch 1 games playable on Switch 2, to hopefully keep new owners from getting too mad about lack of third party games.
Mark Matthews

GC: You could go crazy trying to understand the logic behind their decisions. It certainly does feel rushed, but why? Everyone guessed Mario Kart would be a launch title, even without leaks. Perhaps they were concerned about competing with GTA 6, but we can’t imagine that was the only reason.

Inbox also-rans
It’s probably nothing but apparently Capcom has trademarked the Dino Crisis name in Brazil. Not saying it means a new game but does show they at least care about keeping the name.
Big Chap

I see Acclaim are making a comeback with an annoucement of an annoucement. Did Acclaim ever do anything that was worth remembering them for? All I remember them for is Mortal Kombat and that wasn’t even their series.
Sig

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