Todd Howard kinda wishes he hadn't announced The Elder Scrolls 6 the way he did

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We've been talking an awful lot about Starfield over the past few weeks, but hey, what about Bethesda's other upcoming mega-RPG, The Elder Scrolls 6? It's been a full five years since the next great adventure in Tamriel was announced, and we still know absolutely nothing about it. That's unlikely to change anytime soon, judging from a new interview with GQ, in which game director Todd Howard admitted that if he had to do that reveal all over again, he might handle it a little differently.

The announcement of The Elder Scrolls 6 at the tail end of Bethesda's E3 2018 conference was incredibly brief—so brief that there were really only two things we could say about it: It's a very long way off, and there will be mountains. Nonetheless, the reaction to the long-awaited confirmation that something was coming at some point was uproarious. In fact it far outstripped the response to Starfield, which Bethesda had revealed immediately prior to the TES6 news.

Now here we are, five years later, and while Starfield is just a week away from becoming a playable reality, Elder Scrolls 6 is still only a title and some snowy peaks. Bethesda has been clear all along that Starfield is the priority and TES6 will come after, but five years with nothing to sustain us but the occasional acknowledgement that it will arrive one day… Well, that's an awfully long haul with no end in sight.

Here's Howard acknowledging that the dramatic 2018 reveal may not have been the best idea: «I have asked myself that a lot,” he replied when asked if he regrets announcing the game so early. „I don’t know. I probably would’ve announced it more casually.“

Howard confirmed that The Elder Scrolls 6 does have an internal codename at Bethesda, and of course he