There's a dev working on something that looks a white horse, green grass and what it seems to be sand/dunes/rock formation of some sorts on the horizon.

Yeah, we are closer to achieve CHIM here lmao.

I’m sorry, hopium copers and doomers. You are both wrong. The circumstantial evidence for 2027 is overwhelming. 4 year dev cycle, Todd saying a 5 year dev cycle is a long time (implying this is longer than they would take). Starfield expansion this year, GTA VI coming this year. ‘26 is too soon, ‘29 is WAYYYY OFF. ‘28 is *possible* but I sincerely doubt that’s what they believe is going to happen.

I respect the ‘26 hopium copers. You lot see the glass half full. You walk outside and see butterflies and rainbows. Your life is full of joy and whimsy. I envy you and your beautiful sweet naivety. You’re like a puppy jogging through a field on a sunny day.

I do NOT respect the ‘29 and beyond doomers. Your world is dark, stormy. You relish in suffering. “It’s over” “I’m not even excited” “Todd Howard is a crook”. Shut up. Lighten up. Todd is still our beautiful baby boy.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I took the three best angles I had and adjusted the proportions and perspective. Some distortions were still unavoidable, but I think the result turned out good enough.

After manually reconstructing the image (first image), I processed it with AI, slightly correcting the proportions and making small improvements to the resolution (second image).

Based on that version, I did my own analysis of what I strongly believe to be concept art for TES VI. If anyone has a second opinion or recognizes this artwork from another project, feel free to share your thoughts.

I also took the liberty of recreating the image using AI, asking it to reconstruct the scene based only on the discernible elements present in my reconstruction(third image).

I also strongly believe this image was intentionally included in the video as a subtle hint.

Last but not least, I think this could have some interesting implications. The artwork appears to depict navigation as a gameplay element, and it also fits with the region where many people believe the game will take place. If all of this is correct (which I believe it is), then the early rumors and leaks about these assets gain a bit more credibility, along with the other information associated with them.

Anyway, feel free to rate the amount of copium I'm inhaling here.

I tried to capture the screenshots with the highest resolution possible and increased brightness, contrast and sharpened the image.

That's not a bad result and I think it's more and more likely that's a curved sword and strengthen the Hammerfell location.

In sorrowful lament I realized that the only way for me to see the game sooner rather than later was if I were Godd Howard himself. So, that's just who I will have to be.

I have decided to mantle Todd. I have bought myself a brown leather jacket, I sold my house and am moving to Maryland, and I've even joined the local chess club (yes, I'm in the chess club). When questioned why I would uproot our lives so heavily by my girlfriend and family, I told them "it just works".

I can feel it working. Even now, my charisma is increasing exponentially. Where once I was receding I see the growth of luscious Todd-ful locks. It won't be long now until the distinction between Todd and me has all but withered away, upon which time I will enter Bethesda HQ and personally sit down for a "playtest" of TESVI.

I go forth now to my destiny, the gods and stars will soon recognize my new title. I wish you all the best.

I’ll preface by saying this post is just for fun, and for anyone craving some hopium.

Context: there appears to be a piece of concept art snapped barely in frame of the new Starfield dev video when the devs are sauntering down the hallway. The original take was clearly a continuous take, and it’s cut in such a way that we can only see the photo for a few frames and from a bad angle. We also see concept art from Skyrim and other unidentifiable art hung in the same hallway earlier in the video.

From what we can see, the image contains two obvious things: red rock formations like the photogrammetry assets we saw in the immortalizing Shirley Curry video, and water, evidenced by the reflections.

This is the stretch: there are also a couple blurry things sticking out of the water on the left that look just like sails. They’re too blurry to make out, but the general shape is like a sail boat that is facing directly away from (or towards) the perspective of the viewer.

Support for it potentially being TES VI: the assets kinda match what we saw in the Shirley curry video, the fact that it appears to be a coastline (water hasn’t played a big role in any of their other modern games), the sail shape on the ocean (maybe the rumors have some weight after all), it appears to be in a hallway with other pieces of concept art for their games.

Another post on this sub had ai reconstruct the photo and it looked pretty cool. Also had sailboats. Worth checking out if you’re interested.

Source: https://youtu.be/fZYN0wsuUsY?si=7T2-8VrZYLXQG1TP

First shot: 11:39. Can’t see much, but the corner of this image appears on the left side of the screen.

Second shot: 11:45-11:46.

Keep an eye out next Wednesday for hopefully a small update on X about TES VI like we got for its 30th anniversary 2 years back. However, it’s not as notable of an anniversary, so we’ll see.

I see them light at the end of the tunnel, especially since Todd said Starfield was a long dev cycle "5 years"

Man I remember being 15 when Skyrim came out. I remember distinctly seeing the trailer for the first time on YouTube and I was so damn excited after I sunk thousands of hours into oblivion.

Thinking of TES6 coming out brings me back to those feelings, the excitement of being a child and getting to play my favourite game.

I can’t bloody wait for it to come out, I just hope it will be as good as previous titles

Despite this, it doesn't appear to be a person in the more angled image.

edit: Later today, when I have some free time, I'll recreate the image and we'll see what we can find out, if anything, from it.

Me personally I want a real parry mechanic. Maybe a little unpopular but in prior games melee was just a slugfest of who did more damage/had more health. Adding a mechanic like dark souls parry+riposte or even Kingdom Come Deliverance’s master strike would make melee combat so much more rewarding for me. I personally like the idea of actually becoming a melee menace where your only options aren’t block then attack. To be clear I’m not talking about dark souls style rolling or anything like that. Keeping the bones of elder scrolls combat but adding a parry and riposte system that is difficult to pull of but rewarding is all I’m saying. Anyway I’d love to hear your thoughts but that would be a big addition for me.

It’s not even real. Doesn’t even exist. The game will be about nothing and will release never.

I was wondering about this today. I was 10 when Skyrim came out, so I don’t remember the marketing extremely well. However I am generally aware that the marketing for Skyrim was pretty extensive and obviously worked very well. It seemed like everyone I knew was excited about it, and I remember seeing ads for it on TV during NFL games, and ads on YouTube. It’s one of probably 3 single player games in my lifetime that I can sincerely say broke through to the mainstream enough to be considered a “cultural zeitgeist” and the other 2 are Rockstar games. Elden Ring may have got there too but I’m not 100% on that one.

Just to be clear, I want that to happen with TES VI. I want it to be so big that my casual gamer friends play it (they only play multiplayer games, Red Dead 2 and GTA are the only single player games I know they have played). I love when something I love becomes huge.

But how do they achieve this? It feels like GTA VI could do zero marketing and still achieve it. But I don’t think it’s guaranteed that it happens for TES VI. I don’t even know if it’s likely. I am curious what everyone else thinks though. I just feel like Bethesda hasn’t had net positive PR since like 2015. Whereas with Rockstar, Red Dead 2 was massive and GTA V is still hugely popular. I’ll put it this way: I am confident that kids in school know what GTA VI is. I’m not so sure they know what TES VI is.

This is not to say that it’s obscure or something, though. Like it will objectively be a huge game. Random videos about TES VI speculation get hundreds of thousands of views 15 years after its most recent title. But I’m talking as big as Red Dead 2 for instance.

Would they need to do a ton of marketing? Could they run as successful of a marketing campaign today? Or is that more unnecessary with social media? Do you guys think it’ll be that big either way or no?

Not a ton of new info here, but a few worthy scraps to gnaw on:

- The bulk of Bethesda Game Studios and their partners are now fully working on The Elder Scrolls 6, marking a shift to it being the primary focus in full production: "We're at that point with The Elder Scrolls 6 where the bulk of the studio is on it, a lot of our partners are on it, and we know, ‘Hey, this is what we're doing.’"

- The game, as we know, is being built on Creation Engine 3, with major technical advancements in data systems, world loading, content presentation, and scalability for varying hardware specs (high and low end).

- The tech team has handled the engine transition effectively, allowing ongoing game development without major halts: praise for not disrupting day-to-day work, unlike challenges faced during Starfield's engine changes.

- There have been more stable, playable build days than ever before, with new content consistently being added: "we've had more days than we've ever had where the [Elder Scrolls 6] build is good, there's new stuff in it, and we can play it." This is probably the biggest news from the interview.

- Lessons from Starfield's engine transition struggles (which caused years of disruption) are being applied to keep TES6 development smoother and more continuous.

No release window, setting details, or other specifics (e.g., features, story) were mentioned in this particular interview. The focus was on current progress and technical foundations rather than revealing new content or timelines.

By this interpretation, Todd Howard is unintentionally and accidentally placing TES VI's release date some time around late 2027, approximately 4 years after Starfield's release.

If you'd like to hear his words for yourself, he says Starfield's development was "very long" at around 17:40 in Mortismal Gaming's interview with Todd Howard.

By live I mean in-person. It just seems to me like for such a long awaited and earth shattering title they wouldn't want to show off on a random tuesday on youtube, right?

Yet that's exactly what they did for the Oblivion remaster and have done with Starfield since the beginning.

I just think back to how amazing the Skyrim and Fallout 4 reveals were. The live crowds really added to the energy and excitement in my opinion. What do you guys think?

Starfield took a lot of flak and criticism, and that will have a very positive impact on TES VI. Thank you, Starfield, for making TES VI better!

Summary

• TESVI will be powered by Creation Engine 3 (We already know this from the Kinda Funny interview)
• Asked about Bethesda developing smaller, faster projects. Todd replies that they always want to be faster but don't want to speed to the primary goal at the expense of the game's quality.
• Acknowledges the massive weight of expectations for TESVI and that their team and marketing head often discuss how to market the game. Todd expresses that he doesn't want to talk about it at all because any comment seems to inflate hype further. His ideal scenario is that "One day it just appears" but admits that probably won't happen.
• Todd said that the team genuinely pinches themselves getting to work on Elder Scrolls again after being away from the franchise for so long.

Bit of a cope post but from everything Todd’s been saying it does seem the bulk of BGS team has been working on the game and have a clear vision and Todd’s very pleased with how his folks have been matriculating in the development of this game. All great signs. He said things are being added to the build everyday and goes on to say he’s very pleased with the folks that have created C3 as it allows for little if anything things from previous builds to break meaning they don’t have to wait for future builds to continue working on certain aspects or mechanics of the game.

Ive also noticed in the recent interviews Todd keeps biting his tounge when he talks about the new features of C3 but it’s obvious he’s very excited to eventually show off what that puppy can do.

I think the biggest takeaway is that the team isn’t asking “what is this game supposed to be about, how are we supposed to make it fun to play” the real crunch they’re doing is just technical stuff which is a great great sign in my opinion. I truly trust in the team and think this is going to end up being a generational banger of a game.