In the expected game The elder scrolls 6 decided to change one of the main features of the series, which was preserved in all previous games, including Skyrim. However, almost 10 years have passed since the last game was released, and therefore the industry has changed a lot, and the fans along with it.
Project fans The Elder Scrolls VI from Bethesda shared their expectations from the main innovations that developers in TES 6 will most likely go to. According to Gamebomb.ru, the protagonist himself will become one of such components in TES VI, namely his voice. In all previous games, including Oblivion and Skyrim, the protagonist was dumb and his cues were not voiced. Fans of The Elder Scrolls 6 believe that such a system is very outdated, and therefore are almost sure that in TES 6 the main character will receive a voice, and the dialogs will become much more cinematic, in the manner of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Mass Effect: Andromeda. In addition, fans remembered that already in Fallout 4 in 2015, developers from Bethesda gave the protagonist a voice, which was not in the series before. At the same time, this innovation did not suit all fans, since the whole dialogue system of the game suffered and was simplified.
Fans of The Elder Scrolls VI divided into two camps in discussions that the hero will have a voice in the game, and the dialogs themselves will turn out to be much less voluminous than if the developers did not have to record all the hero’s answers. At the same time, many admitted that it is difficult for them to play games in which the character is silent while others are talking to him, for example, Metro: Exodus. In addition, fans of The Elder Scrolls 6 believe that the project would greatly benefit if representatives of all races as the main character received authentic voice acting, which would contribute to an additional immersion in the large-scale world of The Elder Scrolls VI. In general, the voiced hero in TES 6 had a lot of fans who believe that this is exactly what Bethesda should do.
On the other hand, many fans of the series immediately criticized this idea, noting that such an approach requires incredible resources for quality implementation. So, the authors will have to record many replicas for each dialogue in a huge game, not only for the male and female hero, but also for their versions of each of the available races. At the same time, the budget of the game will increase significantly, as well as the amount of data that the game will require to install. Finally, real fans of The Elder Scrolls series did not consider such an approach at all, and stated that The Elder Scrolls VI should have a traditional silent hero with whom you can associate yourself.
It is unclear what approach Bethesda will take when developing The Elder Scrolls 6. Perhaps the next development project, a space game Starfield, will be able to answer this question by demonstrating a completely new dialogue system, Gamebomb.ru reports. Starfield is scheduled for release in 2023, and The Elder Scrolls 6 is expected no earlier than 2023.
