One of many leads who labored on The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim says he hopes The Elder Scrolls 6 provides boats and naval exploration.
In an interview with GoHumanize, Bruce Nesmith – who was at Bethesda from 1995-1998 and once more from 2004-2021, the place he was lead designer on Skyrim and a quest designer on Fallout 3, 4 and 76 – was requested what he’d prefer to see in The Elder Scrolls 6, which he isn’t engaged on.
Nesmith replied that he hoped fan theories that The Elder Scrolls 6 can be set round Iliac Bay and Sentinel Metropolis are true, as a result of that will doubtlessly result in the flexibility to make use of boats and discover the water for the primary time within the collection.
“What would be the massive new characteristic for Elder Scrolls 6? I feel boats and doubtlessly even naval fight are the pure ones,” he mentioned.
“Shifting automobiles shouldn’t be one thing that the Elder Scrolls has by no means actually had. You had carriages that will take you from place-to-place, however most gamers solely did that after. It didn’t actually add something.”
Nesmith added that including the flexibility to make use of a ship and discover the ocean might make for extra than simply one other option to get round, however the introduction of fully new recreation mechanics and enemies.
“Setting Elder Scrolls VI in Iliac Bay, you’re setting your self up for an enormous growth into seafaring stuff, and even in the event you by no means go underneath the water, take into consideration all of the issues you could possibly do on high of the water,” he defined.
“It may very well be actually cool. We’d get total talent bushes permitting you to stroll on water or have boats that assist you to do extra than simply sail your boat. There may very well be every kind of distinctive creatures and spells that might work with water too.
“To me that will be a gap you’re taking actual benefit of, as a result of there may be lots of stuff there and I feel it could be very thrilling for the workforce engaged on it too.”
Regardless of his want for boats, Nesmith doesn’t need underwater sections
Nesmith added: “Boats and gameplay over water, that will be a dragon-level characteristic, in my view, however after all you could possibly have kraken to take care of at sea.”
“You’d should have a kraken. I imply sharks and and krakens are the 2 apparent ones, and Sea Elves. Sea Elves are a factor within the lore however I don’t assume they’ve ever made an look within the video games in any important method and their lore is so broad.”
Regardless of this, Nesmith mentioned he hoped that if The Elder Scrolls 6 was so as to add water exploration, it could preserve issues above the floor and never have the participant in a position to go underwater too, as a result of that will result in a completely new set of developmental challenges and should stretch the workforce too skinny, one thing he had expertise of prior to now.
“One of many designers was pushing very onerous for an underwater setting in Fallout 4, and so they made a bunch of proof of idea stuff to point out how cool it may very well be, however on the finish of the day, it proved to be simply an excessive amount of, and so they didn’t pull the set off on it in a broader method,” he recalled.
“I don’t imagine it’s true to say that there was a plan to do this underwater part, with the vault, and that it didn’t make it into the sport. I feel it was extra a matter of any person on the workforce who was actually pushing for it, and he had lots of actually good concepts, but it surely’s that previous adage. You possibly can’t do every part.
“In terms of Elder Scrolls VI, if it had been me, I might most likely kibosh something underwater and preserve everyone centered on the floor in that very same spirit, not as a result of it wouldn’t be cool, however as a result of I’d quite do that half very well quite than do each of those elements not so effectively.”
