A guest of the show IGN Unfiltered Ryan McCaffrey journalist was Todd Howard, director of Bethesda Game Studios. In less than 40 minutes, they discussed the expected games of this company and gradually got to the distant future, in which Howard of course counts on the fifth part of the Fallout series. Despite the lukewarm acceptance of the last episode with the number 76, they already have an idea in Bethesda about what the continuation of the main line could be about, but players must not be too euphoric, because the game is really far away for many years. According to Howard, it is on the waiting list behind the sixth part of The Elder Scrolls, and it is for a change waiting list to Starfield, which is not due until this year. Still, it’s nice to hear from one of Bethesda’s most professional people that he’s on nuclear the series is not forgotten, and not even the great success of Fallout 76 has disgusted the developers.
McCaffrey inquired about Fallout when he asked Howard if there was a possibility that anyone outside Bethesda would be working on the fifth installment of this famous series. This would speed up the release if Fallout 5 did not have to be subject to any previous study plans and at the same time it might bring a fresh breeze to the known world. But Howard basically denied the idea, and Bethesda doesn’t seem to want to give up one of her jewels. “I don’t see this possibility anymore. Look, Fallout is part of our DNA,” Howard said, admitting that the company had worked naturally with other studies in the past. Eventually, the Fallout series was created by Interplay, specifically by Black Isle developers, and is released under the Bethesda banner. to from the third part. However, nothing seems to change, especially when Howard talks about a short concept they have already created for Fallout 5.
It was then, after the release of Fallout 4, that Starfield was to begin working not only on the desire to dive from a whole new universe, but also on the fear that if the developers didn’t decide then, they would never have had to start developing.
But as IGN points out, everything will probably take much longer than the fans, but Howard was just as nice. He said that if he had a magic wand and could have Fallout 5 materialize in front of us all, of course he would. “I’d like to find a way to speed up what we’re working on, but today I can’t make a commitment as to when each game will come,” added Todd Howard. The only fixed point on the horizon at the moment is Starfield, to which Howard and all of Bethesda have been clinging since 2015. Just then, after the release of Fallout 4, work was to begin on Starfield not only out of a desire to dive from a whole new universe, but also for fear that if the developers didn’t decide then, they would never have had to start developing. The main problem was to be the widening gap between the fifth and possible sixth episode of The Elder Scrolls, which will follow on from the game, which is celebrating its 10th birthday this year.
And no, there is no double-track development – Howard spoke in June that TES VI is in the concept phase and is now in pre-production. According to the usual procedures, the game may not arrive until around 2025, which would mean an estimated 2027-2028 for Fallout 5. However, the hard-to-imagine view that Microsoft, as the owner of the entire ZeniMax, including Bethesda Game Studios, could strike, and its interest in strengthening the offer of its own games and the Game Pass library. But no hint of green stables is coming in that direction, and given the promises to preserve Bethesda’s autonomy and underline the importance of all major brands, Microsoft’s influence may not be decisive.
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