Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard has teased the opening of The Elder Scrolls 6 during a recent interview. The opening of Skyrim is iconic in video game circles, so to say there’s more anticipation than normal to see the opening of The Elder Scrolls 6 compared to other games is definitely not an overstatement. What the opening will be, where it will take place, and whether it will involve waking up remain mysteries, but Howard has confirmed that the team has had the opening mapped out for a very long time, which suggests it’s a good opening if it hasn’t changed over time like most ideas do.
“What’s the tone we’re going with for? Where is it set? We usually start with the world,” said Howard speaking with Lex Fridman. “And then we are always overlapping. While we are making one game… by the midpoint of one game we’ve had enough conversations to understand what the next one…
