Bethesda Is At Gamescom, But Even The Elder Scrolls 6 Fans Aren't Expecting A Trailer

Every video game showcase has a little lobby before it starts, usually with a timer, some abstract visuals, a touch of elevator music, and a live chat where people hurl messages into the void, rattling off games they hope to see.

Without fail, there are always a few dozen people spamming ‘Silksong!!!’ like the chat box is a digital summoning circle, only to be disappointed when the monkey paw curls and all they get is a two-second gameplay clip on the new Xbox handheld.

At least you get gameplay: Half-Life fans are living on strings of code!

In fairness, it’s not just the Silksong community who does this. Bloodborne fans aren’t much better, and you’ll occasionally see GTA 6 thrown into the mix despite Rockstar rarely appearing at events. But for once, we finally have a fanbase who have learned their lesson.

Bethesda announced that it’s returning to Gamescom next month, but nobody believes that it’s going to re-reveal The Elder Scrolls 6. Just look at u/Neither-Phone-7264’s post on r/TESVI, asking if the long-awaited sequel could finally get a new trailer, only for the comment section to be flooded with “nope” and whole lot of “no”.

It might have been announced seven years ago, but Bethesda only just begun playing through “early builds” of the game last year, after starting development as recently as 2023. The odds of seeing anything, especially after Todd Howard said that he regrets revealing the sequel so early, are incredibly slim. But the TES community is oddly at peace with that.

Fans like u/royalxK say there’s “no shot” we see The Elder Scrolls 6 this generation, while others, like u/wally233, even “hope” that it releases as late as 2028: “Let them cook. Think of it this way, do you want them to rush it after Starfield?”

Stop setting yourselves up for disappointment holy crap. Game Awards it the earliest feasible view of it. Anything less is coping massively. I’m saying this for your own good — u/GenericMaleNPC01.

More people are hinging their bets on a PS5 port announcement for Starfield, if not a second expansion, or maybe some new ESO and Fallout 76 trailers — “literally anything besides TES6″. Silksong fans, Half-Life fans, everyone on the copium train, from Bloodborne 2 to Jak 4: take note. Be realistic, and maybe you won’t have to burn Reddit down every time your game doesn’t appear.