I'll just post this comment Pete Hines made around Gamescom 2016.



This studio is not a vending machine. They’re not a two-button vending machine, where first we press Elder Scrolls and then we press Fallout, and then we press Elder Scrolls and then we press Fallout… They’re an incredibly talented studio of creative people. They’ve now made four games in a row, all of which were named Game of the Year, and they have a right to decide what they’re interested in working on next and which direction they want to go.



I, for one, am perfectly willing to ask questions, but I’m not going to second guess Todd Howard when he says we want to do this next, and this, and then Elder Scrolls VI happens somewhere down here. He’s got reasons why, and I think once we get down the road, those reasons will be more evident to folks once we get there, or maybe not. But at the end of the day, these folks have a right to not just have to make Elder Scrolls game after Elder Scrolls game, which is why they switched to Fallout, and they have a right to stretch their legs and try something else or do something different. I know what they’re working on for the next decade, and I think all of them are things to get excited about, for different reasons, and once they come out, folks will enjoy them for what they are.



Frankly, I agree with him. Bethesda is one of the few publishers which actually lets creative developers choose the direction they'll go next, even if it's not necessarily the most lucrative one. All I can say is that if you believe in Bethesda Game Studios, then you should at least withhold judgment until the game is fully revealed. If you don't for any reason, then there wasn't much cause to eagerly await their next game in the first place.