There's not a single good reason to think that Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield will be what Fallout 76 is. I was harsh on the show myself, but it's clear that what they are doing with Fallout 76 is it's own thing, to try something different for the series, which I don't blame them for doing. I'm unsure of it at the moment, but Bethesda has been a big proponent of pushing singleplayer/offline experiences and show that well with this show. We are getting that with Rage 2, with Doom Eternal, with the Wolfenstein thing, Todd specifically said that Starfield was a singleplayer experience, and there's no reason to think Elder Scrolls 6 is going to have some required online aspect.
Considering we know nothing about Starfield or ES6, I'll believe it when I see it. All I heard tonight was online, online, mobile, online, mobile, and I wouldn't expect a game like Doom or Wolfenstein to be always online given the types of games they are. Sure, they will probably have an online multiplayer component, all FPS games do, but I certainly don't expect it inside the single player mode. I'm mostly worried about future Bethesda RPGs which is their main money maker, and Fallout 76 seems like a harbinger for things to come. I might be completely wring, and I hope so badly that I am. But until I hear it from one of the big wigs at Bethesda that these games will be single player, offline then I can't help but be concerned.
And regardless of whether they will be offline or not, it doesn't change the fact that Bethesda were being assholes to the very people that keep them in business tonight.
Bethesda getting too snarky about complaints of their games is one thing, but I'm just gonna say you are reading into this in a way that I don't think anyone else is. Bethesda has always been big about pushing solid singleplayer/offline experiences. It's clearly seen in their game lineup. Yeah they have some mobile and online stuff they do on the side, but they are primarily about good singleplayer. Prey, Doom, Wolfenstein, Dishonored, Fallout, Rage, Elder Scrolls, etc...They have a history for sure. They aren't a company I would ever worry about abandoning their singleplayer games.
After thinking about it for awhile, kinda cooling down, I do feel like I was projecting my confusion with Fallout 76 on the entire show. Looking back, while I'm not the biggest Doom fan, and I can't really get too hyped for Rage 2 going off an underwhelming first game, it was a pretty even split between their online/mobile stuff and what are all likely general singleplayer experiences. That doesn't really make for a bad show for me, I just need to try and figure out more on Fallout 76, so hopefully they'll explain more soon and get deeper into detail.
