Over the past week, rumors have started swirling as Redditors (probably correctly) deduced the title of the upcoming Elder Scrolls game, which will apparently be Sentinel. Following a post from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who enjoyed a gameplay demo of the game at Bethesda, where she hinted that the name of the next game might be an 8-letter word, old easter eggs resurfaced.

There's a couple of reasons for that. For starters, it turns out that Bethesda Game Studios had been sneakily teasing it for a very long time, even at the Starfield character creation screen. A user quickly discovered that the Employee Number listed on the screen was actually the same for everyone: 190514-2009140512. When divided into pairs and read as alphabet letters, it was revealed to be:
19 05 14 20 09 14 05 12 - S E N T I N E L

On top of that, a former Bethesda employee apparently confirmed the name after it started emerging. Do you believe in this rumor? Do you expect it to be correct, or do you think it's just collective imagination? On a scale from 0 (starfield) to 10 (morrowind) how excited are you about this next Elder Scrolls game?

Source: https://wccftech.com/elder-scrolls-vi-subtitle-sentinel-starfield-easter-egg-cracked/

 

[SaberLilly]

Its not outside the realm of possibility that "sentinel" was just an easter egg on the character creation screen. Especially if it's been there since the game launched.

 

[CobaltMN]

I'm gonna be honest, I haven't played a single Bethesda game for longer than about 30 minutes. It has been a decade and a half since they were in their prime, which was when i was a kid with no money to buy games. It is going to be interesting watching the hype train for the belated follow up to skyrim crash into reality.

Then again, i haven't really seen any excitement for this game. Pretty much everyone seems to know on some level that Bethesda had lost the sauce before the buyout.

 

[Kioku]

Bethesda did great with Skyrim back in 2011 it was kinda state of the art (not really but let's just say it was a hit at the time).
But even then, it wasn't extremely innovative - it barely improved upon Oblivion, which was a 2006 game.

Anyway, since Skyrim, Bethesda have been making 2011-era games. Starfield feels like a 2011 game with slightly -slightly- better graphics. I tried playing the Fallout games but I never liked the series, it just felt like wasteland Skyrim.

For me, Sentinel is Bethesda's last chance. Can they really make a 2027 (or 2028) modern era game? I mean, the open world RPG genre has evolved so much over the years. They better get their shit together.

Just waiting for it to come out and be just marginally better than Fallout 4. Which was marginally better than Skyrim, speaking of the games engine. Bethesda has a nasty habit of releasing technically broken games and acting like its a work of god. Skyrim was great fun, but very dated in 2011. If it weren't for community patches and mods, I wouldn't have spent so much time playing it tbh.

 

[codezer0]

How many times is Todd going to rerelease this one?

 

[Francie]

On a scale from 0 (starfield) to 10 (morrowind)

starfield is a lovely game, I wish people would give it a try instead of hopping on the bandwagon to hate on it
it really does feel like a "skyrim in space" to me
inb4
>m-m-MUH COULDN'T GET PAST THE TUTORIAL

 

[Costello]

starfield is a lovely game, I wish people would give it a try instead of hopping on the bandwagon to hate on it
it really does feel like a "skyrim in space" to me
inb4
>m-m-MUH COULDN'T GET PAST THE TUTORIAL

I did play it, beat it three times and finished all the quests.
I "liked" it - but it comes nowhere near my top 10 favorite games.
It just feels so dated and so 2011.

Take Red Dead Redemption 2 for example, released in 2018, and compare it to Starfield 5 years later.
Which of these 2 games feels more polished, deep, gorgeous? The PS4 version of RDR2 is better in all aspects (even better looking) than the XSX version of Starfield.
A game like Ghost of Tsushima is 3 years older than Starfield and still feels so, so much better, again even the PS4 version of it is 10 times better than Starfield on any platform. These are all games I have played for hundreds of hours.
To me Starfield is a good game but it's the Skyrim recipe, which is from 2011, with slightly better graphics, nothing more. And it's no longer enough.

PS: just my two cents. It's fine if anyone disagrees with my opinion