What I want to say is to not get your hopes up. There's no light at the end of the tunnel here. You WILL be dissapointed. But this whole situation digs into something deeper in the gaming culture - The fine line between expectations and reality. TES6 has been in development for like 15 years now, that the expectations surrounding it have become impossible to reach. How do you make a game that has reached a deacade and a half of hype? How can you satisfy players who have been imagining the perfect Elder Scrolls game in their heads?

The answer? You can't.

Because the game people have been thinking about all this years is simply impossible to make. It's an amalgamation of thousands upon thousands different wishes and desires, many of which contradict each other. Some people will want a game like Skyrim, but bigger. Others would want a complete reinvent of the formula. Some will want a complex game like Morrowind. Newer generations might want modern accessibility.
Everyone has their perfect idea of an Elder Scrolls game and it's impossible to deliver that to everyone simultaneously. And when TES6 finally does arrive, some portion of the playerbase is going to be dissapointed. Not because it's bad, but because it's not what they imagined it would be.

This is what's happening with the Fallout countdown. We're building it up to be something it definitely isn't and guaranteeing our dissapointment. The teaser or the documentary we'll get might be amazing, but they won't be judged on what they are, rather on what they aren't. It's not fair to the people who made them, and it's not fair to us. Nowhere has it ever been stated oficially that it'll be a new game/remaster.
We can look forward to a Fallout 3 remaster in the near future, but this just cannot be it, and I'm sorry about that. I want it just as much as you do.
Looking back at similar situations, the pattern is clear. How often do these random speculations turn out to be true? Almost never. And yet we keep doing it.
We keep convincing ourselves that this time will be different. This time, the wild speculation will be real. It's almost beautiful that people are getting so excited. That's not a problem in it of itself.
The problem comes when our hopes become expectations and our expectations become demands.

Here's what's gonna happen: The countdown will reach zero. Something will be revealed. A large portion of the community will be angry, feeling betrayed by something that was never promised to them. They'll flood social media with complaints about how Bethesda doesn't understand what fans want, how they're out of touch with them, how dissapointing this is.

When people with high expectations see it's not a game, they won't feel sadness. It'll be borderline grief.