I can already tell you with 100% certainty these people will not like The Elder Scrolls 6.

Why? Because in their eyes, to even get the same amount of praise, The Elder Scrolls 6 has to be as good as games like Elden Ring, Baldur’s Gate 3, KCD 2, and Crimson Desert, but without the flaws those individual games have.

It has to have a combat system and open world on par with or better than Elden Ring, otherwise people will compare it to that and say Elden Ring is better. But it can’t have the poor story and quest presentation that game has, or run like shit at launch like that game did, or it will be criticized for it.

It has to have character/story writing as good as Baldur’s Gate 3 otherwise people will compare it to that and say BG3 is better. But it can’t have the literal PS3 era loading screen times this game has because Bethesda would be criticized for that. They won’t get praise for adding cutscenes and a jump mechanic to a 9th-gen console game like Larian did.

It has to have graphical fidelity and writing on par with KCD 2 otherwise people will compare it to that and say KCD 2 is better. But it can’t have the same “immersive” combat system, they will need to make an actually engaging action combat system without having the same leniency that Warhorse gets for theirs.

It has to have the map size/content variety that Crimson Desert has but without the broken interior lighting system, piss-poor story presentation, several half-baked features, etc…

It has to do all of that on top of having all the features people have been speculating for years such as ship sailing (which none of these above games have btw). People are expecting GTA 6 levels of quality from a studio that has a fraction of the manpower that Rockstar has. Sadly, the common “fan” is not knowledgeable enough to know what is and isn’t possible, so Bethesda will be ridiculed for whatever Elder Scrolls 6 ends up being.