BETHESDA, Md. — Bethesda Game Studios director and executive producer Todd Howard unveiled The Elder Scrolls VI Announcement Trailer: Remastered during a showcase of the company’s upcoming projects, sources confirm.
“We want to take you back to that moment at E3 in 2018,” Howard said during his keynote speech, “we want to put you in the seat of a games journalist, fan, or YouTube reactor seeing the trailer for the first time. To watch the camera soar over that non-descript mountain range as the title appears. If we can rekindle the same feelings you had on that day, then I think we’ve succeeded as artists.”
The audience cheered as the thirty second trailer came to a close. One attendee, Grant Carter, saw it as an opportunity to connect with his son.
“Dylan wasn’t even born yet when the original announcement trailer released,” Carter said, shedding a single tear, “now that he’s seven, I get to share the experience of watching that announcement for the first time. I can’t wait to see his jaw drop as he realizes what he’s seeing. If he’s anything like his old man, he’ll be yelling about how epic it looks.”
Others in attendance were more skeptical, expressing disappointment in the trailer’s scope, suggesting the original trailer could be remastered into an actual game.
“That’s great and all, but Bethesda is ignoring their core fanbase,” said Brent Graham, a longtime fan of the series. “Why hasn’t Morrowind’s trailer gotten a remaster in all these years? They knew how to make promotional material back then. In my mind, it shouldn’t even count as a trailer unless it has a dozen quotes from niche gaming websites and magazines ranking the game against everything else they saw at E3 that year.”
At press time, Bethesda still hadn’t given a release date for The Elder Scrolls VI, but promised they’re hard at work on the game while they wait for another generation of consoles to release Skyrim on.
