My E3 2017 Predictions: Part 2: Bethesda

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The second part of this six-part series is here. Bethesda looks to be harder to predict than EA, but still looks quite easy if you ask me.

I've always loved Bethesda's press conferences for being tight and cutting out the bullshit, and I don't think this year's will be anything too different.

So, let's get started.

 

The conference opens with a gameplay trailer for a brand-new game, The evil within 2. I'ts been quite some time since Tango has come out with a game.     No release date is shown, the game will be scheduled for merely "2018". The game will probably end up coming out next May.

Plans for DLC or Expansions for Prey are revealed, including a single player story-driven expansion, coming in the Summer.

More updates and expansions for the Elder Scrolls Online and Legends (they have done this two years in a row now, so I expect this to happen again).

Fallout 4 VR gets a live on-stage demo by Todd Howard himself. We will get a release date of around the month of October.

A few more trailers and character reveals for Quake Champions along with a release date which is also around October.

The show ends with the biggest segment, Wolenstein: The New Collosus. Bethesda will pull off a Fallout 4 and the game will end releasing before the end of the year. My reason for thinking this is that Bethesda has a six-month schedule to release games, one around May and one around November. To me, Quake Champions just doesn't appear to fit that mold. 

And one more thing, Elder Scrolls VI won't be present there in any shape or form. That studio was working on Fallout DLC and Skyrim remastered last year, and is also is working on Fallout 4 VR this year, so I can't imagine TESVI being shown here. It's simply too early. The most that could happen is that they show a little teaser and go quiet for several years after that, but I doubt that too.

So, lets see all of Bethesda's studios:

Arkane probably needs a break after pumping out two games simultaneously.

Bethesda Game Studios is doing Fallout 4 VR, so I expect TESVI too be some ways off.

Zenimax Online is pumping out more content for Elder Scrolls online as usual.

Machine Games last game, The New Order, came out in Spring 2014, so it is about time for them to show off their next game, which will probably be Wolfenstein: The New Collosus.

Tango Gameworks' last game, The Evil Within, also came out way back in 2014, so it is about time for a sequel.

And finally, ID software is doing Quake Champions.

So unless a surprise partnership with someone like Obsidian or something happens this E3, I expect Bethesda's E3 to go something like this, in a solid press conference like 2015 and 2016, everything nicely and tightly packed in 45 minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link to part 1: EA: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=227463&page=1#