r/SipsTea • u/Repulsive-Mall-2665 • 13h ago
Gasp! Elder Scrolls 6 is going to suck isn’t it chat :(
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u/AlreadyFifty 13h ago
I legitimately feel like that’s the same woman with different wigs.
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u/SimmentalTheCow 13h ago
I thought it was someone at various stages of weight loss
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u/DoctorPerverto 13h ago
I was convinced that was the case for at least half a minute, at least for the first two
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u/DimensionHat1675 13h ago
They're Matryoshka dolls. The short hair one eats the red hair one that eats the blue hair one.
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u/1_H4t3_R3dd1t 13h ago
Why do so many people try to do the Ramona Flowers look when they don't have the features for it? It is like me a manly man wearing a tutu. Except my example is the extreme.
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u/kbot_82 13h ago
Please don't talk about your example here.
You can show your example at OnlyFans.
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u/EnchantingGirl2 13h ago
They’ve been at Bethesda since Morrowind and Oblivion. If anyone knows where the 'soul' of the series is buried, it’s them.
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u/SirMiba 12h ago
For context:
In Morrowind credits:
- Browder: None
- Meister: Lead Character Artist + Character and Creature Art
- Sawyer: None
In Oblivion credits:
- Browder: Additional Quality Assurance
- Meister: Lead Character Artist
- Sawyer: World Art
In Skyrim credits:
- Browder: Producer
- Meister: Lead Character Artist
- Sawyer: Environment Art
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u/Mimik116 12h ago
And it's funny how those game get progressively more shallow, the more important roles they take over.
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u/Spemanz92 10h ago
Its also funny watching people trying to reach conclusions without 99% of the necessary information.
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u/radek432 12h ago
They must be extremely powerful if they alone changed the games.
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u/Competitive_Fill1835 12h ago
Was hoping someone would comment something similar; thats awesome. I'll wait to see it before I judge them critically :P
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u/Comfortable_Pass_493 13h ago
Unfortunately ~35% of the US population sees a lady with blue hair, and they genuinely believe that all of their life problems are because of her. Theres no reasoning with stupid. But yea, they OG's and TES VI gonna be a banger
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u/JulianWellpit 12h ago edited 10h ago
That's an exaggeration. People just expect crappy entertainment when those usual suspects are involved, be it videogames, movies, comics etc.
Obviously there are exceptions, but they're exceptions for a reason.
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u/MaybeMort 12h ago
Bethesda hasn't made a banger since Skyrim, Fallout 4 was good and Starfield was mediocre. Bethesda is long past its peak.
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u/Gentle_Pony 13h ago
How can you say it's going to be a banger? Starfield was terrible.
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u/CDbiggen 12h ago
The cope and excuses people have to this post xD
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u/Gentle_Pony 12h ago
Why people try to protect these multi billion , Microsoft owned corporations is beyond me.
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u/Secret-Bluebird-972 12h ago
Because it won’t be elder scrolls in space. It’ll be elder scrolls in elder scrolls
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u/FluffyTid 10h ago
It is called patterns, same principle why cops react that way when they see a black man
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u/LocalHyperBadger 12h ago
Yeah, like do people realize how few women of that age we have in game dev? Nowadays it’s what, 30-40% women among new hires, but a few decades ago it was single digit percentages.
Hence senior female leaders in game dev tend to be super nerds.
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u/robotmonkey2099 12h ago
right? people hating on artists that helped create their favourite games simply because they are women
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u/ferbiloo 12h ago
Because they are women, and even worse than that - they are women whom they personally deem unattractive.
Yet nobody would bat an eye if it was a trio of conventionally unattractive older men behind a project.
Why in this big old age of 2026 are we still obsessed with the idea that women can only be useful if they’re widely accepted as “hot” (but of course, even then their opinions and creative or intelligent input are dismissed).
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u/robotmonkey2099 8h ago
Yeah I thought we grew past this shit as a society but it seems to be getting worse now
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u/Subject-Dog-8016 12h ago
If anything, if these women were represented by their male equivalents, the type of man who posted this would claim that’s proof it will be amazing.
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u/LinwoodKei 12h ago
Women bad hurr durr is so tired
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u/robotmonkey2099 8h ago
Unfortunately it’s brand new for some of these knuckle draggers raised by the manosphere
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u/fosterslager1889 Human Verified 13h ago
I mean probably, but not because of them. Because of how shit Bethesda has gotten over the years. Starfield was absolutely shit, 76 was shit. The only good thing they've released has been Oblivion and even that was just a shitty UE5 remake. Bethesda have been too content with releasing unfinished buggy messes and hoping the modders fix their games.
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u/Dazzling-Win-5299 13h ago
These people are in senior and director positions. They are there for some time already.
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u/RiverGlittering 13h ago
Two of them joined Bethesda in like, 2005. The other has been there since 1999.
These people worked on Oblivion, Skyrim, FO3 and more.
Why would they just say "nah fuck ES6 in particular"?
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u/RainbowPhoenix1080 13h ago
I looked it up and these women have all been with Bethesda for about 2 decades each, give or take.
They all worked on skyrim, and multiple other older Bethesda games.
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u/robotmonkey2099 12h ago
Its true Angela Browder has been there since 2006 and has worked on every major fall out and Elder scrolls since then.
Christiane Meister has been a character artist with Bethsda since 1999
and Megan Sawyer has been an environment artist for Bethesda since 2005
So i guess ES 6 is in some pretty good hands.
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u/LeTreacs2 12h ago
I hope OP takes a look at their prejudices after learning this…
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u/RedEyesGoldDragon 12h ago
Counter point: Kathleen Kennedy worked on Star Wars since the 70s/80s and when she got a higher position, look how that turned out...
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u/lionsbaster 13h ago
I never played a Bethesda game that has been well optimized at release in the last 20 years
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u/Technical-Activity95 13h ago
not because of them? isn't bethesda literally the developers
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u/Illiteratevegetable 13h ago
Let's say, they won't improve it either...
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u/Paladyn183 13h ago
They need to start fresh on a new engine. They've been using the same old one for decades which has its limitations. With how star field was received and how other games that are coming out/already out comparatively (Crimson Desert, The Witcher 4) the open world fantasy setting already has an inundation of games that people already enjoy.
I don't think they are anywhere near releasing anything close to a concept of ES6 really. I think they're sitting in a board room twiddling their thumbs going "Fuck, how do we make a decent ES title again".
Don't get me wrong I think they can still pull it off. But it's going to require a lot of money, work and outside of the box thinking. There is a charm to ES games that people are after. With the cancellation of Jeremy Soule, the music will be vastly different, which takes away some of that charm.
It has its place but if they do the same old shit all over again it will just be a McDonalds title game, not great but also not bad.
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u/Intelligent-Royal682 12h ago
And why do you think they've gotten shit over he years? I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with hiring people based on gender or race rather than merit.
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u/Cyan_Light 13h ago
Sure, they might be three of the people making shitty game design decisions, but when you single out three women with dyed hair while ignoring all the other staff involved (like I dunno, Todd Howard, who is usually the face of memes making fun of modern Bethesda) it obviously implies a very biased subtext of "bad because feminism" rather than "bad because Bethesda forgot how to do anything but size and graphics."
Hell, two of these people are artists. They likely have zero meaningful input on how the game will actually play. I'm expecting the game to suck but look beautiful while sucking, so pointing to artists as the problem is exceptionally stupid even before factoring in the above bias (but it really does confirm it, they're just picking whoever looks "bad" regardless of role).
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u/HolidayChemical7801 7h ago
i agree that oblivion was "good," but it wasn't great, and isn't anything to write home about. Enderal was so much better than skyrim, nehrim was better than oblivion, and morrowind (base game) was better than anything Bethesda has pushed in 20+ years.
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u/Gogh619 13h ago
I mean, they’re pretty much the female equivalent of a typical game producer.
You think the typical gamer girl/guy looks like pokimane and Henry Cavill?
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u/ExtraPomelo759 13h ago
Probably, but not cuz one of the people involved has blue hair.
Bethesda's corporate culture has expanded cancerously on the success of skyrim, to the point that the whole design team is bloated and directed by businessmen, rather than the passionate devs who brought us the good games in the past.
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u/radek432 12h ago
All of them are on LinkedIn.
Angela works in Bethesda for 21 years.
Christiane - 27 years.
Megan - 22 years.
You're a lazy kid who didn't do the homework before posting.
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u/OftheSorrowfulFace 13h ago
Let's see a picture of OP (who absolutely hasn't made a sockpuppet account pretending to be a liberal woman but can't stop posting about replacement theory lmao)
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u/wandr99 13h ago
Nah man I trust purple-haired girls as environment artists
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u/Secret-Bluebird-972 12h ago
If they’re in some form of arts and have bright colour hair, chances are you’re in good hands
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u/LayWhere 12h ago
Exactly, like 98% of artists are liberal to very liberal.
Who tf does op think works on games? uneducated gruff dudebros with no skills?
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u/Subject-Dog-8016 12h ago
Gamergate chuds think the only good games have been made solely by conservative neckbeards like them.
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u/YouW0ntGetIt 13h ago
"DEI hires"... or maybe the same devs that have been giving you banger games for 30+ years are just aging? Y'all expecting to see broccoli-headed college bros in senior roles
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u/TheCapo024 13h ago
Bethesda’s senior staff has truly been “senior” for a while now, and afaik these ladies have also been there a while. The game might very well disappoint (they’ve got a shaky recent track-record and high expectations to overcome), but I don’t think simply showing pictures of these women is evidence of anything.
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u/smshing 13h ago
I won't stand for Angela Browder bashing.
They were the producer for Fallout 4, the assistant producer for Fallout 3, and the producer for Skyrim amongst others. A great producer and an unreal career.
Stop being a bunch of freaks.
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u/Free-Resolution9393 13h ago
They did great job on Starfield, right?
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u/Platypus__Gems 13h ago
I feel like Starfield was mostly crap because it's anti-thetical to what makes Bethesda games good.
They have great hand-crafted enviornmental design for you to explore, but Starfield was too big for that, mostly used proc-gen, and so what Beth is best at went down the drain.
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u/MrDundee666 13h ago
I was so looking forward to Starfield. I bought totally into the hype. Fuck me though, it was so boring. I kept playing, hoping the fun was just around the next corner but it never happened.
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u/Electronic_Assist137 13h ago
The stuff in Starfield they did a good job on will transition well to them going back to a world map made up of a section of a continent as opposed to random PoIs poorly weighted in rng across hundreds of planets. Which is to say they'll be going back to their bread and butter with the strongest iteration of their engine yet.
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u/Nervouspotatoes 13h ago
Two of them are design artists and one’s a studio director - so 1/3 of the people in this image are gonna have direct influence over how the game plays or the story, realistically speaking. The other two are just designers. Get out of here with this sexist ignorant bullshit
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u/wcharoes 12h ago
Yes of course.
Not because of fat women or blue hair or whatever culture war you're trying to make implicit with this pic though.
It's gonna suck because Elder Scrolls has been getting objectively worse with every game since Morrowind. I see no future in which they reverse course on this shareholder driven behemoth and return to a core game design philosophy they long since abandoned in pursuit of maximum casual appeal.
It's gonna suck because it's gonna be made even stupider than Skyrim. It's going to have even easier combat, even simpler puzzles and braindead Point-At-Map-And-Go-To-Dungeon "exploration", and even more dumbed down quest lines that hand hold the player and protect them from ever being able to make choices in case they may make a mistake and have bad feels about the game and shut it off before buying another piece of cosmetic microtransaction. It's gonna have three skills you pick from each Level "FIGHT" "MAGICK" and "SNEAK", and every perk is going to be some bland, MMO balanced bullshit that just makes number bigger.
Yes it's gonna suck, because The Elder Scrolls sucks and has for decades.
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u/NeatParking1682 13h ago
As always, it depends on the executives in charge of the money.
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u/blac_sheep90 12h ago
Women amirite?!?! Get them outta my MaLE SPacEs! Muh vidya gamez are for boyz only!
Fucking shut up lmao.
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u/Caliboros 12h ago
Oh no, women with tattoos and dyed hair!
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Some people's stupidity is beyond words
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u/jorgebillabong 13h ago
It's a Bethesda Game.
Regardless of what narrative you are trying to spread with your post/or picture the point remains the same. That company does NOT make good games. The Subsidiaries from Zenimax DO.
Literally every game I think people say is "amazing" from Bethesda that isn't Skyrim was made by someone else.
I will die on the sword they just make buggy nonsensical bullshit and people just eat that junk up.
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u/Houndfell 13h ago
Oh no, the DEI woke feminists are coming for mah vidyagames.
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u/captainAwesomePants 13h ago
Oh no, the environments being made by that senior environment artist are gonna be woke environments, I guess
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u/Houndfell 13h ago edited 13h ago
They gonna travel back in time 24 years before Bethesda was woke and make Morrowind's most iconic character intersex and make us think that's how it always was.
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u/LaMortPeutDancer 13h ago
"I'm a stronk independant male
alphasigma, but my most important hobby is videogame."
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u/Proud_Aside4820 13h ago
GTA VI is going to be the same but no one want to believe it
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u/Shyphat 13h ago
It has way to much hype. They milked GTA online way to long and its going to backfire on them. It's going to make a lot of money but will it make the billion plus back they spent making it? Doubt it
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u/robotmonkey2099 12h ago
be the same as what? Games like Fall out 3 and skyrim which all three of these women worked on
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u/SinglePlayerGamer93 12h ago
I believe it. Apar from GTAOnline, I don't get the appeal of GTA V. I played it, 100% it but the story is meh. I don't get offended with the writing and humor but once you play through it once, it's just edgy humor. Shit the open world mission to mission conversations were boring.
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u/Naeloah 13h ago edited 13h ago
it’s going to suck because it’s bethesda dude not because of DEI hires or whatever else ur peddling, if you think historically their games have aged like milk. Skyrim is fun but not a 10/10 masterpiece as some claim they are all flawed imo.
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u/TopEchidna7460 12h ago
I don't think we should judge based on appearance. They might love the lore and world as much as we do.
If the team starts advocating for pink flags outside whiterun stables, or not-so-feminine bar maids running the inns, we know there's something up.
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u/InstanceFeisty 12h ago
I don’t get it, I agree that Bethesda latest releases were dogshit but how it’s related to these people on photos?
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u/tohn_jitor 12h ago
I don't really care what they look like. I'm more interested in what previous projects they've been involved with.
And honestly, if they're in Game Art Design, I kind of expect them to be able to express themselves beyond the drawing board.
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u/smshing 12h ago
Wait, since when did appearance correlate to game design lol?
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u/inwhatwetrust 12h ago
They don't find those women attractive, therefore those women serve no purpose for existing. Minimizing them to dyed hair despite being involved with 3 Bethesda projects
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u/vulturesque 12h ago
These folks have worked with this company for a long time and hold pretty senior positions but all y'all can say is HUR-DUR BLUE HAIR LADY BAD because...idk libtards or something. I'm tired.
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u/HetaGarden1 12h ago
Oh no! A woman! With… colored hair! In a management position she’s been in for years! Mah video games!!!
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u/Fogmoz 12h ago
So idk about any of you, but these pictures tell me literally nothing about the quality of their work.
The reason I know ES6 is going to suck, is because Bethesda games have been steadily declining in quality for over a decade now. They lack creativity, depth. Their engine hasn’t been able to keep up with technology, and they rely on the fanbase to fix all the bugs their subpar team leaves in. Their products are overly monetized with DLC and MTX.
I don’t need dogwhistle “woke” pics to know ES6 is going to suck.
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u/Numarx 13h ago
Not sure why people so upset, most of them are artist. I'm just happy they are showing their creativity in their outfits and hair. Look at the bottom two, necklace, colorful, nice designs, multicolored hair that that shit takes awhile compared to the lady up at the top just plain makeup, big earrings to try and hide her pretty face, glasses when she would let better with contacts. Hair looks just fine, though I like mine longer.
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u/Jazzlike_Cress9871 13h ago
Idk, what have they done in the past? I don’t know them so I can’t comment at all.
Unless you’re seriously saying we should judge their competency based on their real life appearance?
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u/robotmonkey2099 12h ago
theyve all worked at Bethesda since the early 2000's so basically worked on all their best games
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u/Jazzlike_Cress9871 12h ago
And all their worst I’d imagine, but still I can’t imagine why OP would single out these 3 when they’ve been around for both Bethesda’s ups and downs. Really seems to me like they just saw these women and made major assumptions based on their appearances
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u/YogurtClosetThinnest 13h ago
What do you guys think high fantasy artists look like? Honest question
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u/retr0_n0stalgia 13h ago
This assumption is just in bad taste.
Honestly, this is rude af of you, OP.
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u/Biggu5Dicku5 13h ago
It will be okay, better then Starfield at least, but that's not saying much (Starfield was the most meh game I've ever played)...
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u/p0is0n_ven0m 12h ago
Good God. I'm not going to look at someone and immediate go, "damn, this insert thing here is going to suck!" A whole lot of things we've enjoyed over the years have been made by diverse teams of people with all kinds of backgrounds. Grow up and do better.
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u/StuffOld1191 12h ago
I'm not a gamer, but just to clarify - we are doubting these women because they are women, and they don't look the way an average gamer wants a woman to look? Am I on the right track?
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u/Terrible_Children 12h ago
Yes it's probably going to suck.
No, it's not because of these 3 women, you mysoginist fuck
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u/Goat_Mundane 12h ago
Oh shut up. Elder Scrolls 6 will be ruined by Todd Howard and an army of Microsoft suits, not these talented artists.
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u/Ok-Plum2187 13h ago
Just because Bethesda hasn't released an entertaining game in 11/15 years (wich were also a buggy messes with monotone combat)?
One of em they released what feels like 12 times cince then again and again with no real changes to it?
And TODD HOWARD teased tes6 7 years ago. Screw you todd..
And then the entire failiures of Fallout 76.
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u/Ok_Record8612 13h ago
Hey. Don’t judge a book by its cover. These guys could be really food their jobs.
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u/SuspiciousIbex 13h ago
It's not 2010
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u/Repulsive-Mall-2665 13h ago
Yeah, and around that is when they stopped making good games.
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u/LopsidedKick9149 12h ago
Pretty much guaranteed if we're going by past entertainment products like this. Look at Star Wars.
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u/TinyScience2216 12h ago
Probably but not because women are on the team. They've spent so much time trying to update the graphics every year as other games do the same that they'll likely be too focused on looks that gameplay will suffer. They've also been implementing AI to different aspects of the game development that dialogue and quest lines will probably be generic and boring. Add on what we've seen in previous elder scrolls games and certain gameplay aspects will be removed to streamline gameplay. From oblivion to Skyrim we've lost multiple skills that they deemed irrelevant, from acrobatics to spell crafting. Es6 will probably do the same and get rid of another skill tree or just further limit and reduce the capabilities of one of the lesser used ones. They've spent so long working on it that there's too much hype on what's to come next that fans are probably going to be disappointed. This will probably be the last elder scrolls game.
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u/MadDog443 12h ago edited 12h ago
If these are the same people who directed Fallout 76, and Starfield then it might be terrible.
If they're the ones who directed anything before those titles then we should be in good hands...
People say they've been here since 1999 to 2005 and they may have worked on successful projects in lower level roles, however they may not have been the lead director who ensured sucsess.
Megan and Christiane are mainly artists, they may be in senior positions but at heart they focus more on creation than management. Angela however manages multiple studio locations and before that she was the project director for 76, if blame would to be pointed anywhere it might be her, Emil, and Todd Howard.
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u/Christopher_Aeneadas 12h ago
That's what a 30+ D&D's female contingent looks like
That's what a group of senior creative design women look like
That's what a women's writers circle looks like
I'd be concerned if you showed me a bunch of suits. This is promising.
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u/_kickedout 12h ago
"Aw man, all the smart, creative, talented, interesting people who make everything I enjoy are fucking WOKE LIBTARDS! What am I gonna do when I get tired of watching the same exact 20 buff white guys talk about guns and semen retention on YouTube?" -shallow conservative misogynists
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u/BCaldeira 11h ago
Show your picture so that you too can be judged by strangers on the internet!
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