Ex-Skyrim and Fallout 76 artist hopes The Elder Scrolls 6 has "some new ideas" that avoid the franchise burnout seen in Assassin's Creed: "Ubisoft games, despite being fun, are very repetitive and by the numbers"

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Former Bethesda lead artist Nate Purkeypile hopes that Elder Scrolls 6, whenever it happens, is nothing like Assassin's Creed.

That Ubisoft franchise – younger than The Elder Scrolls by about 10 years, but with nearly triple the number of main games – demonstrates a sin any series could succumb to: being boring. As Purkeypile tells Esports Insider in a new interview, "Ubisoft games, despite being fun, are very repetitive and by the numbers."

But "I would hope that Elder Scrolls VI has some new ideas, like systems you’ve never seen before. Who knows, maybe magic works in some completely different way, or there’s some new perk tree," Purkeypile says.

Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
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Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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