"The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition" has met some success despite launching with numerous bugs and issues. Remastering games for the current generation has become a trend with video game publishers but Bethesda Softworks Vice President Pete Hines explains that in their case it won't happen again.
The two previous remasters they did were special cases and were not the beginning of a trend, Hines explained in an interview with Official Xbox Magazine (via Games Radar). This was in reference to their remaster of "Dishonored" and the aforementioned "Skyrim Special Edition."
According to Hines, the "Dishonored" remaster was made because it was a new IP releasing at the end of a generation's life and the game needed to thrive on the newer consoles as well. The "Skyrim Special Edition" was then made in order to prepare the development team for "Fallout 4" and how mods worked on consoles.
"These things take time, it takes effort and manpower," Hines further explained. "Generally speaking, our approach has usually been that instead of spending all this time on a thing we've already made, why don't we instead spend that effort on something new, or on the next version of that thing?"
Unfortunately this also means older games in the franchise, such as "Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind" and "Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" will nott get updated, Attack of the Fanboy reported. These games have notably not aged well but it is also a good thing since Bethesda is one of the rare companies that focuses on bringing something new and fresh on the table instead of rehashing or milking a franchise.
Through Bethesda's efforts the "Doom" franchise has been rebooted and they have also worked on the "Dishonored" series, the rebooted "Wolfenstein" games and are also involved in the 2011 title "Rage" and "The Evil Within."
With no remasters currently planned, Bethesda is widely speculated to be working on a brand new IP or the next "Elder Scrolls" game. Hines did not comment if either rumor was true.
The official trailer for "Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition" can be viewed below: