Bethesda's Pete Hines has discussed a number of the company's key upcoming projects and their plans for next-generation consoles in an extensive interview with MCV.
Hines says Bethesda aim with The Elder Scrolls Online is for it to become "a game that incorporates everything you've come to love about an Elder Scrolls game, but with the online ability to play with friends, meet folks and take part in giant PvP battles.
"We want it to feel like an Elder Scrolls game. The controls and the character customisation feel similar. Be who you want, go where you want, do what you want – that is Elder Scrolls in a nutshell."
He adds that despite being an MMO players will in fact be able to play the game alone, "we are going to bring along a lot of the things that you know from single-player, and add that online connectivity. So if you want to play Elder Scrolls Online by yourself, it will be totally fun. It will fell like playing Skyrim all over again."
PS4 players will gain early access to game's beta and Hines says, "in the case of The Elder Scrolls Online, the guys at Zenimax Online Studios said: 'Look, this is not a game that we could make work on current-gen consoles, but we could totally get it to work on PS4 and Xbox One."
Talking about Wolfenstein: The New Order, Hines comments "In some ways it is certainly a reboot, because it is not something that is on the tip of every gamers' tongue. But there was a lot there that they [Machine Games] felt they could work at: BJ as a character, the world and the idea of an alternative timeline."
Hines insists that despite games like Resident Evil and Dead Space focusing less on scares there is a market for survival horror title The Evil Within from Shinji Mikami.
"We believe in what he wants to create," Hines explains. "We have done pretty good business in doing things that other people have said you shouldn't do or can't do. We don't feel particularly inclined to run in the same direction as everyone else.
"We will make big, massive role-playing games on a console when nobody else is. We will do single-player when everyone says you have to have co-op or multiplayer, and they'll shove it in games that have no business being multiplayer."
Finally, Hines said that despite the fact that Bethesda is developing several titles for PS4 and Xbox One they have nothing in production for Wii U.
For more of Hines' take on all of these games and next-gen check out the MCV interview.
