I wouldn't call fallout 4 the same formula as Skyrim. The world building is similar, but the way you interact with it is vastly different. The focus on gunplay keeps things at a distance, vats gives you 360 threat detection in most cases, and can create a system where the game basically plays itself in combat if you want. Fallout has hard level gates, where skyrim is a softer gating which makes the world feel different.

The thing is if you’re looking for something complex like bg3 you’re definitely going to be disappointed in TES6. I’m hoping for a game that’s fun to explore and ideally more interesting and complex than skyrim. It won’t be skyrim. I won’t spend days on end playing it till my brain melts like I did with skyrim. Not because it won’t be good, but because I’m not 16 anymore. Skyrim was the absolute shit as a 16 year old in 2011, but I’m almost 30, I’m married and I’ve grown and changed. I want a game I can explore while I relax and find all sorts of cool shit. And ideally I’d like a decent mage build option for once in the series.