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Bethesda veteran says less RPG complexity in the Elder Scrolls series is good, actually: 'We got rid of attributes in Skyrim and you know who complained? Almost nobody'
By Rich Stanton published
News “I led the charge on that, to be frank.”

Skyrim lead designer's biggest lore regret is *checks notes* one of the coolest things the series has ever done
By Joshua Wolens published
News You have no idea how upset I am.

Skyrim lead praises Todd Howard for trying 'desperately' not to micromanage and be a ‘bottleneck’, even though he still 'does what he calls seagulling where he swoops in and changes things'
By Rich Stanton published
News "He tries desperately not to."

I didn't even know I was bothered by how bad Skyrim's NPCs look during the split second they're opening doors, and now a modder's pointed it out the mod to fix it has become essential
By Jody Macgregor published
News Thanks again, wSkeever.

Bethesda's former Elder Scrolls loremaster won't tell us where The Elder Scrolls 6 is set, but the team originally agreed on it way back in the Fallout 4 days
By Fraser Brown published
News Keep guessing.

Skyrim's co-lead designer says Starfield's main problem is that it never fully cohered as a game: 'It was a releasable game, but it wasn't the best'
By Fraser Brown published
News And the reception was what he expected.

Skyrim's co-lead designer was building real-time horse and cart travel and a dynamic civil war: 'We were pretty disappointed that didn't ship'
By Fraser Brown published
News Kurt Kuhlmann was co-lead on Skyrim and Bethesda's Elder Scrolls loremaster.

Bethesda's former Elder Scrolls loremaster on why he left, Starfield's 'communication breakdowns', and how he wanted The Elder Scrolls 6 'to be The Empire Strikes Back'
By Samuel Horti published
Deep lore "It was almost certainly time for a change."

Former Bethesda lead says The Elder Scrolls 6 got announced so early because the studio had to make sure 'people were not just pissed at us' for revealing Starfield instead
By Rich Stanton published
News "I think there is something to be said for going a bit more constrained. I always thought that was a weird goal anyway."
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