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New Skyrim mod turns Bethesda's RPG into the "ultimate" MMO I've always wanted by transforming NPCs into real players

Skyrim, meet Red Dead Online rolepaying

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Ex-Bethesda dev on Fallout and Skyrim says Todd Howard has too many yes men around him — "A lot of people were afraid to say no to Todd, and I think that hurt him"

An ex-Fallout and Skyrim developer says Bethesda's Todd Howard might not be getting the best feedback from his teams, as they're "afraid to say no to Todd."

Windows Central

I installed the 154 GB 'biblically accurate Skyrim' mod and only crashed my PC like 8 times

I'm either about to brick my computer or prove a very important point.

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As Todd Howard distances The Elder Scrolls 6's "classic style" from Starfield and Fallout 76, it seems Bethesda has learned all the right lessons

Opinion | The Elder Scrolls 6 returning to Bethesda's roots is music to my ears – assuming it isn't just lip service

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I thought I was finally free from stealth-focused Skyrim builds, then someone modded in the ability to hide in bushes

Here we go again.

PC Gamer

Bethesda could take notes from Baldur's Gate 3 on how to make new RPGs like The Elder Scrolls 6 "meaningful," says Skyrim lead: "The gaming community has spoken"

Players want games "where their actions feel like they have impact"

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Skyrim lead says the $100 videogame may not be the best idea: 'I personally think game developers would be wise to not push the prices higher, but gamers are a special breed... they will pay for what they want'

"I don't think players look at the hours of experience per price of the title once it gets past a certain number."

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Skyrim lead designer says the next Elder Scrolls should look at how Baldur’s Gate 3 made things ‘meaningful,’ because ‘the gaming community has spoken’

"Bethesda games have maybe pulled back from doing that a little bit."

PC Gamer

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'

“I led the charge on that, to be frank.”

PC Gamer

'Do they really need marketing for Elder Scrolls 6?' Skyrim lead designer says Bethesda probably won't make a TV show for The Elder Scrolls because it's already making 'literally billions of dollars'

"What you're going to make by licensing the IP to this TV show is just peanuts."

PC Gamer

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'

"He tries desperately not to."

PC Gamer

Fallout works as a TV show because it's "unique," says Skyrim lead – but Bethesda's other RPG series might not: "Do they really need marketing for Elder Scrolls 6?"

"There is nothing like the Fallout universe anywhere else"

GamesRadar

Skyrim's lead designer thinks Bethesda should stick to its in-house engine: 'The benefits that you get from switching to Unreal Engine are probably not going to materialise until two titles down the road'

According to Bruce Nesmith, the huge disruption of such a switch would outweigh any potential upsides.

PC Gamer

"Go back and play Morrowind and tell me that's the game you want to play again," says Skyrim lead, who thinks players "will cringe" at a possible remake

The Bethesda veteran doubts the original source code still exists, anyway

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Skyrim's design lead says if you play Morrowind today, you will 'cringe': 'The reality of playing Morrowind would not stand the test of time'

Sure, whatever you say. Let's do a Daggerfall remake instead.

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Mass Effect 5 would benefit from "taking lessons from Baldur's Gate 3" and being more of a "Bethesda-style game," Skyrim lead says

Bruce Nesmith chimes in on what he would like from the next BioWare RPG

Total Film

Skyrim lead turned novelist says George R.R. Martin should move on from Game of Thrones entirely: "George gave his story to somebody else and they ran with it and they did an amazing job with it"

"He'd be wise to say they finished my work and now I want to do something new"

PC Gamer

Skyrim mod The Rot Below promises a '3–6 hour dungeon experience' and is fully voice-acted

By actual humans too.

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Skyrim scholar uses geometry to determine how walkable the RPG's best cities are, and the results are terrible: "Worse than some car-centric suburbs in Texas"

Windhelm needs to figure out its sidewalks

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With a map twice the size of Skyrim and larger than Red Dead Redemption 2, promising open-world game Crimson Desert is real big – but still "incredibly interactive"

You can ride dragons and mechs around it, because why not

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"RPGs can be divisive": Obsidian chats all things Avowed – how it overcame the Skyrim comparisons, why there's no Baldur's Gate 3-style romance, and what's next for the 2025 gem

Year in Review 2025 | "You're going to get people who really love it and people who really don't love it"

PC Gamer

'A big document of stealth' requested by Todd Howard from a designer of one of the best stealth games of all time was the blueprint for Skyrim's most beloved playstyle

Garrett from Thief crouch walked so Dark Brotherhood assassins could run.

PC Gamer

Skyrim's hardest quest is raising my Fat Idiot Son

That's not a judgment. That's literally his essence.

PC Gamer

Former Bethesda designer says Starfield fell flat because of its reliance on procgen planets: 'I don't think it's in the same calibre as the other two, Fallout or Skyrim'

Not all great tastes go great together.

PC Gamer

Skyrim's lead designer reckons open world games are 'almost a cliché statement' these days, and that Skyrim owes its continued popularity to a focus on player agency: 'We didn't put anything off limits'

Skyrim's 14th anniversary might be sneaking up on it, but players still can't get enough of Tamriel's tundras.

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