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Todd Howard "hadn't had a break in 20 years" when Fallout 4 came out, so he took a 3-month sabbatical to "go touch some grass"

"You get to a point in life where you spend more time in the fantasy world than with real people"

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The Elder Scrolls 6 "might" get an Oblivion-style shadow drop if Bethesda leaves it up to increasingly mysterious Todd Howard: "I like to just announce stuff and release it"

Todd Howard's ideal situation with new releases is that "one day, the game will just appear"

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"We wanted to do something new with Starfield": 14 years after Skyrim with no Elder Scrolls 6 in sight, Todd Howard finally admits it's been "too long" since the last RPG

Bethesda focused on the space game first

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Todd Howard says that Fallout 4's cinematic dialogue system 'really did not resonate' with players, even though Bethesda 'spent forever' working on it

"A lot of players were like, 'That's not the voice I hear in my head'."

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The Elder Scrolls 6 is 'Still a long ways off' says Todd Howard, but the slyboots says the Oblivion shadowdrop was 'A test run' and a select few have already played it

More like Tease Howard.

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The Elder Scrolls 6 is "still a long way off," Todd Howard says, but Bethesda is working on it more often than Fallout 76: "We did a big play test yesterday"

Hm, very interesting

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As desperate fans lament Fallout 5's no-show during the Fallout Day broadcast, Todd Howard himself promises Bethesda is "working on even more"

"We're looking forward to the day where we can share that with everybody"

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Todd Howard was trying to pitch Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for years, but even the devs don't know if he ever wanted to direct it himself at Bethesda: "I don't know if he had actually thought about it"

"I don't think he felt that the studio was the right studio for it"

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Elder Scrolls MMO lead still wants to make a new game, despite the cancelation of the Blackbird project that Xbox's Phil Spencer apparently loved: "I don't think you can ride one thing into forever"

Elder Scrolls Online lead wants it to be "that 30-year MMO" but still has ideas for other games because "if you put all your eggs in one basket, there's issues"

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Todd Howard told Bethesda designers that "humor has no place in games," a rule they didn't follow in RPGs like Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and Morrowind: "If Todd doesn't catch it..."

"That's where things like the Lusty Argonian Maid came in"

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'Because no one was paying attention we could just put anything into the game,' says the writer responsible for sneaking The Lusty Argonian Maid into Morrowind

And giving the Elder Scrolls one of its most enduring memes.

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"The great Todd Howard says that great games are played, not made," according to Bethesda's Pete Hines, so Elder Scrolls devs changed Oblivion combat three times and no one spoke about it

No need

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Former Bethesda exec Pete Hines "hated the confusion" around The Elder Scrolls studio "making a new game, and everybody thinking, 'Oh, it's Todd Howard's team'"

"We created a different name for the studio and the publisher, and guess what? It still didn't f***ing work"

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Todd Howard apparently "rolled his eyes" at the thought of Troy Baker playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's protagonist, but the game's lead says it "wouldn't have been what it is" without the Last of Us star

Troy Baker is "always fantastic to work with," says Axel Torvenius

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"If the reception was negative, we'd just blame it on [Todd Howard]": Fallout executive producer jokes Bethesda boss was the perfect meat shield, showrunner says season 2's trip to New Vegas will see "some of our favorite locations from the game"

The reception was, fortunately, not negative

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Actor Terence Stamp, who played General Zod in Superman and Mankar Camoran in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, has died

Stamp was 87 years old.

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Finally, The RPG is on Steam – "Minimalistic Skyrim" where you shove bread into open wounds to heal, and the dragon villain "constantly glitches"

At long last, The RPG is here

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Todd Howard joins fans mourning "the driving force in the creation of The Elder Scrolls and the foundations of Bethesda as a game studio," Julian LeFay: "Without Julian, we would not be here today"

"His work and spirit will live on both in our memories and in our games."

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Bethesda promises updates on Starfield "in the coming months," months after Todd Howard teased another story expansion like Shattered Space

Reports also point to a PS5 release for the space RPG

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Skyrim NPCs are only as complex as they are thanks to a literal "napkin drawing" that Todd Howard doodled, reveals ex-Bethesda dev: "It's actually a napkin story"

The Elder Scrolls' Radiant AI technology evolved from a sketch

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I hope you like the tamer fantasy of Oblivion and Skyrim: lore master of 29 years says Todd Howard "gravitates not towards the weird stuff" and doesn't expect Morrowind-grade weirdness from The Elder Scrolls 6

Skyrim wasn't "all that weird" either

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You're alright, Todd Howard: Skyblivion dev says the Bethesda director "genuinely" wanted to talk to "every single person" working on the mod, despite "being in a position" to just not

"He could have stopped by for 10 minutes, shook some hands and then walked off"

PC Gamer

'We just kept geeking out': Skyblivion devs were invited to Bethesda HQ and ended up spending the whole day talking about modding with the team and Todd Howard

"There's a lot of passion and love in that company."

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As another year passes with no Elder Scrolls 6 news nearly 14 years since Skyrim, Bethesda fans gather to mourn what could've been at Summer Game Fest 2025: "I feel like giving up"

"It still stings a bit that we didn't get anything about the game"

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While Hollow Knight Silksong fans rejoice after getting actual news, Starfield fans are in shambles as Bethesda's space RPG skips Xbox Games Showcase: "The game looks so dead"

Starfield players are disappointed after no-show, to the point they're starting to fear the worst

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