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Bethesda learned its lesson from DLC pop-ups in its older RPGs: 'We've gotten better at that'

Starfield apparently won't be repeating the mistake.

PC Gamer · Mar 22

Fallout 3's GOTY Edition was a bit of a misfire, admits Bethesda veteran, but "we've gotten better at that" ahead of the Starfield DLC

"The Game of the Year Edition would start with all of these messages [telling you] the DLCs had unlocked"

GamesRadar · Mar 20

"We were never going to make Mass Effect": Skyrim and Fallout artist says when it came to Starfield, the sci-fi RPG had to adapt

"We made a conscious decision early on to set the game in a real chunk of the galaxy"

GamesRadar · Mar 17

Fallout 3 feeling like "Oblivion with guns" was only natural, Todd Howard says – the RPG was Bethesda's follow-up to, well, Oblivion

"You’re getting an audience that you know expects both"

GamesRadar · Feb 12

The Fallout VATS system was inspired by Burnout's crash mode of all things or, as Todd Howard puts it, 'imagine the car parts are, like, eyeballs and guts!'

"And that’s where you felt the stats of your character more than the run-and-gun."

PC Gamer · Feb 10

Fallout 3 artist was stopped by security after taking location scouting a little too seriously in Washington DC: "Turns out they don’t want you snooping around the buildings"

They're also surprised they got away with their destroyed DC ads: "I don't know if you could do that today"

GamesRadar · Jan 28

Well today I learned: Fallout lead artist says 'we did a little bit of trickery' with the chunky guns, and scale them up when you're in power armour

"Fallout is a world of extremes."

PC Gamer · Jan 22

Fallout 3 "went hard on the gloomy despair of the post-apocalyptic world" to differentiate it from Oblivion, but one dev thinks Bethesda went too far: "We just drained the color out of the world"

"We grind every asset up to just make this place feel as ruined and as dark as possible."

GamesRadar · Jan 21

Bethesda originally wanted Fallout 4 to be set in New York, but too many other games like Crysis 2 and 3 had the same idea: "You know what? Maybe New York's not the right call"

But there's disagreement over who actually chose Boston

GamesRadar · Jan 21

The very first Fallout 3 art was the box art, but the most difficult bit to create was the iconic Vault suit

OG developers say "that was the first thing, the first asset"

GamesRadar · Jan 18