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Ashley Bardhan

"You're all making fun of it and yet you buy it": Skyrim and Oblivion vet on Bethesda's horse armor, and how the dev "didn’t know what the hell it was doing at the time"

Skyrim.

Former Bethesda game designer Bruce Nesmith never expected everyone to be so angry about Oblivion's Horse Armor DLC when it released 18 years ago. I mean, it's mostly just a cool outfit for your horse. But Nesmith suggests that "part of the Horse Armor story is you’re going to make mistakes when you’re the first one in the water on something like that."

In a recent interview, Nesmith tells VideoGamer that Bethesda must have sold millions of horse armors, “and that was kind of a head shaker for us: you’re all making fun of it and yet you buy it," he says. 

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