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The Elder Scrolls 6 will be a ‘classic style’ Bethesda RPG, Todd Howard confirms

It just works.

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Todd Howard says Bethesda will return to 'that classic style' for Elder Scrolls 6: 'Fallout 76 and Starfield are a little bit of a creative detour'

And it'll be powered by an upgraded engine.

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What's next for Xbox's Starfield? Bethesda's Todd Howard says it's not "Starfield 2.0," but more is "coming soon" — "We think you're gonna love this"

Bethesda's Todd Howard says the studio will soon show what it's been working on for Xbox's Starfield RPG, but notes it's not "Starfield 2.0."

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Todd Howard says there's no Starfield 2.0 coming: The next big update is for people who already love Starfield, and if you don't, 'I don't think this is going to change that'

Bethesda will start talking about the future of Starfield "really soon," but he warned that it may not be all that some fans are hoping for.

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Todd Howard says The Elder Scrolls 6 will be more of a "classic" Bethesda game like Skyrim and Fallout — it's using the "Creation Engine 3" too

In a new interview, Bethesda director Todd Howard has revealed that The Elder Scrolls 6 will be more of a "classic" Bethesda game like Skyrim or Fallout 4.

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"It is not Starfield 2.0": Todd Howard says the RPG's big update is for the people who already love it, and if you "found it boring in places, I don't think this is gonna change that fundamentally"

Bethesda's "using outer space and things in ways that we haven't" before this update

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Todd Howard says Elder Scrolls 6 is a return to "classic" Bethesda RPGs like Skyrim, Oblivion, and Fallout 4 after the "creative detour" the studio took with Fallout 76 and Starfield: "We do have a certain style that we like"

"We're coming back to that classic style that we've missed, that we know really well"

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Bethesda turns Skyrim's rough Switch 2 launch around with an update that quietly adds 60fps mode, leaving fans on the floor: "I wanna cry, it's beautiful"

After almost 15 years, people are still playing

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Fallout 76 reveals its big Season 24 update, and it's coming soon with Bigfoot in tow — here's the release date and everything we know about The Backwoods

Fallout 76's The Backwoods update is dropping with Season 24 in just a few weeks, and will bring Bigfoot to the multiplayer RPG.

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The White House is a radioactive crater in Fallout 3 because there were no quests there, so why build it? 'It is our version of [Indiana Jones] shooting the guy rather than pulling out his whip and going into a fight'

"There was no gameplay around the White House."

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Bethesda originally thought Fallout 3's metro system should go all over the map, then realised running through miles of tunnels was dull as hell: 'Being realistic sometimes isn't fun'

Well, not with that attitude.

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Fallout 3 is famously green, but series co-creator Tim Cain didn't even notice because he's colorblind: "I was blown away"

"The whole greenish tint thing didn't apply to me"

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Making Fallout, Bethesda Game Studios realized "being realistic sometimes isn't fun" in games, dev says

"And we realized it was just too sprawling. It was too big"

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Fallout 3 had "the opposite of feature creep" because Bethesda devs "were really smart about cutting things" they knew they couldn't do

Explaining why you couldn't choose to join factions

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I'm convinced Fallout season 2 has set the board for Fallout 5

Opinion | Bethesda has a chance to do something incredible with The Enclave following the success of the Amazon series

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Post-Skyrim and pre-Fallout 4 was a glorious time at Bethesda, devs say: "When we made that game, it was like World Series Red Sox"

"We, as a studio, got better"

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What's the best Fallout game? As Season 2 of the TV show aired, we asked you — here's what you said (and why I'm not surprised)

Which Fallout game is the best? We asked our readers that question, and the answer we got was clear — and with a few surprises in the results.

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Most of the original Fallout's "dark humor" was added just to make co-creator Tim Cain laugh: "We made this game for each other. When it shipped, we were like, 'Well, I hope other people like it!'"

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"You are wrong" and Fallout New Vegas was ripped apart at launch, Obsidian's Josh Sawyer reminds RPG fans, comparing it to Cyberpunk 2077: "Its reputation at launch was not fantastic"

"There was another game that sold very well at launch that did not review amazingly"

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Bethesda made Fallout 3's VATS system to avoid competing with Call of Duty and Battlefield, taking influence from KOTOR and Burnout: "Imagine the car parts are, like, eyeballs and guts!"

The Vaults and the wasteland required some innovation

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Todd Howard gives Fallout 3 an "average grade," and only after Bethesda used numerous DLC to fix what everyone "hated" about the RPG's original ending

"I’ll give us an average grade on that to make the story continue"

Windows Central

Fallout 76 may get another raid, and Bethesda plans to make swapping builds easier to avoid "playing the UI" — it should learn from one of its biggest rivals

Bethesda is considering adding another Fallout 76 raid, but before that happens, it wants to make it easier to change your builds in the RPG.

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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"

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I'm grateful Skyrim 'dumbed down' The Elder Scrolls

Opinion | Without Skyrim's simplicity, I would never have played Oblivion or Morrowind

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Bethesda's Todd Howard reveals one of Fallout 3's biggest DLCs came from how much everyone hated the RPG's ending — "I’ll give us an average grade on that"

In a new interview, Todd Howard has revealed Bethesda made one of Fallout 3's biggest DLCs to fix its controversial ending.

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