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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.

PC Gamer · Jan 31

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

GamesRadar · Jan 31

Former Skyrim lead shares his own theory on how The Elder Scrolls 6 will continue the story: "I would say they will leave it undefined or leave it as neither side really won"

"I would say either just not deal with what happened in the civil war or leave it and say there was a civil war but it didn't really come to a complete conclusion"

GamesRadar · Jan 31

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 · Oct 21, 2025

Starfield designer admits Bethesda's space epic isn't "the same caliber" as Fallout and Elder Scrolls because it's full of procedural generation: "The planets start to feel very samey"

It's good, but not great for Bethesda

GamesRadar · Oct 21, 2025

Some of Skyrim's iconic bugs are "less than ideal," ex-Bethesda dev admits, but "you're going to lose some of that magic" if you try and "smooth everything out"

"We can live with it, because look what we're getting over here"

GamesRadar · Oct 15, 2025

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.

PC Gamer · Oct 13, 2025

Skyrim's longevity shocked Bethesda devs as the RPG was thriving "still, ten years later" thanks to its unique open world: "By all rights, a year later, some other game should have eclipsed it"

The Elder Scrolls gem did what "very few games have mastered"

GamesRadar · Oct 13, 2025

Former Skyrim dev praises Baldur's Gate 3 for the RPG's faithfulness to Dungeons & Dragons: "That's as close as we've gotten to tabletop role-playing on a computer"

It's "at the very top of the list" of true D&D video games

GamesRadar · Oct 10, 2025

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

GamesRadar · Jul 16, 2025