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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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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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Todd Howard says Bethesda really didn't expect people to hate the way Fallout 3 ended with a full stop: 'We thought this is Fallout, it’s great! People hated it!'

"I'll give us an average grade on [the fix]."

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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."

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I am once again tapping my 'Todd Howard genuinely loves Fallout' sign: He's an OG Fallout 1 fan and still hasn't given back the disc he nicked from his brother

"The rules of the world and the vibe of the world, they were just brilliant and so unique."

PC Gamer

Fallout games all get a huge boost in players thanks to Fallout season 2, although FO3 is way less popular than you'd think

Fallout Tactics is finally on an upswing

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Todd Howard "stole" his brother's copy of Fallout during his early days at Bethesda "and never gave it back to him" as he "loved the vibe" of the RPG

He "played it to death"

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Bethesda is "looking into" Fallout 76 crossplay, but "huge technical hurdles" mean it won't be coming soon: "We know players want it"

Maybe someday

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'We’ve never stopped developing Fallout' says Todd Howard on Fallout 5, but the game is still a long way off with the 'majority' of the team working on The Elder Scrolls 6

Todd Howard has spoken on the Fallout series, including the upcoming fifth entry.

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Silo vs Fallout: getting under the surface of TV's bunker-based hits

We're going deeper underground; there's too much panic in this town.

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Todd Howard likes "to start over" on every Elder Scrolls game, and as we approach Skyrim's 15th anniversary I don't know that Bethesda needed to start over that hard

"You look back across the franchise and say, 'Okay, what's important?'"

GamesRadar

Todd Howard knows there's "anxiety" about Fallout 5, admits "we do like to wait" but reassures fans "we never stopped developing Fallout"

The good news is it's just around the corner, the bad news is that corner is on the moon

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Todd Howard says Fallout season 2 has "the most badass Power Armor I think we've ever done," so it's "awesome" to have it in Fallout 76 too

Shame it costs as much as it does

Total Film

Skyrim is already on Switch 2, so Todd Howard had no choice but to announce some other stuff: Fallout 4 arrives this month, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle coming in May

Fallout 4's physical edition is coming in late April

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The Best 'Fallout' Season 2 Easter Eggs Offer Clues For Season 3

Simply the best Fallout Season 2 Easter eggs. From door-to-door Vault salesman to refurbished sex robots, here are the goodies from season 2 — and hints of season 3.

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The Fallout TV series' showrunner and Todd Howard disagree with fans that season 2 messes with Fallout: New Vegas' canon: 'Sometimes you're gonna get conflicting accounts'

"I think it's good to open up those conversations."

Total Film

With Colorado on the horizon, Todd Howard says it's "good" for the Fallout TV show to "go new places where the games haven't been"

On the road again

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Todd Howard says the Brotherhood of Steel surprise in Fallout season 2's post-credits scene was no afterthought: "It was always a matter of how and when, not if"

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Total Film

Fallout showrunner and producer Todd Howard on whether the TV show just changed video game canon: "What existed before, and how do you remain respectful to it?"

Exclusive: Fallout creator Todd Howard and showrunner Geneva Roberson-Dworet talk potentially changing the game's canon

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Bethesda veteran says less RPG complexity in the Elder Scrolls series is good, actually: 'We got rid of attributes in Skyrim and you know who complained? Almost nobody'

“I led the charge on that, to be frank.”

PC Gamer

Skyrim lead praises Todd Howard for trying 'desperately' not to micromanage and be a ‘bottleneck’, even though he still 'does what he calls seagulling where he swoops in and changes things'

"He tries desperately not to."

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"We got rid of attributes in Skyrim and you know who complained? Almost nobody": Former Bethesda lead pushed for a streamlined RPG where you don't "have your head buried in menus, stats and rules"

"It was about getting the character system out of the player's way"

PC Gamer

Bethesda's former Elder Scrolls loremaster won't tell us where The Elder Scrolls 6 is set, but the team originally agreed on it way back in the Fallout 4 days

Keep guessing.

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Bethesda could have made a Fallout movie or TV show a decade ago, but "credit to Todd Howard," they refused Hollywood's offers until they found "the right partner"

"Hollywood, at the time, they wanted to throw 'the video game directors' at us. We don't want the guy who makes video game movies"

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Ex-Bethesda loremaster and Skyrim lead says Starfield's main problem was not enough Todd Howard: "When he would get pulled away from the game that would really hurt the game"

Starfield had too many cooks in the kitchen, reckons Kurt Kuhlmann

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