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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."

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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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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."

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Skyrim's co-lead designer says Starfield's main problem is that it never fully cohered as a game: 'It was a releasable game, but it wasn't the best'

And the reception was what he expected.

PC Gamer

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

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Lead dev of Fallout's biggest mod is "really worried" Fallout 5 will use Bethesda's aging Creation Engine, and I am, too — "it needs to be overhauled"

Should Bethesda use its Creation Engine for Fallout 5? The maker of one of the biggest Fallout mods says no — or that it should at least get an overhaul.

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No, Bethesda isn't shadow-dropping Fallout 3 and New Vegas Remasters any time soon — here's what we know.

Rumors are swirling about the future of Fallout, and I'm here to crush your dreams. Fallout 3 and New Vegas remakes / remasters are not launching imminently, but they are on the way.

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Fallout mega-mod maker hopes Bethesda upgrades or ditches its venerable Creation Engine soon: 'Start adding things like drivable cars, maybe even metro systems like what we built'

Team FOLON ran into some issues fitting the Big Smoke into Bethesda's engine.

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'Fallout Legends' Released After a Decade of Development as Fan-Made Expansion Bridges Franchise Lore

A massive fan-led expansion, 'Fallout Legends,' has launched on Nexus Mods after a decade of work, merging lore from the original 1997 game to Fallout 4

International Business Times UK

Fallout: London lead is "really worried" Fallout 5 will use Bethesda's proprietary Creation Engine: "It needs to be overhauled somewhat"

"If they have to upgrade it, that’s what they need to solve: get rid of the load screens and allow better optimization"

GamesRadar

No, Skyrim’s Switch 2 port isn’t that bad — but there’s room for improvement

Skyrim’s Switch 2 port is a decent way to enjoy the sprawling RPG, though it’s held back by some irksome issues.

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I love Fallout, but think its new show sounds more 'Sellout' –and fans agree

The Fallout Shelter reality show has put out its official casting call

Fallout 5's "obvious" setting would be New Vegas, says Fallout: London lead, but it's not the location he'd choose: "I would say Texas"

"The place is already a living caricature of itself"

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Before he left Bethesda, Skyrim's co-lead wanted a cliffhanger ending for The Elder Scrolls 6, but now he knows that's "completely unfeasible" for a series that's already gone 15 years between entries

"That's not a good way to end a game and say, yeah, we'll see you in 10, 15 years"

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Elder Scrolls lore keeper says he left over Bethesda's "bureaucratic" baggage and a broken promise from Todd Howard about leading The Elder Scrolls 6

Kurt Kuhlmann, the keeper of the tomes, says he couldn't do the work he wanted at Bethesda

PC Gamer

A 'deeply social, psychological' Fallout Shelter reality TV series is coming from the producers of the Squid Game reality series

The success of the Fallout series on Prime probably made this inevitable.

PC Gamer

Skyrim's co-lead designer was building real-time horse and cart travel and a dynamic civil war: 'We were pretty disappointed that didn't ship'

Kurt Kuhlmann was co-lead on Skyrim and Bethesda's Elder Scrolls loremaster.

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Bethesda's former Elder Scrolls loremaster on why he left, Starfield's 'communication breakdowns', and how he wanted The Elder Scrolls 6 'to be The Empire Strikes Back'

"It was almost certainly time for a change."

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Fallout: London lead thinks Bethesda has "probably gone one game too far" with Elder Scrolls and Fallout: "It's time to go off into the sunset and look at selling off your IP"

Dean Carter's unsure if Fallout is "in the right hands"

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Fallout 3 launched with so many bugs because Bethesda was "trying to do so much" with the RPG, lead designer says, and "people get tired" eventually: "There's a human element, too"

"We couldn't really comprehend the complexity of the freedom we were trying to give the player"

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After Morrowind and Oblivion, hardcore RPG fans didn't want Bethesda on Fallout 3 – "It was surprising to us just how much hate we got"

War may never change, but Fallout sure has

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Fallout 4 modder turns Bethesda boss Todd Howard into infamous "immortal snail" that kills you with a single touch: "Go back to making Elder Scrolls 6"

Don't do it, Todd

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A Steam glitch convinced some Fallout fans a New Vegas remaster was imminent, only to have the rug yanked out from under them: 'Slowly turning into r/HalfLife'

I want to believe.

PC Gamer

Former Bethesda lead says The Elder Scrolls 6 got announced so early because the studio had to make sure 'people were not just pissed at us' for revealing Starfield instead

"I think there is something to be said for going a bit more constrained. I always thought that was a weird goal anyway."

GamesRadar

Ex-Skyrim and Fallout 76 artist hopes The Elder Scrolls 6 has "some new ideas" that avoid the franchise burnout seen in Assassin's Creed: "Ubisoft games, despite being fun, are very repetitive and by the numbers"

Sorry to this assassin

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