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"The whole modding community ... sustains the success of their titles": Bethesda considered using Unreal Engine 5 for Xbox's Starfield, but stuck with Creation Engine to be mod friendly

A former Bethesda artist has said the studio thought about swapping to Unreal Engine 5 for Xbox's Starfield, but stuck with Creation for its mod support.

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Skyrim inspired Kingdom Come: Deliverance even though Warhorse co-founder once listed "100 reasons that he hates" the Bethesda RPG

The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim was allegedly a "huge inspiration" for Daniel Vávra

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Elder Scrolls Online director says his cancelled MMO was a "missed opportunity" for Bethesda and Xbox, but "a giant successful video game" isn't enough for Microsoft's higher-ups

"That was just a very large bet and they needed to hedge their large bets"

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MMO vet Matt Firor was going to make Fallout Online in 2007, but Interplay 'went totally dark on me' and he went to Bethesda to make ESO instead

What could've been.

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After the Wolfenstein tabletop RPG dev told me about its OTT hail mary system, I'm all in

The Wolfenstein tabletop RPG offers "high-octane action silliness" according to its devs, and I'm all in

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Starfield devs faced "a lot of pressure" to use Unreal Engine 5, former Bethesda artist says, but the Creation Engine won because of its modding capability

The modders kept the devs in line

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Obsidian caused some trouble by using the Rorschach Test in Fallout: New Vegas: 'Those folks came to Bethesda and said we're gonna have a fun lawsuit on our hands, so pony up!'

The price of Two Bears High Fiving.

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New Morrowind mod not only adds Sekiro parry, it quietly overhauls the RPG's most controversial mechanic

Missing attacks never felt good in Morrowind.

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Todd Howard seemed "a bit of a fanboy" for Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann, former Last of Us and Starfield artist says

Howard wanted to know about Naughty Dog's MO

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"Those folks came to Bethesda and said, 'We're gonna have a fun lawsuit'": Fallout New Vegas devs "got in trouble" after forgetting about trademarks for some material, says Obsidian veteran

"Holy crap, when they found out."

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Bethesda likely won’t remaster New Vegas because it doesn’t know how to, Chris Avellone says

Grim prospects for the best Fallout.

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From 'Starfield' to Artemis: designing moonbases in games and reality

Looking at the best games for building lunar settlements, and how they compare to NASA's real-life plans for Artemis Base Camp.

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Bethesda showed the Fallout: New Vegas team a "powerpoint about all the things Obsidian did wrong," dev says: "Hugely morale-boosting"

"'I thought we did a good product for you guys that kept Fallout in the public consciousness, but you guys don't seem very happy about it'"

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Fallout: New Vegas dev says it could've been set in New Orleans because 'the vibe was so cool, the flavor was cool, [it would've been] so sweet'

Get Obsidian on that New Orleans idea stat.

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Fallout: New Vegas dev says Bethesda made the studio sit through 'a whole powerpoint about all the things Obsidian did wrong'

"Bethesda used review scores against us."

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Fallout 5 rumored setting New Orleans was originally discussed at New Vegas studio Obsidian, and veteran dev still believes "there's a lot of potential there"

Fallout New Orleans rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

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Former Obdisian creative officer says not to bet on a Fallout: New Vegas remake, because Bethesda doesn't have 'the engineering know-how' to create it, and may not have the source code

Obsidian Entertainment co-founder and former creative officer Chris Avellone has said a Fallout: New Vegas remake may not be possible because Bethesda lacks the "engineering knowhow."

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After 15 years and 323 hours, I've finally beaten Fallout: New Vegas, and this game doesn't need mods as much as you think it does

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Xbox's Starfield just topped US game sales for the first time since launch after its PS5 release — is Bethesda's RPG selling well on PlayStation after all?

Starfield was the best-selling game in the US during the same week that the Xbox RPG came to PS5 and got some sizable content updates from Bethesda.

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Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow'

I'm not quite sure that would be the biggest issue.

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Starfield "was the best-selling video game of the week" in US for first time in nearly 3 years, reports analyst, despite Bethesda's rough PS5 port of the RPG

Some good news for a change

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Fallout: New Vegas designer says don't hold your breath for an Oblivion-style remaster: "I don't think Bethesda has the engineering knowhow"

But Bethesda could test it out on Fallout 3 first, Chris Avellone says

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Almost 28 years later, the mystery of what's under women's skirts in Elder Scrolls spin-off Redguard has finally been solved

I know you've all been dying to find out.

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Bethesda "lectured" Fallout New Vegas designer for saying the RPG would run at 30 FPS: "'Why do you have a f***ing engine that can't run 30 frames per second?'"

"It was so offensive to me"

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Apparently the name of one of the most famous RPG series of all time was a last-minute band-aid: 'I don't think he knew what it meant any more than we did'

"In the end, we had a game that almost didn't resemble our original idea at all."

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