Finally, I can’t wait for a new fresh face to over promise me games.

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    He’s 52, if it takes 8 years before ES6 comes out He’ll be 60. If they milk this one as hard as they did Skyrim he’ll be long dead before ES7. Hell, I might be dead before ES7

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      Such a shame the Radiant AI stuff never got fully developed in Oblivion or Skyrim.

      It was the biggest step forward since like Ultima VII. And it worked great in Oblivion like with the Ahdarji’s Heirloom quest where you have to steal the ring off the noblewoman and can do it either waiting until night and sneaking into the castle, or during the day by pickpocketing her in the market, etc.

      Imagine a quest like that but with no loading screens or separation between areas, so you could levitate into the castle, or climb up the walls, or shoot a rope up, or use an invisibility potion for easy pickpocketing, or use a powerful Charm spell to make her hand it to you, etc.

      And that’s just one quest, with no dungeon-diving or combat!

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    I know Todd is kind of a silly guy and people have mixed opinions on him. But it will be pretty weird to be in a gaming industry without him. Like him or not dude is a legend

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      Yeah, I can’t help but laugh at the man (in a good way) whenever I see him on the screen. I’m sure it’s for the best that he leaves the stage, but I know I’m going to miss him.

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      I’m very excited about him not seagulling every single project. From what I’ve heard (and you can see based on their game releases) he’s an utterly incompetent manager.

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        Name any other game that comes close to the scale and freedom of Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion or Skyrim.

        No other game developers even try to compete. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is probably the closest.

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    The first time exiting the sewers in Oblivion, looking up at the sky, water and landscape on the Xbox360 was just magical. Todd’s had a great run and his creations from TES and Fallout are once of my favorite games franchises.

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      God, that feeling when you first step out of the sewers is a core memory for me. Oblivion was my first TES game, I played that shit until my PS3 save inevitably got corrupted

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    I love Elder Scrolls as well, but I kind of wish people would just give him this for now and stop badgering him about the next game. We know we’re getting it, we know it won’t be for a while, and yes, that sucks, but let the dude enjoy his passion project.

    This has been a decades-long project for him, creatively and conceptually. Something he wanted before he even got a job at Bethesda. Like, there’s a significant amount of history with him wanting to make a space RPG, but only when “the tech is advanced enough”.

    Whether it lives up to expectations is another story. No game ever lives up to every expectation, but even if this lives up to a few, I think he’ll consider it a success.

    My only concern about post-TES: VI is who takes over for the series. I kind of trust Howard to put someone he believes in to take over, but it’s not going to be the same regardless. Maybe someone who works on ESO would be good, but I don’t know.

    But in the meantime, I’m just going to (hopefully) enjoy his passion project and I can wait a few more years for the next Elder Scrolls. I know it’s become kind of a meme that it’ll be another decade or two, but I honestly don’t think it’ll be that long.

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      Hopefully it’s someone who’s actually in touch with the culture. For all his faults, you can’t say Todd didn’t grow up knowing what makes a game fun. He’s not some business guy coming in just because the gaming industry is booming.

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    This kid I know worked for a landscaping company that worked on Todd Howards yard and he would always piss in Todd’s bushes. He also said his wife was actually a nice person. Still pissed in his bushes tho.

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    Cool, they must have found a bigger liar to replace him at Bethesda. It took them some time searching but they finally did it.

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    He said it might be his last Elder Scrolls game, because he is getting older and it takes them no less than 900 years to release a new one.

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    More worrying is that he mentions how long you can support a game, so I guess we’re just gonna say that 12+ years between games is normal.