Skyrim is incredible. Can't wait for that 20th anniversary release on 11-11-31.

Honestly the social element of Skyrim really resonated with me. Skyrim's a single player game but it's just so much fun and I've talked with my friends about it with hours.

Love the fact that he acknowledged the "simplification" of the games after Morrowind. Hopefully they bring that recognition to light for ES6

"There's a million ways to play it" And all of them are stealth archer.

No mini map in Starfield confirmed.

The atmosphere and soundtrack of Skyrim is what makes it special to me. Thank you Todd, looking forward to playing Starfield.

Todd has come out of cryostasis to get our hopes up… once again..

Please Bethesda don’t forget the mystery and mystical feel of morrowind! It was pure.

I’ll be playing fallout 5 with my 10-year-old. (Don’t even have a girlfriend right now)

Cool fact: you can play skyrim on starfield in-game computer as a dlc.

Todd Howard has always been fairly ambitious and inspiring to listen to. Too bad we don’t get to hear from him more regularly!

The fact that Todd and Bethesda endorse and even sometimes hire the wonderful modders within the community will serve to make their future games insanely well-made and pretty much timeless.

Still waiting on Skyrim Podcast Edition.

Someone needs to ask Todd if he’d hire the script extender team. That would be huge

27:11 "... and you generally can't tell (that the resolution is dynamically lowered), unless Digital Foundry tells you so" Lmao, very true

I'm really looking forward to Starfield. A Bethesda RPG in a space game. With next gen gaming technology. It could be great!

I'm an old man with plenty of free time these days. Been on board since Daggerfall, so plan to update and start a new character on the 11th.

Oblivion is like that unloved child that Todd left when it was 3 and never looked back. Meanwhile he's with his new family celebrating Skyrim's birthday each year saying how happy he is to have it in his life.

Todd: "Four, five years, sometimes a little longer."

McCaffrey asking some real questions. Great interview!

Skyrim 11/11/11 Starfield 11/11/22....on Skyrim's 11th anniversary they release Starfield.

For me it's the world of Bethesda games. Yes many games surpass the elder scrolls in terms of gameplay or story like the witcher 3 but in the witcher 3 it doesn't feel alive the way Elderscrolls games do. NPCs just stand in place or places just feel like building between me it feels like a map with things to do not a world to explore. In TeS games when you walk into a road side inn or Tavern you immediately feel that sense of warmth and safety even when you aren't playing on a survival mode you just feel like "Yes this is a place you can relax." No other game reaches that level of immersion and detail like Bethesda games do.

Single Player offline Games will always be my favorite way to play for full immersion don’t really care about online games never will

“Written in ink...”

Todd casually flexing 30 million copies, o is a lot more than that... OMG

Why can’t Microsoft farm-out a graphical remaster of Morrowind for us to play while we’re waiting 4 more years for ES6?

Skyrim is the only game ive owned different copies of and put hundreds of hours in but never actually beat it.

This interviewer is awesome!! Hes asking questions we all wanna know in a very formulated and engaging way!! This dude needs to handle all the interviews from now on💯💯

If you close your eyes you can pretend David Spade is playing a game developer in a movie

Really cool that he sees a flaw in how NPCs react to the player in Skyrim, something they will hopefully improve vastly for the next Elder Scrolls. Growing actuall relationships with characters and seeing the world properly react to your factions and acomplishments

Love developer interviews You guys should do much more of thes

Main story and faction questlines should be focused on in Elder Scrolls 6. You see mods that fix everything in Skyrim... Everything except the main/faction quests... It's just too hard/takes too long time to mod those parts!

Todd Howard's confidence is subtle and not-so-subtle at the same time. It's always interesting to observe

Gotta admit, the questing in oblivion was high quality

A game released on 11-11-11 should really have a 11th year anniversary. Who cares about the nr. 10?

27:05 LMAO todd calling out digital foundry that was great. Love devs acknowledging them

This was a great interview. Honestly enjoyed this entire conversation.

"Kinda surreal, that we're talking about a game we made 10 years ago still." *YEAH GEEZ TODD IF ONLY IT WAS YOUR JOB TO TAKE CARE OF THAT*

My boy Todd doesn't look a day older 35.

Such a humble guy. A living legend in game design. Great interview.

Love how he mentioned the quests in oblivion, some of my favorite quests ever are in that game. Especially the dark brotherhood quests

That small table is the perfect size for a game of chess

Love or hate, This man just wants to make and play fun games.

Loved this interview, love my idol the Toddfather everytime he pops up. I'm so hyped for Starfield and ES6!!

Say what you want, Todd Howard is largely responsible for alot of happiness in the world. Go ahead, call him a liar or whatever. Meanwhile, I'll be cheering him on and enjoying the projects he helped make.

Fantastic episode, so great to see Todd speaking on all these topics, great interview Ryan, love all the IP’s Elder Scrolls, Fallout and have a feeling Starfield will again shake up the industry and be celebrated for many years to come

Hearing that todd has not forgotten about old games is awesome

Please respect this man

As long as Todd can direct one more fallout game ill be happy.

This popped up on my suggested during my first ever Morrowind playthough, love seeing the journey (also this alchemy is amazing)

Thanks to Jeremy Soule for creating such amazing soundscapes and soundtrack!

This was a great interview. Thanks to both!

Great interview. Thank you for doing it.

Увлекательное интервью вышло, значит первым делом создают Саундтрек к игре, прикольно и правильно, потом под эту музыку задается тон игре.

I'm really curious if we will be able to buy a house or alternative ship in Starfield to give us that level of immersion that Skyrim successfully achieved.

I'm looking forward to what Young Scrolls is gonna make out of this Interview.

Todd really managed the workloads so well for the teams

been listening to this guy talk about starfield for over 20 years. not joking edit: not *literally* over 20 years

You mean in Europe we write the date correctly. ;)

this interview just works

1080 60fps gets my vote

There would be at least one more release of Skyrim before tes 6 comes out.

Great interview! It is reassuring to hear that the single player experience will be kept intact with future releases!

If you're here for TES 6, it starts at 15:45

8:44 We’ll that confirms that Jeremy Soule won’t be composing TES 6 soundtrack. According to himself he still has no clue what’s going on and has not been contacted by Bethesda about any work.

Whatever happens...I am confident it will just work.

"One of the reasons we're sitting here, 10 years later, is because of our modding community" That is so incredibly true. Skyrim is a great game, but the modding community elevated it to an unreachable status. There's no other game with as many mods, as many creators. Imo, there's no other game with such a deep, rich modding tool-set that is as uniquely powerful as it is accessible. Whatever future Elder Scrolls titles are released, Bethesda would do well to retain the flexibility and depth of modding for their engine and toolset. If they abandon that, they abandon a significant portion of their fanbase.

Todd didn’t mention it, but he asked Elon to advise him on Starfield, around the technologies in the game and what he anticipates the future to look like.

As a massive ACDC fan that has listened to all their albums countless times....they do all sound the same. Not wrong.

Everyone is talking 💩 but that versions gonna sell like hotcakes lol

Todd said it guys, OBLIVION BEST QUESTING! OBLIVION IS LIFE

How much money has Skyrim made over its life span? It’s gotta be billions.

Loved this interview

Ryan has always been my favorite from IGN. Always has the most thoughtful and well put questions. You can tell he’s a real gamer and enthusiast at heart.

Great job with the interview Ryan.

@15:55 If you're looking for the Elder Scrolls 6 topics etc.

At least we agree on the mini-map thing. Hate that thing... curses to whoever invented that.

"Kinda surreal that a game released 10 years ago still" yeah Todd, it's surreal.

Top notch interview. Glad to know I’m not the only n’wah spending money on AE.

Bethesda does have some nice music

I'm so glad that no one here in the comments is pissing on Todd, glad to see we've moved passed the past and can be excited for new games

Excellent interview.

why isn't the 10th anniversary release not yet listed on retailer's sites? it's only a few days away from release...........or is it a digital only release ?

This is a great interview. Interested to see what the updated sales number of Skyrim is at now. Todd said “much much more than 30 million”.

Todd Howard should use his connections to be the executive producer of a Star Wars RPG

Hey it's that guy from ride the lightning!

He talks about ES6 @15:49

I've always appreciated how loyal Ryan is to the Xbox brand and the all the industry people involved with it.

Ryan continuing to do the lords work in the games industry 🤝

Great interview. Todd is spot on about minimaps.

That face on Todd when Obsidian was mentioned. LOL

Absolutely love the fact that he endorses kidders and credits them with keeping the game alive.

A lot of people are praising Todd & rightfully so but props to Ryan too, he's a fantastic interviewer.

Yay! Love Todd interviews

Love the unintended arena refers no one got. Also can confirm first game bias, as I'm currently playing oblivion.

Great interview! Chomping at the bit to play TES 6!

One thing I'm curious about is the move to Creation Engine 2. With them planning to support Fallout 76 into next year, are there any plans to move Fallout 76 over to the Creation Engine 2? How easy would such a process be, and what would the results of that engine upgrade be?

Great show Ryan and Todd!

A really great interview.

It hurts as a Fallout fan to hear us clearly be treated as the middle child even before Starfield lmao, i'm still thankful Bethesda saved the IP and took it in the direction they did.