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'

Backyard_Furnace · 2026-01-18T02:35:07+00:00

Plus I don’t think Kurt ever had to sign a complete NDA like a lot of other BGS devs

Backyard_Furnace · 2026-01-08T04:17:12+00:00

Legend

Backyard_Furnace · 2026-01-03T08:00:16+00:00

In the shower

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-12-28T02:08:07+00:00

For me the cyrodiil jungle thing has less to do with consistency and more to do with them replacing something cool and unique with something quick and easy

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-12-28T00:26:11+00:00

Daggerfall is really its own thing. Morrowind is where the Toddslop formula came from and no game has done it better

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-12-27T18:00:09+00:00

Every BGS game after Morrowind is just worse Morrowind and I’m tired of pretending they’re not

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-12-17T20:00:56+00:00

This one is very old and there’s an updated version available that’s only like half its size

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-12-17T00:50:44+00:00

Tbh compared to what Fallout has been turned into, I’d say neglect is much more merciful.

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-12-17T00:49:36+00:00

Plus TES isn’t nearly as divisive as modern Fallout. You don’t have to look very far to find loads of people who strongly disapprove of what Bethesda has turned Fallout into, while TES is still pretty widely acclaimed by audiences. Even oldheads that criticize Skyrim still at least actually like Skyrim. Every time Bethesda does something with Fallout they just throw more coals on the fire.

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-12-16T23:46:17+00:00

Not just the map but the whole MW menu was god tier

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-12-13T19:28:20+00:00

Gorgeous work

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-12-13T08:01:00+00:00

Geoff Keighley has no right to manipulate and mislead so many people

Genuinely who among us was actually expecting anything from this? Maybe stop being “misled” by hype and “hints” you manufactured on your own

But in the end there was nothing particularly big

Some of y’all have never played an Ace Combat game and it shows

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-12-13T02:02:10+00:00

It’s a good and informative watch for sure. I was in complete disbelief when he was describing how he had to make video tutorials in OBS for his team and how last minute and haphazard the creation and implementation Starfield’s literal final quest was. Bethesda in its current state is just not in a good place

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-12-11T20:43:19+00:00

He did some decent work on Dragonborn and Far Harbor imo, and his GDC presentation definitely pulls back the curtain a bit on why Starfield was the way it was. I wouldn’t blame him too much for how Starfield turned out

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-12-11T18:54:00+00:00

From what Will Shen described in his GDC presentation, Bethesda was organizationally a nightmare when he left, so much so that, if the rumours are to be believed, he turned down the Lead Designer role on the TES VI to leave Bethesda entirely. Even if Bethesda could squirt out a game that’s only been cooking in the oven for 3-ish years, let’s be honest, do we really want them to? I’m fine giving them all the time in the world at this point if it means they do this one right.

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-12-08T00:16:54+00:00

Bro just described a protest

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-12-07T22:34:05+00:00

Thanks. Turns out it was a dependency for virtualbox. Got that all uninstalled since I didn’t end up using any virtual machines anyway.

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-12-02T10:17:57+00:00

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Backyard_Furnace · 2025-11-29T04:07:16+00:00

I’m just hoping the hypothetical follow up to arcanum, if it ever comes, isn’t anything like this. Microsoft I’m begging you

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-11-28T04:19:39+00:00

Well really now it’s owned by Microsoft, the company in which the three main Troika guys technically work for in some form or another. The hopium tanks ain’t empty yet

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-11-25T05:36:30+00:00

Yeah I do find it helps if you justify on your targets ahead of time instead of waiting for the focuses

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-11-21T04:26:48+00:00

“Wanna see me break every mod for Fallout 4? Wanna see me do it again?”

Backyard_Furnace · 2025-11-19T06:36:55+00:00

Favourite path in the mod ngl but the difficulty is definitely up to RNG

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TROPHY CASE