The CREATOR of THE ELDER SCROLLS Talks About His New Game & Time at Bethesda (Full Interview)!

➖ Time Stamps ➖ 0:00 Important Context 2:04 How did you start working at bethesda 9:47 For those that don’t know what was your role on the elder scrolls series. 12:18 How Arena became an RPG 13:44 Daggerfall VS Arena 16:34 LORE: Dragonbreaks & Daggerfalls Endings and their effect on The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind 23:15 What’s Your favourite book you wrote? 26:05 Exploring The Other Continents & Lore/World Building 30:03 Did Yokuda Sink? 32:30 LORE: Daedric Prince Malacath & Orcs 37:05 D&D Elder Scrolls Sessions 39:10 Was Shaogorath Role Play Inspired 42:05 Who is Shaogorath to you? 43:17 Do You Like Shaogorath in the current games? 45:00 Skyrim: What’s Your Favourite piece of lore you did not write? 48:23 Re-Published Books & The Lusty Argonian Maid 50:16 Is M'aiq the Liar is Akatosh? 52:09 The Origin of The God Akatosh 54:56 What do you think of Skyrim? 1:00:05 Did You Try Any Skyrim Mods? 1:04:18 What do you think of The Elder Scrolls Online 1:07:41 What’s Your Favourite Elder Scrolls Game you did not works on 1:09:31 Why did you leave so much of Daggerfall Secret? 1:13:15 Are you Excited for The Elder Scrolls 6 1:15:25 If you will still working at Bethesda where would you base The Elder Scrolls 6 1:17:25 What would you want to see in The Elder Scrolls 6 1:23:00 Why did the Dwemer Disappear THE NEW GAME 1:25:40 The Wayward Realms 1:26:06 Tell Us About Your New Studio & Who Works Their? 1:29:38 How will the game look Graphically? 1:31:38 LORE: Where is the Wayward Realms Set? 1:33:40 LORE: The Great Library of Logos? 1:36:40 LORE ART: Who are the Faction Leaders Within The Library? 1:39:15 How Long will you be in the Library? 1:40:01 LORE ART: Secret Language 1:43:10 Working Culture at Bethesda VS Now 1:45:32 LORE ART: Moons 1:48:28 TES MORROWIND Simplified Character Creation 1:49:32 LORE ART: Tell me about the Wall? 1:51:58 Language Skills like in Daggerfall 1:53:50 Denouncing ARENA’s Front Cover 1:55:41 Language Translations 1:56:51 Morrowind included a lore encyclopaedia, will you? 1:59:32 Playable Races: Cambion 2:02:11 Playable Races: Orcs 2:05:00 Character Creation: Race Identity 2:09:55 What is the Tentacle Lore Master? 2:10:27 Who are the Inquisition faction? 2:13:02 COMBAT: Realistic Weapons 2:17:50 COMBAT: Magic Systems 2:19:59 Will You Have Spell Crafting? 2:21:17 How Will Combat Feel? 2:26:06 Using Machine Learning g to Create AI 2:31:02 Can You Get Godlike Powers? 2:36:57 Faction Systems 2:40:37 Will Factions Battle Each Other Unscripted? 2:45:38 Issues With Procedurally Generated Quests? 2:51:56 How Big are cities be? 2:53:38 Castle Sieges VS. Skyrim 2:56:42 Voice Acting 3:01:35 Can You have groups or companions 3:05:05 Can You Have Relationships 3:08:34 Can You become a Whereboar or Vampire? 3:12:54 Will You Have Modding Support? 3:16:31 Will You Have Paid Mods like Bethesda? 3:17:50 Working With Fans 3:20:52 D&D Sessions for The Wayward Realms

Wabbajac Very great interview!! I watched it to the end!!

HOLY CRAP! How did you pull this off? This man is a legend in our Elder Scroll community! I hope he realizes what he helped create and biggest mod community!

"It was laughable. You just kind of stood by its legs and poked it." entire Dark Souls fandom takes offense

I love how they want to take into account why a creature would decide to attack you. One of my favourite things in Monster Hunter World is that while most monsters are aggressive, some genuinely don't care if you're right next to them so long as you are unthreatening. Some are a bit in between. They will attack if you come within a certain radius but they notice you a little before that and might choose to ignore you if you then walk away. It makes the wildlife feel so alive, rather than a computer that only has an attack function.

His chair looks like a jarl's throne

"What are your thoughts on the dwemers disappearence?" "Um, um..."(mic cuts out, screen goes black)

Dude your NATURAL ability to carry an interview is unreal. I watched the whole thing and thoroughly enjoyed every second. Thank you!

it really sounds like ted peterson is focused on making a game that feels believable but very separated from reality which is something the elder scrolls has been straying from with their consecutive titles. Just the scope and magnitude of the systems, races and world is very interesting. It really rang true to me when he was talking about how daggerfall is one of the biggest universes ever created in gaming and no one has ever really tried to make something that large, why not right? I'm very excited for this game even though it is still in the stages of infancy and i look forward to hearing more about it.

Last time I was this early Alduin and Paathurnax still roamed the sky together.

“A. The sky should be interesting. B. The sky should have some gameplay relevance”. Fucking genius

As a game developer myself (not on the same scale) I completely understand what he meant about "good AI". Today's players tend to equate this to meaning tough AI that knows where you are going and how to flank you and shoot you. This is not GOOD AI. AI is artificial intelligence that replicate human behaviors. Humans make mistakes, humans miss, humans mis-step and make mis-judgement. Most games have enemies always know where you are after they spotted you and always hit you and always give chase. They dont seem to use any senses just a magical pointer of where you always are. Its not good AI at all. Its just a "robotic seeker".

Shadiversity is consulting with them!? Now I'm even more excited to see where they take this!

So Akatosh means Also.Known.As.The.Old.Smaug.Himself... woah brilliant!

"Whats your favourite book that you've written" What were all thinking: please say lusty argonian maid, please say that it would be so funny

So sheogorath himself was behind his own games all his time. Interesting!

The world-building for Elder Scrolls is absolutely mind-blowing... all the quirks and technical issues aside it remains one of the best models for open world adventure in PC games, IMO, and largely because of its foundational principles

"This is a bug, or a feature"? "YES"!

"Let me guess, someone stole your sweet roll"...

There is some wonderful insight here. Often what’s lacking in interviews is asking the right sorts of questions. So big props to our host here for coming out with some banger talking points.