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Todd Howard

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

So there's still computational challenges, like how do you actually make that happen?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Well, what about in terms of creating the feeling of an NPC, what's the role of voice actors?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

So part of the actual experience of the recording will help define the characters and the tone of the game.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Do you ever...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

try to sort of imagine that people fall in love with the characters, with the NPCs?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Like, do they get really attached to the... Oh, yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

These are like close friends, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Like, you can... Like, you miss them.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

100%.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Isn't that part of the thing you miss?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

So that relationship status, if it's complicated, that they're existing in that gray area, it's complicated.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

We're not dating.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Now you're in.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Wow, so some greater degree of complexity in the relationship with the companions.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

A little bit.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

A little bit.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

It's, uh, it's fun.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

I mean, from a, from a game design perspective, I wonder if you can honor the time you spent together with the game because, um,