Todd Howard
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Which asked of the world creation, was there some innovation like technically that was happening?
Are there some favorite things to you about that world that just kind of connect you?
Is it the humor?
And you feel like you have a sense of your past.
Isn't it possible to have that sense with like Elder Scrolls, like a life story, like childhood trauma and stuff?
Back to the human condition.
Can you pick your traumas and stuff?
That's a mod.
You want to make a mod?
Yeah, thank you.
Go for that.
And then also make a mod for like a therapist.
Now, this might reveal something about me, and speaking of childhood trauma, but I feel like there's a lot of the meaningful experience of a role-playing game is not just the development of the character throughout the game, but the initial character creation, like you said.
Is there something to that process that you found to be powerful?
Like the design of that process, because you think so much about that beginning.
How much should be controlled?
How much should be defined?
The interface itself, the visual appearance of the character too.
Because I feel like that you're loading in, you start to load in the world that you're about to enter by creating that character, right?
And that's continuing for the... Are you, like, thinking of Elder Scrolls VI, you're already thinking about that kind of stuff?