Todd Howard

You make tiny little things you create.

Yeah, it's weird.

I wish there was a way to like...

I would notice things in a video game and it's like, huh, okay.

It feels good, but you don't get that signal.

The creator doesn't get that signal.

I wish they did.

I guess you could get that signal by, you know, why is Lex stuck in this room like digging through the loot?

Do you ever think about making people feel like human feelings when they play?

Like designing, like make them feel fear or excitement, anger, longing, loneliness.

All of the above.

And in general, for young people, that sense of accomplishment is hard to find.

Yeah.

Well, that's the thing.

I mean, the world is cruel when you're young.

Nobody takes you seriously.

That's why everybody always wants to grow up and get old as quickly as possible.

It's hard.

And then video games allow you, I mean, to build that sense of confidence, a sense of pride in something.

That's why when people talk down to video games, like it's a culture and so on, it's not, it misses out on that really deeply meaningful thing.