Todd Howard Opens Up on the Future of Fallout, TONS of Starfield DLC, & The Elder Scrolls 6 

And the shortest, most glossed over part of the interview is the Elder Scrolls 6 part. Kill me.

Seriously. Ive had 3 different jobs since that teaser dropped.

To be fair, they shouldn't have teased TES6. They weren't even finished with developing Starfield, and were probably only on preproduction at most.

At least we can look forward to "another jump up In technology"

Did you hear what he sayd.. the way I see they did not even trully started it yet :/ Maybe just the story writting but not the game itself yet :/ See ya in next 6 years buddy.

Gross.

Can you explain why I'm confused lol

Underrated comment.

Thats the point. We wont need fallout 5 cause we will be in fallout 5

Fact

these days this comment may come true.

Dawg you’re literally getting it next year, before the fucking Elder Scrolls six I fucking hate you fallout fans yall got 3 games and a TV show in the same time I got a trailer of fucking mountains. Be grateful for what you guys got cause some of us don’t get anything at all for the franchises we love

Dude! I know!

15 years? Do you mean 7?

My grandpa told me about that show

@@TheParagonIsDead no, I'm actually saying 20 because I believe the show will get at least four seasons. 15 months for each one (filming, post production and airing).

@@KaijuAKD I don’t get what you’re saying, all I’m saying is fallout 5 won’t be any more than 10 years.

We didn't have to, here's FO London, why do you think Bethesda screwed up FO4?

@@zlostnypopolnik Did that actually release?

@@trent.vs.robots No, because Bethesda released an unusable broken update for Fallout 4 and Fallout London runs on Fallout 4. I personally don't know when they will release it, it's not in sight yet. It was supposed to be out on April 23, 2024. They will definitely release it, but because of this update, even they probably don't know when and if you ask me, if it will interfere with Bethesda's business, then Bethesda will release broken updates until they get tired of it.

If you want the game to release when it’s ready then, yes you do.

@@zlostnypopolnik What if X-box bought the entire mod and are going to release it as a stand-alone game or DLC or something.

todd lies all the time so who cares loo

He is the biggest Bethesda simp on the internet.

@@joemama.556 I don't think I've heard Godd Howard lie once. He massively exaggerates most definitely, but that's part of his job.

@@alien0gamer139 I mean, saying they had been working on starfield for 10 years was a blatant lie, saying starfield would be the elder scrolls of the space is also a lie. that game took like 2 years to develop at most

@@joemama.556 lol you are a moron if you think it took 2 years at most to make starfield.

It already has

It definitely has, 76 is a steady cash cow for them so they have no real reason to make a new one right now.

it sounds more like bethesda are trying to incentivize more players to embrace the online only games, but as a fallout or elder scrolls fan, i really don't like the online multiplayer stuff which is why i stay in my lane of only playing both skyrim and FO4, i won't touch ESO or FO76, online only games are just not my thing. so for me, i personally look forward to more single player games without all the attached nonsense.

@@Screeno1993 it hasnt at all its being worked on by a completely different part bethesda and a different studio that doesnt make games like fallout 4 and starfield

@@AtomAndRose it definitely hasn't. Its being worked on by at least two separate studios that wouldn't be working on FO5 to begin with

try retroachievements. adding achievements to old gold console games is amazing. support for gamecube is coming next. ohhhh. i'm drooling

bg3, cp2077, elden ring nuff said

Games take so long to make and games get supported longer as a result. It's a never-ending cycle of shitty free DLC and increasing dev times.

bigger the corpos get the worse the products

@@basshead.Not to mention that Elden Ring is getting a new DLC that's am the size of the standard game.

Yeah they'll have 5 years full production for each, they have no excuse to take more then five years for each game

I'd be up for if they did a "Both". Imagine if they went crazy, and released a Fallout 1 and 2 that's in the same style as the original, but remastered with cleaned up audio and maybe higher resolution, redrawn art in the same style. And they then PAIRED that with a new version in the same package that's the same content, but in the Fallout 3/NV/4 style. I doubt it'd ever happen, but that's the best way they could do it IMO.

@@TeronRedoran that would be awesome, on the topic of remakes they should also remake fallout nv as the devs planned it before being rushed. cause from what i've heard about it, the devs weren't able to add alot of things they wanted to because of time constraints.

They gave you 76 right after Fallout 4, so franshice wise, Fallout do have to wait waaaay shorter than 15 years. Now look at us TES fan.. like, yeah, there's ESO but that doesn't even made by Bethesda

exactly. Its shameful. Why cant they have 3 studios working on each franchise with a release cadence of one new game every 2 years but each individual franchise gets 6 years of dev time??? I really hope microsoft kicks some hustle into them. This strategy of "the whole team will work on one game at a time for 6 years or more" is insane.

Spewfield & forfeit money 76

Yep. Same here dude.

"bu- but they were making starfield🤓" yeah and it was extremely mediocre

Cry more

@@vlkark7480 your born post 2009+ for sure

This. And same with all older titles. Including FO:1 and FO:2. -Give proper modern monitor support (I’ve come to regret the 21:9 monitor). -Untie the physics engine to frame rate. -Upscale base low res textures. -Maybe a bump in LOD in 3D titles.

All. The. Crasheeeeeeeesssss! 😂

​@@edraith88How long would it take to do those things? I'm genuinely asking, I don't know anything about it

Two Elder Scrolls games released in my teens, and two in my 20s. One has released since I turned 30 - the year Skyrim came out. 🤣

It’s gonna suck anyways. Be more hyped for beyond Skyrim

I mean I’m 41. I’ll be dead before new fallout drops

I was 19 when Skyrim came out. I am now 32.

God I didn't need to see this comment. I was 25 when Skyrim came out. I've gone my entire 30s without another one.

sales is what matters, awards are mostly meaningless. ghostwire tokyo didn't do well financially

Use your brain bro,if they shut them down was because they didn't make enough money,it has nothing to do with creativity, what are you a kid?

@@666FallenShadow thats a marketing problem, not a dev problem

@@eyzmin it's also a dev problem. i like ghostwire tokyo, but it wasn't some masterpiece, it is fairly flawed especially in how repetitive and empty it felt at launch so i totally get why it didn't do great sales wise

It sucks but big companies aren’t expected to make creative new games, they’re expected to make generic formulaic bs that sells well.

He needs to loosen his grip a little and let more teams work independently. The fact they hadn't even started ES6 until after starfield was released is insanity. FO5 is probably a fart in the wind right now.

Skyrim took 6 years after Oblivion. Fallout 3 to 4 took about 7 all thing considered. With how tech is now, I'd be surprised if someone took 3 years from start to finish.

It’s been 6 years, not nearly 10

@@TheBlitzkrieg Fo4 was from November 2015, so 9years in a few months

@@andredulac4456 yes, but we’ve had another full fallout game in that time, it’s called Fallout 76, released in 2018. So it’s been 6 years since a Fallout game.

The writing is as good as fo4. If you want a good fallout game go play outer worlds.

Which is stupid because of the negative reaction at launch f76 has never and will never recover to have as many players as it could

💯💯☝️ I've been saying this for years. It's the same reason that we haven't had a new elder scroll game

sir, yes, sir!

GOOD SOLDIERS FOLLOW ORDERS

That's the only part I had to play back... "Did I hear that right???" XD

At least he didn't tell you to Spice Cream yourself. 🤦‍♂️

"Hello there, creampie..." 😇 ~Uncle Classius

There were ten years between fallouts 2 and 3. People will get over it

@@lunchpin403 also different developer's.....

@@lunchpin403 10 years*

@@EatThePath-7 I'm retarded

Fallout 76 is no GTA Online and it’s now been 11 years since the last core GTA game released. With Fallout Especially after they put out the show which did gangbusters fans want more Fallout. And they’re stupid. They’re leaving a lot of money on the table if they put out a game and then wait 15 years so let’s say you’re 15 years old when you play fallout 4 and by the time Fallout 5 comes out you’re over 30 years old I mean, I’d still play it I am over 30 and I still play games but not everybody’s like that. If they want to cash in on this hype they better strike while the irons hot

Yea, Bethesda games are horrible with load screens. And starfield technology is still not good compared to single player games for the same release time

they reuse the same game engine and all the same stuff to tell each story, fallout 4 is just a big mod for skyrim starfield is a mod for fallout 4, guess what tes 6 will be this is why everybody is asking them to sroo using that old af engine and use unreal or something else, they are going to screw tes 6 for that

That’s the endgame and end goal For all these triple A companies they just want to make live service PVP slop that does nothing but generate revenue with little to no work. Just look at halo infinite the entire fanbase was begging for campaign DLC but 343 couldn’t be bothered and just focused entirely on the PVP MTX slop

Fallout 76 is developed by Bethesda Austin. It has its own director. Todd only acts as the big boss for that studio to keep Fallout going in the way he wants. So the team of maryland which is the studio behind Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Starfield are working on Elder scrolls 6 Fallout 5 pre production and Starfield DLC.. But then again they have over 200 more people since Fallout 4 as well. and have 4 Studios. They have the Bethesda Montreal which is the one actually developing Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Starfield. Then you have Bethesda Austing who assisted ID software with multiplayer Doom 2016 and the ones who made Fallout 76 and still work on it. And then you have 2 smaller subsidairy studios usually used to work for extra content afterwards like DLC or Updates which is Bethesda Washington DC and Bethesda Dallas So no Fallout 5 and ES6 are doing just fine

same with Elder Scrolls Online mmo. Tho TES6 is in early development _still_

​@@HyouVizerNot really, ESO is made by a whole different team, being ZeniMax.

76 has delayed it only in the fact that it delayed all projects because they took time to make it instead of jumping into Starfield.

matty was way too soft on him. He also asked a lot of leading questions with built in excuses and outs that generated obvious answers in response.

He could of dug deeper but he was probably being at least a little bit careful, it's not every day someone gets to interview Todd Howard, he wants to tread lightly to keep a good relationship I think.

I don’t get these jokes, it IS coming out in 2027-2028. The games take 4 years to make.

@@TheParagonIsDead then why did they announce they were in early development 6 years ago? 😂you're already 2 years behind schedule, buddy.

@@Notpoop906 they said they were in pre development, that’s concept art and writing etc (not exactly sure how pre production goes on at Bethesda) and around 8 months ago Bethesda got into full production, the games take games take 4 years to make, so 2028. I fully agree it was stupid to launch a teaser so long ago, and so does Todd.

I don't think Todd is just saying that while you wait for a new singleplayer Fallout, you could try Fallout to see if it scratches that itch for new Fallput content.

Either you didn't pay attention to the interview or you just hate Todd. Or both.

​@@lunarpatriotsfor sure both

Fallout 76 most certainly does have good story elements now. It's just dishonest to say otherwise at this point. Go watch some Fallout 76 lore videos

@@jessep5280 I was talking about tristanskywalker1998, I personally love fo76 for it's lore, very tragic and I am loving the new content and attention it's getting

Mods

Don't install the update

Console players can't unfortunately.

Yes I want them to fix the hitching and stutters on consoles.

It runs great on Xbox Series X

He has said Elder Scrolls IV will be his last production.

Maybe a bad take, but look at Siege, it’s at year 9. I’m not saying there won’t be a fallout by then, but I don’t think we will even get another online fallout for a very long time, let alone a fallout single player. It may be possible, but I think it would be dead by that time

Do you actually think it takes the entire Bethesda team to make updates for FO76?

@@garretmc494 last Elderscrolls. not last game.

No one cares

@@FlyingPaladinA lot of people, including me care.

@Anzyn MMOs are the future. You'd best accept it cause single player is DEAD

@@FlyingPaladin Looks over at Cyberpunk, God of War, The Witcher & Baldur's Gate. Look back. Says nothing. Walks away.

Bethesda didn’t make eso. Dude the games take a long time to make, and Covid hurt a lot.

Jesus Christ, your first and only ES game was Skyrim.....

@@roxbox6721 yeah, I've played the other games but I've been waiting for TES 6 since the literal beginning of my memories

My dude has not watched the interview

lol dont forget get whos making it

I doubt it will have army sized battles but it is important to notice that with Starfield they upgraded crowd density with more random NPCs, so I'm guessing they're going to carry over that work into elder scrolls

@@irecordwithaphone1856 They're bringing the technology full circle. They had this with Daggerfall because a pixelated game engine easily could do it. They couldn't in newer titles because the technology in the game engine would have been overtaxed. Starfield showed (at least a little) they could bring it back a little bit.

Not if they're still using creation engine.

Facts

But 76 makes money..all they care about and as much as it bums me out..I get why they keep trying to push MMOs on us

76 is the worst Fallout game ever ! Fallout 3 will always be the best !

@@anakrime93 I'm team vegas..but those games dont print daily money the suits want

Not true. Xbox and ps4 combined make it the 2nd most played. It is also their #1 most profitable game atm most likely

Starfield was great and still is great. The hate-train was organized. I watched the hate train organizing on Steam in teh discussion section of Starfield long before release. And 95% of the hate reviews are incoherent rambling. and the hate reviews always come when new Starfield news appear. People are calling it the Starfield Derangement Syndrome. Literally until today there are haters in the Starfield Fan groups on facebook only to spread hate and negativity and try to ruin people's enjoyment of the game. more than 9 months after launch. Those people will never get over it and search for reasons to review-bomb the game. Starfield is literally my most-played game of 2023 and 2024 (so far. And the only game I play since Sep 1st.)

No.

@@OrkDiktator Sure hun now take your meds

​@@OrkDiktatorNo, it wasn't, stop coping.

@@OrkDiktator I agree the hate train is blown up, but I woulnd't say its "great". Its "really good" to me. The gameplay and the world is still a really good sandbox to play around in. The side quests and stories are interesting (especially a few of the faction quests). But the main story is kinda ... meh.

I think the spin off should be DLC, like, you want to be a pirate the the elder scrolls universe ? take your main character, build a boat and raid the seas

agreed, choice is the spice of life or shall i say the spice of their games, which is why it's infinitely easier to play skyrim over FO4 because you aren't one set protagonist, however i suppose you kind of are in skyrim being the dragonborn, but at least you have a choice to either continue that content or not. so you could be a vampire werewolf, thief, assassin, warlock, priest, vigilant of stendar, mercenary, like the choices are near endless, and the modding scene offers even more choices in this idea. recently i just tried a mod that turns the player into a vampire in FO4, and it was ok, the mod author found a way to write in the vampire story in the existing FO4 story, but i think his mod works much better in skyrim simply because that game was meant to have all of these things, FO4 was specific to that games story, so it was kind of hard to implement the idea of vampirism in the mod, but he pulled it off in a somewhat good degree. but yeah, his skyrim version of the same kind of mod is so much better.

The best part about elder scrolls games is that a longer questline and faction and set of systems within the faction all set within a main game could satisfy that desire

nah, vampires suck literally go watch twilight or something lol

@@andredulac4456Hell nah. The disconnect between Fallout 4 and its DLC was bad enough. Imagine if there was ANOTHER DLC for F4 where Nate or Nora decides to trek to Nevada and gets shot in the head, STILL not bothering to look for their kid. The Dragonborn was more of an Everyman, but it’s still a ridiculous idea.

They gotta have the dude that wrote Far Harbor handle their storylines from now on. In terms of narrative, that DLC far exceeded anything Bethesda has ever done.

lets criticize them more, or they vanish or they improve

Obsidian isn’t going to catch lightning in a bottle twice.

first of all the obsidian that made new vegas is long gone, secondly obsidian is busy af with their own ips

they are making avowed and grounded rn give them a break 😭

@@666FallenShadow Josh Sawyer, the Director of NV, is still there.

Mods are the remaster

only thing i want

He could just leave the franchise to Obsidian...

Very true!

Nah, 76 was developed by Austin studio. Maryland handles Fallout and Elder Scrolls. And, 76 had a shorter development time anyway because it used a lot of assets from 4. So even IF Maryland developed 76, we’d still probably be where we are at now, but maybe a year or two closer to ESVI.

This.! Especially considering a remaster of Fallout 3 or New Vegas would essentially mean remaking the full game from scratch on updated systems. All they would have pre-made would be audio files and how the story is meant to unfold. Microsoft should contract any remasters to other developers, and leave bethesda to keep creating brand new games... that way if the remaster doesn't turn out great, Bethesda can't really be blamed.

Yeah they really did

i think the demographic fits some people, for myself i like the single player fallout experience more, but that's just me, i tried ESO and didn't like it, i wanted to play single player and so i went back to skyrim and it's the same with fallout. i personally can't get into the online stuff, it's just not my kind of fun. but i could see the demographics who enjoy that being sort of separate from the ones who like the single player games, but we really need another single player fallout game in my opinion.

@@user-tp5yb4hr4w well said, i tried 76 when it was free a while ago, it wasn't a bad game, but it wasn't for me. it's clearly intended for online multiplayer and that's not what i want from fallout

@@user-tp5yb4hr4w welcome to gaming in 2024.. everything is online, everything is multiplayer, everything is better with friends.. I hate it.. I Want a good solid single player game.. especially fallout / skyrim style .. where I can play however I want.. I go crazy with console commands or mods ... im surprised fallout 76 is actually doing well .. the simple fact you can't mod fallout 76 as far as i know is mind blowing .. a bathesda game without mods?? without console commands? without the ability to play the way you want?? but as i said .. everythings better with friends i guess..

@@randomsmile9064 it's doing well because of a few things, so the update to FO4 screwed a lot of potential players on PC and the reason why people are now flocking to Fallout in general is because of the popularity of the tv series but also because it's the newest game that has been improved singnificantly over the last was it 6 years? i can't remember how old it is. FO4 probably would have maintained it's popularity if the update didn't screw things up, but then again, i do hear it's doing better for console users so not all is bad, it's just it seems bethesda didn't really test out their update enough to see if it would work on all pc builds, which is unfortunate. you can still play FO4 on PC, but you have to roll back the game to the previous version, before bethesda screwed up the game in the state they left it in now. i assume it will get fixed, but bethesda drags their asses with things like this, so i don't expect it to be fixed for a while from now, the least time my guess will be 6 months from now, but the longest i would say a year, however the same thing happened with people who played skyrim when it was upgraded from special edition to Anniversary edition, some folks stayed on SE for over 5 years simply because the vast majority of modders weren't willing to update their mods so people stayed on the old version for years and years longer.

“We don’t want to divide the player base…” “People who want single player games aren’t playing mmos.” “…uh.”

Fallout 4 was decent, the rest i can agree

There won't be, it's a dead game

@@TheNightman. It's a single player game 💀Dead game is a online game term dummy.

@@TheNightman.Dude no it’s not. People are still playing it and Bethesda is still going to give bug fixes and DLC in the future. An example of a dead game is anthem

@@TheNightman. he literally said another is coming next year in the video

​@@TheNightman.Just ignoring the player count rising with all the updates huh? Classy

How so? He was completely honest and he knows the criticism.

Remasters are a cash grab. Just play the original.

I actually agree with his take on remasters entirely. Updating games so they can run on modern hardware is infinitely better than changing them. Once you start changing art and mechanics, it becomes a different game.

You'd pay rent for air I bet.

@@FreerunningGamer No, but I’d tip my waiter. I have a feeling you would never put a dollar in a tip jar at a bar either. Give me a break.

it is damage control after the starfield fiasco, bethesda is no longer a decent game developer, at best it is just a ip holding brand

at what point? early on i heard it was very weak. Now I've heard it significantly better. I haven't played it yet myself but I've heard they've added a lot of lore and story.

BG3 is not good.

@@bobSeigar well a lot of people thought it was. But what a hot take. The point is they are going to probably take from other rpgs or get an idea on what path to go. I doubt the game will be close to that game.

@@Ray-dl5mp Good fallacy. It's called an appeal to the masses, and proves it is just an echo chamber of agreement. Railroads aren't fun, even if they have multiple tracks.

@@bobSeigar well aren’t you the smartest person. He used the word fallacy folks. I don’t really want to get into a discussion. It was a general point. You can dissect what gameplay elements make the perfect game all you want. Perhaps this post scared you that they will copy that game. I don’t know. Either way, I’m sure it will be fine. Yes this game has to be popular. You do understand money is on the line right. These aren’t pleasure games in a vacuum. So yes they need to make people enjoy it. You decided to get up today and shiz on everyone that enjoys BG3 with your elite attitude. Good day to you. My post was meant for optimism. And you had to make it an us vs them thing.

Not super optimistic, very realistic.

Bethesda will continue with Fallout whether you like it or not 😂