Although I love all the mods, I don't play with them. By the time we've finished making the game, each of us has put in hundreds of hours playing it. By the time it hits the shelves, I need a break. So I usually play other games for a while. When I do play it, I like to play it they way we made it. After all, we made it that way for a reason.

Will you guys ever sell us Bethesda approved apparel?

First person.
Bethesda is the coolest place to work you can imagine. Every wednesday is cookie day. Free cookies! How can you beat that?
I am fortunate enough to have my own office.
See my previous post
Absolutely. There are a lot of creative people out there. It's always good to see what they come up with.
Long enough to know better. Over 15 years.

Say I wanted to pursue a career at Bethesda starting in summer 2011. Say the position I was applying for was level design/world design. What are the requirements as background/work experience go? Would I need to get a letter of recommendation?

Do coconuts migrate?

The individual criticisms themselves don't bother me. Many times they just represent one persons personal preference or pet peeve. If they represent a broadly accepted opinion, or point out something that I should have thought of myself, then I'm embarrassed. We hate making games with flaws in them. In that regard, we are our own worst critics. We are actually harsher on ourselves than most of our detractors.

You know how the forum changes "fan" and "boy" used as a compound word to "really devoted fan?" Do you guys think it should be changed to "Adoring Fan" instead?

Argonian or Khajiit?

That is comforting news, albeit not surprising. One would figure that in the world of The Elder Scrolls, Devs would consistently be viewing and reading fan feedback on a variety of topics. Glad to see the involvement and interaction with us [censored] and girls - at least this early in the timeline.

1) What game(s) besides Skyrim, are you most looking forward to being released? (besides Skyrim, I'm most looking forward to Doom 4, Rage and Guild Wars 2.)

2) What is your favorite band? (reposted question! killmoms replied with The Mountain Goats, which I never heard of b4 and turns out I like that band now as well... would be interesting to see what other Devs regard as favorite. Personally my favorite band is Rush and very very close 2nd is Iron Maiden.)

3) What is your favorite dungeon type in TES games? (I love Ayleid Ruins in Oblivion and never get bored of them and also the Dwemer Ruins in Morrowind. Whoever did the designs for those... awesome stuff and the sound effects in the Dwemer ruins made them so atmospheric and alien / creepy. Gotta love that stuff.)

4) Do you have your shopping done for Christmas / X-Mas / The Holidays? (Thankfully I got mine done early, which usually doesn't happen.)

5) Have you ever bought stuff for yourself during 'The Holidays' even tho you might get it gifted to you later on? (I'm guilty as I saw Metro 2033 for $14 and grabbed it for myself.)

6) Since you guys have a cookie day... what is your favorite cookie? (For me it's the sugar cookies my Mom makes during Christmas... the ones that have the jam in the center. The same cookies, if you buy them in a bag at the grocery store usually have rubbery jam centers, which svck.. hehe. Also love butterscotch chip.)

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AdroqOoMsw2MZGM0c3dtcDRfMjg2Y3gzem1rZmI&hl=en has been updated with material from thread 3. Enjoy!

Would there be interest in harvesting archiving their posts from elsewhere on the board as well?



Its good to be back

Firstly:
How is the weather outside?

and
What kind of cookies you get on Wednesday? are they different every week? O=

and
What gave you inspiration for Whodunit in Oblivion? did you also laugh when you made it?
Thanks you for the hilarious, best quest btw!

and
Have you ever been in Denmark?
What do you think of it?

That's all for now dear Devs, thank you for an amazing series of games which I truly think are the best!

Hmm... several pieces of Fallout 3 paraphernalia... a Castle Crashers figure... the Halo Reach diorama... and a figure print of my main WoW character :biggrin:

Along with various programming books, RPG source books, and, at the moment, a board game (packed up for game nights, not set up!)

Where were you 10 years ago from now.?

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

If you weren't a game developer, what do you think you would be?

You're sneaking through a castle dungeon, when suddenly the stone tile you put your foot on makes a mechanical *click* noise, what do you do?

Why was everyone dressed in a robe, then you Todd, come out in casual were? (VGA)

Who is your favorite fan? :laugh:

Do you have any people with a psychology degree in your office? And if so, what's his/her job?

Yeah, you didn't see that one coming.

1) Little Big Planet 2, Mass Effect 3, Guild Wars 2, Deus Ex Human Evolution, Portal 2, and Witcher 2. That's just off the top of my head (I like games!)

2) I actually prefer instrumental music, especially soundtracks. Pretty big fan of music from Blizzard games, Nobuo Uematsu, Yuki Kajiura, and Yoko Kanno.

3) Hmm... I did like the Dwemer ruins in Morrowind - and whatever the bluish glowy ruins were in Oblivion. (I'm a programmer, not a designer!)

4) Ha! No.

5) Yeah... I have a hard time listing Christmas ideas for friends and family that I haven't already bought for myself...

6) Double chocolate chip of course!

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Adoring_Fan

Him.
I imagine him standing out of Todd Howard's office everyday, shouting "by Azura by Azura by Azura" when ever he goes out for break

Do you have marks were Todd and Pete have chained you too your desks?

These questions are specific to the writing staff, if they're included on this Meet the Devs Post

I am actually am a writer, twice published for non-fiction research/policy type work. I am, however, looking at the possibility of making a few bucks doing creative writing. I would consider applying at a game company if my resume was a bit stronger and it might be something for me to consider in the future.

I have 1 question.

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What is it like writing branching storylines? That is to say, how does player choice impact the creative process?

Cheers,

Is everything that is going to be in the game in the game already? For example, if one of the designers suddenly thought to themselves, right now, on the 15th December 2010, that they think that another weapon-type or another spell or another line of dialogue should go into the game, is it possible that they would be able to, starting today from scratch, make it so that their idea ends up in the game? Or has everything that is going to be in the game already been decided upon, and therefore from now until the game is released it's more of a case of improving upon what you've already got, and polishing and fine-tuning everything?

If it's the latter the perhaps the mods can just auto-close all of those "I NEEDZ CROSSBOWZ NOWZ" threads that are so ubiquitous in the run-up to the release of an Elder Scrolls title!

A tie between The Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs" and The National's "High Violet."

I saw Arcade Fire on Sunday in Glasgow. One of my friends left early because he felt that all of the songs "sounded the same". He's insane. They were awesome.

You favorite part about working with Bethesda is the free cookies? XD