Tag: the elder scrolls

The Elder Scrolls’ weird relationship with expansions began a full decade before the horse armour DLC, in the form of a 16-quest addon to Daggerfall exclusive to one US retailer

The Elder Scrolls’ weird…

The Elder Scrolls has a rollercoaster history with expansions and DLC. Bethesda’s fantasy RPG series has produced some of…
‘I think Todd in particular gravitates not toward the weird stuff’: Skyrim’s co-lead and Morrowind ‘torchbearer’ says Elder Scrolls 6 will probably be pretty normcore

‘I think Todd in…

Certain opinions are so widespread, and so oft-repeated, that I kind of get tired of hearing them even when…
Open-source Morrowind project just got an update 3 years in the making that might have me saying bye to the vanilla game for good—oh, and you can load Skyrim in it now

Open-source Morrowind project just…

Having begun work on it sometime after the domestication of rice, the heroic mad lads over at OpenMW—the open-source…
‘Oblivion Remastered with guns’ becomes reality as modder jury-rigs a literal Glock into the game and shoots up an Oblivion Tower with it

‘Oblivion Remastered with guns’…

Back during the hype cycle for Fallout 3, a common refrain of skeptics was that Bethesda had simply made…
Who needs Bethesda Oblivion Remastered modders have cooked up FO4-style settlement placing even without official support

Who needs Bethesda Oblivion…

It is June 2025, and Oblivion Remastered has no official modding support from Bethesda. But who cares? Because I…
‘We just kept geeking out’: Skyblivion devs were invited to Bethesda HQ and ended up spending the whole day talking about modding with the team and Todd Howard

‘We just kept geeking…

In the build-up to Skyblivion’s release Bethesda has been rather normal. It’s not only let the modders carry on…
Oblivion’s dungeons suck, Skyblivion is making them better: ‘That’s where the power of a proper remake comes from’

Oblivion’s dungeons suck, Skyblivion…

If there’s one thing I’ve learnt in my hours with Oblivion Remastered, it’s that Oblivion’s dungeons kind of suck.…
Oblivion Remastered’s improvements have Oblivion’s meme king hopeful Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas will see similar glow-ups: ‘[It’s] so much better and exactly what I have wanted for years’

Oblivion Remastered’s improvements have…

Oblivion’s renowned meme king, the YouTuber Bacon_, has recently regaled us with tales of rescuing Emperor Uriel Septim, secret…
Bethesda remembers it just released an Elder Scrolls game, announces gameplay-focused Oblivion patch that addresses about 5% of player complaints

Bethesda remembers it just…

Good news: someone at Bethesda tripped over a discarded game case in the hall and remembered that it released…
‘The complexity of mods we can make just shot up big time’: Oblivion Remastered modders breach a new frontier even without Bethesda support—making it play nice with Lua scripts

‘The complexity of mods…

As a man who writes for a living, I have no actual useful abilities. That means that—while I keep…