How Todd Howard and the Bethesda team create the massive worlds in Starfield and Skyrim | BAFTA

From The Elder Scrolls to Starfield, player choice is at the heart of everything Bethesda does - including Starfield's DLC Shattered Space. Todd Howard shares some of the influences and the design ethos' that guide the studio.

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[RichardBejtlich]

I thoroughly enjoy Starfield and look forward to playing Shattered Space on Monday!

[TheExile]

I can’t wait for Monday! Got my Captain to lvl 340 and I’m ready for any type of horrors that can be thrown at her and crew

[Morg]

I love a lot of games, but there are a certain few where I enjoy just existing in, and BGS games are the first among them. Can't wait for another world with Shattered Space (and TES6 ).

[_S.H_]

Todd you built an impressive game that I found myself enjoying no less than I enjoyed Skyrim. Starfield was my fastest game to 1000 hours of play time.

[xx_kuus_xx]

paying tribute to GOD HOWARD by buying skyrim again

[Eclipsed]

Starfield is my favorite space game, just keep updating and supporting the game, it still has enormous potential! Looking forward to shattered space!

[mirrorgust]

Starfield is right up there as one my all-time favorites. It's been such a long time since I felt this good about a game. Looking forward to playing Shattered Space!

[NinjaWiener]

I love Starfield and I've obviously been thinking about it everyday since 2018. Closest a BGS game has gotten to feeling like Oblivion. I'm glad that BGS listened to Skyrim and Fallout 4's issues and brought back Backgrounds (essentially Classes but less restrictive), Traits, longer side quests with lots of choice open to the player (like the one with Genghis Khan), and so much more. I love all the new things this game introduced to the formula.

Of course, the Daggerfall-esque world design and exploration holds it back from being a 10/10 (I think it's a 9.5) but stuff like Shattered Space balances it out. Cannot wait for the DLC. Just two days to go!

[MostWanted]

so i found this abandoned mining platform occupied by a swarm of some spider-like whatever, and there was a body with a audio log next to it named Susanne Kaufman's slate or smth like that. It was a recording of how the base was attacked by those creatures. Seemed like a really exciting place to explore considering i came there at night, kinda like a horror. The next day i fly to different system to a totally different planet and the first thing i find is exact same mining platform occupied by a swarm, with the same body lying at the same place with the same audio log WITH THE SAME NAME ON IT i mean i of course had already found dozens of copypasted locations by that time but none of them contaned straight pointers that it's the same place with same people in the same circumstances, as hard as it was not to think about the obvious but i still could keep a fragile illusion that this "dead worker" is not the same "dead worker" i found 3 hours before on a different moon. But someone in bethesda was smart enough to put a name on a body and that was the moment Starfield finally collapsed for me and got dumped.

[khymaaren]

Laughable how some people can't fathom the idea of people liking Starfield, so much so that they need to pretend everyone is a bot...

[PaulBrocklehurst]

Starfield is such a joy can't wait for Shattered Space

[Nick-kbjc]

LMAO! Todd was definitely about to say "Buggy" at 2:00 and you will never convince me otherwise 🤣.

[SkyBorik]

Todd, I really enjoy Starfield. The world, the art, the tone. It's very cozy.
But one thing that will make Starfield better is Taiyo bridge cockpit. Really, why is it the only ship manufacturer without a bridge?

[doesitlooklikeIcare]

He sure loves putting bugs in his games that's for sure

[starfieldsignal]

This is what people don’t understand. They put so much work into this massive galaxy sized simulation. There is tons of potential, and they will be supporting and updating Starfield for a long time.

[maxzapom]

This comment section does not feel real

[G_Silent]

0:25 “that it exists, or… did exist”

Ah sorry! I just cracked up on that one. I love Skyrim!

Edit: Starfield is still a great technical achievement for Bethesda, it’ll only get better as time goes on.

[UmmerFarooq-wxyo]

Starfield - so beautiful, so functional.

[kevinlist]

Can't wait for Shattered space, have it preordered 4pm Monday il be playing and adding more hours to my 1000 hours in Starfield 👍

[yrhb]

Todd build the foundation so modders can add and finish the rest. Thanks Godd Howard.