{"id":33900,"date":"2018-07-19T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/322515"},"modified":"2018-07-19T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T18:44:00","slug":"bethesdas-growth-makes-it-less-likely-itll-let-external-devs-tackle-its-ip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/19\/bethesdas-growth-makes-it-less-likely-itll-let-external-devs-tackle-its-ip\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethesda’s growth makes it ‘less likely’ it’ll let external devs tackle its IP"},"content":{"rendered":"

“<\/em>Now that our company is so big, it\u2019s always better to keep stuff internal … it becomes less likely, but I could never say never. I thought the Obsidian guys did a fabulous job.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Bethesda’s Todd Howard discusses <\/em>Fallout: New Vegas with The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n

Bethesda has a number of notable game franchises in its portfolio and, while it has looked to external studios like Obsidian once before to create Fallout: New Vegas<\/em>, it\u2019s becoming more and more unlikely that Bethesda will do so in the future.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Guardian<\/a>, Bethesda company director Todd Howard touched on how the studio\u2019s growth has put it in a position where it likely won\u2019t turn to other developers to develop games in its long-running series, though Howard did note that he\u2019d \u201cnever say never.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another interesting tidbit from the full interview touches on another often asked community question regarding remasters of older Elder Scrolls <\/em>and Fallout<\/em> games. While 2011\u2019s The Elder Scrolls V:\u00a0Skyrim<\/em> has received a remaster once already for its PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch release, Howard says that older games are unlikely to get the same treatment, partially because their age is part of their charm.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy that you can play Morrowind<\/em> now on an Xbox One, as it\u2019s backwards compatible,\u201d said Howard. \u201cI actually prefer that over remasters. I\u2019d rather you play Morrowind<\/em> the way it was … I think the age is part of its identity. For Skyrim Remastered<\/em>, we had done some work on it but it was already pretty visually close. But for something like Morrowind<\/em>, my personal preference is not to remaster it. We [also] get asked a lot to remaster [1997\u2019s] Fallout 1<\/em>, and I usually say, if you have a PC you can play Fallout<\/em> the way it was. I think that\u2019s how it should be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Now that our company is so big, it\u2019s always better to keep stuff internal … it becomes less likely, but I could never say never. I thought the Obsidian guys did a fabulous job.\u201d – Bethesda’s Todd Howard discusses Fallout: New Vegas with The Guardian Bethesda has a number of notable game franchises in its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}