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Skyrim loremaster says The Elder Scrolls never got a Fallout: New Vegas-style game because Bethesda is "very protective" over its golden goose

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Skyrim loremaster says The Elder Scrolls never got a Fallout: New Vegas-style game because Bethesda is "very protective" over its golden goose

Skyrim launched almost 15 years ago while The Elder Scrolls 6 is still marinating over at Bethesda Game Studios. Even so, Bethesda apparently never considered having an outside team develop a spin-off game to fill that painfully long gap - as it did once upon a time with Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas.

That's according to Kurt Kuhlmann, a lead Skyrim developer and the fantasy series' former loremaster, who told the FRVR podcast that Bethesda is apparently too protective over its golden goose to let anyone else tackle a mainline-style game.

Kuhlmann said Fallout: New Vegas - often considered the best Fallout game in many circles - created lots of discussion around which company did it best. Bethesda or Obsidian? "There are the Obsidian, New Vegas people that think obviously New Vegas is way better, Obsidian is way better at making those games and, 'Why don't they just get Fallout altogether?'"

Bethesda supposedly didn't want those sentiments to follow The Elder Scrolls, as well - Kuhlmann said he doesn't think director Todd Howard "wanted to create that situation again."

"Todd, from my time there, he is very protective of it," Kuhlmann added. "I do think [The Elder Scrolls Online] took the heat off… there was a new Elder Scrolls product and it was ongoing. It was creating new content constantly. There are a lot of people, I mean, I know the single-player people, I'm one of those people–but there are a lot of people to whom The Elder Scrolls is now ESO.


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