The Elder Scrolls Interview

As part of its Skyrim coverage, the Official Xbox Magazine interviews Bethesda’s Todd Howard on the Elder Scrolls franchise.

What has been your most satisfying triumph and your biggest regret as far as the entire Elder Scrolls series is concerned?

Good question. I guess I’ll answer in terms of games. Oblivion and Morrowind are equal triumphs for me. Both projects were exhausting to direct, but both proved for the whole team to be the defining game we wanted at the time. Biggest regret? Redguard, another game I directed. I love that game, but we missed a pretty big technology window, and it just never found its audience. It was right after that we started Morrowind. I felt we had to go back to what the series should be.