This was very fun to watch.

http://youtu.be/x9a6ZKY5n5g?hd=1

Wheaton asks some pretty intriguing questions.

*Wil Wheaton*

*Wesley Crusher*

Mother of God

I dont think Will will be anything other than Wesley in my eyes.
Great compiment for Tyrannicon, the creator of The Great Battle of Skyrim.
Good interveiw.

Cool, Thanks man!

Shut up Will!

thnx

Intresting. Nice to see him mention giant battles of Skyrim.

This was a really good question, interesting to hear Todd's response:


Wheaton: As a developer, when do you make that decision, that you're gonna give players different ways to have fun with this game. Because things have really changed. If you go back to Ultima, Kings Quest or Wizardry, you kind of have to do this very small set of things, that's what the game is. What you've done is create a world that's more like sitting down to play Dungeons and Dragons, or any RPG, where the DM knows, "This is what my players want to do." So how do you anticipate that stuff and when did you make that decision that this is what you're going to do?

Todd: What we tend to do is make the world as realistic as possible, with all the parts, and then find as many ways as we can, we call them "joy buzzers," where they go "what can we do with it?"...as long as you teach the player, this is kind of a fun diversion, and players get that. But if you look at Ultima 6, is the one where, you can bake bread. That just made everything else feel more real. And that really worked on me in those days. If you can let the player do those things and now they've suspended their disbelief, they have blinders on to where this is my reality for this time, then when a dragon lands or something big happens, that's when it really hits me.

Indeed it was. Thanks!

Wow. Will Wheaton

I loved the part where Wil talked about picking flowers and Todd talked about just riding a train. Whatever our imagination allows is fun to do in these games.

Wow, something I actually haven't seen from E3? This is a surprise, gonna watch this when I wake up tomorrow. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing that. Great interview

Funnily enough you can't bake bread in Skyrim (without mods).

Who is Will Wheaton, someone famous?

Anyone else pull a Sheldon Cooper when they saw him? Only me? Okay....

It is kind of cool to hear about Todd Howard's early days.

I was really hoping he was going to discuss mods for consoles... once day :'(

I really got a kick out of Todd's response to the final question, where he was talking about the direction RPGs are going to go. Specifically with how characters react to the player in a more realistic way and such, then comments that they're nowhere close.

Is that a joke?

He played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek The Next Generation.

He also has a web video series where he plays tabletop RPGs with minor celebrities. Seems Will is really into RPGs.

http://tabletop.geekandsundry.com/

Not everybody is that familiar with Star Trek.
Wil Wheaton was in the first four seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation as Wesley Crusher, Dr. Crushers son.
Patrick Stewart, who voices Emperor Uriel in Oblivion, was the lead in the series as Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Hopefully that was an insight into one of his areas of focus for Skyrim DLC and Fallout 4.

I hope so, because Skyrim is light years away from that. Companies like Bioware do a far better job at it than Bethesda currently does.

Wil Weaton is a spokesperson for geeks.. he's a pretty cool guy really.

I would really like more references in the next DLC packs. maybe a "staff of elder" (HP reference), or an axe stuck in the door of a house owned by "johnny". Simple stuff like that would really make me want to examine everything. I loved the starwars reference and I hope they continue to make more.