Wtf why isn’t this the guy in charge of Bethesda??
I looked it up, he left Bethesda in the year 2000 to move to California. He was also art director while Todd was project lead.
Maybe if he was in charge instead of Cyrodiil, Skyrim and (I assume) Hammerfell we could have gotten games set in the weirdest provinces like Black Marsh, Elsweyr or perhaps even Akavir.
I’ve always wanted a Black Marsh setting. Argonians are my dudes.
Elder scrolls online set a major expansion there.
95%+ of the content in the whole game can be done solo if you don’t like the second M in MMO.
It is of course to good a story to be true:
In 2018, a faked snapshot of a UESP page was shared online which falsely stated that, during production of Morrowind, Kirkbride was found under the influence of psychoactive drugs by Todd Howard after being absent from work, paired with a photograph it claimed was taken by Howard of the incident.[49] In truth, no such UESP page ever existed; the story is a fabrication.[49] The image was taken from a music video, fat, that Kirkbride had filmed and uploaded to YouTube in 2013, many years after his time working on Morrowind (the video depicts Kirkbride lethargically overeating as Wesley Willis’ I’m Sorry That I Got Fat plays).[50] Lady Nerevar said of the video’s misuse, “If you told me that a dumb video we made for fun was going to generate a wholeass conspiracy theory that real life people would ask me about […] None of that happened in any way, shape, or form”.
With regard to the hoax and exaggerated accounts of his writing The 36 Lessons of Vivec, Kirkbride said “You know that comes from a Photoshopped image, right? […] that’s all a lie. I’ve already given an account of how the 36 [Lessons] were written: a week of bourbon, smokes, and solitude.”[52] Kirkbride has repeatedly refuted internet myths that he used recreational drugs[52][53][54][55] and has said that the myths annoy him “more than a little bit”.[56] Related rumors that he was dismissed from the company are likewise unfounded; Kirkbride left Bethesda for Zenimax’s studio in California,[1] remained involved in the production of Morrowind after leaving the studio,[25] and continued to contribute to subsequent titles.[1][5][9][11]
Kirkbride has repeatedly refuted internet myths that he used recreational drugs
a week of bourbon, smokes …
i mean…
Honestly, I’d be pretty annoyed if I wrote something so creative and people believed it was because of mushrooms.
Not only did this guy wrote legendary lore, he also rocked out to Wesley fucking Willis.
GOAT
This is not admirable
What a gloriously alien game, truly one of the RPG greats if for worldbuilding alone.
Wait it just clicked for me that the Telvanni, the magic faction, fucking love building their stuff out of giant mushrooms.
So they didn’t just make no fucking sense to me, they actually didn’t make sense in fact.
They can kind of make sense once you understand vivec’s role as warrior-poet. He’s just shitposting, then does something very important, then goes back to shitposting.
I want to believe…
