Starfield 2 - What's the Role of Voice Actors?

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We work with a ton of voice actors and they bring so much to it. We can write some stuff and the best ones get in there and make it so much better. So we're recording for years and years, literally, probably three years, four years. Do you ever try to sort of imagine that people fall in love with the characters with the NPCs? Like, do they get really attached to the... Oh yeah. I mean, I've done it in games. These are like close friends, right? Like you can, like you missed them. 100%. It's not part of the thing.

Todd Howard is a legendary video game designer at Bethesda Game Studios. He led the development of the Elder Scrolls series and the Fallout series, and an upcoming game Starfield. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(05:53) – Simulation
(07:49) – NPCs
(16:40) – Daggerfall and Arena
(24:53) – Bethesda
(33:18) – Video game graphics
(39:37) – The essence of a video game
(44:25) – Redguard
(49:25) – Creating open worlds
(57:04) – Superintelligent NPCs
(1:01:58) – Starfield
(1:21:40) – The Elder Scrolls 6
(1:41:01) – Fallout
(1:48:09) – Character creation
(1:53:11) – Quests & items
(2:06:57) – Xbox
(2:12:22) – Greatest game of all time
(2:22:38) – Day in the life
(2:30:32) – Advice for young people
(2:34:00) – Fallout TV show
(2:38:32) – Indiana Jones game
(2:44:44) – Meaning of life