Skyrim was "the holy s*** moment" at Bethesda, says veteran Pete Hines: "You have to be concerned about us if you think you're going to win title of the year"

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Subscribe to our newsletter You don't need me to remind you about how big a deal Skyrim was (and still is) - it's one of the best-selling, most-modded, memeable, and influential games ever made - but for Bethesda Game Studios, the studio that developed the giant hit, the game was its first "Holy S*** moment."That's according to Pete Hines, the company's former publishing lead who had been at Bethesda for a whopping 24 years.

He told Firezide Chat that Morrowind allowed the company to stay afloat during a rocky financial time and Oblivion solidified the developer as an unignorable presence in the RPG space, but "the Holy S*** moment was actually Skyrim."Even with Fallout 3, the industry veteran explained that there's "people who love that title and people who never played it, but that wasn't a thing with Skyrim" because "everybody played Skyrim - that was the thing that made us feel like we've arrived, we are legit."Article continues below Hines even claimed Skyrim is what made other developers think twice about winning GOTY awards.

"You have to be concerned about us if you think you're going to win game of the year ## Editor's Note The implications of this news could be significant for the industry. Source: [GamesRadar+](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/skyrim-was-the-holy-s-moment-at-bethesda-says-veteran-pete-hines-you-have-to-be-concerned-about-us-if-you-think-youre-going-to-win-game-of-the-year/)