Todd Howard agrees Starfield is "creatively different" than Bethesda's usual RPGs – but says The Elder Scrolls and Fallout were also divisive early on

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Subscribe to our newsletter It's no secret that games like Starfield and Fallout 76 stand out among past Bethesda Game Studios greats, shaking up the developer's usual formula for something new – and Todd Howard knows it, too.The Bethesda boss himself admits as much during a recent roundtable interview.

Our own Josh West posited that Starfield and Fallout 76 are more divisive than RPG gems like Skyrim, and Howard agrees to an extent – but that's not unique to them, as series like Fallout and The Elder Scrolls came across similarly different at first.

"If you look back at the beginning of Elder Scrolls, beginning of Fallout, they're a little bit the same," as Howard puts it."And then, you find an audience that loves that," he continues.

"So, I think it's true that Fallout 76 and Starfield clearly – they're creatively different than what we had done [before].

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And we really wanted to do that.

When you're doing a certain type of thing for, in my case, 20 years, we want to try some other things and learn from that ## Editor's Note We'll have to wait and see how this plays out in the coming weeks. Source: [GamesRadar+](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/todd-howard-agrees-starfield-is-creatively-different-than-bethesdas-usual-rpgs-but-says-the-elder-scrolls-and-fallout-were-also-divisive-early-on/)