I always wonder what happened to Kirkbride. All the stuff he did for Morrowind was so far out there and then he just sort of fell off the face of the earth. He's just been doing managerial positions in game dev ever since. My favourite is the Knights of Pelinal stuff for oblivion. The image of a time travelling cyborg medieval knight stepping out the dense jungle with his Minotaur nephew before a bunch of tribal Cyrodillians is probably the only thing that has stuck with me from Oblivion.

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He works as an external consultant for Bethesda every now and then. He's been involved in pretty much every game although with less degree.

[–] Sam@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Much less degree. C0DA and its various related writings are the sort of things that should have been included in the game (ESO doesn't count, death to MMOs). Bethesdas race to the most marketable game possible isnt suprising its just that Kirkbride hasn't established himself like say Chris Avellone (an extremely overrated writer IMO) as a recognisable RPG writer. Instead he's spent most of his time working at TellTale, which I always kind of thought was a waste.

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

I mean it's just upto him. Working in Game Studios is not very fun especially if you work at big name AAA studios.