Skyrim veteran says he got into fights with his Bethesda colleagues over the RPG's most notoriously heavy item: "You can't just give the player everything they want"

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That’s all thanks to Gardiner, apparently.

I literally got in a fighting match with the lead producer over that.

They’re supposed to be heavy, and there’s got to be a penalty at some point.

you’ve got the option to’t just give the player everything they want all the time'."

Gardiner won that particular battle, but there are plenty that he didn’t win.

While he “lost those fights,” however, he would eventually succeed.

“Fallout I didn’t lose,” he laughs.

“Fallout 4,I was the lead producer, so they had to listen to me more.”