Can we stop acting like Todd Howard is some gaming god genius already? This dude's way past his prime

[Amplifier]

He's the one ultimately responsible for this mess of a game. It was his final creative direction. His decision not have land vehicles. Not to have swimming. To have 1000 useless empty ass planets just so he can act all high and mighty during his press conf. Removal of key features from past games.

Like IDK what the eff is wrong with this dude. He had his time up till Skyrim but nowadays his game design directions always seem to be in the exact opposite of what the fanbase wants. And now he still continues basking in all the supposed glory he thinks he still has. He just had a documentary made about himself and was recently on WIRED acting like some celebrity.

Seriously, we need to stop making this dude famous. He's just enjoying the limelight. Every meme about him is just another step toward building his celebrity status when in reality, he's been making ♥♥♥♥ games since Morrowind

[Amplifier]

And I'm pretty sure he's the whole reason why Bethesda still hasn't evolved as a studio up till today. He forces the studio to continue using the Creationsh**t Engine that's 15 years past relevance and still producing loading screens and crappy NPC animations. And the staff themselves seem too lazy to bother re-skilling themselves with a new engine too

[Awakened Gamer]

Originally posted by reignworld:

And I'm pretty sure he's the whole reason why Bethesda still hasn't evolved as a studio up till today. He forces the studio to continue using the Creationsh**t Engine that's 15 years past relevance and still producing loading screens and crappy NPC animations. And the staff themselves seem too lazy to bother re-skilling themselves with a new engine too

Wait you think ceos or creators think alone? That is so naive not to mention they have many connections and are involved in many companies outside of gaming, its so weird to me people always blame the mascots alone. Every big company are connected to each other in some way wake up people.

[Darth Revan]

Originally posted by reignworld:

And I'm pretty sure he's the whole reason why Bethesda still hasn't evolved as a studio up till today. He forces the studio to continue using the Creationsh**t Engine that's 15 years past relevance and still producing loading screens and crappy NPC animations. And the staff themselves seem too lazy to bother re-skilling themselves with a new engine too

creation engine is part of what makes bethesda games great, switching to a different engine would be the worst decision they possibly could make.

[Goof]

Originally posted by reignworld:

Creationsh**t Engine that's 15 years past relevance

please tell me you dont understand game engines without telling me
rage engine is 20 years old
unity is 20 years old
unreal is 20 years old
valve's source engine is 20 years old
quake engine is 20 years old
assassins creed anvil engine is 20 years old

creating a brand new engine from scratch is expensive as hell so nearly all modern day engines are built from 20+ year old variations of it.

[RasaNova]

Are people really acting like that? I like the game, and I knew the ToddMan has been an out of touch with the fanbase since FO76 when I watched him gush about how great a soulless NPC-less online-only quasi-mmo game with microtransactions and 16 times the detail would be. He forgot what made people like core Bethesda gameplay.

That doesn't mean Bethesda makes bad games, for people who LIKE the core Bethesda gameplay.

[Wasteland Project]

Is in full delirium of omnipotence (the real), have you looked the NPCs? 99 percent look like him. Do you need photos?

[Shinobipanther]

Since 2016 I've been viewing him as a Salesman rather than a Dev and he's a damn good salesman.

[Vox Maximus]

So, lets see:
1) is this game better than FO4 - yes, abso-♥♥♥♥♥♥♥-lutely!
2) is this game better than vanilla Skyrim - no
3) is this game better than FO3 - yes
4) is this game better than vanilla Oblivion - yes
5) is this game better than vanilla FNV - no/yes/equal?
6) is it a good game - yes, absolutely
7) are there flaws in this game - yes, absolutely
8) does BGS care about fixing the flaws - no, they rely on community
9) is "woke" bad? - no, but some latent homosexual are butthurt - lmao

[/dev/random]

Hodd Toward is the God and Starfield is His Gift of suffering we shall embrace and love. Only filthy trolls don't like suffering, so they shall go to hell.

[Bone23]

Originally posted by reignworld:

He's the one ultimately responsible for this mess of a game. It was his final creative direction. His decision not have land vehicles. Not to have swimming. To have 1000 useless empty ass planets just so he can act all high and mighty during his press conf. Removal of key features from past games.

Like IDK what the eff is wrong with this dude. He had his time up till Skyrim but nowadays his game design directions always seem to be in the exact opposite of what the fanbase wants. And now he still continues basking in all the supposed glory he thinks he still has. He just had a documentary made about himself and was recently on WIRED acting like some celebrity.

Seriously, we need to stop making this dude famous. He's just enjoying the limelight. Every meme about him is just another step toward building his celebrity status when in reality, he's been making ♥♥♥♥ games since Morrowind

The reality is he is probably like most executives. He was lucky to have a great team that he then took credit for their work. To me it feels like he doesn't know how to hire or manage talented people. His fist big game was Marrowind and then once he was at the top the Bethesda games started to head down hill. For example at one point they had great writers but now it is clear that they have left the company and were replaced by people with little talent at writing.

[NTense]

Todd is finished
Bethesda as we knew it is finished
RIP TES

[NTense]

Originally posted by Shinobipanther:

Since 2016 I've been viewing him as a Salesman rather than a Dev and he's a damn good salesman.

Yes, nailed it

[Liquid Inc]

Originally posted by Bone23:

Marrowind .

Originally posted by reignworld:

And I'm pretty sure he's the whole reason why Bethesda still hasn't evolved as a studio up till today. He forces the studio to continue using the Creationsh**t Engine that's 15 years past relevance and still producing loading screens and crappy NPC animations. And the staff themselves seem too lazy to bother re-skilling themselves with a new engine too

when you fork up a fat wad of cash to create a new engine from scratch, call them... You think if there was a better option they wouldn't use it? What are you, 10?

As the others have already pointed out, most companies are using old or variations of old engines, some of which older than the Creation Engine Bethesda use. The other engines also being of varying levels of modability, and Creation has served them well both for their own use, and also for modders.

Do you truly believe Skyrim would still be relevant if it ran on Unity? LOL. It would have faded in obsolescence by now if it ran on anything else due to how closed they are. No game is as modded as Skyrim is, and it's not for the fantasy setting or Dragonborn storyline. It's because it's easy, and largely due to the CK.

Todd's a salesman and a damned good one at that.

[cdplayer906]

man i hate the internet for making clueless people so sure of their opinion just because they have an audience

[willakadirk1]

Godd Howard to you. when you played Morrowwind Oblivion and Skyrim in your gaming golden years like 20s you witnessed his greatness and he was the GOAT dev back then. He is declining but father time gets the best legends like Jordan, MJ Bird and yes even Godd Howard