With Todd Howard we can see the effects of someone succeeding and moving upwards despite their utter lack of talent and creativity.

Ditch the old terrible engine and go Unreal 5 is the first step they need to do

How do you blame one man for the entirety of a game’s reception when that game is a space game, which is notoriously niche gaming, and has been for well over 30 years. If you don’t think this is the case then you clearly haven’t been paying attention to any of the space games that have come out in the last 30 years and many of them just don’t hit a huge market penetration. Why is that? Because space games, unlike fantasy is not the catch-all that everybody seems to want to play.

Now that said I don’t deny Bethesda has a problem with its leadership and probably some of those issues root to Todd Howard’s design philosophies sure. But trying to place the entire blame of the reception of starfield on him just seems like he’s a scapegoat and an easy target because he is the face of Bethesda.

I do admit that fallout 76 launch was absolute garbage and the lack of NPCs on launch shows a disconnect to the leadership and design teams management that made this game and decided that was what they wanted.

But fallout 76 just like cyberpunk is a completely different experience now and to use that release as the catch all silver bullet for Todd Howard’s management is cringe but only part of a much bigger narrative.

Just make an ego shooter. Weapon handling was quite well implemented in Starfield.

ESO is my favorite game. Replay value due to massive landscape, and many different things to do. Paying to store more goods $15 a month is lame. And players kicking tanks out of dungeons and trials is obnoxious. Other than that, it’s really good. Does need a major revamp with graphics, and built in microphone usage on ESO 6 on Xbox and PC.

I’ve never seen a franchise flanderized harder than Fallout.

Todd has always been a mediocre game director. Its just become so much more apparent every title. He gains more creative control and becomes overbearing to his teams. Talented employees either don’t get to shape the game for the better or don’t stick around at all. People like Emil are a dime a dozen in every industry. Unqualified and unprofessional. These kind of people grapple to leaders like Todd who want to hear they’re a genius and always on the cutting edge. Now that Bethesda is owned by microsoft chances are incredibly slim someone who isn’t a company man will take over Bethesda after Todd steps down. I’ll always want Bethesda to turn it around, but realistically that will never happen.

Todd is that guy on the team who overpromise, keep juging everyone work, suckup to the teacher and claim it was all him at the end, despite having done very little.

Unfortunately I’m not looking forward to ES6 any more 😢 I know it won’t be what we thought/hoped it would be. I’m still hopeful but not excited atm🤷🏾‍♂️

His ego is just too massive. He thinks he’s God’s gift to gaming, and any criticism is just from jealous trolls.

so Todd learned instead of putting out new features and gameplay to hold onto it until hes ready to release a shitty dlc that way theres less hate. elder scrolls 6 is cooked.

Bethesda and Rockstar as well as many other companies has a development release problem, which is don’t release it, wait 10 years. I’m calling on everyone to boycott these companies for this practice, there is absolutely no reason why we should be waiting 10years for a game that’s going to be riddled with bug and we ALL know this is going to be true.

Skyrim is a trash game, same with everything that has come after it. It’s a buggy, watered down RPG, that put as little effort into the dungeons as they could get away with.

Elder Scrolls looks like a PS2 game. I tried playing it and gave up on it quickly.

I stopped playing BGS games after FO3 and I don’t regret the decision.

Todd “The Con” Howard

Emil’s a bigger problem. Guy can’t write his way out of a paper bag. Or a plot hole. Clearly never read Choose Your Own Adventure as a kid either.

What boundaries in the gaming industry has Todd Howard pushed in the last 20 years? That is such navel gazing nonsense, it’s no wonder everyone hates journalists

The ultimate sandbox fantasy simulation with world history and all that, hands down is always going to be Dwarf Fortress

its just works

I think Bethesda also needs to move away from the Creation Engine, it’s a 20 something year old engine and it’s not good at the best of times anymore. And while I love games like Fallout 4 and Starfield they can be really buggy at time (for example: exploring downtown Boston on the old gen Xbox and PS consoles) maybe they need to move to Unreal or something, hell even CDPR are going to be using UE5 for the next Cyberpunk and 2077 looked gorgeous on the RedEngine!

Gamers are stupid. Devs from a studio that make hugely successful games from a genre borrow a lot of inspiration from those games get shamed from doing what they are good at.

I will personally never not love Bethesda. While there are a lot of good points brought up in this video, and others like it, I can’t necessarily agree with a lot of them.

While Todd is the “face” of Bethesda, he has a huge team of people behind him who all share a part in the making of their games, whether good or bad. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft bought Bethesda, so I highly doubt the final decisions are made by the man himself, but rather an entire team of people who are looking to make a profit. Why else would they buy the studio in the first place?

I simply feel putting all of the blame on one person is a little “out there”.

ES6 skill system:
You can choose to level up HP, Stamina or Magicka and one perk for Sneak, Magic or Melee

1:12 My friend knew I stole his weed when I passed him the blunt of the blame

ES VI is doomed…

Starfield’s technical leap was essentially place the player in a blank, groundless map. Attach a spaceship hat like they did the boat for Point Lookout to make it look like you were in a ship, then enabled noclip

I’m really conflicted here – I started with Morrowind (thousands of hours), Oblivion (less because of the leveled loot and generic dungeons – no reason to explore), and Skyrim (Ok, I played through a few times but it just felt flat and nothing was earned). I was a freshman in college then – and will be in my mid-late 40s before ES 6. I don’t blame Todd specifically… but many of the people Bethesda made passionate about games are simply aging-out. If there is a literal generation between releases, who is left to care? Oblivion did get me invested in Fallout 3 and NV, but 4… I downloaded and it took me almost 5 years to get into. It just sat in my library because I must have played a few hours at first and been like, “Meh….” 2006 me was totally prepared and saved up for a new rig in grad school for Oblivion. Today I couldn’t/wouldn’t justify dropping a couple grand to get the full experience of a maybe* like Starfield or ES 6. It’s just disappointing more than assigning blame at this point.

People in my opinion complain too much. Is it perfect, no. But I don’t know why people are expecting it to be so. Bethesda game is always gonna be a Bethesda game. And every single release that they’ve done in the past 20 years has been met with complaints. Starfield fallout 76, fallout 4. It is hard to make these games, I don’t think they get credit where credit is due. If you want a game like Skyrim, then go play Skyrim. But people just think that all Bethesda games are gonna be as good, that’s not the case. And they can’t always just choose to make things as good.

Todd Howard of the zack synder of the games industry

I would rather have them take the litteral skyrim engine and just make ES6 there.. Better that than for them to invent something new and crazy and whole thing ends up being totally ruined… With Skyrim engine we at least know that modding community will come and make it into a proper game.

The Toad was always overrated. He has never been more than the face and mouth of the studio. The game design and development was 99% the people under him…and all the creative competent people left long ago. Congratulations on waking up to see the real Todd Howard.

Todd Howard has been living in his own alternate universe for years now.

Honestly their style works fine if its made by genuinely passionate and creative developers (see: Enderal). The problem is their design is dull as dishwater designed by committee slop.

i think todd is like thisbecause he allready once said he wont be here for many more games and i think he wants to retire ona big note that peopel remember himother than the ”it just works meme” seeing his latest game isn’t loved by the fans he now panics and wants to have a hand in everythign evenmore because he wants his legacy.

You kinda look like a younger more sober 8biteric

I hope he retires soon

Dei problem, no talent problem, agenda problem, list goes on.

If you see what I said, I’m highlighting that we’re fallout 76 and the concept semi thoroughfare will call it same identities. We would think like where oil pumps are would be consistent in unfolding space, so constants and non semi thoroughfare. Quick random state would be seen unfold site. Indication sort of like it’s not doors. That aren’t there anymore because you’re inside the inside out, yeah.

I’m getting sick of the hype and people saying “this needs to be monumental” or other trite crap like that.
The problem is that they left it too long.
They’ve had enough time to make 2 games and instead we haven’t even got 1.
They absolutely could have just made 2 more games like Skyrim in the same engine + DLC in the time they’ve been idle, and those games would have sold and would have been great if they just had a realistic scope.
Contrary to what many people think you don’t need to be innovating all the time, if you make something good that people like just keep doing that thing.
Write good stories, interesting characters and refine some of the gameplay elements but you don’t need to reinvent the wheel every time you make a new game.
They were clearly capable of building cool worldspaces and excelled in environmental storytelling.
Personally I would have been really happy to just get more games like Skyrim just in different provinces.
“the tech for what we wanna do doesn’t exist yet” is a big red flag, it means there’s likely too much scope creep in mind.

So much to unpack here. It sucks when management won’t admit a mistake. They just defend and deflect to decisions that were made under them, like the vehicle comment. I have had similar situations in my job. You tell the managers to their face what the issue is and they brush it off and blame, not following procedures. People remember things like that and good people leave companies. Also Todd being the gate keeper on everything drives people away. People don’t get the opportunity to be creative.

Todd is washed I fear

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is their games rushed or people that work there dont know how to make quality games?

I think every single trailer or public released clips of any game in the past 7 years always showcases WAY too much. It’s like every time you start a new game after watching video of it before hand, ALWAYS feels like I already know what to expect.
There’s no mystery.

Just reminded me that Starfield exists

Imagine a chef pissing in the prepared meal, the guests complain about its bad taste, and the chef saying “its not everyones cup of tea”, delusional little gnome.

Todd Howard was once seen as a God, everyone bowed to him, everyone revered him. But Like a God he refused to change, adapt, try new things. People have renounced Todd Howard and now, he’s trying to grasp back at what he was once seen, without changing or adapting. Todd and his sweet little lies.

Reminds me alot of what happened to George Lucas. Ego went right to his fucking head.

I literally just finished a 1000g achievement run of Skyrim anniversary edition. It was 100 or so hours of really enjoyable varied content. Both in visual design and quest design and characters and writing. I was never bored. I was a vampire, a warewold, a cannibal and I human-scrificed my wife. The world was rich with lore and background writing. It is very hard to believe that Starfield was created by the same studio. In Starfield, the world lore and writing is dumbed down to a simple childrens book. The art design is almost universally generic NASA that we have already seen in many games, films and TV. The only exceptions are a star trek town, a star wars town that we have seen before and a cyberpunk city that we have seen before. Starfield starts with a good mystery and lots of potential but as soon as you meet the starborn the terrible writing kills any interest you have in the main story. The only time I was not half bored was on the UC Vanguard questline.

I have no problem with their engine. But unless BGS hire professional writers & cancel their policy of only creating the simplest safest most generic quests possible then there is absolutely no chance that ES6 will be good.

The arrogance of Bethesda and Todd Howard these days is astounding. Instead of listening to player feedback on Starfield and looking back and seeing what made their previous titles like Skyrim, FO3, and Oblivion successful, they just get butt-hurt when we don’t love their latest releases. Starfield is a completely bland, boring space RPG. There really is no excuse for it. Ever since the Fallout 4 release, Bethesda has really gone down hill in my opinion. They’ve become too arrogant and greedy now. I swear they care more about monetizing their old games through the creation club content than they do creating new titles. The passion they had during the Oblivion/Skyrim days just seems to be gone. I don’t have much faith in ES6 at this point.

The problem with video games now adays is the major limit on play ‘fun’. Fallout 1 is a great example. An assault rifle can fire 1 bullet for roughly 10 damage, or burst fire for 10 damage x10 (potentially). A mini gun fires for 10 damage x30. The long and short of it is that ANYONE with a minigun was a serious fucking threat.
Nowadays it doesn’t matter ‘what’ you have, all that matters is that it’s the ‘Legendary +10 of Vampirism’, because otherwise you are doing a 10 minute fight against a bullet sponge with 3000 hp that you do 4 damage too.
Also, trying to blame ‘bugs’ for a games failure is so fucking strawman. “I don’t get why people didn’t like my pie! I cooked it for exactly 75% of the time it said to on the box.”

Brunt of the blame, not blunt of the blame.

Hot take: fire tod before he kills the company.

Great video! BGS needs a huge leadership shake-up for Elder Scrolls 6 to be any good.

We don’t want innovation. The bethesda formula was perfect, right up until they started trying to innovate. Oblivion was better than skyrim, and fallout 3 was better than fallout 4. The moment they started playing with procedural generation, everything was ruined. They could’ve just kept adding regions to skyrim or oblivion, and that would’ve been better than starfield. Add morrowind, add hammerfell, add somerset isles. An expanded skyrim (or better yet, an expanded oblivion) would’ve been perfect.

I don’t want more Skyrim. I want more Morrowind. I’m honestly more interested in Wayward Realms than Elder Scolls 6

You mean a Tod coward problem. No innovation or risk taking at all. Just stale gameplay combined with minimizing costs. Can you believe that not even the main quests have any depth now?

Of course Bethesda CAN exist without Todd Howard. But the thing is that there is no guarantee that whoever would be stepping into his shoes would do any better. That’s the way that the game development landscape is right now. The industry has been failing left and right, with a handful of exceptions, but when so many studios allow themselves to be dictated to and manipulated by third parties whose agendas have nothing to do with producing games the average player wants to play, there is a much bigger problem than who sits behind some desk in some office building.

What Bethesda… and every other studio… needs is someone willing to take steps to produce games that are fun and engaging, rather than seeking to stroke their own ego and pander to groups that don’t really care about producing quality entertainment.

Other than that, I agree that Bethesda’s has a Todd Howard problem, in that the man refuses to accept that everyone else but him and his yes-people have moved on beyond Morrowind, which is essentially what the current design model remains based on… even Starfield.

The biggest difference between Starfield and what has come before, in terms of world exploration, is that all of the places you can go in previous titles had an entry point somewhere in the same single worldspace. You could literally pick any direction and start walking, and you’d find something you could explore right then and there, or come back to later. But Starfield spreads out its locations across 1000 world spaces so for the player there’s so much moving around that even if the game has the same number of places to go as say, Skyrim, they feel few and far between. And it doesn’t help that their procedural generation system, has such a small draw pool of elements and nothing stops the same element from being drawn multiple times in a row, what by all rights should deliver a varried experience is doing the exact opposite for a lot of people.

They did not go far enough with the procedural generation. It’s not enough to just plunk down one of 100 hand-crafted POIs on a planet. Procgen should have algorithmically produced the POI on-the-fly based on logical themes, driven by a master seed. Generative AI can allow for that sort of map generation, if the rules governing it are tight enough. But if they must go with the draw pool of pre-made POIs, then they need TWO draw pools, with elements being tossed into the second pool which won’t be drawn from until everything in the first pool have been drawn. Not only will this ensure that everything they make gets seen, but the only time the same element might be drawn twice in a row is if it happens to be the last element pulled from Pool 1 and the first drawn from pool 2. But with a single draw pool from which the same element can be drawn multiple times in a row, then the whole purpose is defeated.

I like the idea of a world to explore where no two players will find the same thing at the same place, and not even the developer can predict, beyond hand-crafted quest-related areas. That’s what Bethesda was shooting for, but failed to achieve, because the elements in the procgen draw pool did not exist in large enough quantity and can keep getting selected. If Starfield were a restaurant, the menu would look like this:

Gray Food with Brown Sauce
Brown Food with Gray Sauce
Both served with a side of Green Chunks

Been saying this for years, he needs to take a step back :/

Good for their time but it’s long been over. Basically, they’re dead. Save your money, stop buying their games and move on 😊

Been saying it for years.

Todd Howard is increasingly becoming an out of touch has-been and it’s unfortunate he doesn’t see it. He needs to update his management style, but I think he just refuses to change and admit he’s wrong.

Bethesda would have a M rating while having baby sucking on a bottle type of stories

When 76 released with no NPCs, I vowed to not only never play 76 ever in my life, but to never play another Bethesda or Todd Howard title. I’m very happy with my level of stubbornness and wish more people had it as well, as capitalism would be in a much better place.

Stopped giving bethesda a dime and I will NEVER pay for something from bethesda evwr again

It’s amazing to see people compare cyberpunk to Star Field when cyberpunk was a major failure on launch.

In 2 years people will hate ES6 and say “why couldn’t they have made it as good as starfield).

Same think happened with fallout 4 that everyone “hated” on launch

Pitiful.

I guess by extrapolation that Bethesda has ALWAYS had a Todd Howard problem, right from the start.

And what has Todd really done creatively? I mean, beyond his CEO duties and that office and management stuff.

Should of took his retirement like 10 years ago

Todd is photogenic have you seen the other employees like the one from the Indiana jones interview that EVERYONE was roasting

The way I see Bethesda now is like the starter on a relay race, they had a good run but the baton has been passed to other people who they may have even inspired but who could take the RPG open world genre to new heights Bethesda sadly turned out to be incapable of by refusing to improve

I thought he got dropped after selling Bethesda to Microsoft he needs to…

Skyrim is an amazing map, a bad game, and a horrible story.

We should’ve been enjoying incredible, yet smaller versions of Fallout & Elder scrolls every 2 years & instead we’ve been left desperate & disappointed by one man.

The sooner he leaves the better.

yeah elder scrolls 6 is gonna suck. 0 hope for it

If Todd Howard needs to leave, then Emil Pagilarulo needs to follow him. Emil should also be held to account.

Starfield, the ONLY game I’ve ever played, where the more I played it, the less enjoyment I had playing it.

Bethesda fan boys when there’s a crappy storyline- “ItS BeThEsDa” like it’s a valid excuse why it’s bad

I’ll continue to play Bethesda games, but only through a Gamepass subscription. I haven’t preordered or paid full for a Bethesda game since FO4 and if starfield wasn’t on Gamepass, I’d have never given it a second of my time lol.

They been having a Todd problem since fallout 76 and starfield

TES6 will legit make or break Bethesda. I imagine by 2030 (if TES6 bombs) that Bethesda will be liquidated by Microsoft and devs will form smaller companies and or join the Gamepass game devs lol.

If you don’t admit there’s anything wrong, you’ll never improve. I’ve been playing games for literally 40+ years, to the point i should run a video game consulting business, and I’ve seen all this before. Nothing changes until these industry titans implode making room for something new

Bethesda is done, they will not see another $Dollar$ for me.

godd howard 🗣🗣🗣🗣

Its not even the elder scrolls/fallout systems and gameplay that make starfield bad. It is these constant reminders that theres no depth or payoff to anything you do.
Finish a quest chain.. oh. Well that was dissapointing. Kill a boss.. oh. The loot sucks. Build a ship.. oh. Theres barely anything to do with it. Unlock a thousand chests and doors.. oh. Nothing inside but pocket lint.

I have been let down by every bethesda game since morrowind but tbf when i downloaded starfield of gamepass i had very low expectations and wound up uninstalling it after a couple hours.

I’m adding “Seagull-ing” to my vocabulary!

Bethesda has been taking 1 step forward and 2 steps back every game since Morrowind. Todd peaked early and has been sailing in the wind of his own farts ever since.

Chat, are we cooked?

Todd Howard needs to relearn what a ROLE-PLAYING GAME is.

You still wont mention Rockstars recent shenanigans, they are far worse than Bethedsas issues, stop shilling rockstar

holy cow that’s some OG footage where the mirelurk queen still spawned at that area

Fire Todd and bring in Once Lost Games (Julian Lefay, Ted Peterson) and give them the resources they need to finish The Wayward Realms.

After Starfield Bethesda went from being a developer where I would buy anything singleplayer they release day one to one where I will buy Skyrim’s sequel if people say it is good later on… Probably on sale

Todd isn’t the whole problem but he is a big part of it.

I don’t understand specific issues with Starfield outside of the character’s not being able to make a difference in their world and some of the factions not being fully fleshed out. The story is both grandiose and terribly insignificant as nothing you do will matter in the end. Every game Bethesda has ever made has had bugs, and when they aren’t game breaking usually they are funny. The story itself is what bothers me. Bungie didn’t make massive changes to their engine for years because the content worked. To me, there were amazing stories being told in Starfield and what we got was a peaceful aftermath filled with corruption and petty insignificance. Even the big stirring changes felt like the world state was the same afterwards.

didn’t you like when he took credit for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, a game he prob had almost 0 involvment in ?

They need to bring in Hodd Toward, a much more evil lad but it would make more sense based on the company’s trajectory since 2015

Pizza Huts got greasy and their food got uninspired over time. Bethesda is doing the games equivalent of that.

I mean they could use a different engine that isn’t the same one they’ve used since 2011 – might help

“Stagnated” is a dire understatement, Bethesda sat on their fat ass for nearly a decade milking SKYRIM and Re-Releasing it for the 15th time, while they have not made a single god damned game game for nearly 10 years, developers that were not working, were not being paid because there was nothing to work on, so they were most likely let go.
Which brings us to today’s Bethesda, full of people who don’t know the first thing about game DEVELOPMENT.
Starfield and its new DLC is the perfect example of how creatively bankrupt and stagnant they have become during their down time. If Stafield is the best we can expect from today’s Bethesda then there is NO HOPE FOR TES6 & FALLOUT 5!

So Todd’s the weak link in the chain… sounds about right.

People keep talking as if Skyrim was such a breakthrough game, but that’s just not true. In fact, Bethesda games haven’t changed much since Morrowind. In a sense Skyrim is just more Morrowind, but with less text and a LOT less guilds and learnable skills.

What made Skyrim such a massive success is the heavy nordic theme. People (Myself included) just dig vikings.

It’s time for Todd and emil to go! Probably a few others too.

does anyone else think that Bethesda should give up the rights to Fallout, and maybe let a developer like the ones who made Baldurs Gate 3 make Fallout 5? you know.. a roleplaying game…

Todd Howard is photogenic? WHAT? Even Fallout 3 character creation monstrosities are more photogenic and all have more charisma. Todd has always come across as, for want of a better way to put it, the nerdy school kid who fell upwards. He’s standing on the heads, not shoulders, of everyone else to make himself look better.

I still don’t know how anyone believes a word he says after the Fallout 76 blatant lies – 16x the detail – yet Starfield got hype and then he came out with his usual crap only for it to end up being a glorified loading simulator with characters so bereft of personality (and facial expressions) you could mistake them for mannequins and it’d be an insult to mannequins.

We laughed years ago that Fallout 3 was just Oblivion with guns.
Then some 15 years later we got Starfield the Skyrim with guns.

Modern bethesda games are presented as the ultimate immersive experiences, but oddly I find that they always seem to have this veil that prevents me from being properly immersed.

It’s like they focused so much on putting random shit into the game that they almost forgot why they were there in the first place. So what seems to end up happening is that the core parts of the experience lack depth and a human touch. They’re then punctuated by these little ‘bethesdaisms’ like bugs and half baked features that stop you from actually engaging in the world in the ways that you want.

The result is that you end up with these constant reminders that you’re just a person playing a game. Which seems to be the opposite of what they’re aiming for.

Technological leap of starfield? Yeah the technological leap of loading screens is the only leap they had.

Yea dude doesn’t have a vision for next gen.
Dude is out of the loop.

Starfield has potential, todd and his yes men just need to get out of the way. They need to do something new from a design perspective and take risks with starfield.

I actually liked parts of the lore and wanted a bit more. Like the terrormorph storyline.

You’re saying if this would be another Skyrim there would be immense dissapointment. But the irony is Bethesda can’t even make a new Skyrim anymore. Look at Starfall – it is a degrade from Skyrim in every way.

I hope Todd the Liar doesn’t go anywhere. It’s been fun watching him telling sweet little lies.

I dont want Bethesda to change it’s game design philosophy unless they go back making it like morrowind with more choices. I do not want them to use a different engine

I like star field. I just wish you could manually fly to the planets.

despite all that i have a strange suspicion his replacement would be much worse.

I strongly believe that they only way to save the major America. AAA studios is a complete cleansing of the Aegyean stables. Everybody gets fired and yes I mean everyone. Including and especially these top managers like Todd who are a massive impediment to making games. Just start over completely fresh with hiring staff.

I think its hilarious people think he developes games still.

Legacy has a KillaHD problem

I want my money back for Fallout 76 Todd

Starfield really doesn’t do anything their other games didn’t. The space travel stuff is novel but ultimately it just became an extended load screen with the occasional dog fight. The ship building is just an evolution of the base building from FO4. Everything else was pretty much repurposed from older games.

A new IP should have new things in it otherwise it’s just FO4 in space pretty much.

THIS IS WHAT ES 6 NEEDS TO BE!
ES 6 needs to be as big as ESO was. Which could fit both Oblivion and Skyrim in it’s world and it would only take up 1/4 of the world map! ESO is a 120GB base game. ES 6 needs to be as big and have varied dungeons not cookie cutters, like ESO. Because everyone is going to be pissed if they waited this long just to get a world full of copy & paste.

People just want to play good, fun games. Give the people what they want.

No. Fans want a copy/sequel of Skyrim. Just with higher detailled graphics etc.

Game developers like Bethesda made a huge mistake trying to create a fantasy game in space. It didn’t work. What would have worked would be a complete remake of Skyrim. It would have been a hit.
When people gets to love a game like Skyrim they actually hope there will be a continuation of this game so they can keep on ‘living’ in this game world. Just like longing for your favorite dish.

I personally would have been happy if Bethesda had used all the combined efforts used on Starfield to create a remake (or sequel) to Skyrim instead.

They haven’t made a decent game since Skyrim. Fallout 4 was probably my most disappointing game of all time (until elder scrolls 6 comes out) then that will take its place 🥴

Look: You don’t have a problem with Todd. Todd has a problem with you.

a big reason bethezda sucks now… is your fualt, players that dont care about quality, theyll eat the slop bethezda craps out… and theyll cheer for it… bethzeda do for as bad as tod is… doesint have a tod problem… it has a player problem, yall will slurp up that garbadge and cheer for it is mobs… youll preorder anything they put out and then fix it for them… so dont expect bethezda to improve… blaim tod all you like, he;s a diluded liar… but he couldint refuse if the comunity gave a crap about the quality of the games….

Bethesda is 10 years behind the rest of the gaming world.

tod howard what ever kind of dev/person he was is now just a conman, another generic petter mulinux, or bobby kotek… trust him if your a fool, support him and you should not complain when he rips you off… scorpions nature is to sting…. tods nature is to lie….

There will be no truly great games again until the system which suppresses the collective wants of the fanbase is destroyed.

That system is Capital.
The individualistic choices of the heads of these game developers focus solely on what is important to themselves personally. There is no care for the greater narritive or gameplay features, all that they focus upon is what will make them the maximum profit for the least investment.

I hope ES6 will be good, but my excitement and enthusiasm for it died with the release of Starfield.

Bethesda is not going to get that evolution with the Outdated Almost 30 Year Old Embryo Parts of the Creation Engine 2 Is Running On because the Embryo Source Code is so ingrained in the current engine that Bethesda literally can not change the Embryo Source Code without the Creation Engine 2 ceasing to function at all!!!! Basically the Engine is being held together by “Gum!”…. I have said this over and over again. Back in 2010, Bethesda should have realized by then that the Engine they were using was literally crap, and should have started to create a brand new state of the art game engine sorta like Unreal Engine! Skyrim should have been the “last” game on the outdated engine while they would have supposedly created this brand new game engine for Fallout 4 “Hypothetically!” …….

Definitely this guy needs to go but unfortunately now it won’t matter since Microsoft bought them

I really want to Bethesda to succeed they gave us great games back then and if they need to get rid of someone to succeed mostly Todd so be it

bugthesda has been the only dev i have seen that has failed upwards

Hear that, Microsoft?
Todd needs to go.

It is 2024, you should not have to go through a loading screen every time you enter and exit a building.

They need a new engine that doesn’t have so many constraints. Gamebryo/Creation Engine really struggles with loading areas quickly, that’s why horses and vehicles are hard (but not impossible) to implement. They also just have too many loading screen in general, that’s a problem when so much of your competition offers a more seamless experience.

🤣 if you’re an optimist, you’re not a very good “realist”.

the reason Skyrim got as big as it is these days is primarily down to the modding community.
the game was a laggy, crashing mess when it came out…

Fallout 4 graphic mods offer the tech leap… so i call bullshit. They are trying to hard to not push hard to understand the problems.

They should bring causal christian stuff into the games lol. drive out the woke soulless stuff.

Toad is absolutely the problem, and the reason I haven’t purchased anything from Bethesda since Fallout 4. As soon as I see him promising anything I know it’s a lie and I’m safe avoiding the product.

Todd is crying in his sugar bombs while playing Stalker 2.

The hype for TES6 that was once causing my mouth to foam has gone away almost completely. More excited for skyblivion

I re-downloaded the game for Shattered Space. I got to the whatever the serpent people planet was called and was just to bored to do the story. I never bothered to find how to get a buggy. Don’t care.

I don’t care if the game looks like poop. If it’s fun to play, make it look like its running on a potatoe. I really could not care less.

It’s obvious none of these idiots even play games anymore, probably haven’t for the past decade. They’re so God damn out of touch with reality I can’t even imagine how far their head is up their ass.

when you were talking about the buggy calling it buggies, I thought todd howard was trying to be fun calling bugs buggies lol

ultimate fantasy simulator, .. todd.. you can’t even get CLIMBING done properly…

cyberpunk sucks though lol.

.. what technological leap is there in starfield? x’D

“It just works”

Pretty girl there on stage at start, who’s that?

Idk todd seems a lil full of himself.
And talks big about themselves like they are so full of passion… lol..

You people are hilarious. Bethesda is Todd Howard. Don’t like it, go play something else. Seriously, a bunch of people who’ve never created anything spouting shit like THEY know how to make a great game.
Here’s an idea….. take some programming classes, apply to a company and create a game better than Bethesda. I know, it’s easier to bitch about games than actually making one.

“Everything had to go through Todd, but we got everything done in time, which is unheard of in the industry.” (Paraphrasing)
That should tell you exactly how mismanaged the majority of the gaming industry is.

I think all you youtubers are wrong about this. The majority of Bethesda fans absolutely want more skyrim. More oblivion. More Morrowind. Label it however you want but that is THE MODEL of what most pure Bethesda fans want except with some improvements and more lore. The typical gamer may crave huge innovation but it ends there. Thats why Starfield reviews are MIXED and not negative like you’d expect when listening to these youtubers discuss it.

The engine needs rebuilt, but I don’t think they should change from the elderscrolls-oblivion-skyrim feel. I don’t want some new-fangled system that they are 100% sure to F**k up. Just use what works, and take the jank out of it. A return of spellcrafting like oblivion had would be VERY welcome. I also loved how you could just get completely immersed in the game world of oblivion and Skyrim. We need more of that. That means minimal UI.

All of these studios seem to be trying to put out (ok) games instead of making something great. If they mess up Elder scrolls I’m gonna lose it.

Well sadly a lot of older Devs have left Bethesda and it’s just not Bethesda.
Look at Bio-ware….I’m not sure if any of the old Devs are left. The good News
and we should all keep an eye to some of the newer Game companies that have
started up a few years or more ago.

Can’t remember the names but there are several
that have a lot of older Devs from Bio-ware Bethesda and CDPR{just to name a few}
So it’s not all bad news and I’m looking forward to see what they put out in the next year
or so.

Just like a lot of these companies, they are living on past success. This is when most of the staff from Bethesda, Bioware, Obsidian, Activision, Rockstar, etc have moved on to set up their own companies. Bethesda has always been overrated and it’s the Modding community that have made Skyrim what it is. If the mods can can make a better game than the actual studio, then this says a lot about the Bethesda formula. Played Starfield and it felt 10+ years old. This is a huge problem and one Todd is blinded to. He and his team need to listen to the community and maybe, maybe things will actually change. Start by dumping the Creation Engine.

Eventually you get so big that you’ll take heat no matter what you do. Todd gets all the hate but dude gave us elder scrolls. He’s a legend. Those games are important historically.

Starfield is a very good example of what not to do, if not for Bethesda at least let’s hope that some other teams will take the hint.

id be fine with more Skyrim, the problem is they keep nerfing it. go back to complex linear upgrade systems. Trying to make it appeal to normies is the reason it sucked. Oblivion to this day is way better, and if oblivion was as pretty and cinematic are Skyrim, I’m almost certain it would be more successful than Skyrim.

Both from Howard and Bethesda heads, they want their games to appeal to everyone and be open to everyone which in turn removes so much from those games, look how they hacked the magic system fr Morrowwind to Oblivion to Skyrim, it’s gotten simplier, look at how they took a Fallout 3 mod and made it the focus of Fallout 4(the settlements /building) and Starfield could have been better if they limited the planets and removed the damn “space magic”

Starfield would have been good if the writing wasn’t so pathetic, scared, and bland. The game has a NG+ loop meant for repeated playthroughs, and quests are presented to you as though they have different possible outcomes, but in reality none of this is used. There is no “good” playthrough, or “pirate” playthrough, or anything that would result in different choice outcomes. It’s just the same quests no matter what. There is no RPG.

The design intent is obvious. They just never followed through. The writers and quest designers are solely responsible for ruining Starfield.

meh, Im fine with the engine – hell, I still enjoy old 8bit nes games – so I dont need some technological amazement. But what I DO want is better writing, better quests, better world building.

I have a kinda out of pocket idea. Can you try making a video / video essay about something positive? A video about something you find amazing happening in the industry or smtn like that. (I’m not hating. Almost everything I watch on YT is analyzing something critically. I don’t mind it. But idk. Might be cool once in awhile to see the people who are so good at making criticism/expose video essays publish a video that makes viewers feel excited or grateful about something. Especially something most viewers perhaps weren’t even aware of prior to the video)

I had a PS my whole life. From PS1 I switched to Xbox because they bought Bethesda. Now to be fair, I love game pass and don’t really regret it. Bethesda is not the same though. I don’t have hope for ES6 at all.

Exact same systems as morrowind with all-voice acting and *technically* hitting the enemy on every weapon attack visually. Modern graphics. You’re welcome

Miss kirkbride’s writing. Hate how forgettable every bgs game ive played the last decade has felt.

Xbox fans… starfield being compared to skyrim?? Starfield is basically No man’s sky. Fallout 4 is basically fallout 3 and fallout 76 doesn’t have a single player experience just online which why I don’t play it. Let’s not forget M$ owns them so it’s only going to get worse not better.

When was the last good game bethesda made?

Todd is the guy that makes what bethesda is today! Without him the studio would be dead, bethesda has pther projects and most of them are trash, so for me, it is clear he is the master mind, but he need to go the danger zone most often.

This explains a lot of the reasons behind the delay of TES VI to me. It isn’t just that Bethesda had “other irons in the fire,” so to speak. It’s not just a matter of updating to the latest technology to make the game look and run smoother. To me, it seems as though they’ve run out of ideas. They built up this fantastic world (Tamriel) that has a richly developed, intricate history, where events of the past shaped what happens in the future. From Arena’s being a basic “gladiator-fights-to-escape-prison” style, to Daggerfall’s quest to seek all the parts of a Staff of Chaos to release a usurped king from hell, to Morrowind’s Neverarine quest, to Oblivion’s amazing fight against the Lord of Hell itself, to Skyrim’s battle against a faction that wants complete and total control of the entire continent, it now seems that Bethesda doesn’t know where to go with this story. There are so many sandboxed, pointless side quests in Skyrim they could have cut in order to keep the Civil War as it was initially written, without cutting it to the bone. So now we’re waiting for TES VI to find out what happened to the Empire. And Todd Howard – rather than appointing people to oversee Bethesda’s other games – fiddles about with his pet project, letting other games languish unfinished, then gets pissy when the gaming public doesn’t love it as much as he does. Someone should remind Howard what movies came out of Disney in the 1990’s, when they let the Florida animation studio do what they wanted without the Anaheim studio breathing down their necks.

Get rid of the fool… The next Elder’sscroll will be out in 10 years and we dont want another dud. Followed up by, Fallout will be out in 20 years.

No Todd = Next Fallout will be worked on NOW…

10:33 they picked him because of looks?? Who cares what he looks like

The ‘Waiting to put the Buggy in the DLC’ has the same energy as trying to distract with jangling keys in front of toddlers.

Emil Pagliaccijasonderulo

Starfield was no men’s sky with NPCS. That’s it. Build random bases on random planets and do nothing.

Bethesda needs a major engine upgrade or a full replacement.

Shartted space

I swear, people don’t stick to their lane. People, gamers, just want a solid storyline, a decent baseline of a combat system with animation slots, not buggy and clunky, but solid enough (that modders will actually make into something), an open world, filled with little quests that an actual gamer in conjuction with a writer and a developer, have written together, and that’s it. They just need to upgrade their shit-ancient tech engine, to something modern that won’t actually fall off and die, when people start modding it, and yes that’s skyrim, the open moddable world game. Personally a storyline that I have an impact on, a greater war etc. is really important, that my character is sort of unique or will become through immense work, but also the survival element is very important for the RP. To have a home or a tent, live outdoors, manage your food and water, supplies etc., made those mods essentials in my list, cause I could actually and uninterruptedly enjoy my power fantasy.

Bethesda is now the epitome of greed and laziness, ruined their own reputation.

Fallout 3 made me a Bethesda fan, skyrim strengthened it… I looked back and played older games, oblivion, morrowind, I plan on doing a daggerfall play though… But fallout 4 angered me… They spit on the lore and history because it was all but a soft reboot of the fallout franchise…. 76 was OK… If they fail with ES6 I don’t think Bethesda will recover… Lot of folks are jaded at the media industry… Look at Star Wars… Look how movie studios just can’t make proof… People have been burned to many times… We have see massive financial failures in video games and I fear if Bethesda also fails with ES6 doesn’t wow fans again… The video game industry might start drying up… But maybe that’s a good thing, maybe we just need new blood so to speak…

I’m sorry for another comment but I just remembered something that made me feel disgusted with Todd. I don’t remember when the interview happened. Think it was before 76 came out. He was talking about how many people still play their older games. Something most people would be over the moon about.

But Todd? He didn’t like having zero ‘touch point’ with the players. That he couldn’t charge more for things really. He came across as so ungrateful for what most developers would kill for. And then he threw it what little remained for 76.

I’m a massive fan of Skyrim and fallout 4 yet I won’t even dl starfield with pass.

The moment that lying little worm uttered ‘1000 planets’ I knew it would be garbage. It echoed what he said about the garbage fire that FO76 is. I do not care if you like what it is now. They should not have gotten applause for including NPCs in a freaking RPG.

Screw Todd. Screw Emil. And Screw Phil Spencer or Pete Hines. They’re scammers and openly insult their players.

Todd Howard sucks

It’s guaranteed that ES6 will come out as a bland, buggy, highly woke disaster

Barely any Americans worked on starfield. All imported lame Chinese and Indian talent

If The Elder Scrolls 6 doesn’t use Unreal Engine and Bethesda once again uses their in house proprietary engine I think we can wave goodbye to a possible masterpiece

Dude needs to get a new job. But itll never happen. ES6 WILL be awful. Just like I said Starfield would be

Todd and his grandad game engine are a cancer to gaming

Bugesda also has a greedy Microsoftwoke problem

Starfield was 5 steps back from Skyrim. FO76 was 90 steps back. Bethesda is just big corporate and will be even worse under Microsoft.

He’s created a creative bottleneck environment in his studio.

Todd needs to learn some humility, or he’s company is doomed.

His reductionist philosophy makes me think of the cabal banksters I wonder if he’s now part of the Davos club

It’s not looking good I hope I am wrong of course but after 76 and then starfield hopefully it blows my expectations away but at least we’re getting a new Witcher and hopefully whatever larian is cooking up

“We saw a technological leap with starfield” what leap? It’s functionally the same as fallout 4

“its not everybodys cup of tea” ok then you dont need to be in charge of brewing it then

Bethesda sold out and Turd Howard was their shepherd there. They were always going in that direction (horse armor) but after it rained money with Skyrims release, they stopped caring about actual quality or creativity and it became the bottom line they chased.

Been saying this for years. His ego has held Bethesda back and their IPs hostage for years. Just look at how he smeared himself all over Machine Games’ Indiana Jones. Ok so he proposed it but they’re a master dev team who worked on it for years just so he could shove himself into the limelight at every publicity opportunity.

“Christopher Nolan of gaming” bulls***! Wtf said this ?

Never liked him, I knew that once he became the Director, I knew our games would immediately go downhill, HE IS THE REASON FALLOUT 4 CAME OUT HALF FINISHED!

Do you all not remember when Fallout 4 came out and we all noticed the half finished content and cut content and Bethesda straight up told us “Don’t worry about it! Modders will fix it!”

This is Bethesda now! They release half finished games like Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Fallout 3 and New Vegas and the Elder Scrolls and ofcourse the DOOM games and they expected us to fix their broken games with mods… I wish Turd Howard never joined Bethesda because if he never had, we’d probably actually have FULL GAMES instead of half finished games with lackluster quests and incomplete concepts, especially like Fallout 4!….. Fallout is a brand! People will buy it because it’s “Fallout” and expect something amazing but we received a subpar product instead, nothing like slapping fans in the face and telling them to deal with it!

inb4 todd missing would remove any charm from bethesda games

He’s stagnated for decades that’s why he fails upwards and the masses eat up the slop.

Fallout 76 has not turned anything around. 76 is a dumpster fire

The biggest problem isnt yes men, but surely that people like todd howard and his associates, only talk with and/ or in terms of money.
Under these conditions, this video falls on deaf ears, as do requests from consumers, unless one of you can show Todd how your idea has made money before, he wont even consider it. As a consumer base we should move away from companies that blatantly dont listen and only move with the money. Surely its about time they reap the fruits of their “labor”.

I liked fallout 3 and Skyrim but I truly don’t believe Bethesda has made one great game they are way over hyped the best fallout game wasn’t even made by them

Emil Pagliarulo is the one who needs to go big time, Bethesda will never improve until he’s gone.

What would be cool is the have the rpg elder scrolls game be an actual role playing game. Like when i cook food i need to actually cook food, not just be a station and i sit and just click what to make. It needs to be detailed like no others business. I need to actually drink water or actually make my weapons. Almost like a super detailed mini game in the game. I need to feed and take care of my horse, i need to shower or i smell and human enemies can smell me, crap like that. Its a role playing game. In 2024 and beyond, it needs to actually be a role that im playing. And to have casuals happy you can have it turned off before you start the game. Like either you want it or not.

Not looking forward to Elder Scrolls 6.. a retired old game engine, and Im sure lots of loading screens to look forward to. Safe and boring.. passss.

7:17 jesus todd is such a manlet lmao

I’m glad the renderer in their engine doesn’t require an overpriced power-wasting GPU to get 30fps out of it, like so many current titles that only focus on visuals but suck in every other regard. Nobody needs 16 times the detail, we just need a good game.

It will be wooooke

So glad to not be the only one that sees and realizes that the last few Bethesda games have quite literally been Skyrim reskins
Fallout 4, 76, and Starfield have quite literally the same exact headbob animation same engine with little changes, at least with studios like FromSoftware the games have immense similarities but they make enough changes to where it’s not exactly the same game as the last. But every game after Oblivion that BGS has put out has been the exact same but just with a different coat of paint
Same boring exploration/story/writing and just not fun unless you drown the game in mods.

Daggerfall released in 1996, Morrowind 6 years later in 2002, Oblivion 5 years later in 2006, Skyrim 5 years later in 2011.
TES6 is nowhere to be seen over ten years later. I just wanted more games, not more wait.
At this point, if TES took place in a completely different province like Black Marsh, most of the NPCs would probably be female Redguards.
Fallout4 also sucked.

yes, all bethesda games suck ass even back to morrowind. im prepared to admit that. are you?

As a gamer of all Final Fantasy games and an 8 yr stretch of WOW Elder Scrolls seems very dull outdated and janky. I played Oblivion and dropped it for WOW as it was a better game by far UNTIL it wasn’t right around the end of WOTLK.

I think they have more of a Creation engine problem

I never understood the hype around Bethesda. After they released remaster after remaster of skyrim, people kept on praising them and I just couldn’t understand. Its like Intel (Bethesda) releasing their 14nm+++++ (Skyrim+++++) until AMD (more than half the game market) released objectively great games. Only problem is Intel learned from that, Bethesda is still that old man, ‘back in my day, things were built different’. Come on gramps, Skyrim level stagnation isn’t going to cut it.

Modern Bethesda is boring.

I think Todd is high on his own farts sniffing them believing they are roses.

As someone who enjoyed Starfield, I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Their formula works if they just do it.. make an open world game that has a great story, keep the dumb bugs that people use to be op, and make it payable. THATS ALL anyone that buys one of their games want. The graphics and game play don’t even need to be top teir, they just need to be playable and not completely janky. Starfield was a much better game than most people gave it credit for, but the bugs killed it. It was unplayable, and still have moment where it’s unplayable. THEY GOT RID OF THE BUGS that allowed you get the best suits and weopons easy, but didn’t fix the underline crashing. IF they would have flipped that around people would still have played it like crazy.

I and all the friends i talk to have given up on Bethesda for really just 1 reason that makes all the problems. The pile of shit that is the Creation Engine. It is where all the bugs and terrible performance comes from, also the poor game design. It is so restrictive in what they can do eith it because it’s decades old. It’s trash and Todd “the retod” Howard is too cheap and lazy to use a new graphics engine. Bethesda’s next game is going to prove that they are past their prime abd ran out of imagination and creativity years ago.

I’m going to be so depressed if he messes up ES6 🤬🤬🤬🤬

It’s only going to get worse so why complain the talents gone Ubisoft bioware Bethesda have all hired talentless woke morons with a hatred for gamers….m

I’m over ES6. I’ve already accepted it’s not going to be good.

Bethesda has been making ground beef slop for 20 years now but there was nobody making burgers for players to compare it to. Now there are several.

I wanted to like Starfield but they really messed up with the loading screens. it was designed to run on a ps3 and not a ps5. The myriad of loading screens would have been acceptable in the ps3 era but not during the ps5 era.

Its called Foudners syndrome and bethesda will fall and crash as a result. If not soon then when Todd dies.

Climbing a procedurally generated mountain to find some procedurally generated loot in a copy-pasted location is not as fun as it was when everything was hand-made. So even though I could fly to that planet and climb that mountain I just won’t. Because it’s boring.

Brunt of the blame. Not blunt xD

Stanfield runs on an updated Morrrowind engine. They didn’t step forward even a single foot…

Dont want to see an evolution…Just want a goid game

Totally disagree..I would love another game like skyrim…But hes not duplicating skyrim,, not at all

I don’t even think they need to evolve, if they dropped the game with as much content as oblivion or Skyrim with up to date graphics and combat people would love the game. Bethesda just hasn’t dropped games with that amount of content in a long time.

I think CDPR may be in trouble. Devs and writers left the company and formed a new one. They didn’t like how it is being run anymore. Guess they have backing also. We will see in a few years.

Yeeeeeeeah Todd Howard’s gotta go….

I will at the very least defend Bethesda’s game formula. Their formula is fantastic, and I still want games made by that formula. Just look at Fallout London, that is a fantastic experience that I enjoyed playing more than many new games, and that follow’s Bethesda formula perfectly. The problem isn’t that they need to change the formula.

Many modern games follow ancient game formulas and people eat them up. Call of Duty, Metaphor, and Elden Ring all follow formulas developed over a decade ago, and those games are still very well received (CoD is a bit more of a different story, but you can’t deny its popularity). Even BG3 follows roughly the same formula as DOS1, and that was an indie game from a decade ago.

The problem isn’t the formula. The problem is their execution of the formula, and, if we look at a game formula like a recipe, the ingredients. The ingredients of the recipe are the various systems in the game. The ingredients they use in their formula are outdated, and largely poorly designed and unfun. You can have the best recipe in the world, but if you use poor and expired ingredients, the product is not going to be good. Even that, unfortunately, is a bit misleading, because just because a system is old, doesn’t make it bad. Take spell-crafting for example. I can’t imagine anyone would complain if spell-crafting were included in ES6, yet that was a system developed almost 30 years ago in Daggerfall.

The hope is that in each game Bethesda would iterate on their systems to make them more fun, engaging, and rewarding, but we do not see that. Additionally, they have a very risk averse mindset, and a clear culture of toxic positivity, so everything they are producing is mediocre and milquetoast at best, with a few gems sprinkled in there, but a majority of the content is lacking because everyone is too afraid to take risks or to tell their fellow devs “no, that sucks”.

Bethesda has become so mid. I have no faith that Todd will recreate the old school BGS magic for TES6. Who cares if you can land on a planet if it’s empty?

It don’t matter how bad it is ppl still going buy it cause it’s elder scrolls

When you peak with Skyrim, and you can’t even reproduce that in your newer games is kinda funny

‘The blunt of the blame’? Do you mean brunt?

Negative, negative, negative!

BGS is in one of the worst feedback loops I’ve seen. BGS themselves are incredibly arrogant, don’t take criticism well or even acknowledge it exists, latch onto how they were system sellers 10-20 years ago, and think everything they touch is gold. In turn, there is a small vocal minority of fans of their games that push forward the narrative that every game until now has been a masterpiece and that all the hate is unwarranted and unreasonable. BGS latches onto this small group of people, points to whatever random out of context playerbase number they can find exclaiming “number’s big, can’t be wrong” and then continue the cycle.

I want them to do better, but I don’t see them being capable.

Todd Howard isn’t the problem but is part of a bigger problem. He did help make one of the best RPGs Morrwind. But over the years content and features just keep vanishing, Skyrim was great but it was very streamlined by comparison. Now throw in the real problem, neo Marxist untalented DEI hires and neo Marxist ‘consultants’ like the now infamous SBI, and Bethesda have no hope like most other studios. It doesn’t matter who you replace Todd Howard with see? at this stage it’s like replacing one floorboard when the whole house has wood worm. Maybe that’s Howard’s fault? maybe it’s Microsoft after they bought them? that seems more likely looking at the dire state of Microsoft.

the title is extremely clickbait but lets see what the content is about… I dont think you could pin this on just todd when you got their devs specially head writer replying to criticism with a “nuh-huh” and “actuallies”

Their biggest problem is they keep cutting corners to have less work. That started already with oblivion and the removal of levitation and in Skyrim with no acrobatics and way less armor/jewelery slots etc. And that starfield with its procedural generation is just the next step and that one is just too big and cant be fixed by modders. You can do that to place random trees/rocks but not almost all of it except a few cities and dungeons.

They’re a dead company

I disagree, a new Skyrim or oblivion with good writing would be fantastic. We should have gotten one every few years like the time between morrowind – oblivion – and Skyrim. That’s what I call the Todd Howard Problem…

Looking back I thought Skyrim was amazing. A year later I learned to use mods. That’s when I noticed how incomplete the game was and how the modding community goes far and beyond to fix and preserve these games.

I don’t think giving someone freedom to do anything is bad for a game I think it adds to rp. Elden ring did it where you can walk off and grab items and Skyrim does it Skyrim still had 30.000 players active at all time on steam if gatekeeping in a game hurt a game this would not still be this successful and wouldn’t be used by firm soft maybe it’s not your cup of tee but most people that play thoes games and myself included do not want to be put on rails so I don’t understand that point you made at all sounds like a person issue

play Cyberpunk, then go back to starfiel, you will notice what a shit game starfield is. they wont make anything good in the future they just wont

It doesn’t help having over 20 year old base code in their engine they will always be severely behind the times.

Knew Todd was cooked when he gave that interview prior to 76 about how Skyrim and Fallout 4 were still incredibly popular BUT Bethesda was disappointed that they couldn’t monetize those players. Once I heard that I knew they’d never make another quality game, because “engagement” and “monetization” were more important than fun and quality.

The issue isn’t just that the TES6 will likely not innovate as a game. People also love the Elder Scrolls settings as one of the last good modern fantasy settings but Skyrim mishandled it in a lot of ways and Blades+Elder Scrolls Online has done worse. Each iteration of the franchise cheapens it. That’s what bugs me.

I just can’t bring myself to dislike Todd Howard. He seems like a genuinely nice guy who is way in over his head and struggles to stay on course. Though I do understand that he’s dragging Bethesda down. I hope one day he miraculously has an epiphany and starts listening to fan criticisms.

I owned the dlc didn’t make it past the space station it was too boring.

Let Todd Howard cook! “It’s too much…”, if he would designate someone else in his studio for starfield we’d have ND’s Intergalactic about 5 years earlier and a blue haired sidekick.

I still have no idea why this PoS is so idolized.

Todd. It’s time to retire.

Dude he’s been the Bethesda problem since 2012.

Hard disagree. People love skyrim and i think people would be extatic with “just more skyrim”

just like Turd Howard, es6 is going to be trash

lets be honest, if they can make another skyrim this would be insane.
my fear is they repeat starfield

I’d rather play CooP than play worthless singleplayer that why never bought or even played Starfield

Problem is the game has less content and you have to out in an extra $$$ for that. Alien races should of been put into SF.

19:00 Basically… the most original, significant, meaningful aspects of TES would never have existed if Todd had his way? This industry is so bizarre.

I want the next TES and Fallout to be great games, I really do. I just don’t believe the team can do it now. Feels bad man.

Skyrim was a massive cultural success, and arguably among the ‘best’ games ever made. There hasn’t been a single payer game like it since. certainly not one made by Bethesda.

Oblivion remake is going to be so fkin bad

They need to remove Todd, he is not the right guy for the job and is always lying to his customers. I dont care how good he looks on camera get the snake gone.

It’s funny because they’re owned by Microsoft. Meaning they’re not gonna make another good game.. Microsoft is only known for laying off employees and how to implement Micro transactions 😂 im happy i always been a Sony fan

so todd want to make the perfect fantasy experience? too little, too late. check out Wayward Realms. made by people who UNDERSTAND player agency.

Excellent opinions, unlike the constant dickriding I see on r/bethesdasoftworks and r/starfield. I was wondering about the current consensus on Todd Howard, and I agree with most if not all of these points.

Is Todd Howard to blame for the Iron-manning of the T-60 Power Armor in the TV series? I was embarrassed for whoever put jets on their wrists.

I think Todd is a minor problem in the studio. There was an ex Dev iirc, who spoke about how none of the Devs in the studio want to take responsibility for the work they do. I personally think that’s a Waaaayyyy bigger red flag than Todd Howard being rather tame with the games. With the yes men culture in Bethesda in general, I really don’t think he’s even close to the main problem in the studio

They even had the opportunity to fix CE but they still couldn’t do it! It’s baffling to say the least, but it’s not surprising the more you know how big of a cesspool Bethesda is, and honestly, I don’t think it became like that cuz of Todd, I think it’s like this cuz of Zenimax before it was closed. issue now is the cluster fuck was never resolved

If Todd does not play modern games, his knowledge is outdated.. and his judgment will be outdated.

Bethesda has been very clear an unwavering. Nothing is about to change, nothing needs to change. If you didn’t like Starfield you don’t/won’t like future Bethesda games.

So it’s Todd’s fault we aren’t getting anything as deep and immersive as Morrowind? Time to contact to Morag Tong…

Todd is a lying a**hole. With all the shtstorm that happened with Fallout 76 release, I set my mind into not spending a dime on anything Bethesda as long as Todd is still there. It was a SCAM. They scammed their fans for some quick cash.

I think you’re wrong. I think people just want Skyrim 2, essentially because it was the lore and setting they made it so sacred. They could make “Skyrim 2” with better combat, graphics and day one mods – it would sell gold.

How much you wanna bet that the Oblivion remake is gonna just be Skyblivion with better graphics.

Fallout new vegas looked like dov shit but ive played that more than modern “rpgs”.

You dont need fancy graphics to build a rich story and setting.

Bethesdas just incompetent.

story, writing and music score are subjective. But there is no denying that Starfield absolutely sucks on the tech side, tons of loading screens even though asset streaming has been a part of games since a decade, dialogues feel jank af because of that archaic system they use. I personally dont feel the game is pretty but thats subjective but it 100% runs way to poor for its fidelity, then add missing / poor implementation of HDR, poor CPU utilization, the list goes on…Bethesda needs a hard rework of their software to enable the vision they have, the reviews reflect that.

There’s absolutely no hope for TES 6. It will be another epic gaming disaster with outdated graphics engine and mechanics. And they’ll blame everybody for the fail other then themselves.

Todd is the worst thing that ever could have happened to Bethesda. He’s made me hate a game I loved.

I will still die on the hill of “Skyrim is objectively a bad game.” So making “Skyrim but space” and “Skyrim but with Guns” Will still be a bad game. People just have rose tented glasses for Skyrim.

i feel alot of the issue is not just the size of the studios but the people they bring in to fill the jobs. theres been alot of progressive bs crammed into the recent bethesda titles because they, like alot of studios, hire inexperienced activists instead of veteran devs. howard is a huge problem because he allows crap employees to insert the ideology in to the game

It’s really weird people still think he controls anything. Pretty sure he’s the figure head and the scape goat for Bethesda going woke.

It just works.

Another Major Problem Bethesda Currently Has besides the 1 that used to be Todd Howard. Is a lack of Creativity and Talent, Bethesda has NO CREATIVE FREE THINKERS, No 1 that can Build a Great World Space, Make Great Looking Characters, Weapons, Armor, and Lack Great Writers For Good Story Telling, and Character Backstories. Microsoft is Quietly trying to Remedy that Problem, however there is a Large Shortage of Talent in the Gaming Industry due to SBI Woke Stupidity having Infiltrated and Filling Up the Gaming Industry.

if TES VI fails, so does Bethesda. There’s no recovering from flubbing a main series release like that. They have a legion of loyal fans, myself included, that have played TES for decades, who would be devastated if TES VI comes out looking like Starfield

Bethesda has always been AA gaming publisher. They had a couple gems early and have been operating off that early success for too long.

Bethesda already pretty much exists without Todd Howard. Microsoft pulled 90% of Todd’s Creative Control away from Bethesda Titles after the Fallout Show. Microsoft is disappointed to say the least, by what Todd’s response was concerning Fallout 5. 2035 was not an acceptable Time Frame for Microsoft concerning the Fallout Franchise. So, expect Fallout Titles Quite a bit Sooner.

Hot take – they havent made a good game since oblivion

Yeah, fallout 3 sucks and skyrim is overrated

Bethesda has had a Todd Howard problem for a long time. When a compulsive liar is your front man, yeah that’s a problem.

Nah, its bethesda has a bethesda fanboy problem. Like tell me why innovate, when the fanboys eat up their slop and defend it? You have 0 idea how infuriating it is dealing with em, and it always boils down to ”jUsT gEt MoDs FoR yOuR pRoBlEm”

Not everyone’s cup of tea. Lol this guys out of touch. Just say what is obvious. The old formula is stale in the current environment of rpg games. They need to innovate now and make something new rather than tons of the same old

Until they ditch that shitbox engine of theirs, any other changes are irrelevant.

Why do people blame only Todd Howard and why so much? There are other higher ups and executives at the company who cause a lot of damage

as much as i dont like bethesda’s reduce reuse recycle method of game design I don’t think todd being overly dedicated is the issue

It’ll never be enough for you lunatics. When will you understand Skyrim was a shot in the dark? A unicorn. You’ll never get a second Skyrim. Just go play Skyrim.

Todd is garbage he can go away any time. He hasnt had a good idea in years.

All I really wanted was Skyrim in space. Multiple races to play as, different factions/guilds, maybe a handful of really fleshed out planets that actually have a feeling of a lived in experience.

You either die a hero or live to be the villain.

Tod is bad, but hes not the problem. Emil pagliorillo is the problem. Tod is the reason our games get overhyped and under developed, but overhyped is just a problem at launch and under developed isnt as big of a deal as alot of people make it out to be. Emil is the reason the storys are garbage, the designs are baby proof, the mechanics are dull and uninspired

They got so lucky with 76 comeback it hit a new high recently even after the dip from the show watchers that left

why do you need to show your face

Outer Worlds had one solar system and had tons of story content and places to go. Bethesda routinely over reaches for now reason.

One of the biggest, most important game developers in the world makes a space exploration game that has 1000 planets and many solar systems and they somehow are unable to implement a 3d map so you can have some kind of f**king concept of you know, the SPACE! Instead planets hide behind other planets in a rectangular small 2-d chunk of the galaxy. The exercize of creating such a 3d map where you can zoom in and out, rotate the view, and translate through the star f**king field is something that any undergraduate programming student could have implemented over a weekend. One example like this is a missed opportunity. But when the same type of thing is repeated over and over and over throughout the game, and where fundamental systems like the inventories, the economy, the writing and even the space travel itself have all of the charm of a spreadsheet it rises to institutionalized cluelessness. This is not about being too different. Its about apparenlty not having the faintest idea how to make a game nominally about one one of the most romantic concepts ever, space exploration, exciting and not a chore. The game is not TOTAL crap, but it is just that Starfield is so agressively mediocre and so clearly from a company that can no longer innovate itself out of a paper bag.

what i didnt like most about starfield is how odd changing someone’s mind can be and the removal of traditional exploration of bethesda games. just that traditional exploratory map is enough for me to love Fallout 5, TES 6, etc. yeah a lot of the faces and ai are weird and dumb but i don’t expect much from those aspects of bethesda games, nor do i care as much as i do about the map.

the engine thing is a red herring a lot of people who don’t know how to program latch on, you don’t need to start from scratch nor is it faster, in order to fix the actual issues people actually have. many ‘new’ engines or new iterations are just heavily modified old engines (like idtech).

i think it’s a big gamble whether todd being replaced wouldn’t also remove many of what we find essential to BGS games like almost everything being interactable and movable, being able to pickpocket almost anyone, have lore all around, etc. hopefully he learns from some failures and hopefully TES 6 won’t be one of those stepping stones.

I remember a few years back, they let us download Fallout 76′ for free so you could try it. So fknning BORING man!

Ubisoft also, with Far Cry 6! Its like theyre telling themselves we’re the problem. “You havent played the game yet, you’ll see.”

Fr get someone with love for the games, ezy man, put fudgemuppet guys as directors

I enjoyed cyberpunk at launch more than fallout 4, what does that say ?

What I’d like to see in the next Skyrim is dungeon puzzles! Here’s an example of a fun puzzle: the Guardian Statues in Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess. Stuff like that. Skyrim could even include a minigame like a simple chess to allow entrance to some area. Better stories about the draugrs and overall Epicness. The stones of Barenziah could have had a more satisfying finale. Some fireworks would be nice.
When becoming a member of any of the guilds in Skyrim, I felt like I was just being their errand boy.
*We need some epicness for the heroes’ trouble.*

Indiana Jones disagrees

That Indiana Jones game wa spretty damn good.

I agree with the title! Todd Howard may (I don’t actually know, because there is no list of all the things he did for Oblivion, which IMHO was the last good game BADthesda made!) have once been a good Dev, but now? He’s so high up his own ass, that every sort of “progress” has stopped! Frankly, they are now doing Oblivion, but worse (and with guns in the case of Fallout!)! I mean compare a BADthesda Fallout (lets use Fallout 3!) with Fallout New Vegas (or even Fallout 1 and 2) and it’s obivious who can’t tell good stories, can’t write amazing characters (compare say Fawkes the mutant with Lily from Fallout New Vegas or Star-Paladin Cross with Scribe Veronica Santangelo in New Vegas!), can’t write good factions (hell: There aren’t any real factions in Fallout 3 or even Fallout 4 – outside of the big ones for the endgame in 4, but even those were badly done! Hell, 3 of them are just dumb (“Must blow up Institute!” – Instead of CONQUERING THE DAMN PLACE and using the tech there! The BoS especially! Yes, they were elitist and rather insular in Fallout 1 and 2, but they never were a human purity kind of nazi cult, like they are under Manchild Maxson, a guy who should not be Elder at all! Sarah Lyons should be, especially since an Elder dying in frontline combat is quite unrealistic IMHO!) and (in Fallout at least) default to boring family stories that are a bad hook for the player who spent what? An hour at most with said family and now is probably not very motivated to chase down their ingame daddy or ingame son!

I’m old. I remember back when Todd and Bethesda bragged about how everything in their games were hand-crafted, and that they would never use procedural generation.

Imho game companies are finding it easy to ignore legitimate gripes with games because there are so many “anti-SJW” types who want to pop blood vessels over things like picking your MC’s pronouns.

Why are they going to take legitimate criticism from someone who still gets triggered when they remember trans people exist? It’s like taking financial advice from a neo-Nazi lol

I can not stand these game studios, whom gaslight us gamers. They want us to pay for their unfinished games and then cry out how toxic we are, when we dont buy their poorly made games.

Elder Scrolls 6 is still early enough in development for them to turn things around… but they wont.

This video reeks of Reddit bullshit

skyrim ws for me always overrated and so will be elder scrolls 6

skyrim sucked.
its always sucked.
people need to let go

One thing I honestly don’t understand is this idea that ‘Bethesda has fallen off since Skyrim’ and ‘Skyrim was revolutionary’… no it wasn’t, it was a dumbed down Oblivion, which was a dumbed down Morrowind and I don’t even think Morrowind was all that special. Bethesda have been making mediocre to bad games for FAR longer than the last 13 years and the position that people take of ‘well they were good before Fallout 4’ is just as false as saying they’re good now.

Yes but… Bethesda has a Creation Engine problem.

If the ESVI gets to be “more skyrim”, it would be a bigger success than starfield. Many people want “more skyrim/oblivion/morrowind”. And the engine is not the issue. Case and point, the skyblivion project is using skyrim’s engine, the game looks great and there are many fans super excited to play. Starfield fails because it is designed in a way that shows their weakest points, instead of their strongest. Load screens, fetch quests, optimization issues, long standing bugs, etc.

ESVI could be made exactly with the creation engine from skyrim, as is, and still make a wonderful game. If you combine the storytelling and player agency of the witcher series, the side quests of oblivion with skyrim’s feeling of exploration, you would have a great game. AND this “game” could be improved if you then add excellent creature designs, a good character progression system and none of this needs a new engine. It needs people that care about making a good game, instead of good profit margins.

lol VIDEO GAMES….

Take up so much REALITY

Please tell Todd that I love exploring because I know I will encounter something that is handful crafted and has a mini story in it

@LK-HD. In a word, it’s hubris. That’s the underlying issue that is plaguing Bethesda (and making them unreceptive and defensive over player feedback) and what is ultimately keeping them in the past, unable to innovate and move forward.

It’s not the first time we’ve seen this happen to a AAA studio, and it likely won’t be the last.

Stop complaining and give Bethesda $70!

I feel like Todd Howard is a wish version of Zuck

Legacy stuck in the past with this one just like Bethesda. Nothing new to hear and see here. Just the same old story of the last 5+ years.

Todd Howard is useless and don’t know sht about gaming he needs to leave

Todd was the best way to kill a franchise it most unique way possible by constantly killing all the features from previous versions of games he is on. From dagger fall to Skyrim the only reason why the had success was to given out different consoles games meaning new players who did not have previous game experience.

indiana jones game was really good tho

Go watch VLDL’s new series to gain insight in, how board meetings at Bethesda and any other AAA gaming company works.

So how often Skyrim got re-released? Cant wait for 14 re-releases of Trashfield if thats his “baby”

Please stop this nonsense and blaming the game engine. Enderal for Skyrim, Fallout London for Fallout 4 and New Vegas for Fallout 3 shows us that the engine is not the problem at all. It is what you are doing with the engine, look at alle these awesome mods from the modding communities out there and what they can squeeze out of the Creation Engine. And by the way, although Starfield in all of these gameplays seems to play quite boring, but it is absolutely not the games look or the loading screens. The design itself seems off. Unreal engine 5 games are looking very good but very samey, and without an awesome gameplay design, I strongly do not think that UE5 would be the solution.

I played 25 hours of starfield and hardly enjoyed any of it. Glad i didn’t waste anymore time playing.
I hammered fo3, Skyrim, fo4.
Starfield felt like a step sideways with nothing new to bring.

Todd lacks the ambition of the first Elder Scroll games, he thinks he has found the recipe for success and he has a “that’s good enough for them” phylosophy.

I kind of feel that Todd should step back and just become TheSpiffingBrit’s “IT JUST WORKS” meme

Just replayed Skyrim with Lorerim 2.0. Absolutely mind-blowing. Creation engine is not the problem. Lack of vision and talent at Bethesda is.