It doesn’t really matter whether Tood stays or leaves. Bethesda’s games nowadays are so by the numbers, cookie cutter style “RPGs” that whoever took over would just keep doing the same to appease the shareholders. Bethesda has been devoid of real talent or passion for a long time.

5:35 Can you name any development he dreamed up? I think it’s impossible to tell whether he was behind them or some nameless/faceless developer.

Todd is not the problem or the solution. All the people that really made Bethesda great are already gone. The talent has been fired or has left. The major shift came when they released 76. That’s when the bean counters got hold of the reins.

When Todd leavs, Bethesda will probably suffer the same fate as Bungie or Dice did when it happened to them, it’ll become just another generic studio without its own”paste” , soul or style.

Both him and Emil need to go. Along with any other woke developers that company employs.

Oh my god guys Emil is clearly gonna destroy the company, and is going to turn fallout into a children’s game, with all gore and violence removed. and The Elder Scrolls into a farming simulator where you cannot leave your farm, or else you get whipped by your overload.. If you give any feedback to him, he will gather his fellow Bethesda employees and ban you from all Microsoft related services. All stories will now revolve around one central theme, all dialogue will be written by a 2 year old, and a 100 year old war veteran with dementia. Bethesda is cooked fr fr.

All jokes aside, I do not understand the Emil hate. It has gone too far, especially after the design doc drama. Todd is going to be involved in Bethesda in some shape or form for the rest of his life, and when he retires, hopefully someone competent will take the rails. Or they can hand it over to a 2 year old, idk.

Get rid of him but it’s not enough

The Bethesda hate train is easy to ride, however where would we be withthout it and Todd. Fallout wouldn’t exist as we know it today, nor would Skyrim. He’s brought a lot to Bethesda that has made our childhoods what they are and gotten us into these games. I’ll always appreciate him for what hes brought without the blind hate towards him while still acknowledging his failures, as like everyone – you’re going to let someone down. FONV lead writer went on to write the Horizon series and no one talks about those games nearly as much as Fallout no matter how bad people say 4 was…

The sooner he’s gone the better. I can’t buy a product from a habitual liar like him.

Todd howard is that charisma build character

He can convience you to buy some game that broken with story that bit dull and rpg that not even rpg(i know story is emil fault but duh)

This video is just content for the sake of content, you spoke so much, so slowly, filled with regurgiated adjectives, repeating the same phrases, without sharing any critical thoughts or ideas, what a waste!

I would say it is a great thing. The problem with Bethesda is the problem with every corporation: it is now old money and has lost touch with its audience. The entire staff needs to be replaced with fans who develop games. Gaming is big enough now to start hiring from within the community based on community standards. The old money is too attached to financial gain. We need love-driven decisions again. The old gods need to step aside and let the people of Tamriel take over.

Todd is a short king…of lies.
Dude made a male bosmer speccing almost entirely into speech.

He and his friend Emil need to go.

Really the only way forward for Bethesda is to get rid of Howard. He was a great when he had something to prove but now he just obviously get in his own way. Rather then sticking to what makes their stuff great they make these “we wanted to try something new” why not build what you did well with skyrim or fallout 3 or morrowwind and build on it. Make it bigger not just a lager map bigger more detailed cities with more characters. In stead the seem to be aiming for less character with just massive emptiness. You can be mad if you want but starfield has no soul. And tes6 is probably gonna suffer from the same. They need to move Todd and hire some real giggachads and a director thats never worked on a Bethesda title but has played them ALOT and understands them. Unfortunately that won’t happen because Todd’s ego is so big he can’t see his failures and like some fans like this guy he doesn’t fail you just don’t understand. Skyrim is what it is because fans that still understand the ip make it worth it. Go play vanilla skyrim quick and vanilla starfield tell me I’m wrong. Tod has to go

get rid of him, he’s done… overcooked even

After Fallout 76 i promised my self to never buy a Bethesda game until today. and still holding my prommis.

Bethesda without Todd Howard? It just works.

I wish people stop shitting on Starfield lol the game is amazing..i have more hours in it than Fallout or Skyrim. Its definitely not as good as games like witcher 3 or cyberpunk true, but compared to the old bathesda games, starfield is really no different.

Its nothing, taking that, the rest of the stupid direction its still, its like removing a little of skin and saying that the infection its completly gone.

Bethesda without Emil would be a net positive, I’m pretty sure.

Bethesda without Todd Howard is Starfield. That project pass to Microsoft hands, and yet… It was Sh- really bad. Everyone clap when M buy Zenimax, is the same, failure are now under Microsoft and Phil responsibility, not on Todd, not anymore.

3:24 that’s hilarious he cares so much about the UI because for me and my mates, the first mod we usually get is one to overhaul the shitty BGS UI they put in every time

The company would perform exactly the same. If anything Todd represents a vestigial link to the Bethesda that used to be, so you would see even greater egregiousness. The whole company is rotten and gay.

As much as Todd likes to tell his sweet little lies I feel like the day he retires is the day Bethesda truly dies. Hopefully we get a half decent elder scrolls 6 as a parting gift

The Bethesda I loved is long dead, and Todd contributed to its demise. Nothing of value will be lost.

i think instead of bethesda without todd howard, we should be looking into every bethesda IP without bethesda. imo theyre no different than every other turn of the century game developer. too big for their shoes, too set in their ways, and too complacent with their positions. theyve gone from creating and continuing great IP’s to ruining everything they touch. im sick and tired, more than anything, of fallout belonging to bethesda. its a hollow shell of what it used to be and it needs to go back to the hands of people who are passionate about it and its roots as a GENUINE role playing game, not this post apocalyptic coat of paint, sandbox looter shooter its turned into.

When it comes to the best, Todd is the best. No one has ever come close to the perfection that is Bethesda cheese.

And I doubt there’s a person in here who does not love the smelly foot like odor of some of that Bethesda cheesy stink. Whether it’s Skyrim cheese, or radioactive fallout cheese. You know it, I know it, we love it.

Keep making that cheese, Todd.

Todd may sell poop as chocolate to the masses. Corporate will NOT let him go.
Fanboys are gonna open their wallets and gobble up ANY poop Todd serves!

EDIT: Todd’s “passion for the UI” made the SkyUI mod one of the most important mods :/

Time for them to move on

They need to Hire modders instead of their current crew 😂

Modders breathe life into their games & Starfield woulda been a 5 star hit if they implemented more ideas into it modders think of it all && they Do it with ease
Their employees think of bare minimum
and are proud of it, we need gamers making games not Corporations with their Greed & limitations.

I’m still waiting on a starfield Big overhaul & I can’t believe it took 25 years to make that embarrassment

honest conference about starfield is gold go check that out if you haven’t

Creativity and Todd Howard should NOT be in the same sentence
He has been actively ruining, de-rpg’ing and simplifying bethesdas games, itll all be straight line fetchquest slop with him.

The developers for morrowing and oblivion had to beg todd to implement creative things they wanted in the game, they had to trick him and come up with ways to get him to say yes to what they wanted, such as presenting two options with one outlandish option and the one they wanted so hed say yes to at least one thing.

I want to repeat that. Creative directors had to find ways to TRICK todd howard into letting them add what they wanted to the games. that comprises most of what made these games unique, good, gave them stories and lore

A starfield MMO might actually be good, hopefully just on one planet or in one galaxy

2:23 Just to be clear: Todd is passionate about UI? Like… Skyrim’s UI was made with “passion?”

Oof … at 9:53 I HATED the clutter in the game (Edit: Starfield). I hated it more than the bad story and moralistic carbon-copy NPCs. But hey, no hate on whoever the person is. I just cant stand that art style and clutter density. Yikes.

Back in the 1990’s, Electronic Arts was an awesome studio that released some real bangers for the Sega Genesis. But today, EA is a dead studio. Ubisoft as well, used to be great, but is now dead. CD Project, great work on the Witcher games, but lost the plot with Cyberclunk 2077. After Starfailed, Bethesda is a dead studio. There is no hope of redemption for any of them. Wash your hands and set your eyes on The Wayward Realms because AAA is gone forever.

Dont’ know but Bethesda without Emil would be an improvement if he’s no longer the lead writer or at the company at all.

Or more to the point…what will Tod be without Bethesda…just a small man in a big pond again…he wont leave

I can’t see my comment anymore, it might have been deleted or something went wrong posting it.

Short version it is then, since I can’t be bothered to rewrite the entire thing.

I always liked Todd. I don’t really know anything about him. Only things I’ve ever seen of him are memes or short clips in other YouTube videos but he seems like a likeable guy. Good sense of humour and passionate about games and the making thereof.

As for Todd within Bethesda, I have absolutely no clue. Some people blame him from everything wrong with their games but I doubt he’s completely responsible for all of it. I have no clue as to which parts of games, the good and bad, are because of him. So I can’t really say anything about a potential future for the company without him.

I just like the guy, I would have invited him to my LAN parties back in the day. I hope he becomes a gaming YouTuber or streamer or something after leaving Bethesda. I’d subscribe to “The Godd” Howard.

Theres like a few Nuns in the comments here trying to wriggle into Emil here.

Dood. 12min of you telling us you want to have Todd babies is cringe. Seriously, Todd and his butt buddie Emil should have been let got 10-years ago.

Not much will change really, we’ve seen what a game without Todd is in the form of Starfield. Starfield might’ve been Todd’s dream, in reality it is an Emil game through and through.

So yeah without Todd we would only get more mediocrity like Starfield since Emil Pagliarulo is next in-line to be the new game director.

Without todd bethesda would have to rely on emil and hines. those two have succeeded to burn bethesda down even with todd sitting in the tall chair. They wouldn’t even last a development cycle without him in the tall chair.

Todd is in too much everything on bethesda personally I’m all for removing him because he only likes certain things and loves to strip away more and more from their games. sadly fallout is ruined at least for me and tes is very water down at this point. Ultimately maybe someone will take things in a better direction only time will tell.

Without Todd Bethesda would have to stand on the quality of their work, which, uh, yeah…

I need more Todd in the thumbnails HorseArmour, perhaps some Emil sprinkled in there too.