I agree with Bruce. The show is a loss-leader, and it is with all the tie-in stuff Bethesda did where the ROI is made. It did not have to be "good", just "good enough" to get people to buy the games and dlc.

I've said it before, Todd Howard is a guy with gimmicky ideas that games sacrifice far too much to fully realize. Fallout 76 sacrificed NPCs so that every person you meet would be another player, Starfield sacrificed any kind of satisfying storyline or origin for the artifacts so that you can have a NG+ gimmick that locks the story into a time loop that never ends and probably breaks the universe, fallout 4 sacrificed having likable characters likely because Todd had a kid and wanted the main character to look for his stupid kid. He made Skyrim, that's his big achievement. Why do we worship him?

Todd always said a sci fi and Jones game were his bucket list and he crossed those off so-

7:09 I was half hoping he'd sayd "by whomever reassumes... the position."

what about the guy who didnt even beat re2 but still put out a glowing review

man everyone who i know played this game all said the same thing that the OST carryed the game fr

That's why eternals music is better

We spend our money on it we want a good game and its been 15 years it should just as good or better.

The fact that people thinks that that show was good, even Fallout devs, is genuinely worrying.

if Cave Johnson has a portal gun that uses moon rock surfaces to create teleportation portals why dose he not sell moon rocks himself and bring himself out of bankruptcy he has the means to obtain unlimited moon rocks and can charge governments passage to the moon.

Great episode

I don't understand why everyone says the horse armor was the first DLC. Expansions are DLC and WoW and many other games had those prior.

doom 2016 has that electro retardo soundtrack , it needed to be way more metal

I sure he cares about UI but definitely not UX

38:45 "I started making games when we literally didn't even have colour." Did I hear this right? Because this doesn't make sense! Nate has been making games since the early 70s?

Starfield

I like Todd Howard and I think the company is where it’s at today (both good and bad) because of his leadership. I think many years ago the company would have went belly up without him and his push to do something different and unique (at that time). But I will say he’s made several bad decisions over the last 10 years , really since after Fallout 4 and onward. Starfield was a resource hog that wasted not only resources but 8 years of dev time. 8 years in which the other IPs ( Fallout and TES) have really been neglected (unless you’re part of the very vocal minority that like Fallout 76 and all the Skyrim remasters)

Todd needs to stop having a say about every single thing. I get he's passionate, I respect it, but I'd like to be able to play The Elder Scrolls VI before I'm 50. I'm 25 right now. I was 12 when Skyrim came out.

Bethesda is a sinking ship and the hack Todd apparently doesn't know what a soulful deep game looks like. Shit design, shit world building, shit gameplay, shit writing.

I like a lot Fallout 3,4, 76 and New Vegas but i just hope that you would care more about FO76 game stability that' game would crash so much in future on PS comsoles.

That why Fallout 76 is always broken On PS consoles by bugz, crashes and gliches. Bethesda' never changes and it just dont really work😂

“Todd gets passionate about UI” well that explains why Starfield had such an excellent easy to use UI that definitely didn’t constantly suffer from feeling like a clunky decades old load of rubbish and missing basic features lol

One of the best breakup songs ever! (I Only Want You Gone would also make the list.)

That rhythm guitar part so 🔥

If this happens plz don’t Nerf the Spider Guardian , I love the difficulty of this boss sad they gave it the casual treatment in the hd

I wanna surprise English portal comunity, but Russian translitor poop on copyright and ru GLaDos hum happy birthday

He seems very set in his ways, keep using the ancient engine, never incorporate important fixes from the modding community, bow down to Microsoft's DEI stuff.

the level of deny in the comment is amazing yes ue5 is the solution

This is odd, about how Todd can say "no". I remember a Bethesda dev saying recently something in the line of all devs can add things they want, to the point they kind of lose control of the game's scope. I wonder what changed...

People forget today that stepping up to authority is how we got America.

I dont respect tod because he's letting his ego get in the way of progress. He won't let anyone else toch the elder scrolls or fallout ip and it's infuriating. It fucking sucks having to wait 10 years for the next fucking game because you won't let other studios toch the ip. And then how he double talks about remasters "we don't like doing remasters" even tho they will rerelease skyrim 500 times on every platform known to man. LET ME PLAY FALLOUT 3 AND HAVE IT RUN PROPERLY ON PC LIKE HOLLY FUCK TOD

I think Howard should demote himself and put someone trustworthy in his place like Pilestedt did in Arrowhead

They did it to themselves

Godd

For all the people with short memory span that use the argument that players have short memory span and remember only F76 and Starfield.. yeah he made some great games in the past, he is adored by some of his coworkers but let's not forget that he was also a guy that pushed for microtransactions in games, he was the guy that rereleased Skyrim a 100 times, as they talk about the core gaming experience I feel that the core purpose of a producer like Todd is to make great games and the biggest two attempts at that were rather bad. So a decade of bad games vs the past. Since the Indiana Jones and the chamber of secrets is apparently a great game, maybe he will be redeemed.

Dev: "i knew things would go well, fundamentally, because Todd was in charge." Bethesda gamers: "We know things will not go well, fundamentally, when Todd Howard is in charge."

Totally right, Todd made some great decisions, like reselling Skyrim with new labels but with subpar changes for full box prices. That made bethesda a lot of money, but that money clearly wasn't used to build whatever Starfield is.

Interesting

Generally like Todd, just keep woke crap out of games, or give people the option to not interact with it.

Everyone’s here hating on Todd, he’s just a chill guy

36:01 As a game studio, trying to develop a game while updating the game engine software is like juggling two watermelons in one hand-impossible without dropping something! Updating a game engine demands a dedicated team, significant resources, and a ton of money, making it a Herculean task to simultaneously develop a game. Each endeavor requires unwavering focus and immense effort. It's wiser to tackle one challenge at a time!

They should've remade GlaDos on Portal 1 RTX as well or make a patch to fix this continuity issue

It's very difficult to keep going knowing that Bethesda are likely not going to learn their lesson, since they're owned by Microsoft...

The thing, I think, that gets me about Shigeru Miyamoto, is that he is a non-gamer. Doesn't play video games. And yet he's the Pablo Picasso of his medium.

honestly, I kinda fw the origina;l 264 bpm song. Maybe that's just because I like death metal, but I would love to see a world where death metal + DOOM is a thing.

Asexual?

The "factorio" idea for Starfield was insane. Obviously it had to be cut. Possible in terms of code, but crazy in terms of project.

Lie to me Todd 😩😩💦💦💦💦💦

I like Todd and I think the amount of focused hate he gets is stupid, but I would like to see some public acknowledgement of the shortcomings their games have developed over the years in a way that makes it clear he understands them. Like when they're asked about Starfield and they say stuff like "oh the vast majority of feedback has been positive!", it feels like they're sticking their heads in the sand, which in turn leaves me pessimistic that the systemic issues are going to be rectified. I actually enjoyed Starfield overall, but there's so many clear, obvious problems at the core of how it was designed - some are unique to Starfield, but some have been carried forward across multiple BGS games now, such as the bad writing, or some of the stark limitations of their game engine. In the case of Starfield, the sheer number of loading screens is absurd, and speaks to their issues seamlessly streaming interiors and exteriors - even just small shops in a town will often have their own separate interior cell load. This is stuff they have to resolve, rather than just brute forcing more out of their tools with better and better hardware. I'm not going to say they should ditch their engine or fire Emil or whatever, because I think gamers are flippant and ignorant with understanding these problems as outsiders looking in. But regardless of whether we understand the problems - problems they remain.