Finally, I can’t wait for a new fresh face to over promise me games.
I know Todd is kind of a silly guy and people have mixed opinions on him. But it will be pretty weird to be in a gaming industry without him. Like him or not dude is a legend
I’m very excited about him not seagulling every single project. From what I’ve heard (and you can see based on their game releases) he’s an utterly incompetent manager.
Name any other game that comes close to the scale and freedom of Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion or Skyrim.
No other game developers even try to compete. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is probably the closest.
I honestly don’t think Skyrim is that good. It’s an open world sandbox, with little else. They removed the spellcrafting from the previous games. Speechcraft has pretty much zero impact on any sort of role-playing situation, and the dialogue options you have are more or less always irrelevant. Did you know there’s a civil war going on in Skyrim? It’s so inconsequential I keep forgetting about it. The “radiant quest” system they touted is really just a list of randomised fetch quests and not at all as interesting as they initially promised. NPCs are also oddly dead in comparison to Oblivion, and even Morrowind.
I get that it’s a game that many are fond of, but I think it’s a let down compared to Oblivion, which in turn is a let down compared to Morrowind. Sure I had fun in Skyrim, but I don’t think it’s a good game.
Did you know that the reason Oblivion has such awful voice acting (despite the terrific voice actors) is because the voice actors weren’t given a script? They were given a long list of voice lines in alphabetic order.
Fallout New Vegas was an excellent RPG, with a well thought through plot and appealing characters that had depth. None of Bethesda’s recent games have had that. To be fair New Vegas isn’t even Bethesda.
Thus I’m really looking forward to someone else taking the lead. I’d love to truly enjoy a Bethesda game again.
The first time exiting the sewers in Oblivion, looking up at the sky, water and landscape on the Xbox360 was just magical. Todd’s had a great run and his creations from TES and Fallout are once of my favorite games franchises.
He’s 52, if it takes 8 years before ES6 comes out He’ll be 60. If they milk this one as hard as they did Skyrim he’ll be long dead before ES7. Hell, I might be dead before ES7
After he dies, he will wake up in the afterlife, and hear a familiar voice say “hey, you’re finally awake”.
I mean, yeah, by the time it’s out he’ll be nearing his 70s
I think he said could be his last “Elder Scrolls game” not last game?
Skyrim came out when I was a freshman in high school. By the time ES6 comes out I will be nearly 40, or in my 40s. Wtf are they waiting on for this game to take so long?
Open world games like Skyrim are hard to make, and modern expectations are making them even harder.
People are shitting on Bethesda for taking so long, but no other developer has managed to make a worthy competitor in the decade+ since Skyrim released.
Kingdom Come Deliverance is good, but I agree overall.
Kingdom Come is a solid game, but it’s also still a very narrow game compared to Skyrim. You play as a specific character and the “sandbox” nature of the game is much more limited.
It’s more like the Witcher where you can roleplay slight variations on one person, rather than Skyrim where you can role-play as a vast array of potential characters.
Yeah, the sad fact is that no one has even come close to creating a Skyrim-like. The Witcher 3 had imitators like the recent Assassins Creed games etc. but there is still nothing quite like The Elder Scrolls.
This kid I know worked for a landscaping company that worked on Todd Howards yard and he would always piss in Todd’s bushes. He also said his wife was actually a nice person. Still pissed in his bushes tho.
…like to be mean? Or just because he had to go?
