or capped out charisma

@TMTK1348 XD

@TMTK 1348 They are just making sure your clean before they go to town on your wallet with all of their microtransactions.

I know I posted this on a Juicehead video, but I just wanna reiterate what I said before

Till you play some of his games and realize he's mostly full of shit. I mean look at Fallout 76...

@@coryv5679 Fallout 76 on day one is undeniably a bad game, with glitches of falling through the floor, to too many enemies spawning, the game at its core, to me, is still great. When you actually get to play with friends, you understand why Fallout 76 is an online game, the challenges of trying to go through all the loops to launch the nuke, to shooting down a Scorchbeast Queen is something that only feels good playing with friends. When getting out of the vault for the first time and seeing the mystical West Virginia with light coming in through the trees, and the morning dew covering the ground down the hill, is an irreplaceable experience, to the Cranberry Bog that had been ridden with holes from the remnants of the Great War, the game looks great. The map is most definitely 4 times the size of Fallout 4. However, I will agree that 16 times the detail is a little ridiculous. Fallout 4 had a good lighting engine, but the developers did not use it to its full extent. You can really see the improvement of what you are supposed to feel when you are in a biome. The beginning section feels nice and welcoming, the middle section feels challenging and more against you, and the last part feels depressing and mystical in a sad and weird way. What I’m trying to say is that I think that Fallout 76, though bug-ridden and filled with overpowered weapons, is still a game that I love. I love the community and the welcomingness of high level players to low level players, and I love the increase of stuff to come back to with the Daily Ops, and the game pass to complete. It is a game that I will continue to play, but I understand why you might not like.

@@ColonialBoi I didn't hate Fallout 76 yet it still rubbed me the wrong way overall. I played with a friend like three months after launch till the "end" and little further. I played it again alone a couple of months ago to see how it changed due the added human npcs. As a coop game it rarely gave me the thrill what for example a Left4Dead did. As a singleplayer it felt shallow, grindfesty and uneventful most of the time. So why Fallout 76 is in no way or shape a disaster (anymore), for me there are way better games out there to play with friends or alone.

@@coryv5679 Listen to all Todd said in this interview about F76. To do that you will have to get your fixed opinion out of the way for a few minutes. Difficult I know, but I bet you can do it.

I hope he means free modding via Nexus and other places, not just stuff on Bethesda.net (although I expect future games to require making an account anyway) or Creation Club. Problem I have is that the Creation Club updates are a royal pain in the butt, always breaking free mods which has led to some modders abandoning their mods. Which I can totally understand. So Creation Club is not modder friendly as far as I'm concerned. And I doubt it will go away. So I'm wary...

also means, he doesnt need to fix bugs, fans do it for him

@@captntargaryen A price everyone who is aware of the potential in modding in Bethesda games is willing to pay. Just imagine if Cyberpunk was as moddable as Beth games.

Investors are so sad Todd is still enthusiastic about free modding. In their eyes locking down modding behind paywalls generates eternal wealth.

Yeah I mean Nexus! Monetizing would destroy it. They should only monetize big Bethesda owned mods (like DLC)

There's a video here on yt where Emil Pagliarulo explains all the thing they had to cut from Skyrim cities because of console limitations. And even on this current gen it wouldn't have been much better, because it would have been limited in scope by the terrible jaguar cpu used in both ps4/pro and xbox1/x. Look at how much cdprojekt red has been struggling to get cp2077 to work properly on this gen consoles, while it could work out of the box on next gen.

@@pfnieks That's true. 3rd delay happen because of that.

Yeah the insidious nature of consoles has hamstrung video game development for a long time. The period in which Skyrim was developed was potentially the worst for this, everyone was eying Wii money, PC piracy was a massive industry buzzword and everything was generally terrible as a result. Look how long we stuck with 32bit architecture. And yeah Todd is generally fairly open to criticism about his games and there is usually a legitimate justification for the criticisms. The main disconnection is that consumers might be absolutely crestfallen by a bad game, but for Todd it's just one job of many, he's not an indie developer with his heart and soul sewn into his projects. What might be the biggest criticism one might have with a Bethesda title was likely just casually discussed in the boardroom at Bethesda. Justifying the flaws doesn't fix the issues, of course. But suggesting Todd is either malevolent or completely blind to flaws in his games is absurd. He simply isn't anywhere near as emotionally invested in the minutia as somebody who has fanatically consumed Bethesda titles for the last two decades.

@@caementicium284 That's why I think breaking the routine with starfield was necessary, you can tell that he is very excited about it and that it's a passion project for him.

@@pfnieks yeah it's awful that they've always been constricted by stupid consoles. even with starfield, they're being constricted by limitations of the ps5/xboxwhatever.

He is great when it comes to that. There is an interview from 2008 where he responded to all of Oblivion's criticism and he even said that he "appreciates" the maener comments they got for Fallout 76 because in the end even those are some form of criticism. I think this is a really smart view of handing these kind of things.

That doesn't justify the misrepresentations or outright lies Todd Howard's known for. It's easy to look back in hindsight after you've made your money selling your product and say you didn't get everything right. That doesn't mean it's now OK. Todd Howard admitted he *knew* Fallout 76 would be released in a broken state in an IGN interview but went ahead with it anyway. Saying that post-release doesn't now make him innocent; it makes him *more* guilty of scamming players.

@@Cairnsification the problem is, he was definitely forced to do that. No game developer would want to talk about his game like that. The company knows he is charismatic and an icon, so they forced him to it. Yes of course he was a part of it a little, but I wouldn't throw it all on it...

@@cizeek9748 It sad that a lot of people fail to see what you see, Todd was a punching bag and the company knew.

New engine confirmed!

He knew the name of the capital of Rohan, so he balanced himself out.

@@paulandreotti1639 you make a good point.

He didn't remember Riverwood either.

@Mojo Jojo maybe a cabin, trailer parks aren't usually that nice

Lmao, Todd was looking at him like "motherfucker, fuck you"

XD that would be lovely. Follow thy esteemed champion.

Hahahahahhaha

😂

Exactly what I was thinking.my Favourite director too! And I've been waiting for starfielddd for a long time now, we just can't wait.

i also love listening to his sweet little lies.

@@lulubeloo Well he has a lot of points in charisma

@@thebrightestsun4685 he passes every red speech check

Is that from Psalms? 😆

My man skullzi is here Waiting for your analysis of everything here

At least three I think

16x more than Skyrim

A whole field of them.

@@varana ya beat me to it by 2 weeks

Ak47 missed a word but close enough

IT JUST WORKS!

Wouldn't be surprised if he retires after Starfield. Maybe taking more of a consulting position for Elder Scrolls VI.

@@TheDanteEX Doubt it if he does love developing games like he said. Heck, Shigeru Miyamoto is 67 years old and still going strong in Nintendo and Satoru Iwata kept making video games until the last day of his life. Games are art, and if an artist is driven by passion they could never let it go.

@@TheDanteEX Todd has said he will do video games until he literally can’t so I don’t think he’ll be retiring soon

@@thelocustgrappler513 Todd’s Zenimax buyout deal includes an additional $125M in Microsoft stock grants. These are usually unvested and serve as golden handcuffs to keep critical employees onboard after a buyout. I doubt he goes anywhere atleast the next 5 years.

Exactly, i get a feeling he and his team at Bethesda Game Studios never wanted F76, but forced by Zenimax.

@@Half-Vampire I think it's more Zenimax forcing them to release it so soon and do such a shitty beta phase rather than Todd and the rest of the time not wanting to do a online Fallout. And due to Microsoft acquisition of Bethesda he seemed more free on what he could say and even he said he would have preferred a 24/7 beta for a longer period rather than the short beta bursts, so it's safe to say that Fallout 76 having a rocky start is all on Zenimax specifically the shareholders that dictate most things but now that Bethesda has Microsoft's funding the shareholders opinions should more or less be irrelevant now so hopefully things become better now.

@@Half-Vampire Nah, they are interviews from 2007 in which he is completely open and talks about probels. He just rarely gives interviews.

@@bebo2629 Like you said, it's from 2007. Bethesda's board of directors has changed a lot since that time. Now is the time for Todd to talk freely and do his thing freely yet again.

Pretty good deal I'd say.

@*CJ* Todd Howard is a god among men.

@*CJ* that wasn’t a dream. He can project himself into your consciousness.

@*CJ* he achived anti chim. when he dream he projecting his existence into your dream and told you to buy skyrim just like dagoth ur

4 times the size of peanus

16 times the financial rape

16 times the Todd

True... True... Still expecting starfield to open with "Good... You're finally awake".

ok

Bwahahahahahahaha!

I'm pretty sure that TW3 will influence the next TES just like Skyrim had an influence on TW3. These two franchises will always complement each other from now on.

First you English is great 👍. But also how to agree Oblivion has this unique charm that I haven’t seen in other games before or even after. It’s very whimsical, a little quirky, zany, unpredictable but optimistic fun. For me I liked Skyrim but Oblivion personality was way more fun and was a game that wanted to be funny. And they easy have the best side quest in all of ES. Plus the music is literally perfect 🥰. It feels peaceful, makes you lost into the music and makes you feel incredible strong (I was so excited when I heard an oblivion song in Skyrim). Plus Oblivion has probably the best dlc ever made in Shivering Isles. The game that fits my personality prefect. 🤩

I swear I thought I was hearing things lol

Lol, I swear I missed that part when I watched this

Wish the interviewer asked if todd.... would ever use the unreal Engine :/

@@legiongamerworkbruhben6058 He did bring up the engine issue. We will be surprised by the upgrades they've done. It's the most engine work they've ever done. They would never use unreal or any outside solution.

@@MrInternetMan why not? everyone hates the creation ..engine....how much longer till they fail again..

@@legiongamerworkbruhben6058 You're not understanding how this works. They don't need a new engine. If you listened to how he explained it in this video you would have a better understanding.

@@MrInternetMano sry my bad

@Winchester_BornIn1973 He's a games industry journalist who mainly focuses on the industry/business/developer side of things rather than a gamer who probably plays Bethesda games etc. - www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/?author=1570

@@GooglyEyedJoe yeah you should know about the Biggest games themselves if you work in that field and you are going to interview people. Was this an excuse for his terrible research.

I agree, even if you feel the urgency to look for your child, you would still find yourself lost in such an unfamiliar and hostile environment. So it wouldn't be weird trying to get a stronger foothold first, rather than rushing to your death. And, as you said, it wouldn't be strange that, once you realize how messed up thus new reality is, you would just give up altogether. Another complaint that I never understood is about starting with a backstory, as if being a soldier or a lawyer had any value in the wasteland (for example, does anybody remember that Rick was a cop after a few seasons of the walking dead? He becomes a completely different person and borderline insane).

@@pfnieks I especially find it strange when hardcore fans of New Vegas (disclaimer: I thoroughly enjoyed New Vegas, but not to the extent that I feel it necessary to attack other Fallout instalments) use the point that you brought up at the end of your post. Especially seeing as New Vegas is arguably the game that starts the player character with the most developed backstory, even going so far as to dedicate an entire DLC to a backstory that doesn't come from the player's imagination.

@@MrGrim-ck7qj I know, I loved both fnv and fo4 and I can see both their strengths and flaws. That dlc was weird, all of a sudden a backstory was forced on you and you also had to take a questionable decision to move on with the dlc and get blamed for it when you had no choice on the matter. Basically I pretended that Ulysses was a lunatic who mistook me for someone else. Still it was a fun and challenging dlc with lots of awesome loot.

Not everyone wants to have to follow a main questline in order to play a game. In Fallout 4, there are entire areas of the game that are locked off from the player if you go out of your way to avoid the main quest. Heavy-handed tactics such as this have caused me to have no interest in playing the game. I like to make very different characters and live in a World that I can explore and experience from their different points of view. This is not possible for me in a game where I'm being dragged around by the ear from one plot point to another. No, thank you.

@@HareDeLune That's fine, no one is forcing you to play a game you don't want to. Though your response is out of alignment with our discussion in this post. James Batchelor wanted the opposite to you. He wanted to pursue the urgency of the main quest - find his character's son - to the exclusion of all else, and made it sound like the game forbade him from doing so. My point was that this is untrue. You do not need to get side-tracked to pursue the main quest. You can ignore Concord entirely and find alternate ways to Diamond City. I don't think that a character looking for their child and deciding not to get involved in a gunfight is in any way disruptive to immersion. So, I'm not exactly sure what you think you're responding to in this specific comment. That being said, Fallout 4 is an immense game, and I'm not exactly sure what 'entire areas' you think are locked off from the player if you avoid the main quest. Only instanced areas specific to quests come to mind. Are you saying you want access to main quest specific areas but you don't want the main quest content? Seems poorly thought out. The world is wide open and I can walk from Sanctuary Hills to the Glowing Sea and back again without the main quest prohibiting my progress at all. Maybe you should stick to sandbox games like Minecraft if you're opposed to a narrative.

Has that 'yes i was in the chess club' energy

The awkwardness just proves it is todd howard

@@toddhoward7831 not a synth, just good old todd

Hopefully not too large. It's always a bit of a bummer for me, when the locations are that gigantic. Very hard to explore everything. I rather have some different medium size locations, than one really big one. In Fallout or Elder Scrolls it also makes sense. In Starfield maybe not so. We'll see.

@@chakko007 Yeah the number of cities/settlements shouldn't be sacrificed. But I really want a city as large as Novigrad in TW3. As Todd addressed, it brings fidelity(closer to what lore describes). I also suggest watching Zaric Zhakaron's ideal Elder Scrolls V. I think you will be fascinated by the idea of larger cities.

chakko007 Idk about Starfield since we have zero idea about how the cities, people, aliens will look like, but Elder Scrolls should have excessively large cities to give that epic atmosphere. No one needs to explore everything at once, but as you live, spend time traveling this giant world you’ll learn things, explore things etc, meet new people etc like in real life. MAXIMUM IMMERSION

Sure, maybe even with "16 times the details"

I'd say another reason is that the Last Dragonborn is easy to do branding for

Their marketing was on point as well. And the title was catchy and pleasant to say. "Skyim."

With Todd having a speech skill of 100, why would you even mind?

It just works!

Did you ever tell him your baby is his?

I did not need to read this

Fallout 4 isn't included in that list. You are a man of culture I see.

Can you share the link for that interview?

Its worth watching the whole thing

2:00 is all you need

Maybe he uses another mic.

@@chakko007 yeah just looked odd.

Don't forgive them just yet.

@@AP13P lol 😆

His eyes shows how startruck he was. To speak to Godd Howard. What pleasure

You serious?

Go play Fallout 2

The lying toad.

He's got that Charisma [# of Skyrim editions].

He probably is among many other things.

@@savascoruh7981 Hahaha the man of many talents XD

lolol relax

He would just implement Skyrim on the Spacecraft computers.

Yea, let's let the guy who made Fallout 76 do that and risk people's lives

@@moriyokiri3229 Different team, that.s the BGS Austin team.

I invite you to get a look at Skywind ^^, if you haven't allready ;) ... I know it's not an official thing, but they have the blessing of Bethesda, so it's as if :D

@@johnblacksad1627 oh nice! Thank you! How to get the invitation?

@@void0main Ah, unfortunatly, the "game" is still in developpement.. It's basicaly, in short, a remaster of Morrowind, nearly from scratch, using Skyrim engine... If I'm not mistaken, they actually use the Special edition. They even remade musics, have professional level of voice actings and all.. It's pretty advanced as it is, but as you can imagine, a fan-made project like that can take an uncertain amount of time to be completed, but I have good faith in it ;).

@@johnblacksad1627 yes thank you for the explanation. I am tracking it a bit too but never tried actually. Maybe I should try

I just started playing fallout 4 a month ago, straight up survival mode. I think it's been at least 100 hours, and I only progressed to killing Kellogg. I've been doing a lot of side quests and realized that most side quests would introduce you to one of those small areas or buildings most of which you would've ignored if you only play main quests.

Yes

I really appreciate him asking those questions though. There is a lot of vitriol online regarding those things he brought up, and to have official answers for them is nice.

@@MrInternetMan it wasn’t so much the questions, it was more casually letting todd know what they got wrong. I didnt really hear him say anything positive. Just seemed condescending. Jason shreier has that same passive aggressive quality

@@clockworkman8210 Regardless, I appreciate him having to respond to those questions.

Yeah it was kinda awkward

Thank you! I found those moments constantly cringe-worthy. As an interviewer, you can easily bring up negative or tough to answer questions, but in such a way that is more tactful than this rambling fool.

That's the look on James' face the entire time. :D

cut content lol

Not when you can put Skyrim on literally every electronic thing and charge 60$ for it through Xcloud lol.

You have Windows PC and Xbox. Only systems that matter, really.

#SavePlayer1

I think he was exactly referring to making deep games more accessible and lowering the barrier to entry, rather than watering down everything and making mobile games for everyone. It's the future in the sense that it will make it a lot more accessible for whole new audiences - not just folks with the time or desire to sit down for hours straight at a single game (which is also my case). One example is my Fallout 4 mod loadout and savegame taking nearly 15 minutes or more to load up. Or even vanilla FO4 taking a long time to load and having to load each cell/map after each transition. Making those stuff faster and more seamless, along with being able to stop and boot up at any point and time quickly, and doing that even on more-mobile platforms (consoles) is pretty darn significant. Of course, this comes more from a marketing and industry (sales, reach) angle than a pure development or game design one. Folks forget Todd has to balance many fronts, and to get him to reply with design or technical views the questions have to be worded in such ways.

Because the Chinese and the Japanese (mainly) love to play games on mobile or handheld consoles, therefore all these big studios are already planning to secure that and cater to those big markets.

@@salamantitus7331 have different titels like blade or shelter is ok, but if you want and TES or Fallout on Phone, thats not work, you need a controler or mouse - Keyboard. And then you dont need the game on phone, if you want it just stream it. Great Phone Titels are Touch only

All we currently have is a remaster for Xbox. I think I've read Todd doesn't like remakes.

Just try using mods