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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
like Reggie "My body is ready" Fils-Aime
Might have a stronger legacy than Richard Garriott and Peter Molyneux so far too!
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.
Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me. He helped shape TES into what it is today, but he seems like a chronic "ideas guy" and I suspect the dev team succeeds in spite of him.
Yeah, I can't help but laugh at the man (in a good way) whenever I see him on the screen. I'm sure it's for the best that he leaves the stage, but I know I'm going to miss him.