How does he do it?

so has Todd redeemed himself?

no marketing

I saw like 2 weeks of Anon Babble threads saying "OBLIVION REMASTER MIGHT COME OUT REALLY SOON GUISE!!!!"
I can only assume they were Microsoft employees.

The problem was never with Todd. Todd is incredibly likable. It's all Bethesda. Bethesda sucks. Todd should pack up and move to a better studio, unironically.

The modding community for Bethesda games is arguably one of the best and their games thrive off of passionate modders hard work

It was his pet project.
When he released Fallout 3 he said that his dream was making a space exploration game. The problem is that space is boring IRL and games about space usually suck. Mass effect had to use bimbo aliens and asshots of Miranda to make the game appealling. It also didn't help that he outsourced the game to jeets.

No, Bethesda will never be redeemed after creating nothing but garbage for 20 years.

devs : "what about this super complex story ? or those super complex mechanics ? and what about this super romance ? or this super companion or those quests blabla"
Todd: "What about having fun and let the player do whatever he wants ?"

I strongly suspect he had nothing to do with any of this at all. I can see him at a desk with higher MS executives telling him they're going to be outsourcing work on an Oblivion remaster and to get some volunteers to assist them with code review and offering them whatever they need.

umm uh... yeah! yeah okay, sir. But you know... we had thought about doing something like that in house. I had this idea th-

That won't be necessary, Todd. Just keep focus on TESVI and make it good. Wouldn't want this outsource dev making the remaster better than it, we'd have to make you guys Bethesda B Team haha!

Hahaha...yeah...hahha

Anon is right though. Todd was never the problem. It's his studio. He had to hire jeets to even make starfield for christ's sake. That's how bad the workers at the studio are.

He should leave Bethesda and create a new studio with only people from his chess club.

oblivion was 19 years ago

God fucking damn it

Todd always wanted to make Daggerfall in space. And when he finally did, it had exactly all the same problems, except they were literally 1000 times worse, because the scope was 1000 times bigger. All in an engine that cannot handle the design requirements. I have to hope he's learned from the disappointment of Starfield

despite all the shit bethesda games get, nobody else makes anything else comparative in scale

people immediately bought the oblivion remaster before mods came out and played it vanilla

It's a zero competition market.

the crazy thing to me is that the same mods have to be made over and over again for each release and bethesda never thinks to integrate any of them. things like Sky/StarUI that get released within 24 hours of launch and absolutely mog the default UI in terms of aesthetics, information display/sorting, and usability. it's like they have a vested interest in bad UI.

pretty sure there's some statistic about the majority of PC players not even modding skyrim
not to mention how most people play these games on console where there are no mods (or limited and paid mods in the recent releases)
mods are a cool bonus but people who say the games are unplayable vanilla are deranged

what this guy said. they can re-release over and over and over again because NOBODY else is releasing proper bethesdalikes. they're always gay and limited scope like Avowed. rockstar comes close i guess with things like RDR but those are 3rd person and they're not RPGs. KCD comes close but it feels like shit to actually play and has a boring setting and no freedom/character creation.

They have to release the game for consoles so they're forced to use those ugly, big UIs. But they do learn from the modding community. For example, the whole settlement system of Fallout 4 was based on the "Real Time Settler" mod for fallout 3.

Todd literally says he uses SkyUI when he plays Skyrim

You play these games in first person?

im playing an un-modded save of vanilla skyrim right now after todd bricked my old saves with his cash shop updates. it's honestly not that bad, and a shocking amount of stuff that people usually get mods for can be fixed with console commands in the game itself. things like making the horses faster, making your companions a different class/use spells, damage/scaling balancing via attackdamagemult, etc.

I guess consumers have way more money to throw away than previously assumed.

third person faggot

don't talk to me. you're objectively and demonstrably beneath me. find a rope in your expanded FOV and hang yourself with it.

muh nostalgia

is it really that hard for you delusional faggots to admit that oblivion was actually a good game?

Why didn't they use a better engine so they didn't have so many loading screens everywhere for the remaster?

not that anon but i played 80 hours of it and for me it's only because of nostalgia, because skyrim already improved on it in literally every single way.

It's really funny how he did it just when Skyblivion was going to release.

Todd is a greddy piece of shit, don't fall for his charisma

because a new engine and its associated underpinning systems would be a remake, not a remaster. it would also cost vastly more time and money to produce and likely wouldn't be able to be (safely) outsourced. it's almost the same amount of effort as making TES6.

just when Skyblivion was going to release

There was no reason for this then. If they weren't going to do anything of substance, you were better off just sticking with the original game and using mods.

16x the detail

go into a dungeon in skyrim and get a shitty apprentice robes that reduce resto spells by 5% or some shit and a word wall that has a useless shout word

go into one of oblivions lovingly crafted procedurally generated dungeons and come out with four rings that grant meme effects like life detection, a full set of daedric armor enchanted to hell, and a spell tome for some spell I'll never cast

It can't compare.

The only way a person could think that Oblivion was a good game is if they never made it to level 15-20 on any single character. It's a fundamentally broken piece of shit.

oblivions lovingly crafted procedurally generated dungeons

lmao

the new game ironically makes this a much bigger problem, because getting level progress from everything makes you level up much faster than in the original. i was level 20 before i completed even a single guild questline or the main story without doing any grinding or exploiting. game balance instantly broke in half and i got infinite gold from the spammed daedric and glass drops.

they should have finished it faster. why did it take todd's team of like a dozen people 6 months to do what these trannies have been working on for like 10 years (but better)

complete a dungeon in Skyrim, use a secret passage or the conveniently-barred-from-inside door that you couldn't open before to return to the dungeon entrance

leave the Oblivion dungeon by slowly walking through the entirety of it, giving you an opportunity to marvel at the challenges you have faced and the foes you have slain

skyrimbabs really have no idea what a soul is

Oblivion remastered made me realize that they should just let their game engine die.

Morrowind > Skyrim > Oblivion

Simple as. Oblivion is the deformed middle child that failed to cater to autists or normies. Morrowind is the better game for serious TES autists. Skyrim is the better game for normies. Oblivion is hideous, has retarded gameplay mechanics, and suffers from many of the same issues as Skyrim but with less polish. 5/10 game.

Morrowind did genuinely age poorly though. And going further back you reach legit unplayable levels.

Your argument would hold water if Oblivion wasn't a complete dogshit game.

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Bethesda Softworks had the Remaster be made. Todd works at Bethesda Games Studios. Why is Anon Babble so retarded?

Gothic, gothic 2 and archolos are better but not as popular for some reason. Strange that nobody makes teslikes.

Strange that nobody makes teslikes.

It's huge effort and until ue5 you actually had to make your own open world solution.

Strange that nobody makes teslikes

it's the engine that makes the game, UE5 still struggles with open worlds

They're less popular probably because they're not better. They're mechanically shallower than morrowind and look worse too and the last game was over 2 decades ago so they're not even relevant

sandbox-like

open world

first person combat

good world building

It's still crazy to me how no game does this successfully. The forumla is right there but game devs are too busy making rollslop half the time and the other half is spent making DEI shit like Avowed. Fuck even Avowed was being praised because we haven't had an Elder Scrolls in over decade.

god I hope pirat_nation dies in a humiliating manner

Gothic led me to Morrowind. It's a great game, but it's too aged and it's too easy to use exploits to cheese it.

The fun of a game like Morrowind was eventually finding ways to break the system. Oblivion does it all on it's own, and manages to shatter the immersion of it's world in the process. Hell, the moment that bandits show up wearing Elven armor, the immersion begins to break down. Let alone glass and daedric like you're describing. At that point it all becomes a farce.

I never liked Oblivion and I don't know why people are eating it up now. Are normoids really THIS stupid now that they'll eat up the same dogshit game again just because of a fresh coat of paint was applied and it APPEARS big because the install size is a bloated premium 120GB?

I'm a shitter

Imagine being filtered by oblivion of all things.
Yeah it has problems but I'm not going to pretend like you dogshit players don't hide behind game flaws to justify how much you suck.

Ultima is 10x better and is what bethesda literally copied and ripped off for their shit games.
Ultima did fully interactive full physics based worlds long before bethesda
Too bad richard garriot is a stupid fuck otherwise we would be playing Ultima 20 right now and not shitty tes 4

Because its not their full time job and they probably dont have much time

Are normoids really THIS stupid now that they'll eat up the same dogshit game again just because of a fresh coat of paint was applied

Yes. It was somehow enough to trick me into buying this piece of shit

I want to die

its not a competition between the two, retard.

anyone who wanted to play skybilivion will still play it when it releases because it will be oblivion within skyrim with full access to all skyrim mods, just with oblivions story and cyrodiil as the map, literally a way different experience both from original oblivion and the remaster version gameplay and visual wise.

skybilivion is also a passion project its not a competing "product". people are so fucking retarded nowadays

only faggots play tes games in first person only.
the chad method is using both first and third person constantly.

when asked what mods he uses for oblivion he said the UI mods are "amazing"
this is a recurring issue for bethesda

Godd never needed to redeem himself

by UI mods he meant loverslab but he knows he cant say loverslab so he said UI instead

Todd should be hired by nintendo

Why would I sully Todds vision by adding mods?

Imagine using a 'git gud' excuse for Oblivion of all things. I have played through every guild questline, the main story, and nearly every other sidequest in the game. You have completely missed the point, retard.

Yeah it has problems

I accept your concession.

Imagine being filtered by oblivion of all things.

Yeah it has problems but I'm not going to pretend like you dogshit players don't hide behind game flaws to justify how much you suck.

Nintendo is worse than Bethesda.