Maybe Todd aint a bad guy after all

wasn't lush jungle in Arena

nah but he seems like a nice boss figure who'd tell people to get back to work but not be an ass about it

Too bad he doesn't know how to make good games

The dense jungle Cyrodill was just never at any point even on the table, didn't even get any concept art along those lines. The choice to go with what they did must have happened at the very earliest stages of pre-production and not a single artist cared to even try to depict Jungle Rome.

Fun fact, the wood elves model in oblivion (2006) was based off Todd Howard himself.
That is why they are so short and cute looking, despite their arguably horrific lore.

he was definitely part of Oblivion and i like Oblivion more than Skyrim. These days he probably doesn't do as much.

wasn’t a jungle before redguard.
wasn’t a jungle after morrowind.
It just seems like a tossed retcon.

Yes, because he watched LotR and wanted something similar to these movies. That's why we got Iliac Bay 2.0 instead of something cool and unique. Seriously, the imperials are basically bretons with all those knights and castles.

There's hardly a soul in the industry that has a negative thing to say about Todd. At worst they say he's become stretched too thin as Bethesda has grown. But pretty much everyone who's met him says he's a great guy.

And I think that Bethesda is only still alive with a remaining figment of a soul because of him and practices like hiring from the modding community.

Todd is routinely framed as shooting down "weird" ideas in favor of the most generic shit possible

Tbf he gave Kirkbride the freedom to create weird Redguard and Morrowind. Redguard was a flop, and Morrowind was a moderate success. Meanwhile, generic Oblivion was a huge success. Same with generic Skyrim. In the end Todd is right, generic fantasy sells much-much better.

Todd is by all accounts a great guy. People just hate him cause he's a businessman. Bethesda were never elite devs, they were never really masters of their craft but Todd made them a billion dollar company because he gave people what they wanted. He fully understands people's wants. At least until Starfield, which ironically was what HE wanted and nobody else did.

why is everyone white and male?

The post you are replying is a bot. I'm 80% sure. No one in their right minds would say anything like this today

He also over-exaggerates a LOT about the games he promotes.

Because this is a given and the biggest meme surrounding Todd. A bot, though? Look at the spacing too.

I don't understand why Bethesda takes so much shit for removing Oblivion's jungle when literally every other RPG in existence is basic bitch medieval fantasy. Seems like the RPG audience has made it abundantly clear what they want.

Doesn't matter. They still didn't fix Oblivion in the remaster, fo76 is still dogshit excuse for delaying the next fallout and starfield will never recover.

every other RPG in existence is basic bitch medieval fantasy

TES already has basic bitch medieval fantasy region called High Rock. There was absolutely no need for another one.

refused to cover a tranny employee's bottom surgery

tranny quits, then rants about BGS on glassdoor but the rant is essentially "bethesda and todd are amazing to work for but they didn't pay for my cock removal, so fuck them"

booted the kotaku gigajew owner and all their reporters from the bethesda offices for being bribe-begging whores

casts three ethnic people in starfield to play everything from Africans to Indians to Chinese

todd is honestly based

Never forget Tenpenny Tower

They need to actually sell copies of their game.

Then why not place all TES games in High Rock? The most basic bitch medieval fantasy region with the most basic bitch medieval fantasy race.

Todd's smiles never look real.

They've likely paid him a lot to stay where he is, as he's been the face of the company for over 20 years. Moving him to an executive position would be a waste for both himself and the company.

Todd was never a bad guy. Everyone makes mistakes, that's what makes us human.

I have anecdotal stories from a friend that worked at Bethesda that Todd would just stop by and shoot the shit for several minutes every so often. My friend thought it was nice and friendly but he's also a workaholic so would get anxious about having to talk to the Todd instead of working.

I'd definitely agree that Todd seems like a good dude who's just decided to play things too safely after seeing what Morrowind did to his coworkers. They were in do or die mode and had to crunch like crazy for it and it nearly killed them (as a company and as individuals. I think Ken Rolston or Goodall or one of them put on like 60 pounds during it). I don't blame him for playing it safe, especially since he seems to want to take good care of his employees, but Bethesda plays it too safe with their own games. Streamlining, never experimenting, never taking risks, chasing trends instead of setting them, sticking to the same old engines, going for a broad audience instead of supporting a core, becoming complacent. It doesn't help that as the company's grown it's become harder for Todd to manage. And he has too much loyalty to people like Emil, who is objectively awful at his fucking job.

It’s pretty nuts how Todd got his first job at Bethesda. He walked into the office afterschool and simply asked them for a job lol. They told him to wait until he graduated so he finished school and got a job there. But this is how most boomers got their jobs.

if Todd was smart he'd poach the core skyblivion team for TESVI.

why is 1 person blurred out

Met Skyblivion trannies even though they haven't released anything yet

Never even mentioned TR and other Morrowind projects and mods when they are easily the most impressive mods for any of the Bethesda games

Morrowind community is literally the most active one with constant major releases and modjam events even though it doesn't have Bethesda's support like Skyrim modding

doesn't want TR to get a bunch of attention from casuals and plebs

Okay so let's settle this: how high SHOULD werewolves jump? Canines don't jump as good as felines, but they can do pretty good leaps with enough momentum, right?

That's why they were invited. They were all offered a job

Doesn't matter
Morrowind graphics and mechanics will filter out the retards anyway

They mod the shit out of it before even touching the vanilla game. Plenty of plebs would flood in and ruin the community.

filter out people with standards*

Leaps forward yeah, they shouldn't be able to jump much higher. Then again they are super natural beings so maybe they could jump high too.

Bethesda is one of the only major companies to actively support the modding community

somehow Anon Babble will say this is a bad thing

it's TES, don't pretend you have standards

Why do Morrowfags seethe so hard when newer games get attention of any kind?

What exactly are Todd's contributions to the franchise other than making it more lame than it could've been? I don't understand the hyperfixation on this guy, is he a writer, an artist? I don't think he is.

nexus is all we need to know modders are scum

the reason Cyrodiil went from being described as a lush jungle to a generic fantasy forest?

2005 game technology

He gave us Blades and Castles tho

Doesn't matter
You can add shaders and textures but morrowind will still look like morrowind
It's not Skyrim where every item has 10 different replacer mods
Not to mention that the main problem for Skyrim fags would be reading
So they'd rather go and support Skywind
Bethesda is directly exploiting modders and ruining modding
I wouldn't be surprised if they offer this team to make paid mods when they are done with Skyblivion
Because this attention is undeserved
I'm all for all games getting good mods
I have almost 500 hours in just SE version of Skyrim and have played dozens of popular mods and none of them are good, even personally rated by Todd stuff like Inigo
Skyrim mods are vastly overrated

Why in every Bethesda thread there's always someone crying about Morrowind or New Vegas. Get a life man

would be reading

AI voice mods are already in.

Oblivion Remastered came out in 2025

He's in in his bosmer-pilled era.

Doesn't matter
There's still a lot of text
Audio books don't fix people's unwillingness to read, most people will still prefer movies, especially when it comes to video games with an absolutely brain dead audience

True and in the grand scheme of things the normiefication was only really bad with fallout 4 and starfield. So not many examples for him to learn from fans backlash.

its just

give up todd the conversation is already over.

You don't need to read to complain about morrowind.

kicks them in the nuts and then goes: "eh why don't you guys come over for a handshake"

class guy

Trvke GET

Todd does have a lot of false promises.

Every single thing people meme about him having lied about is either something he's never actually said, a quote taken out of context or just observably true.

Todd lies

Debunked.

Radiant AI was a lie.

It was not, every single think they demoed and talked about at E3 is in the game.

What are the chances we'll ever see Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles for Skyblivion?

Todd... you have to stop lying man.

Never experimenting or taking risks...Release Fallout 76 and Starfield before money printing machine of Fallout 5 and TES 6...Lol

Point out a single specific lie

they were already gonna sell copies, retard.
Morrowind was alien mushroom land and sold perfectly fine, keeping the company from failing.

Knights of the Nine, 75%. Shivering Isles, 1%

its been done thousands of times, why do we have to keep digging it up so the shill/baiter of the thread can be satisfied?

NPCs don't use the environment to achieve goals.

the easiest thing to shut them up would be to give back or even better, build upon the complexity of magic, complexity of factions, cool lore and complexity of dialogue morrowind enjoyed.

Almost ALL of the salt from bethesda fans of older games ultimately stems from cool shit being dumbed down in order to avoid the effort of ironing out the wrinkles.

We wanted to see the games become BETTER in ways beyond the graphics.

what drugs are you taking/forgotten to take to make this insane claim? he's a shameless liar and always has been lmfao.

40000 times the detail!

you see that mountain! you can go there!

not to mention everything about fallout 47.

Streamlining, never experimenting, never taking risks, chasing trends instead of setting them, sticking to the same old engines, going for a broad audience instead of supporting a core, becoming complacent.

I wouldn't say this is totally wrong, but it's also exactly criticisms that skeptics reflexively reach for every single time they don't like a game.

For example:

Streamlining

Critics tend to fixate on what was removed and not what was added. In FO4 settlements and modular weapons were huge additions that vastly increased mechanical complexity and it was just never acknowledged because many RPG fans don't care about those things. Meanwhile there's a lot of moaning about the removal of attributes even though they are mathematically redundant with skills and functionally superfluous.

never experimenting

never taking risks

Starfield is a hugely experimental and risky project on the whole. By definition, the majority of risks don't pay off. If they did, they wouldn't be risks, they'd be safe bets. Most of what critics seem to be focusing on is the writing is very normie-coded and disregarding every other aspect of the design.

going for a broad audience instead of supporting a core

Expensive projects need big audiences to justify their costs.

chasing trends instead of setting them

Very few games are going to set trends now that the gaming market is mature. Pretty much every available audience has been captured already.

old engines

Starfield's engine is pretty state of the art and not many games can do what it does. It's pretty obvious that what people really mean is "spend more on animation".

And he has too much loyalty to people like Emil, who is objectively awful at his fucking job.

The lead quest writer for Starfield was Will Shen, the very same Will Shen everyone glazed for Far Harbor.

Starfield's engine is pretty state of the art

least obvious bait.
half assed duct tape on top of spaghetti code in a halfassed fashion to the point where things are long since stretched to their limits to meet outdated standards isn't state of the art.
its the state of modern AAA development.

A reminder that 16 of the posters on this thread and OP are just Todd Howard with a proxy

Notice all the betas lowering their heads so they don't stand over the alpha.

that is exactly it.
Morrowind poisoned Todd's mindset in a way that slowly ruined the company over time.
He was never the guy who should have been doing the detail work, as morrowind proved, but he was at least able to hold things together for that game.
And that is the only credit I will give him.

lanklet bows down out of sheer reverence

How can I gain this power?

Morrowind barely broke even, the company only stayed afloat due to the Xbox port exclusivity deal.

Dragaur fus roh dah you into a trap

Is it true he was on the chess team

retard

Literally the how to talk to short people meme.

iirc Morrowind sold like 4 million which was huge at that time

You go to that mountain near the beginning of the game.

You can climb mountains though you fucking retard. It's literally part of the main quest

Everything else aside, I never understood why "you can walk to the top of that mountain" is considered a lie? Iirc, he was showing Throat of the World and you can walk to the top of it.

That was only after years on the market, the first couple years it only moved a few hundred thousand copies.

Yeah. and it saved their asses while becoming more popular over time.
Idiots like you never understand how to read the market numbers correctly, and don't understand the massive surge in the amount of people that were getting into the market for games during this time period.
EVERY game that wasn't trash was guaranteed to get more people than before even LOOKING at it.
This rising tide of gaming becoming more accessible and graphical fidelity and hardware capability making massive leaps is a massive part of what let developers like Bethesda explode in growth.
not some retarded baby-marketeering theory about generic fantasy being more attractive.

And fantasy jungle isn’t something that would sell?

You can also physically go to the top of every single mountain in the game

Can you point to a Fantasy Jungle based game that has been more successful than Medieval Europe Fantasy Land?

goalposts moved

I was never under the impression he was a bad guy. Just liked beating a dead horse of a game into meme status. Did he do things that made people not like him?

Todd is a successful businessman and he made calls to follow what would be successful in the industry at the time over artistic integrity. Some people may never forgive him for this but it's a reasonable choice.

holy FUARK

Wow, never thought i'd meet a Bethesda drone who unironically likes the new games and defends the company before on here, normally they're just mindless npcs screeching in the steam forums.

Get help.

lmao Ranjeesh get better ai and a real job!

D2 had an entire act of jungle and it was great. You're a shill. Get help.

Jungles are dense and interesting. And will look good with improved graphics.

lmao Ranjeesh get better ai and a real job!

no counter argument

Concession accepted.

That was mostly about npcs picking up stuff they needed to use like weapons and potions.
from all the radiant ai stuff the only thing that didnt make it into the game, even in a nerfed state, was the npc asking you, the strong knight, to stay the night after talking about rumors of daedra atacking.
based todd teased people with ai girlfriends back then. He should add it for real now that the tech is available.

the tech was already available, idiot.

It was more than that.
youtu.be/8ZJ4Osk2yNo?t=959

It wasnt considered a lie. It was considered a waste of development time as climbing a piece of pointy rock is boring compared to exploring a town with quests.
same with 16 times the details. No one ever said the textures didnt have 16x the details, even if 16x was refering to lighting and draw distance, everyone said that it was a waste since the engine and bugs needed the attention more.
the meme about lies started with fo76's bad launch.
even in older games people only hated the dumbing down. And bad lore in case of fallout.
the lier of the era was always peter molyneux and with him gone, all the haters jumped on todd cause of the overlap of people making fun of both of them.

exploiting

You're the breed that would go on reddit and claim Ghost Adventures are "exploiting mentally ill people" when the "mentally ill people" request them to come to their house to investigate. Why do you people always feel the need to fabricate controversies?

Yeah that's cool and all, but if they released a game that "focused on the engine and the bugs" and didn't improve the visual fidelity any or increase the amount of detail, then you'd be whining that the games look like xbox 360 titles. All you ever do is bitch.

And you have no clue what you're talking about.

And you have no argument.

zero arguments, just

"n-no!"

Shill, starfield barely even matches skyrim for fidelity.
They never dealt properly with the morrowind era issue that goes back to fucking netimmerse and whatever rendering system they used that limited the size of their cities.
They couldn't even port over the pickpocketing code properly to starfield
shut the fuck up retard.

Shartroons aka Obsidiots from qa have a huge hateboner against todd and this is well known, mainly after the Anon Babbletards who went there discovered that all of th anti bethesda flooding comes from there and their pisscord.
Even their Anon Babble threads are terrible.

state of the art engine, guys!

rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/bethesda-to-develop-and-publish-fallout-3.4779/#post-61176
just found this thread from that time. apparently "crpg" fans hated bethesda for how buggy "buggerfall" was and the lack of dialogue trees and the dialogue system in general in "marrowind". on a side note they also shit on kotor for not being isometric in the same thread.
the more time passes the more things stay the same. honestly no surprise that todd has conditioned himself to ignore any and all fan crticism.
lords of shadow looks better than 99% of games released on 8th AND 9TH gen.

same tranny discourse but with a post 9/11 flavor

Some things never change

exploring a town with quests

oh, yeah, totally what a TES player wants to do.

unsurprising. Morrowind doesnt even fit into the CRPG genre, nor does daggerfall.

memes on the engine

posts an example showing fault with art and animation direction

its because of people like you that they end up upping the graphics every time we nag about engine not being fixed again
they never do, fallout was right, war...war never changes.

no my engine is good actually

then why can't you make anything good on it

REEEE ITS THE ART TEAMS FAULT

take some responsibility, shill.
You think no one noticed how you RAN the fuck away from talking about how bethesdas shitbox engine STILL cannot support decent sized villages?
DECADES AFTER MORROWIND?
Shut the fuck up retard.

Point out the game engine where there are sprawling villages/cities, everything is an entity (See a guy who has a sword, you can kill him and take it.), and every NPC has a questline.

dolphin hacker

massive package

hmmmm
daggerfall was a life sim and morrowind was an rpg made inside an engine that was tailor made for immersive sims. of course the dnd dungeon crawler crowd would be allergic to it.
actually the dialogue in morrowind and lack of dialogue trees makes me think that morrowind was going to be like daggerfall at first, but they made so many hand made quests that they just got rid of the random generated ones and made it into a classic rpg.
you posted ugly heads with bad animations and said the engine is bad.
the engine is bad but you showing problems unrelated to engine being bad while saying engine is bad, makes the devs fix the problems youve shown instead of the engine.
in oblivion people move between shops, their houses and their friends for gossip. they eat and sleep and they dynamically react to stuff dropping on the ground and becoming available to them. they behave according to faction and race and reputation of the player character. thats pretty radiant to me. and bethesda games' main problem isnt the lack of houses and people in the cities its how slow it is to go from point A to B with lots of loading screens.
least they could do is to make the inside of a city one big cell room. they can add unenterable houses and npcs with no dialogue but what they do now is more immersive for me.

look at these screenshots from 4chinz webms recorded at the lowest settings!!!!!

Play the game before discussing it.
You are absolutely blind and/or have played neither game.

Assassins creed 2, anvil.

And literally every other AC game and their engines, retard.

Daggerfall, XnGine,
Cyberpunk 2077, RED engine,
Final Fantasy VII Remake, UE4
GTA 3, Renderware

and all of rockstars OTHER GTAs.

I can keep fucking looking.

nigger shut the fuck up. the art team literally cannot make anything nicer because the engine can barely support it on top of MUTUAL laziness.

I have been playing longer than mommy let you get on the internet.

What else do you do in TES?

Yeah that's cool and all, but if they released a game that "focused on the engine and the bugs" and didn't improve the visual fidelity any or increase the amount of detail, then you'd be whining that the games look like xbox 360 titles.

Having few or no bugs is an expectation you fucking twat, you don't get a pat on the back for meeting the bare minimum

wasn't the vast majority of the play time in Skyrim dungeon diving?

nah sex mods in the cities. no one plays these games.

Dungeon diving is all tied to quests in towns though. You'd be better off seeing time spent in quest related dungeons vs non-quest related.
Even the quest about learning magic at school takes place primarily in a fucking draugr cave

Well they've taken over a decade to rework someone else's game and it's still not out so they can't be that great

they added lots of new graphics technology when fo76 released. thats what the whole 16x the details was about. I for one know that all the energy weapons' details looks much nicer in starfield than fallout 4.

so instead of every npc being talkable and every house being handcrafted with loot, even if worthless, you want them to fill it with copy pasted buildings and npcs that throw one liners as you run past them for 20 minutes to get to the next talkable npc?
open world games are not for rpgs retard go back to playing action games

Assassins Creed, Cyberpunk, GTA

Loads of filler NPCs that you can't interact with beyond killing them and can't take their clothes. They're not RPGs either.
Funny that you cite older Bethesda games. lol

The games being generic has nothing to do with their success.

elder scrolls was already getting more popular, and oblivion was basically launch title for the next gen conoles and one of the only RPGs of the 360, no shit it sold more, it could be like 10 times worse than morrowind and still sell more just from fan momentum and lack of games on the new consoles to compete with, and it was worse than morrowind in every way but the superficial. I replayed both oblivion and skyrim just recentky and i realized that skyrim is vastly better than oblivion even if oblivion spell system and guilds are better.

Its like blizzdrone posting their shitty vanilla collections special ed wow boxes, and still sucking blizzard's cock in retoilet

Calm down, dude. It's a jewel-case and manual.

stock internet photo of a game that is not either of the ones being talked about

ebin
And you continue proving you have no clue what you are talking about. You're treating games of these scale like they're indie pixelshit you can complete in 90 minutes.

that was the most annoying thing about skyrim for me. everything worth doing had a quest pointed at it.

Daggerfall is almost 100% zooming around in the massive dungeons in that game

Assassins creed 2, anvil.

False

Cyberpunk 2077, RED engine,

False

Final Fantasy VII Remake, UE4

False

GTA 3, Renderware

False

morrowind was an rpg made inside an engine that was tailor made for immersive sims

Retard? Netimmerse's first game was a goddamn PvP MMORPG

He is using innuendo to oversell his game, it is misleading even if it is not technically lying.
He talks about a vast open world, which is true, shows a shot of a group of mountains in the background with throat of the world in the shot and says

see that mountain you can climb it

there are a lot of mountains, the impression you get is that all the mountains you see can be walked/climbed on. That everywhere you see is a place you can go, but really its just the one mountain he was talking about and most of the rest are effectively just artwork.

Technically its not a lie, but its misleading on purpose which is dishonest. The marketing for the game used A LOT of innuendo to make you think you were getting a larger and deeper game than you got. They also showed off the golden claw quest before release and showed how you used to item menu to look at items to figure out puzzles in the game world. It made you think that there was going to be some secrets in the world with some interesting puzzles involving item inspection. In reality there was just the claw puzzles that used that feature and the game explicitly tells you to look at it, in case you missed their advertisement.

skyrim was at least a little better than oblivion because you could find unique spell books out in the world, and if you werent a caster there were dragon shouts too, so the explorations was a step above oblivions where you did gates for sigil stones and ran the same marauder dungeon with a good playout over and over instead of looking for new dungeons because you knew there was nothing unique in different dungeons if a quest isnt pointing you to go there.

They didn't see

multiplayer survival Fallout l

As a risk. It was a hot trend when they started it. They were chasing what was hot with an OP they thought was invincible.
Starfield wasn't a risk, either. One of the chief complaints is that it is completely lacking in bite and identity and everything is toothless. It's following their same formula and doesn't do anything daring (i.e. it's just another multiverse story), and it doesn't commit to anything too hard (you can almost entirely skip settlements and space combat).

theres nothing wrong with being able to ignore a feature in the game. Their problem is they just arent that good at game design, their games are best when they throw paint on the wall with a dozen different features and let the PLAYer PLAY around with their game system, but Bethesda has gone full retard over the years and taking out features for a more refined experience, but they cant refine or balance their games for shit.

be kings of game genre where the selling point is living a second life with multiple choices in how to play the game

take on the philosophy that "perfection is when there is nothing left to take away" and start cutting features

they are just stupid. Its ok they seem to have gotten the message and stopped dumbing down their games as much as oblivion was

Todd is going to drug and murder them. This is their last post.

theres nothing wrong with being able to ignore a feature in the game.

It depends on your philosophy.
Most people agree that being able to ignore combat in a DOOM game would be fucking cancer. If you make it so a player can ignore any given mechanic in the game then they're disconnected and isolated. They don't interact. There's no connection and the game feels disjointed. Which is a huge problem in Starfield. It's a space game where space combat is optional and you can't even fly your ship.

But, yes, one of their biggest issues is that they think brevity is the soul of wit for game design in a genre focused on having a ton to do.

It's obvious that Bethesda is going to recruit these guys after Skyblivion is done.

Todd is a cruel asshole

cruel asshole's feces

The opposite, ever since Morrowind he's put the wellbeing of his company and employees over artistic integrity

kek
people on here still can be funny

squatting down to meet Todd

Brutal

oh so you just dont have eyes.
THAT kind of retarded.
its ok buddy you did good by showing we shouldnt care about the bullshit you post.

Once he retires it's over for that company.

no, he put the well being of his employees, not the company, over integrity.
That is why starfield was a disaster and 76 was a shitshow.
Because he did not value the well being of the company.
Pole-riding faggot.

Todd is the reason we got badass Werewolves in Skyrim over humans with a dog head. A developer made the Werewolf model and concept on his own and programmers were refusing to add it to the game until Todd saw him working on it and told them to put it in. He's based.

No, Todd is an incompetent with trauma that continually tried to keep having the fine control of a project lead even as he grew more and more distant from the work, which led to hamstringing development more and more as he insisted on being the one people had to go through for stuff way BELOW his pay grade, while being much harder to approach for that approval.

Rather, he is incompetent at his current level, but was more competent at lower levels.
Its very much the Peter principle in action.

That doesn't make any sense. If he cared for the employees then he would make sure the games were a success.

Starfield is a hugely experimental and risky project on the whole

It's only risky because they decided to play it so safe it became a risk.

its more that he cared about them from HIS perspective, anon.
Morrowind was hell to develop.
It ruined some of the best people Todd had working under him and they left the company right after.
He has been open about how he never wanted to put his employees to the grindstone like that ever again.

The employees can still be paid and still lead healthy lives if the game isn't as good as it could have been had I pushed them harder

is how he is thinking.
You and I don't agree with this, sure.
But to him this IS caring about his people.

todd is shortsighted

damn.

To me it's sort of a round of humiliation.

see ? these tards tried to "port" oblivion on a slightly updated version of a 2003 engine. Laugh at them, and play Oblivion Remaster, guys

Feels like a humiliation ritual.

slightly updated

Todd is routinely framed as shooting down "weird" ideas in favor of the most generic shit possible.

Generic shit is what sells, play NPC golem normalfags.
Todd tried weird ideas like Redquard and they were massive flops.

Yes, unironically.
He never understood the long term effects of playing it too safe and always cutting out anything that was "too hard" to get right.

It is what led to a slow and gradual decline in the pre-existing mechanics of the later games moving forward, and a lack of proper development of the engine to support the vision Bethesda marketed itself on with its big open worlds.
They would advance the graphics, throw in some new ideas like basebuilding and the like, but would get simpler with everything else that was already around.
The engine would be updated for more memory but the optimization was always so bad they never moved beyond the problem of Vivec being too big to render properly in Morrowind.
They only approached that problem properly ONCE across their games, and it was with the capital wasteland in fallout 3, which ultimately was the same work around used for Morrowind, but executed in a better fashion.

Skyrim litterally runs on the same engine as civilization IV.

b-but muh creation engine

It's just gamebryo.

capital wasteland in fallout 3

You mean just breaking it up into separate areas? Like the actual city I mean.

making the first multiplayer title ever on that specific engine where everything is intended for single player and hoping players wouldn't be irredeemable FAGGOTS and would insteadd do the job of making their own factions and clans in the world like in every other MMO, all with a brand new team, wasn't a risk

making daggerfall in space wasn't a risk

You are talking so much out of your ass it's like diarrhea.

nigger shut the fuck up with your pseudo-marketing bullshit already.
Redguard had to compete with

HalfLife

Fallout 2

Metal Gear Solid

OG Starcraft and Broodwar

Resident Evil 2

Baldurs Gate

LoZ: Ocarina of Time

Tekken 3

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six

Thief: The Dark Project

and a whole fuckton of other MASSIVE titles that waged a massive fucking war for peoples attention.
Redguard was released at a bad time to try and stand out, PERIOD.

yes, that was the workaround they did back in Morrowind with Vivec.
The difference is that they made DC a bit more interesting than the city of Vivec was.
Its not a big improvement, but a slight improvement is better than NOT improving.

nigger please they were bandwagon riding the entire time with 76, which is why they were considering making it a battle royal in the wake of that genre emerging and exploding with PUBG after DayZ picked the survival subtype to be its standalone model instead of leaning into PvP or basebuilding (which saw Rust emerge).

Starfield is such a blatant copy of skyrim they called you Starborn like the Dragon Born.

DC doesn't really function as a city though.

That is only because they made it as a wasteland by choice.
The core issue preventing them from making larger cities is that they cannot load a large city in one go, with all of the NPCs and models.

DC is so chopped up that it is EASILY capable of supporting that, but its meant to be largely a free-for-all zone, so naturally they were not going to populate it like a true city.
Instead it contains a couple mini-cities with the ghouls, brotherhood outcasts, talon company, and rivet city.
They used the newfound freedom to make a labyrinth out of things to encourage exploration.

"nigger shut the fuck up with your pseudo-marketing bullshit already. Redguard had to compete with"

lists generic shit proving my point

just blatantly lying because there is no other option

thanks for proving my point, niglet.

I'm not sure how much they solved that issue with the engine considering the strip in new vegas also ended up having to be split into two parts.

my entire point is that they DIDNT solve it.
they did a decent work around in fallout 3, but never tried to get the most out of it.

Its my eternal gripe with Bethesda.
They HAVE the potential but dont rise to it.

Morrowvegans HATE anything that isn't morrowind, and by extension bethesda itself since it's not morrowind (anymore).
Their equivalent is bloodbornetrannies who hate and call any other Fromsoftware product "rollslop".
They will go out of their way to remind you that they only eat morrowind veggies, thus the term "vegan".

Bitch please.
I had plenty of fun with Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, and 4.
Hating on Bethesda for its failings while enjoying what was fun is just part of being a proper appreciator of what was and would COULD have been.
Shuuuuuuut the fuck up retard.