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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 110 points 6 months ago (49 children)

..."it is obviously difficult to deal with when you're going back to an area where a game had multiple endings."

No, Howard. What you are finding difficult is to have any particular vision for a game beyond its literal systems and gameplay loops. You resent New Vegas because people care about it, and nobody cares about 76.

If you have a story you want to tell, you make choices that serve that vision; the problem is Todd doesn't have one. He bought a franchise built on evocative storytelling and biting commentary and decided its best use is for players to bash virtual action figures together.

[–] cyr0catdrag0nz@sh.itjust.works 42 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (21 children)

For real though. Todd Howard needs to like, take some shrooms and meditate in the mountains. Touch grass. Given the headass shit he's said lately it's transparently clear he's one of the biggest things standing in the way of another decent Bethesda game- I think the days of those might be done for good, I hate to say.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 53 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Todd Howard needs to like, take some shrooms and meditate in the mountains.

Lots of the worst people in tech did this, and they just got worse....

[–] cyr0catdrag0nz@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ehh but did they really though? Or did they microdose shrooms in chocolate bars and attend some bougie retreat at a ski resort? I'd say the latter is the real problem. Nobody has respect for anything anymore.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Fair dues. I mean Steve Jobs went full bore, and he was a fuckin scumbag.

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The behind the bastards four part series on him was a huge eye opener into how incredibly terrible of a human being he was

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

That's where I learned exactly how shitty he really was. I had always kind of figured he wasn't a great person, people who rise to that level usually aren't, but I hadn't realised really how terrible he was.

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