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Pete Hines says he left Bethesda because he didn't want to watch it being 'damaged' and 'abused'

Hines, Bethesda's former vice president of marketing and PR, left Bethesda in 2023, three years after it was acquired by Microsoft.

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Bethesda king Todd Howard isn't a master of game design or programming, says Pete Hines, "but there is nobody that is better" at combining them: "Look around the industry. Who else?"

Thanks, I think?

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"Go try that s*** in Red Dead Redemption 2": Nobody makes games like Bethesda, says studio veteran Pete Hines, so "put some respect" on Todd Howard and the Creation Engine team

"Who else out in the world allows you to just stack up one quest after another on the fly"

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Former Bethesda artist says 'every single developer' has already brought up 95% of the complaints that made it to launch, but as Todd Howard told him, 'we can't do everything'

You can't win 'em all.

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Bethesda was so indie when the Elder Scrolls launched that the devs packaged and shipped the RPG themselves: "We were in the loading dock and we learned how to assemble boxes, inserts and use the heat gun"

"We even spent time shrink-wrapping the games ourselves"

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Skyrim and Fallout artist says Todd Howard would tell devs "we can do anything but we can't do everything," and 95% of player-reported issues were flagged internally before launch

"We play and see the same things that the gamers do"

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Ex-Bethesda dev on Fallout and Skyrim says Todd Howard has too many yes men around him — "A lot of people were afraid to say no to Todd, and I think that hurt him"

An ex-Fallout and Skyrim developer says Bethesda's Todd Howard might not be getting the best feedback from his teams, as they're "afraid to say no to Todd."

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Skyrim and Fallout 4 artist says Bethesda's Todd Howard has too many yes men: "A lot of people were afraid to say no to Todd and that hurt him"

"He's a phenomenal person, and is he perfect? No"

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"Pretend we kept patching Oblivion. What would we have done if we kept supporting it?" – Todd Howard explains the "thought exercise" Bethesda went through for its remaster

"We felt really, really good about that, but you never know how the audience is going to react to it"

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Todd Howard defends "VO line flub" in Oblivion Remastered since "it's part of the game’s character," but some bugs only stick around because they're "so complicated"

It's a hallmark of the game now

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Todd Howard wanted Bethesda's original RPGs to be playable before worrying about remasters: "You can play Morrowind, you can play Fallout 3"

"So that to me, was like, job number one"

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Todd Howard says "leaks don't help" Bethesda or players, especially when it comes to Oblivion: "Everyone is gonna have a different version"

So, the developer "wanted that time from 'here's what it is' to 'you can touch it' to be zero"

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There's no rush on The Elder Scrolls 6, Todd Howard says, because Bethesda has the "benefit of having so many millions of people playing our other games"

Fallout and Skyrim are still that popular

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Todd Howard says the only thing wrong with paid mods for Skyrim and Fallout is that people don't buy them: "Our issue now actually is getting that content in front of more people"

Howard admires his Creations

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"Just pretend we didn't announce it": Todd Howard knows The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser has haunted RPG fans for nearly 8 years, but its early reveal was about "informing our audience"

"Sometimes you need to inform people"

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Bethesda's Todd Howard says The Elder Scrolls 6 development is smoother than Starfield's ever was thanks to a key improvement — "builds of the game are really consistently working"

Bethesda's game director Todd Howard says that The Elder Scrolls 6 has been smoother to develop than Xbox's Starfield thanks to Creation Engine 3.

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Todd Howard would really have preferred not to announce The Elder Scrolls 6 a full 8 years ago, sounds like: 'Just pretend we didn't announce it. Doesn't exist. No one's heard a word'

I also constantly make commitments I really wish I hadn't, so I understand.

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"The majority of this building is working on The Elder Scrolls 6": Todd Howard says Bethesda's full focus is on the RPG it announced in 2018, and "it's so different than Starfield, so different than Fallout"

"We feel we're in a really good place"

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Todd Howard was "really, really sorry" to see former Xbox chief Phil Spencer retire, but says new CEO Asha Sharma "is great"

Spencer is "a good friend" of Howard

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Starfield expansion Terran Armada coming this April alongside Free Lanes update with new planetary travel, Todd Howard says Bethesda knew "we needed to do something that affects the game flow on a meta level"

It's not Starfield 2.0, but there sure is plenty coming to the space RPG

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Bethesda's Todd Howard says NVIDIA DLSS 5 in Xbox's Starfield is "amazing" — everyone else is calling it uncanny AI slop

The internet is laying into NVIDIA's DLSS 5 tech for making NPCs look like AI slop, but Bethesda's Todd Howard thinks it's "amazing" in Xbox's Starfield.

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Nvidia announces DLSS 5 in uncanny video putting games through obvious AI filter, Bethesda's Todd Howard joins devs hyping it up: "We got it running in Starfield, it was amazing how it brought it to life"

Resident Evil Requiem, Starfield, Hogwarts Legacy, and more showcased

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Bethesda steps in again to calm down hype around Starfield news next week, saying Todd Howard's EA College Football 26 skills are his 'only visionary power'

"He appreciates all the passionate feedback."

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Bethesda will have "more to share next week" on Starfield as Todd Howard modestly says his "only visionary power is seeing running lanes in EA College Football 26"

New updates and a PS5 port have been rumored for months

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Beloved Fallout composer says Bethesda's Todd Howard is a "visionary" — and that critics of Xbox's Starfield "were just not ready" for the controversial RPG

Fallout and Starfield composer Inon Zur believes one day, we'll all think Xbox's Starfield is a "legendary" RPG, and that Todd Howard is a "visionary."

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