>Former Bethesda senior artist Dennis Mejillones suggests that Todd Howard may not be receiving the honest feedback necessary to refine his ideas. Mejillones, who worked on Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Starfield during his 11-year tenure, told Kiwi Talkz that many developers are simply "afraid to say no" to the industry icon. Comparing Howard to George Lucas, the artist argued that even geniuses need people to provide an honest assessment and help filter through ideas, suggesting that a lack of internal pushback has ultimately "hurt" the director’s recent work.
>artist>not even a technical artistArtists severely overrate their contributions.
>>736618448Mejillones modelled and animated werewolves in Skyrim. He had to fight Todd over adding them to the game at all.
Any person who defies Todd's will must be stoned to death inshallah
>>736618448Tech people are useful, but they almost always have no taste and come up with the most bland game design ideas. Not to mention you have to stir them all the time to do something productive instead of polishing pet projects forever.
>>736619482Which is weird, considering morrowinds dlc blood moon let you become a werewolf, and you were a full fledged one in that one. It even had cool werewolf dreams.
What a narcissist! That would never happen at our company, right?
>>736620280He explained it in some interview. Todd was strict about prioritizing work and werewolves or shapeshifting weren't planned at all. Mejillones was told to just work on rigging and animating already planned creatures, but he ignored Todd and made a werewolf demo in his spare time. Then he called Todd to his office, handed him a controller and told him to just fuck around with a werewolf. Todd liked it, agreed to feature it in the game and even pushed to rework the Companions questline. It actually got me curious about the original idea for Companions.BTW, Mejillones also designed and animated the sentry bots and assaultrons in Fallout 4.
>>736620778If 4chan made a dev company, no ideas would manage to get off the ground because they would all be ridiculed into oblivion.
>>736617010Nope it's just that nu-devs don't have a single original idea to come up with, and then delude themselves into thinking they're worth something
>>736620887>Then he called Todd to his office, handed him a controller and told him to just fuck around with a werewolf. Todd liked it, agreed to feature it in the game and even pushed to rework the Companions questline.so what's the problem? if you have an actual good idea just talk to the boss and it will be fixed
>>736617010Todd is a politician
>>736621243Several former devs spoke out about it in the past two years. The studio grew too big and Todd also had to manage other studios like idSoft and Arkane. He just became unreachable after Skyrim shipped.
they keep todd locked in a cupboard until they need him to bare-faced lie to people at some event
>>736617010>todd pls no this is retarded>YOU'RE FIRED
>>736621243Bethesda is much less personal and passionate, it's a massive chain of command company now, no one knows each other. Many people aren't there for game making or even played any games ever. These companies move monumentally slow, unless the main Director or similarly important CEO guy is super strict and pushes everything in a specific place with vision. Not to mention they choose to play it safe all the time.
>>736622154>even played any games everThat's a good thing though. Gamers are awful devs
>>736622237Sure, but devs who aren't gamers are even more terrible devs.
>>736618448yeah, that artist and probably OP are just retardcopingin all of Todd's long-form video interviews the last five years he's pretty open about Bethesda's fuck-ups and their problems clearly aren't 'yes-men' problemsseeing somebody this low-IQ try to critque a company that was sold for 7 billion USD while thier TV show was just renewed AGAIN is rough
>>736622415That's false. Pretty much every veteran industry icon doesn't play games.
>>736623179Todd plays dudebro games.
>>736617010Does he just not use the internet? Pretty much everyone who hated Starfield has the same complaints
I used to call out my boss when I disagreed with his directionthen that bit me in the back when it came to my performance reviewnow i am a yes man
>>736620887so he's to blame for the companions being the absolute ass that it is
>>736623880I don't think he was responsible for hijacking the faction. He's not a quest designer. Someone else must have come up with the idea for how to feature furfaggotry. It would have been fine if they limited that to Hircine's quest and maybe some side questline in a rural hold like Falkreath.
>>736617010>"...And then I'm going to tell them that they can create fully customized and populated cities with unique voices for each resident.">"Todd, that's a little...">"And each player can design and name their own Vertibird.">"That's not really going to fit in The Elder Scrolls, Todd.">"And every single individual pixel will have 144 times the detail, and be a valid romance option.">"For the love of- Todd, no!">"...">"...I-I'm sorry, T- um, Mr. Howard, I didn't mean to-">"See that unemployment line over there? It's 100% real, and you can go stand in it!"
>>736617010doesn't help that the people saying yes are also incompetent as fuck
>>736617010nobody cares anything post fallout 4 is worthlessfuck them they shut down the mods on purpose and oblivion remastered isnt even moddable lol
>>736617010he’s 1000000% right
>>736623606Trick is to either do it behind closed doors, or when feedback is requested.I had the best results with pulling the boss aside and going "hey man, this is a really BAD IDEA, we can try it, but it's NOT going to go well".That said, could still have an absolute moron in charge that ignores it and fucks everything up.
>>736617010>"hurt" the director’s recent work.>recentlol, lmao even
>>736621243That was pre 2011.
>>736624682>>"See that unemployment line over there? It's 100% real, and you can go stand in it!"
>>736622464So elder scrolls / fallout turning to dogshit and starfield sucking ass has nothing to do with the OP and is there is some other element at play you are going to inform us of?
>>736622464>>736626324All of Bethesda's problems can be traced back to providence equity and sony
>>736617010Dreamboys should know their place
>>736617010todd surrounded himself with ass kissing indians
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>>736617010I keep telling people that Todd's only competence was in managing a team of competent people and keeping them on track and organized.Put intelligent people who know when they got good ideas to bring to him and Todd can act as a unifying filter, but the moment he can't do that he is useless.
>petty years late excuses from failed developers who got kicked out for shitting out starfieldwhat next? gonna quote obsidian or bioware ?
>>736624682Good morning, Reddit!
>>736617010well if they said no they would just be let go and then the rest of the fucks would be afraid to tell him no and nothing would change. Buy Starfield btw
>>736617010hopefully starfield flopping is the wake up call he needs
>>736631142He's very involved in fixing starfield so it made the right message.
>>736617010>Todd Howard has too many yes manBut Todd Howard didn't work on the game with Yesman, though?
