Skyrim, Fallout 4 Director Going Into Gaming Hall of Fame

@serialkisser: he and bethesda deserve it,fallout 4 was a good game in some ways better shooting and the base building was good but the world wasnt good the bases didnt get attacked the npc,s in diamond city were bad they didnt even have names that was a big step backwards the missions/story wernt good they should of had the wife or husband in the story more also less robots/androids there was too much of that faction in the game the gunners should of had more story missions i dont agree with the replayability outside of base building there wasnt anything too do,skyrim is replayable although the new version has the mod limit as a problem

@Pyrosa: It's nothing to do with nostalgia, I am so tired of people like you always using the nostalgia factor as a very weak counter argument.

@Pyrosa: To each his own. I thought F:NV was much less of a dissapointment... Maybe its just the aftertaste left in my mouth from those utterly dissapointing Fallout 4 DLC's... The robot one was kind of cool I guess.

@gameplayuk: You misunderstand me. I loved F3, Skyrim, New Vegas was great (but had nothing to with Howard). My problem is that Howard seeks to undo all of his excellent work he did in the past by pushing Bethesda's future into a mediocre, mainstream, stripped-down, hugely downgraded version of its former self.

Let's be brutally honest here. Fallout 4 wasn't a great game. Anyone on earth who has played a prior Fallout game knows something was immediately off. This upset a lot of people seeing as how it was Bethesda's most recent offering since Skyrim. This generation, with Fallout 4, you can easily see the writings on the wall: Bethesda respects its hardcore fanbase, but is solely and aggressively on becoming the next big, bloated, international games company like EA or Activision, it's just that their library is more curated.

Until now. Now, with Fallout 4, their atrocious season pass, and a huge emphasis on Fallout Shelter ios/android, along with the dozens of features and mechanics removed from 3 and New Vegas, as well as implementing features nobody asked for (base building), coinciding with a completely bare-bones RPG experience, and, well, Fallout kinda died.

What I'm trying to say is that Howard was a man of integrity and of the people. Now, he has become corrupted, either by his constituents or shareholders or whoever, he isn't the same guy. He is going to take your precious TES franchise and ruin it. He'll do this by radically distancing the story from its source material, add features that appeal to nobody (especially the hardcore gamer), remove features that were the apex and definitions of the series, initiate a massive marketing campaign to appeal to every bro and casual douche that picks up a controller once a year, and incorporate a TES game for iPhone. Not to mention any aspect of true narrative, choice, or impact within the next TES will be eradicated.

The next Elder Scrolls, the next Fallout, under his direction, will be simply "I ran out of ideas for storylines. So did the writers. Soooo, I guess let's just make a 100 hour+ game where every quest is kill, kill, kill, kill, kill"

TES and Fallout are slowly becoming skateboarding--extreme, radical, groundbreaking pushes in subculture, only to be marginalized and homogenized to the mainstream masses where every dipshit on the street will wear a Vault Boy t shirt or a Skyrim hoodie, of which they never played a single game, it's just what people like.

What's super sad is it won't work. Todd thinks these IPs are infallible, but they're not. They'll never truly sell like a COD or GTA game, and it showed with Fallout 4. Even sadder is that when they fail to capture a larger audience with casualizing their hardcore games, at the same time they completely alienate their hardcore fanbase, you know, the ones who got them to where they are now.

Done.