The Bethesda director is lost in space and pushing the boundaries of the medium. In a rare, in-depth interview, Howard opens up about 'Starfield,' the game he's waited for his entire life.
Todd Howard is the Peter Molyneux of the Video Game World.
With a sprinkling of the genius of Miyamoto, Kojima and Chris Roberts. And the fantasy storytelling genius of Tolkien and R.R. Martin, and the sci-fi storytelling genius of Asimov and C. Clark.
With the only difference that Nolan's movies are ALL a work of art and an exquisite attempt to do something new with this media .... on the other end Bethesda's games are _______ <----- LEFT EMPTY ON PURPOSE, but you get the idea !
People got all worked up purely because of the exclusivity, both the haters and lovers. I’ve seen comments of people who never played a single bethesda game before suddenly loved it like it’s their own child, or haters that got angry like it killed their parents.
If it’s multiplat you guys would’ve just go “oh it’s skyrim in space”
Lol..you mad? It's not Todd Howard's fault that this article was written. You guys are in your feelings about Starfield getting praise only because it's not on Playstation ? Or is it you thought that only sony devs can make a great game? This is a good thing for xbox and the industry. Competition is a good thing. This will burn some fan boys for a while but they'll get over it. You win some, you lose some. Microsoft has all the infinity stones now but sony will be OK after this loss.
No, hes the next Peter Molyneux. All about the hype and lies. They made a good Bethesda game that is not THAT buggy, that's all they did, nothing more.
This is exactly what I mean when I say game writers have no concept of what it is to be a critic and they are blind in the areas that they are supposed to be knowledgeable.
Nah, it's just the Western biased media especially those here in the U.S just simping and creating a false image of their preferred platform, been a long time since they got a small win so they take any mundane opportunity to hype anything related their irrelevant and beloved games//platfiorm.
Actually would just like to point out. The Xbox does make its home territory in the u.s. but ps still outsells it and always has except first years of the ps3
This is fantastic. I’m shocked there isn’t a single gamer or game industry aware employee at Esquire that knows how laughable this is. I suppose if you squint really hard there perhaps are some parallels, but it means almost entirely overlooking any money hungry misstep or outright lie Howard has tripped himself up on countless times. Nolan has arguably not had a single bad film
Why? Because he made Interstellar and it reminds Esquire of Starfield?
If we're basing it on narrative chops, I don't really agree. I might be more inclined to say someone like Hidetaka Miyazaki where the endings are very ambiguous (really, what would you say is the "good ending" of any FromSoft game?). If we're basing it on polish, neither are fit for that because their games always release a bit rough, which isn't Nolan's style.
And before anyone says Kojima, he's far more of a Kubrick-level auteur who makes what he wants to make, be perfectionist about it, and develop a "misunderstood masterpiece" that typically has a cult following that ages well with more people as time goes on.
For me Ken Levine is way closer, Nolan is a visionary and is always innovating the medium, Ken Levine did exactly that with Bioshock 1 and Infinite, they were absolutely mindblowing is pushing the medium in terms of gameplay and storytelling. I adore Todd Howard, but all his games are a constant refining the old TES formula over and over, which means creating fantastic games, but far from the level of brilliance and creativity of Ken Levine or Nolan.
The only person worthy of this honor that I can think of Hideo Kojima. That man pushed storytelling in video gaming like no one else at the time had, and there was always a story beat you could never afford to miss.
This guy is not even worthy of a Christopher Nolan's pinky toe.
"It just works" / shrug
- Todd Howard
No.
Please what?
Christopher Nolan would be dry-retching if he read that.