Starfield really is just "More = Better: The game" and feels like Todd Howard's love song to what the marketing department felt like made their previous games successful rather than the talent that made something good despite Todd's best efforts.
Starfield 2, if/whenever that happens, will fully be on the AI train because Todd is a moron who thinks bad content is better than good content so long as there's a lot more of it.
lmao
does anyone have that one michael kirkbride story where he tricked todd into accepting his wierder designs by showing todd much more fucked up designs alongside the ones he actually wanted and it worked every time?
EXCUSE ME??? PLEASE
‘Here’s a world. Go play it how you wanna play it’
I used to have this thing with Todd, because he was one of the ones that’s like, “Let’s not make it too weird.” So I’d bamboozle him. There was a period where I would actually draw two different versions of a monster — the one that was weird and that I wanted to be in the game, and then one that was fucking crazy. And so I’d go to Todd, and I’m like, “OK, I think I’ve got the mid-level creature set.” And I’d show him a picture. He’d be like, “Nah, dude, that’s crazy.” Then I’d go back to my office and I would act like I was drawing something new, and I’d just come back with the original drawing of what I really wanted to be in there. Like, “Hey, is this what you were thinking?” And he’d be all, “Oh, yeah, that’s much better. That’s great.”
