Todd Howard has been around the block when it comes to Bethesda Game Studios’ titles. He has contributed greatly to the likes of Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, and Starfield, so he’s qualified to speak at length about any of them.
During a recent interview, the head honcho himself took a deep dive into every game on that list, stopping briefly to explain which Fallout game he’s the most proud of from all the titles he’s worked on. That includes Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Fallout Shelter (kind of), and Fallout 76.
But which one of them is the gem for Todd Howard?
You Might Not Expect It
Out of the slew of Fallout games released in the last two decades or so (discounting New Vegas, as Todd didn’t really work on that one), there’s one that stands out for the visionary developer.
In a recent super-sized interview on the Kinda Funny Gamescast, Todd Howard gushed over Fallout 76, declaring it the post-apocalyptic epic that he’s most proud of.
In many respects, it’s the game that we’ve done that I’m the most proud of. It’s so hard to do and then maintain as a relevent game, and I think if you look across the industry, the amount of games like it that there have been or come and gone, and here’s 76 still there with big numbers and doing well.
There’s a lot of energy in the studio.
Look, people love it. The team on it, led by Jon Rush, they just do a fantastic, fantastic job, and you see the roadmap that’s planned for the game, and it gets even better.
Todd Howard also admitted that they designed Fallout 76 as a multiplayer title despite knowing that it wouldn’t be ‘for everyone’. That was always an expectation, given how Fallout was a single-player game for twenty years before Fallout 76 landed on the market.
He also stressed that more people need to recognize the work they’re putting into Fallout 76. It’s kind of a sticking point because everyone just keeps crying out for Fallout 5, which is many years away from even being revealed. But at the same time, Bethesda Game Studios has this phenomenal MMORPG that they’re keeping updated with reams of free content drops.
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Grant has been gaming for 30+ years and in the industry for 10+. You'll probably find him playing a post-apocalyptic game or an extraction shooter somewhere.
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Todd is a salesman. Of course he praises 76 because he wants to push it, it is his live service game! But le’ts be real, Fallout 76 is not only bad for the Fallout franchise, it is the game that literally almost killed Bethesda. If Bethesda dies and Elder Scrolls 6 fails, 76 is going to be the main culprit.
Why? Because back when Fallout 4 was finished, Bethesda was supposed to begin developing Starfield. But then they saw the live service fad and thought “hey what if we converted Fallout 4 into a live service and make boatloads of money without any effort?” and they release 76…. Of course the end result was a travesty, and Todd pulled out most of the Starfield team to fix and save 76…. Eventually, they managed to somehow save it but at what cost? Starfield development was left behind and was rushed and the end result was a half-finished mediocre game.