The Making of Fallout 76 / History of Bethesda - Noclip Documentary Trailer - General

https://youtu.be/zDPzljStqkw Noclip goes behind the scenes at Bethesda Game Studios to film two special documentaries about their remarkable past, and exciting future. Our first documentary dives into the history of BGS with insight into the development of Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Skyrim and many others. Our second feature explores their latest adventure; Fallout 76. With exclusive insight into its development, design, world, mechanics and more. Featuring widespread access and interviews with over a dozen personnel, Noclip aims to give deeper insight into the work of one of gaming’s most reclusive teams, and a fascinating look into their future plans. History of Bethesda Game Studios - June 5th The Making of Fallout 76 - June 12th

I mean, I get the criticism of Todd and being that he's kind of the 'face' of Bethesda it makes sense. As a person though, I honestly think his worst trait is that he buys into his own hype. Like ya, you could say it's his job to promote Bethesda's games with as much enthusiasm and everything as possible, but he just seems so... genuine. It's why when the games/features he touts inevitably are revealed to be bug filled half truths, he catches all the shit. (Exploration in TESV, or the Settlement system in FO4 are examples)

Yeah, that's probably why I don't get too angry about Bethesda overhyping their games. I never get the impression that Todd is deliberately harming players expectations. He overhypes because he is incredibly proud of what he's done, unlike folks like Randy Pitchford who probably care more about the profits than the quality.

I like Todd but I hate his co-workers like that one cunt on Twitter, Pete Hines was it?

To be fair, Pete could have handled that way better, but the guy was hasselling him about stuff he had no input over, so I get why he responded the way he did.

lol you do not get into the position he does by being overly giddy and whimsical about your products he's a salesman who uses emotion

Hence why I still feel he purposely avoided last E3 with the paid mods debacle. There was no way for him to sell that idea without looking like a conman.

Hey, as long as it works. At least I feel something when Todd tells me about a game, it's not just some random prick they threw up onto a stage to go "loooook aaaaatttt myyyyy gaaaaaaammmeeee" who is clearly phoning it in. Todd has charisma, and if he's a snake oil salesman, he at least seems to like what he sells.

A making of before the game is even released. Wow.

He does like what he sells, and obviously a shit ton of other people do to, but he's known about the context of that interaction since day one. Listen to his Insomniac podcast, and his "defense of FO4" video, he's perfectly aware of what he's doing and A Bethesda does in fact rely on the community to fix their games literally and B there's almost no communication between Leads after feature/gameplay lock and the company really doesn't give a rat's ass about story nuance, context or depth, as long as they can sell the numbers of copies they're selling. He's completely cognizant of the Bethesda formula and why it currently works, and why it's not going to work for much longer as they start spitting out games on a yearly/biyearly basis now that they have five times the amount of people working at BGS then they used to.

I'm still not entirely sure what it is. Now I'm learning the development history of I don't know what it is yet.

Well June 12th is two days after Beth's E3 conference, so we'll learn about the game before then.

Except he's not? I can't think of a single time he actually lied about something?

200 Fallout 3 Endings

Right? Like, I understand that people get mad about all these things he says being less deep than he has you believe or is slightly false but to be completely fair to him most of what he touts was in the game at some point. You could climb that mountain in the distance in Skyrim, not well and not every one of them but anything that was inside the gameworld you could theoretically get to. You didn't really have to use the settlement system (aside from building like 3 generators, a control panel, and a teleported and deleting a pile of rubble) There are infinite quests, they're just shallow as all get out. That AI was in oblivion but they had to cut it because everyone kept murdering important quest NPCs. Todd is a salesman, yeah, but compared to his competition (ubisoft, peter molyneux, and EA come to mind) I'd hardly call him a liar.

Todd actually said Fallout 3 would have 200 endings? Lol, does he mean each faction/character's ending slide?

pretty much

Yeah, I wouldn't have ever gotten into the Fallout series if it weren't for the Bethesda reboot. There's plenty to criticize them for, but at the end of the day I'm still glad they're around and keeping Fallout relevant.

Considering the date I wouldn't be surprised if during Bethesda's E3 Conference they would go "It is out, go buy it and play it".

I do not get this attitude at all. Extreme exaggerations to oversell something and make it seem much deeper than it is is still lying to dishonestly mislead the audience, the difference lies mostly in semantics. If I say to someone I'll give them the biggest fish they've ever seen and talk about how exotic it is and how they'd never catch it here, I don't get to turn around and say I wasn't lying to them when I give them a can of Canadian salmon, because technically you can't catch a Canadian salmon outside of Canada. Aside from the games related to him being so much better and Todd not dipping to lying on the same level, I can't see the difference between someone like Todd and someone like Molyneux, as the vast majority of things the latter said, too, were in the games. They were just so drastically overblown in scale and exaggerated to the point of fantasy. People rightfully call him out as a liar because, despite the fact that the content is technically there, it was totally overblown and sold on a false premise. The people defending Todd and citing Molyneux as a worse example (which I'll admit, he definitely is, because in with his half truths he often threw in an outright lie), also often seem to use the exact same defences that fans of Molyneux used when he still had them. "He's just bad with PR and gets overexcited!" (echoed by the man himself here), "Well it's IN the game, how can you complain if it's not what it was made out to be?". (a point very frequently brought up about Fable 2, that can be seen here). I feel as though people rate Todd first and foremost on his personality cult rather than his actions, because they are just as willing to tear people apart for doing the same shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvGXCisAaR4