353: Todd Howard Has Done It Again

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Comedy

4.8 • 7.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Four close man friends gather around to talk about Todd's magnum opus.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:40 The Starfield (and Bethesda) Discussion

31:50 ExpressVPN

33:40 DraftKings

35:55 Deep Silver Volition Closure

39:00 Destruction in Video Games

42:40 Are Games Are Getting Too Big?

44:57 Games Feel Boring Now

47:41 Creativity in Video Games

50:23 Steam Is Rejecting Games That Use AI

52:31 Destruction in Video Games (Continued)

56:47 Mechanics > Graphics?

01:00:49 Weight Loss Drugs

01:16:09 Wrap

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Jackson: https://twitter.com/zealotonpc

Andrew: https://twitter.com/huggbeestv

Charlie: https://twitter.com/moistcr1tikal

Kaya: https://twitter.com/kayaorsan

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0:00.0	Music
0:29.0	Hello, and welcome to the official podcast. We are recording this at the ungodly hour of
0:35.3	10 in the morning. So I'm far too tired to contribute. So instead, I'm going to set my
0:41.0	two lovely co hosts, Jackson and Charlie up, but the debate of the century, Starfield,
0:48.1	go.
0:49.1	God, fucking sucks. I can't believe you like it, Charlie. Don't you ever slander me like
0:54.0	that again. Unbelievable. So the internet show, this is going to be kind of like a mental
1:03.6	health evaluation for Jackson because he loves Starfield.
1:07.0	I'm not the only one that likes the game. It's not a mental health evaluation. And I want
1:11.8	to preface like preface this by saying I completely understand where like all the complaints
1:16.1	are coming from. There are definitely criticisms with Starfield. It's not a perfect game.
1:21.1	I'm not even claiming that. What do you mean the criticisms? Yeah. Can you even name
1:27.8	one or are you that mentally ill now? No, yeah, it's very, it's very Bethesda. It's
1:33.7	like Bethesda thrones for it. They haven't made any kind of like real leaps forward in
1:38.6	terms of game design. So if you played Skyrim or Fallout, you're pretty much getting the
1:43.0	exact same package just in a, you know, Starfield coat, like a sci-fi coat, which for many
1:49.9	people, myself included, since it's been like eight years since the last Bethesda game,
1:54.7	like I'm not beyond happy with it that there's no innovation really, but I'm fine with
1:59.3	it. I'm enjoying it. I feel like if it didn't have Bethesda on the title, you would be
2:05.8	a very outspoken critic about like the lack of innovation or lack of changes over the last
2:11.3	decade. Yes. So would the entire game community as a whole?
2:17.7	I don't think so. I don't have, I don't have like a stronger legions to Bethesda. I've
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