Former Elder Scrolls dev says Todd Howard would sometimes work on "two dozen" projects at once and is the face of Bethesda partly because he's "incredibly photogenic"

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Former Bethesda designer Bruce Nesmith say⛦s Todd Howard is an absolute workhorse who just happens to be "incredibly photogenic," which is why he's the face of the whole company these days.

In an incredi🦹bly insightful interview with Kiwi Talkz, Nesmith spoke at length about his decades of experience💃 at Bethesda as well as his relationship with Howard. At one point, .

"[Bethesda head of publishing] Pete Hines has made no bones about the fact that, when he took over the marketing, Bethesda needed a face, they needed a person for the audience, for the customers, the fans, to identify. Having an entire crew doesn't work well. You🍌🌜 need someone who is, 'that's the guy' and Todd made a very natural choice for that. He's incredibly photogenic, he's amazing in person and in interviews and on stage, and he was the boss of the dev team at that time, so he becomes that role."

that near the end of his tenure Howard would have somewhere around two dozens of projects on hꦆis plate at once.

"Some small, some large, there's mobile games," Nesmไith said🔜. "There's remote things that he just has to take a look at, in addition to a variety of larger projects. So, that's a lot."

Nowadays, we know Howard is involved in some capacity with a bunch of different projects, including (but not limited to) 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elder Scrolls 6, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Starfield, Fallout 76, the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fallout TV show, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Bethesda's Indiana Jones game.

The whole interview is wor🍨th a watch if you haven't already, but I'll leav🌌e you with one very comforting tidbit from later in the interview, in which Howard isn't leaving Bethesda "any time soon."

"He's still fairly young and quite vital, and I think we have manyꦰ, many more years before we have to worry ourselves with Todd Howard not making games," Nesmith said.

Bethesda boss Todd Howard is the only gamer on Earth with this 1,000-point achievement, and years after Xbox gifted it to him we finally know what it says.

After earning an English degree from ASU, I worked as a corporate copy editor while freelancing for plac🌊es like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. I got my big break here in 2019 with a freelance news gig, and I was hired on as GamesRadar's west coast Staff Writer in 2021. That means I'm responsible for managing the site's western regional executive branch, AKA my home office, and writing about whatever horror game I'm too afraid to finish.