Todd Howard - An Amazing Designer

Todd Howard is a game designer for Bethesda Game Studios. They have made some of my favorite games like Skyrim and Fallout 4. They mainly make RPGs, but a big part that they add to just about every game they make is a HUGE open world aspect. The Elder Scrolls series and The Fallout series are their most popular game and have made Billions!


Most of the games he helps make have a huge open world aspect and tend to be a game where you can kinda do anything. You basically start off with a backstory where you don't know who you are and you make your character. You make your story and how you are viewed in an average person's eye. You can be an expert thief or the best swordsman. He wants you to be able to put yourself in the character and feel like you would do that if you had a chance in this fantasy world.


He uses such real looking graphics and scenarios to make you feel like you're there in this fantasy world of his. You see things that you would never see in real life and some you couldn't even imagine and yet it feels like if it appeared right before you in real life it would be the same. He's very proficient in using 3D design in his line of work to make all of this possible. The best part is with stuff that isn't real he'll create it and use new things yet it's so simple.

Elder Scrolls - Skyrim

Skyrim was outstanding and was just about above all with graphics when it was released in 2011. It was one of the biggest RPGs of all time with some of the smoothest gameplay, graphics, and just the general feel which is what game usually struggle with. Even to this date in 2018, it's still a hugely played game with insane realism, graphics, and the sheer size of its open world. Skyrim makes you feel like a Nordic Warrior/Hero who can shake the very skies with your voice. It gives you the feeling of doing these magical things to make peace or to make war with different tribes, races, towns, or even cities. Sometimes it's like better to just sit and look at the vies because some places are a better view then real life tourist destinations. Being able to see some of the huge glorious mountains cast wonderful shadows over the terrain is just a magnificent sight to behold.

I believe that this game and how it is designed is true to Todd Howard because he put his own mind into this game too. He put his own fantasy in this and made it so it was like being a kid and making a whole new world to explore, fight, and be prosperous in. This type of work they put into this I love because it's like being a kid, kind of. You are like a kid in a whole new world exploring it even though none of it is real. It's making fantasy to real life starting a whole new generation of bigger imaginations.