'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh
"They've just had an incredible year."
Haters have been saying for years how Bethesda fucked over Obsidian with FNV. New Vegas Devs have all said this is *false* and Bethesda was very supportive and helpful to them.
Haters also say Bethesda fucked over Obsidian with the "85%" Metacritic score bonus (FNV got 84%). Obsidian devs have repeatedly said the games score was their responsibility and they made a misguided decision to focus on content over polish late in the game's development which caused the game to release as a buggy mess.
Obsidian devs have also said the bonus was purely an incentive proposed by Bethesda in Obsidian's favor. Obsidian was paid the full expected amount of their contract with Bethesda and none of Obsidian's financial issues would have been solved by the bonus amount.
Haters also said Bethesda released Oblivion Remastered this year to fuck over Skyblivion devs (a free mod btw). Skyblivion devs were personally invited to Bethesda by Todd to talk game dev and modding and Skyblivion has been officially promoted by Bethesda
I think its safe to say that the rumors that Todd is a great boss, great collaborator, and an all around kind and friendly dude are 100% true.












