🗣 Toadying of the week.Former head of Bethesda publishing Pete Hines on Todd Howard: "He's not the best programmer in the world. He may not be the best designer in the world. But there's no one who combines all those skills better than Todd, in my opinion. How all those things come together and influence each other - I just haven't seen anything like it anywhere in the industry, either inside or outside the company." Pete Hines, who worked at Bethesda Game Studios for almost a quarter century, in October2023 left the company.Maybe the financial cushion is running out and you want to return?In fact, Pete and Todd are best friends.In the same interview, he stated that Pete Hines left because he did not want to see the “destruction” of the company after the Microsoft takeover.By the way, the words about not the best programmer and designer describe the Bethesda games themselves well.Which are not ideal in any way, but in the complex they became legends. #game