"My view of is that I want everybody to enjoy the moment. And when I think about the games, I often end up thinking about the individual teams and how the studio's grown and that it's a lot of the same people and it's like each of those games was like going through college or getting a degree, like that was that period of my life," he says.
It's just weird to think about yourself with a group of people who have achieved it already and then you realize, 'Oh, I have been doing this quite a while.' And you think back on the games. It's an incredible honor and then it's like, 'OK, am I supposed to be done? Is that it?' I feel like I'm sort of in the middle. Howard is approaching 45 years old he's not even close to retirement age, and yet receiving a prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award does make him stop and think. We need to make another one'," he tells me. I can't believe anyone even pays attention to our games.' We're always surprised, like, 'Wow! That's really popular. "When I go to E3 or I look at all these games and think, 'Oh my God. He takes it all in stride, often forgetting how popular his games are. To his fans, Howard is a god-like figure, creating and overseeing incredibly vast open worlds to explore. It's perhaps fitting that, growing up, Todd's brother used to shout "Kneel before Todd!" (a play on the quote from Superman II where evil Kryptonian Zod tells the President of the US to kneel).
Howard may feel humbled by the award but there's good reason for it - after all, Bethesda's franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout have provided millions of fans incalculable hours of entertainment. This puts Howard in the company of industry giants like Will Wright, Shigeru Miyamoto, Sid Meier, and Hideo Kojima to name just a few. Next week, at the Game Developers Conference, Bethesda Game Studios executive producer Todd Howard will have the honor of accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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