Ever notice how often Emil uses "you killed the leader so you become the leader" as a plot point? Kind of makes me worried for Todd.

Emil actually proclaims that people know him as "the Fallout guy". I've literally never heard anyone call him that. Tim Cain is "the Fallout guy".

The fact that Emil went out on Twitter and had a meltdown despite allegedly not listening to criticism in the first place says that somebody hit a nerve of his somewhere along the way.

Emil is insufferable. People were predicting that Starfield's plot and writing were going to be MID back in 2016.

33:35 Guy basicaly saying "Yeah, i can write on par with best writers of the world, you just don't deserve it" It's not being stupid at this point, it's narcissistic disorder.

Emil's right, gamers, in their absolute majority, don't know how exactly games are made.
Unfortunately for him, though, gamers also don't care to know and they can see the final result being not great regardless of their knowledge.

I find it kinda funny that he can barely describe what the games he worked on are about.

Emil is using a very common non-argument used by unintelligent people on the Internet "Yeah well, let's see you do better."

If I watch an NBA game, and a player misses 10 free throws in a row, I do not need to be good at shooting free throws or even be a basketball player to accurately state "This player sucks at free throws".

Imagine if a family member got a routine surgery, but ended up dying due to the surgeon's mistake, which you criticize them for. Then they retort "Yeah well let's see you be a surgeon".

I'm not the one paid to shoot free throws, be a surgeon, or design games. I don't need to be any of these things to criticize something. By this logic, or lack thereof, most critics shouldn't be critics. Most film critics have never made a movie, food critics can't cook, and game reviewers don't make games.

If something is bad, it's bad. You don't need to be a genius to identify a pile of shit.

Starfield is the first original IP this guy has worked on. Every other game he worked on, Fallout 3, Fallout 4, and Skyrim, are all sequels to far better games and in pre written universes.

To quote one of my favorite comedians Steve Hofstetter:
"I've never flown a helicopter. But if I saw one in a tree, I can still be like... 'Dude fucked up. That's not supposed to be up there. That's pilot error'."
Just because you don't know how to do something, it's still possible to tell that something about it is wrong

Funniest thing about this is Emil reads how much everyone fucking hates him.

If you want Fallout to be an RPG, Emil's response is that you're an idiot for asking.

“People ignore the story.”  Uh some of us who have been around since Morrowind, if not before, spent HOURS upon HOURS outside of the hundreds in game  learning lore and theorizing, connecting things.  This guy is completely disconnected from the thing he’s attempting to make.

Emil is one of the biggest hacks in the industry and he keeps getting rewarded for it. Shit's wild, man.

Emil spent so much effort to try and look like a professional writer that he forgot to actually be a professional writer.

In story writing, "keep it simple, stupid" means to me that there is a clear, understandable set of ideas that the story branches out to explore in a complex way.

Emil describes his work ethic as "stream of consciousness" and "to just go". No thought, connection or reflection on his own writing whatsoever - just complete autopilot and ideas in a vaccum. It explains why you're not allowed to stop and ask questions in his games, and why most of his characters are uncanny and shut down when pressured.

His approach to his job is whiny and juvenile, as putting in effort is too hard and robbing him free time. He thinks blowing up a town for no reason other than being a psychopath is a thought provoking choice. There's no real conflicts in his stories, just cheap emotional bait and pop culture references. He copies ideas with out understanding them - If they look cool, sound deep and made money they'll make his story like that too. He thinks everyone has the same connections to their family, or wants to be famous, so that will be the player's carrot on the stick. Complete detachment from both the fictional worlds he writes for and reality.

Nothing nails your misunderstanding of a post-apocalypse like using H.P. Lovecraft for horror, or letting parents and a mortgage be a concern in dangerous space exploration. RPGs should offer the most freedom in terms of world building and to play as anyone, yet this clown can't resist to tie the player to some forced family drama and drag Blade Runner down with them. No amount of bugs or loading screens will ever be immersion breaking as Emil's writing.

It's so funny that Emil mistakes themes with plot devices. Dragon's and Androids are not "themes" but plot devices used by the story.

Emil being pathetic may actually be more interesting than his writing.

I love how he claimed writing credit for fallout shelter lol