Todd Howard Quotes

'Minecraft' is to a large degree about having unique experiences that nobody else has had. The levels are randomly generated, and you can build anything you want to build yourself.

One of the things 'Minecraft' is most noted for is the freedom it gives the players to build and experiment with the tools. You start off with simple objects; axes, torches, helmets and swords. With a little time and experimentation, you move to switches, complex machines, mine carts, glass.

'Fallout 76' is a very different 'Fallout' game. We're very aware of that. We think a lot of people will like it, because we like it. But a lot of people probably won't. We need to balance that. This is an idea we have, and there's a lot of old 'Fallout' stuff in it, but it's a very new experience.

'Minecraft' is a game about creation, yes. But it is just as much a game about secret knowledge.

I'm a video game buff.

That's really one of the things I love about video games. It's a whole new world every time you start.

Now, games have been democratized. Everyone plays games.

One of the things I loved about working on 'Portal' was that we'd get emails from people saying, 'I love to play first-person shooters but my girlfriend won't play them with me. But I got her to play 'Portal' and she had a blast.'

I would say I'm a casual gamer. I'm not hardcore.

I would like to reach non-gamers. It's always great when guys come up to me who are gamers and represent my usual audience, but they'll say, 'You know, Psychonauts is the only game I can actually get my girlfriend to play with me.'

In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.

I think, like most gamers, I talk a good game.

I've only got anywhere with Minecraft by getting my friends to explain it.

One Thanksgiving weekend, I had a lost weekend at a friend's place with 'Grand Theft Auto.'

Nintendo has paid a great deal of attention to the dynamic of people playing video games together in the same room.

The vision is to create the ultimate place you can imagine and then gather there with your friends. Roblox is all about these 3D places and our variety is much greater than Minecraft.

I used to play 'Grand Theft Auto 4' and used to have a little community and we were some of the best players online.

I would say that 'Breath of the Wild' is a dramatic departure from the conventions of a 'Zelda' game.

When you come to Roblox, the player participates in things that are created by the community. You can hang out in a restaurant and try to survive a tornado. All of this is created by our creative community.

For me, climbing has always been about adventure and that involves difficulties, danger and exposure, so I deliberately set out to climb with as little equipment as possible.

For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

Whenever I'm around my guy friends, I'm always playing video games. I've always enjoyed the graphics side of them, how they look.

I've always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.