Fallout 3 won the writing award because GTA 4 was pretty run of the mill and MGS4 was to weird.
What does age have to do with Lifetime achievement awards?
he did direct the early TES games which I understand are liked by most people on NMA.
And also criticised. As much as I love Morrowind, it is not without it's flaws. It is basically Oblivion and Skyrim. Just with a lot more unique art assets, which give the game its own quality. But a deep RPG? Morrowind is not! Again. I love Morrowind. But I don't pretend that it is doing something well, just beacause I like the game.
Thing is, when you talk about Todd, it is obviously a bit more to the story than just that. You have to look at his track record. His own, I mean his really completely own project, was future shock. And even that was made with a licence. We have absolutely no clue how deep his own creativity actually goes. If he could come up with something completely unique that is his own baby to speak so.
So he never really worked on a project that he came up with. And what he did since Dagerfall and Morrowind, was always to modify the Elder Scrolls (and now Fallout ...) to fit this Future-Shock-Shooter concept. Infact, you could almost say that Fallout 4 is, in many ways, pretty much the Sequel to Terminator Future Schock ...
In my opinion, either this is what Todd wanted to make always from the start, but he had to face to much resistance from his peers, but those that fought his ideas, are now gone and/or pushed out. And the result is Skyrim and Fallout 4.
OR, he gave up any resistance years ago, becoming the perfect corporate drone, and is now doing everything to please the marketing department.
Which of course, demands shooters and simplified games above anything else, that can be sold to the masses.
