That's too bad. I would probably wait for not only a sale,but for this game to likely get most of it's issues patched.
I think you mean... that's two Brad. Also, has any industry guy fallen as far in the eyes of fans as Inafune has this year? Regardless of his level of responsibility behind the broken mess that is ReCore, he's attached himself to two high profile games that were seen as very large disappointments.
Great piece, Austin! As a game programmer myself, I find the subject of games taking on a life of their own fascinating. Because of the nature of game development where we are constantly moving on to new tasks and iterating on old ones, it's very easy to miss how the user can manipulate the game's systems in ways that we didn't find possible. For instance, when I worked on Duck Tales: Remastered, I knew that there were potential issues with spawning/culling, which I felt that we had more than adequately addressed. However, because of the nature of one of how I had to handle the Moon level's vault entrance, it was easy to miss how easily the collision could be despawned, as it wasn't tied to the art in the same way that most objects were. This can be demonstrated in the above video. My first reaction to this was embarrassment for not checking this more thoroughly, yet the fact that it lead to it being run at AGDQ 2014 was very exciting. It's really fascinating just how thoroughly these games can be deconstructed just as we so carefully attempted to construct them in the first place.
Thanks, Jeff. I was just about to shell for the Prima strategy guide, but this is exactly what I was looking for. Can the rest of you guys please just like... not do this and forget you watched it? Otherwise, would it be better if I got an elite controller and used a setup involving a toothbrush and rubber bands?
I totally forgot about Bill Donohue. I loved UGP back in the day and he was always hilarious. I subscribed to them for years from when they were still Game Players until they eventually went under.
ratcliffja's comments