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With all the scorn for Concord let's not forget all the cool devs making games for us. Here's what the Atari founder said about the designer of E.T.
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With all the scorn for Concord let’s not forget all the cool devs making games for us. Here’s what the Atari founder said about the designer of E.T.

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With all the scorn for Concord let’s not forget all the cool devs making games for us. Here’s what the Atari founder said about the designer of E.T.

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  2. NBQuade

    I don’t blame the devs. Everything about that game had to be approved by management.

  3. Ku1orion

    Im a writer. I write on the side and help publishers with workflow ideas.. so in that sense.. I can write the last book of GoT. It’ll be shit, but I can probably do it in a month.

    So no, we shouldn’t celebrate quantity over quality. I think we need to make it known that the time crunch that these people in power put on incredible talented game coders to create something in an unrealistic amount of time is not good.

  5. LeClubNerd

    Not saying Sony didn’t fuck up, but, 8 years is slightly longer than a month and a half

  7. gorka_la_pork

    Concord was a spectacular failure, but I do not begrudge the ground-level devs who actually poured sweat and blood into the game. I can believe they worked their asses off, often under the unrealistic expectations of clueless managers and corporate overlords. And by all accounts the product they released wasn’t even all that bad, conventionally speaking. Stiflingly mid, perhaps, and years too late to the moment it was developed to cash in on, but it does at least function which is more than we can say for other bombs like that Gollum thing from last year.

  8. rydan

    K

    But imagine how amazing ET would have been had it taken 8 years to develop. Or how bad Concord would have been if it was developed after 1.5 months.

  9. ThomasFO

    Every month here I see a new misspelling of a word I’ve never seen misspelled before. *allotted, my friend.

  10. stillindie

    They had 8 years. The people on the DEV TEAM who made decisions about the character roster and approved designs own 100% of the blame.

  11. DisasterDalek

    I unironically loved Atari ET when I was a kid

  12. SpezSucksSamAltman

    No scorn, only a love for epic failures. I never would have played it, they didn’t even advertise it so it failed before I heard about it. Just sitting here with popcorn, laughing at Sony.

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