Retro VS Modern Games - How Game Development has Changed

[@onedudecomics]

Personally I'm just sick of multiplayers... everywhere you look its multiplayers. Great video though! Legit said what was in my mind.

[@harveynewman]

Thanks a lot dude! Yeah I feel like lost people are feeling the same nowadays. There’s a place for multiplayer for sure but maybe not as much of it.

[@jeandenishaas]

Hahah OMG I was listening to your episode and when you brought up Bionic Commando I thought you were talking about the NES version for some reason! 😂 I hear that name and my brain goes straight to 8-Bit!

[@harveynewman]

Oh snap, I completely forgot about the NES version of Bionic commando!! Classic game! 😃 Thanks a million for listening to the episode JD.

[@jeandenishaas]

@@harveynewman Sure thing! Was great!

[@xalener]

What the hell is human revolution doing on the retro side lmao

[@harveynewman]

According to the youngest generation Deus Ex is retro. :D

[@xalener]

@@harveynewman Huh. Yeah. I always felt like retro starts when it’s 2 generations old, right? Ps2 wasn’t truly retro till the ps4 launched… mostly because they didnt stop making new ps2 games till the ps3’s run was almost finished lmao… But I guess by that logic, the 360 ps3 era *is* retro now, but literally like zero fucking innovation has happened in the gameplay sphere since the middle of that era. We’ve got more hyperconnectivity to the “HQ” of the online games, but that’s really it. Let’s take a look at the market giants. What makes Fortnite uniquely modern? It’s got the closed off black box corporate control of a 6th gen console game but the user content ecosystem of a 5th gen PC game. I guess the big difference is that the original devs are *in there* in the trenches in that ecosystem, dictating where it flows. These big live show events? That’s pretty much just the dev group dropping a bomb ass custom level into fpsbananna and taking over the website. Nothing stopped Id from doing that in the Quake 3 days except cultural expectations! And let’s look at COD. It’s the same fucking piece of shit jingoist NRA cock gobbling Waterboarding POW tourture Apologia bullshit it’s been since Modern Warfare OG. It’s just got ugly ass paid cosmetics now and it’s 500 GB. Apex? Respawn’s spineless limpdick sycophantic leadership drove away all their talent and now all they have is skinwalker COD and a bunch of pathetic licensed games like they’re a fucking 2005 era PS2 developer making shrek games for a dollar a pop, except their products just *look* expensive. I say this as someone who’s been a 3d generalist in the games industry for the last 10 years, half of those working for a studio that just made cheap licensed kids games. This rant isn’t conjecture, it’s actual fucking educated dissolusionment. That Respawn talent drain were some of my actual friends. This is genuine righeous fury. It’s got me so fucking mad that I said “fuck it” and started my own studio with the last bunch of mad lads I got laid off with. Be on the look out for Cottonhammer. Sorry about the rant, I got lost in the sauce. I think my point is that Human Revolution could be released yesterday with the EXACT same gameplay but modern graphics and no one would really bat an eye, but if something like Mega Man Legends (1) came out on the ps3 with the EXACT same gameplay, controls and all with strafing on the fuckin R&L1 buttons, but with ps3 graphics, people would be like “what the fuck is this shit” Idk man, I don’t feel like anything’s changed about games since the beginning of the 7th gen except the leadership. The moneymen have more creative control than they did back in the day, and in a way that’s made for monumentally smoother production of monumentally more predatory and malicious products.