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Video games also aren't magic anymore if they ever were

Doom's production was so legendary because it was like a story of a band making an album; there were only ever six guys (Two of them with very distinct and conflicting "rock star" personalities) and just the tale of them fucking around and changing technology forever over a year in a shitty rented beach house was enough to make a bestselling novel that's perpetually on the cusp of being a David Fincher movie

Imagine any modern game doing that when the story of its creation involves 2,000 people on four continents, 75% of them in India, who never meet each other, work on temp contracts where they usually get fired before the end, and slap together template files and textures from licensed libraries while obeying KPIs set by the HR department and corporate mandate