Thread 714986951

The most overrated dev of all time. Nothing but boring slop.

>useless generic commentary from a non player
Elaborate or I'm leaving your short lived thread

name a more innovative dev

>>714986951 (OP)
>take universally loved thing
>call it bad

>>714986951 (OP)
Kill yourself.

>>714986951 (OP)
The most overrated dev is the Science Adventure developers. Literally never made a single good game.

>>714987361
>universally loved
by poser neckbeards, maybe

>>714988118
Steins;Gate though?

https://www.unseen64.net/2016/04/26/deep-cover-pc-cancelled/
I'm still mad this never came out.

>>714988907
It's shit.

>>714986951 (OP)
>sound design and audio mechanics from more than 25 years ago are still unmatched TO THIS DAY
kneel.

Heh, check this out...
*places finger over part of the logo*

"Looking --ass Studios"

>>714986951 (OP)
fuck you

what qualifies as "slop" here?

>>714986951 (OP)
Nonsense. People to this day have no idea what tremendous impact LGS had on the industry. Keep in mind a lot of those devs went to Ion Storm so there's Also Deus Ex to keep in mind on top of Ultima Underworld and Thief.

>>714986951 (OP)
fag

>>714990124
because they were crazy enough to re-redesign levels to get better sound propagation. also, they had audio industry professionals onboard. to latch onto what >>714990657 said there were probably never more overqualified people working on video games than looking glass studio/ion studio during their peak.

>>714990124
I always question myself on if I overrate LGS on their sound design, but I end up realizing that apart from higher quality soundbits, most modern games' sound design is pretty uninspired and "just there"

>completely unique handcrafted experiences worked on by a small team of auteurs with bespoke innovative mechanics all over them
>call them "slop"
Talk about misusing a word.
>>714990862
sex with artificial intelligence voiced by terri

>>714987361
a critically acclaimed dev
..who also went bankrupt
isn't that interesting?

>>714990657
What was her role at the company? I know Terri Brosius and Sara Verilli did some of the levels and voice acting. Who's this lady?

>>714991139
Because everyone todays thinks good sound design means authentic gunshots and bombastic orchestral soundtrack.

>>714991473
It's from the last day video, but sadly there's no credits of any sort. Some damn cuties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPFbA8Qmths

Could never get into Ultima Underworld.

>>714991421
Yeah it's almost like making good games doesn't mean making good profits.
Interesting.

>>714991629
it's definitely a foundational game, but difficult to get into now. people aren't joking when they say entire gaming landscape would've been very different without uo.

>>714986951 (OP)
you likely remember some of the names that came from them.

Ken Levine
Warren Spector
Harvey Smith
Emil Pagliarulo

Creeping around slowly isn't fun. Thief is dogshit. You are fat.

>>714986951 (OP)
>it's another "OP makes stupid statement for (you)s to post it on twitter" thread

>>714991421
they made a bunch of games other than what’s discussed here that didn’t sell, as well as a few cancelled projects.

They made some FPS Ultima
A stealth FPS
and some cypershock FPS or something

I have played exactly zero games they made.

>>714990862
it's funny that a lot of the programmers there were straight up MIT graduates. pretty uncommon at the time.

>>714986951 (OP)
You need to be 18 years of age or older to post here

Sage
Aww sweet, a bait thread!

>>714988907
>Overrated;Mid
lmao

>>714987357
Westwood

Thief is one of the best games I've ever played

Could a studio like Looking Glass exist nowadays? Just a bunch of MIT nerds who are really passionate about games making some truly revolutionary stuff, do Universities even have people like that still or is it just going to be small indie devs from now on?

>>714994551
Game engines brought to to the common man. They have no reason to spend much effort in the space anymore.

>>714991214
based AI enjoyer

>>714994551
LGS itself felt pretty indie but that might be because of the size of the studio.

>>714994551
No one goes to MIT to wage slave in the vidya industry, anon.

>>714986951 (OP)
not so fast

>>714994748
That's the point, people who go to MIT nowadays just move on to Google or Amazon, I don't blame them, I'd do the same, but still, it'd be nice if we had actual nerds, not the quirky reddit faggot nerds we have today, making games again.

>>714986951 (OP)
you're brown

>>714990124
>Creative labs killed focus on audio design by patent trolling their opposition into bankruptcy and just generally being insufferable to work with
Fuck them.

>>714991629
It's because we now live in a world where all the things it pioneered are things we take for granted.

>>714986951 (OP)
>Nothing but slop
kek'd

boring is subjective, but slop it is not. Funny bait, made me reply 8/8, I r8 it gr8 my m7

Such stupid bait lol. I’m bored though so Il give yah a “fuck you”.

>>714991629
It was the Crysis of its time, when it was released it needed a beefy 386 or 486 to run properly. IBM compatibles hadn't oversaturated the markets yet, so it cost like $2000-4000 for a setup to play UU. Also put into account the inflation, $4700 for a complete pc setup with monitor is insane. Many people were still using their Commodore shitplanks and jealous over the pc master race.

>>714986951 (OP)
(You)

>>714994551
MIT is 100% pozzed now, entirely taken over by Qatar and SJWs

We were having some nice Shock threads the last couple days and we didn't need obscene bait like OP's to keep the threads alive.

>>714997213
Arkane is overrated as fuck.

>>714997096
those were SHODAN appreciation threads

OP was caught and raped by the woodsie lord

>>714999319
Well yeah, but still...

>>714991139
It's that or making everything bassy for no real reason. I've no idea where that trend started but I'm sick of it.
https://youtu.be/H6wvVajSF6U?si=UGlvCAd9BUZ8-SF0&t=174

>>715001285
hollywood, most likely. it's why soundtracks are so boring too.