Is there a competency crisis in the industry?

>>715822936 (OP)
There is in many industries.

>>715822936 (OP)
why do you think so many studios are being shut down?

>>715822936 (OP)
Stuff like that is incredibly easy to overlook when you are just remaking a game from a surface level view of the design process it had. It's not like the game is unplayable because of it, but fans of the games will definitely notice.

>>715822936 (OP)
yes, because the industry wants to only hire indians on h1bs, and use chat gpt.

I think it's this way in every business or institution. Constant handoff to the next sucker "program manager" who doesn't know or care about the project. Everyone is just passing the hot potato.

Roblox

Modern game devs have a skill issue in general, they can't do all the crazy shit old programmers used to do because modern tools are so robust and simple to use there's no need to use insane solutions to get around limited features and tech

Also indians

You just noticed, you fucking retard? There’s so many kikez, shitskinz, faggotz, and women in the industry. In your retarded little mind, did you not think there’s a correlation between a rise in brownoid employees and shitty games?

Well that depends what you mean by "crisis"

I rage quit the N Sane Trilogy because of this.

>>715822936 (OP)
>good programmer expensive, do weeks work in 6 hours, demand weeks pay
>bad programmer cheap, do weeks work in week, accept 3 days pay
Yeah sorta. But there are a lot of other problems, the idea guys have bad ideas, the idea guys with good ideas are bullied out by corpo suits who say "This isn't focus tested, make it God of War" and the entire office isn't talking to eachother about important shot but pissing away 100 hours a day talking about "Teamwork makes the Dreamwork". Its why small Indies are popping off

>>715822936 (OP)
No, this has nothing to do with competence, it's just an oversight

>>715823256
>hey can't do all the crazy shit old programmers used to do
modern games are way more complicated than old games

>>715823392
This isn't about new games and new games all play the same anyway

This about the actual programming and tricks that go into making games, modern games don't even have have working mirrors. (No a single mirror you have to interact with is not a proper mirror source)

God I hate pajeets so much

>>715823392
who’s going to tell this brown monkey retard the actual truth?

>>715822936 (OP)
What's hilarious is I just took a Godot course that covered this exact thing over like 20 minutes. I know programming big AAA games is harder, but it's very funny to have some noname guy say "Jumping feels better if you can alter it while still in the air" but the billion dollar studio can't get it right

It's not all the fault of DEI, but like maybe 30% or so is as a direct result of warped hiring practices. The rest is a combination of outsourcing and AI tools preventing coders from being forced to actually understand what they're doing.

>>715823514
Yes, I'm talking about programming, the programming that goes into modern games is way more complicated than old games

….

Bro this has to be a troll. Hold A has been a thing since the first Donkey Kong

>>715823585
>outsourcing and AI tools
Guess who’s using those tools and guess where the work is being outsourced too? Your skin is the color of my poop and you suck your jewish masters dick like the faggot you are

>>715823357
saar this have nothing to do with competence it is only oversight

>>715822936 (OP)
>something borderline insanse
>jump height depending how long you hold button
but thats feature atleast as old as Super Mario Brothers,

>>715823726
Reads like a non-technical person taking credit for the work of someone else, there's nothing "insane" about holding the jump button for variable height jumps

>>715823726
A lot of new platformers also don't have coyotejump(where you're technically off the platform but you press A late) most platformers up to and through the PS2 has this. Meanwhile modern games still struggle with gravity working properly when you walk off a platform and it SUCKING you downward

>>715822936 (OP)
yes, but in the end it didn't matter
people bought the game,
that was the publishers goal:
>Make Money

if the jump was perfect liek the original, nothing would change, as the same amount of people would buy the game.

so why bother?

99% of remakes get made not because of some devotion and love to the original, but solely to make money, because morons buy remakes...

>>715823971
>why bother
Its a trivial fix that would take less than an hour

>>715822936 (OP)
>we built something borderline insane
>the same thing that was in mario 11 years earlier and probably other platformers before it
hard to take this seriously

>>715823132
If you aren't a fan of a game then maybe you shouldn't fuck with it.

>>715824245
>you have to be a fan to work on a game
are you 12

>OMGZ 30 milliseconds
massive competency crisis
at this point, I'm convinced it's deliberate. making games terrible now, we're all part of a psyop to see if gamers can be deconditioned from the massive dopamine spikes that (((researchers))) discovered in the 2000's. except not everyone is on the same page, so the experiment is a de facto failure and these (((clowns))) are just torturing us with endless goyslop at this point.

>>715824245
You can't realistically hire a full development team of fans. And even fans can get things wrong.

>>715823132
It's easy to overlook if the remake devs never played the original, which they absolutely fucking should have

>>715822936 (OP)
>715822936

IS THAT WHY THE REMAKE FELT WEIRD?
I knew I wasn't crazy. I remember thinking to myself, why is my jump so floaty.

>>715824347
And yet somehow that is how the original crash bandicoot was made. Honestly if you don't play through a game then you shouldn't be anywhere near a team that is remastering it.

>>715823132
>people who worked on Crash are clearly still interested in the series
>don't bother to contact them and ask for advice
>some of them even approach the team and offer to help for free
>turn them down and tell them to fuck off
What they did to Mancell is a fucking crime, they completely fucked at least half of the soundtrack

>>715824295
If you don't like pizza I don't want you making me one to purchase simple as.

>>715824493
>>715824525
How come nobody who played or reviewed it mentioned this specific coding detail?

>>715824295
I agree with you but I also agree with the other anon slightly.
I think it's unfair to say "Only superfans can work here and work on this specific project" but I would say specifically with a remake you should have a level of passion for providing something that is authentic but also new. Mechanically Crash remake should be 1:1 with old crash with a nice facelift, that said it isn't and ultimate I consider it(and most remakes) an abject failure made by halfhearted "its just a job, I hate gamers" faggots who make games as just another job til they can network into a cushy no work job

>>715824525
How can the original Crash Bandicoot team be full of Crash Bandicoot fans when the game wasn't made yet?

>>715824650
He did

>>715824664
This. Don't remake something if you aren't even gonna try to keep the original game intact

>>715822936 (OP)
No. Corporate bean counters are cracking down on expenses and then letting reactionary commentators blame workers.

>>715824664
>with a remake you should have a level of passion
All that's required is you can do a good job, and the Crash remake is good
Not getting the jump right doesn't mean you "arent a fan"

>>715824729
Just he though?

>>715824650
Nigga people have been bitching about how the remake fucked up jumps for years even here. You can go in the archives right now and find anons bitching about it from the same year the remake came out.

>>715822936 (OP)
Did he really just make a post that long to say
>the longer you hold the jump button the higher you go

>>715824692
It is the essence of what the artists desired of a game that they wanted to play. Artists with a vision are the number one fans.

>>715824027
won't make the publisher any more money tho

>>715824769
If you had the adequate level of passion you'd see right away that the capsule hitboxes and jump physics aren't right. Again I'm not even saying you have to have previously played crash, but you should care enough to say "how do we take this great game, and make it pretty"
Its so easy to see the difference that even my wife(a girl) could tell that Crash remake was "Harder" in the first level, even if she couldn't immediately state what specifically it was that made it harder

It's not so much competence as lack of care. Nobody in charge gives a fuck about what they're working on now, it might be a game or a site or a calculator for all they care. They're not here to impress the fans, only to complete the project asap and move on to another project.

>>715824785
If he notices that every jump in a platformer is set to max then I have to assume that any fan who bought the nostalgic slop also felt the burn of a rip off.

>>715822936 (OP)
The question is when and how did it start, not if it's just getting here.

>>715824953
I don't care about a Jewish publishers desire for money. The moral world of should isn't about making money, it's about doing the right thing. I could kill you right now and steal all of your shit, and yet I don't.....

>>715824930
It's kind of the most important thing in a platformer and the studio couldn't even get that right.

>>715824935
No it's a team full of people making a game
I gaurantee you some people on the team didn't want to make Crash but they did a good job of it anyway

>>715825104
I'll kill you.

>>715822936 (OP)
Interesting how he never credited David Siller as the real creator of Crash and decided to regurgitate the lore Ruben constantly perpetuates. I’ll give him credit for the technical programming but Siller solo’d the entire design document and if it wasn’t for him we wouldn’t have had crash bandicoot in the first place

>>715823357
>making your game insufferable dogshit is not a competency issue, it's just an oversight
kill all of yourself

>>715824325
Could be. Video games are so addictive and have ruined so many men the economic and demographic damage is impossible to calculate.

>>715822936 (OP)
>Serial Entrepreneur
lmao ok

>>715825201
>insufferable dogshit
massive exaggeration

>>715825153
You haven't yet which tells me youve got about the same level of competence as a nuCrash Bandicoot dev

Same thing for the Spyro remake. I basically lived in those games as a kid and the movement being so different from my muscle memory made me drop them.

>>715822936 (OP)
>pressed or not pressed

AN A PRESS IS AN A PRESS YOU CANT SAY ITS ONLY HALF

>>715822936 (OP)
assuming they had the source, this is a classic case of "don't change something if you don't understand what it's there for"

>>715825378
>assuming they had the source
they didnt

>>715823132
If you don't love an old game and play it religiously enough to understand the minutae and small details, you have no right to be remaking it.

Remakes are being created by greedy parasites, not fans.

>>715825259
This means he got rich and then used his rich money to start moderate to mediocre businesses one after the other.

>>715825149
9 people for the original and between 30 and 59 for the remaster. The original team absolutely loved their creation and it shows.

>>715822936 (OP)
>how long you press jump button changes your jump height
Megaman 1 has this
Mario 1 has this
Is this guy retarded

>>715825423
Fans generally aren't good at game development

>>715825439
>The original team absolutely loved their creation
you dont know that

He is full of shit you can make small jumps in the remake just fine

>>715825457
No. The people that remastered his creation improperly are. It shows that the devs didn't even play the original.

>>715825457
Ps1 devs were smoking some shot
Kojima invented cameras
Crash Bandicoot invented jumping
I wouldn't be surprised if the Siphon Filter guys think they invented the third person shooter

>>715824953
yes it would

>>715825297
massive faggot

>>715825563
>we built something borderline insane
He is implying he invented it

>>715825591
mindless ragebrained moron

>>715825565
they invented tasers. srsly. tasers didn't exist before siphon filter. but they were so cool that humans invented them afterward.

>>715823818
Evidently there is something insane about that because the "competent" people doing the remake were too incompetent to get something you think is basic and well known by everyone done right.

Kind of makes you look and sound like a retarded pompous know-it-all who doesn't know anything actually and just talks shit out of his ass.

>>715825565
>Kojima invented cameras
Kojimbo does it again

>>715825652
goyslop guzzling bugman

>>715825683
The physics in the remake aren't the same but I don't think what he's saying about there being no variable jump is actually correct

>>715825732
Keep getting mad at the imaginary shit /v/ tells you to get mad at

>>715823132
And that's why you play the originals instead of remake sloppa

>>715822936 (OP)
Yeah. Look at CDPR. They lost so many people they couldn't remember how to work their own fucking engine. Onward to UE5 shit! Fuck that.

>>715822936 (OP)
>we made something borderline insane
>hold to jump higher
Lmao wow nice insaneo tech
Crazy though how modern DEI hires botch even that

>>715825789
The SNES remakes of DQ1-3 are better than the NES versions, I will not fold on this, but generally speaking I agree

DKC > Crash

>>715822936 (OP)
Why did he explain in so much detail that holding the button makes for higher jumps?
Anyone that played 5 seconds of Mario or literally any other platformer would know this. The PLAYERS know this.

>>715823076
That's what happens when you spend the last 8+ years hiring 10 people for dirt cheap instead of 1 dude who knows what he's doing because those 10 people are paid slightly less

>>715822936 (OP)
>Big publishers keep buying out talented studios just to murder them when their next game isn't a mega hit. Force developers like Rocksteady to make trendy slop instead of what they're good at
>Huuuuhhhh??? Where did all the talent go??

>some nigger game director made 100k a year to sit in his office and do nothing when I could have said "Hey make sure crash jumps longer when you hold jump"
Anyone hiring?

>>715826005
But the devs don't. That was his point. The game makers don't even play the games. It's super fucked.

wake up babe, new spambot just dropped

>>715824642
>they made a tiny mistake
>THIS MEANS THEY HATE THE GAME

>>715826323
At least one guy in management needs to have meticulously played OG Crash and constantly be testing it against the remake. Just 1 guy and a team of guys who give a shot is all I ask.
I'm not gonna say we need an army of Crash fans, just 1 asshole who is willing to say "original doesn't play like this... Fix it"

>>715826497
>testers don't exist
>testers should be managers
/v/ in charge of game development

>>715825783
stay gay

>>715826583
>nobody making the game should be even slightly aware of the original
If I made a pretzel company that sold pretzels that taste exactly like Wetzels Pretzels, would you prefer if I knew how a Wetzels Pretzel was made before I bake mine with gasoline?

>>715826805
Obviously they're aware of the original, how else would they have made it

>>715825423
but game dev is not like that. Its "i want a job" and "i do what im told"

>>715826421
Fucking up the jump mechanic in a platformer that you are tasked with remastering is a monumental mistake. A testament to the lack of respect towards the task at hand. They were payed by customers to do a job and didn't care enough to do it properly. It's a scam by this point.

>>715826867
They know what Crash generally looks like, but were making video games, not paintings.

>>715823132
its literally the core mechanic, how is it easy to overlook? are you blind?

>>715826867
They straight up plagiarized it with AI and outsourced coders. But 20 middle men were payed to basically do nothing except take credit. It's completely fucked.

>>715827032
It's not possible tl to "plagarize a game with AI"

>its just the jumping who cares!?
They also butchered the art-style and had Crash desexed, he has no attitude whatsoever and all of his enemies were turned into Great Value cereal mascots. What exactly did the remakes get right?

>>715827126
Ok I disagree.

>>715827492
You can't disagree, this is a fact, you cannot ask AI to make Crash Bandicoot for you and just have it happen

>>715826421
>>they made a tiny mistake
They fucked up jumping in a platformer game, they made a fundamental mistake.

>>715827674
IDL about that

>>715825485
Fan games mog professional shit most of the time.

>>715827674
Look up tripo3d. You can create 3d meshes from any 2d image complete with skeleton rigging. You can absolutely use ai tools to remake games it's literally what they did with oblivion. And it's plagiarism to pass it off as your own.

>>715828056
>You can create 3d meshes from any 2d image complete with skeleton rigging
and the end result is awful

>>715828176
Tripo3d creates high resolution 3d meshes and textures. How the results look are solely dependent on the talent of its users that refine the models post ai generation. I think that you might be very shocked to know how long the industry has been leaning on this technology.

>>715825580
this, was considering getting the remake one day but now I definitely won't. Had no clue they fucked up something so fundamental.

>>715828549
This is a new technology that is mostly not capable of producing professional quality game assets and Crash Bandicoot remastered came out years ago

>>715822936 (OP)
no saar, everything is fine

>>715822936 (OP)
Competency crisis is veiled code for Indian developers

>>715824295
no passion no soul

hence why random nobodies make better products in their free time than massive corporations dumping millions on a game.

>>715822936 (OP)
Yes, replace passion with job and you lose what makes a thing special. As soon as studio personal were changed from people who wanted to create a piece of art, something personal or something they just find fun themselves, with people who treat it as a 9to5 job, without passion or see games as a medium for engagement driven profits and live service and you lose all hope in the industry. What games are, have fundamentally changed through the years, boot up old games, from 2008 or prior and what you got in all for all intents and purposes was a video game, that was there to amuse you first. Forward many years later, to now essentially and publishers are trying to sell you is platforms(live services) masquerading as video games, hoping to sell you many additional purchases, throughout of its life cycle, with all the positions in a studio filled with that exact purpose in mind, and those functions don't need passion, creative minds, or good writers, but passionless fresh out of school coding gradates to do the bare minimum, while upper functions of the studio's are led by vultures who's entire work history at multiple companies essentially entails figuring out the maximum way of retaining player retention and profit margins.

>>715824769
>Not getting the jump right doesn't mean you "arent a fan"
if you fuck up something so fundamental then yes, you aren’t a fan

>>715828624
About 70 percent of the industry uses or has plans to use ai for their in house 3d mesh development. I concede that crash remake came out too early for that though.

>>715829037
>About 70 percent of the industry uses or has plans to use ai for their in house 3d mesh development
complete and utter bullshit, stop lying

>>715823357
I would never, ever hire you. You are poison. You are unhireable. You are probably an r/antiwork type as well.

>>715829084
Told you you'd be surprised

>>715829147
can you project any harder?

>>715829196
AI is not a credible source of information

>>715823132
which is why you should check the original source code

>>715826360
would have this posted 1000 times if all that meant just one more person waking up to the idea that most remakes are slop and that it's trivial to emulate originals

Video games used to be made, generally, in in-house engines. This meant that outside of some middleware (usually not mechanics-related) everything was designed for that game specifically, without worrying about making it generic. This allowed for mechanic implementations to be tightly tuned to the particular game. This also tended to make them feel more distinct and unique, because the devs' solution was from the ground up rather than a premade system.

It also meant bad programmers were filtered out. Game engine programming is hard, it's one of the hardest things you can do, in programming. So the average game programmer was just better and smarter due to all the shitty ones not really being able to work in the industry. Today any jeet can open up Unity or Unreal and shit out an asset flip.

>>715823735
They're not hiring indinas for diversity, they're hiring indians because they are cheap.

>>715829280
The survey sourced was conducted by a company whose bread and butter is selling AI to video game companies. You can plug your ears and cry all you want but you will still know deep down that am spitting truths.

>>715829515
so wheres the actual source?

>>715829571
https://gamedevreports.substack.com/p/a16z-games-use-of-ai-in-gaming-in

>>715829817
Literally half the respondents are single individuals ie. one guy churning out games nobody plays
This isn't reflective of the games people actually play

>>715829817
>nearly 2/3rds using AI for 'inspiration'
Is that why everything looks so derivative these days?

>>715829996
30 out of 600 respondents were teams of 200+ but you're just just going to ignore that. The problem is no matter how much data you get, you can never admit the truths that conflict with your perception of reality. In fact you downright refuse to and it comes off as little ignorant. But you have been the most respectful anon I ever had the pleasure of disagreeing with and wish you all the best fren.

>>715830647
>30 out of 600 respondents were teams of 200+ but you're just just going to ignore that
Do you understand how statistics work?
This poll has a heavy bias towards people who aren't real game developers (1 man "companies") so the statistics will be biased

>>715830489
The derivative effect I would mostly attribute to the design by committee mentality of corporate video game companies. A.i. actually frees up a lot of time for artists to bring their visions to light. For example putting a pencil sketch into a 3d model generator isn't derivative at all. Just gets rid of the modeling time.

>>715823357
No it isn't, it's a failure of competence. They clearly noticed something was wrong when crash couldn't make the jumps, it was impossible to overlook, but they failed to figure it out and fix it, opting instead to fuck with all of the maps so that every jump is max height.

>>715822936 (OP)
>variable jump heights
>"borderline insane"
That existed as far back as Super Mario Bros...

>>715831135
If you've actually played the fucking game they did not alter the maps

>>715822936 (OP)
He's really, REALLY embellishing a story about a feature that was very basic by the time Crash Bandicoot came out. I remember reading an interview in my one of my older bro's 90s PSM mags where a Crash Bandicoot dev basically said "yeah we looked at how Mario's jumps work and adapted that to 3D". Mega Man had it, Mario had it, Sonic had it, even forgotten animal mascot games like Aero the Acrobat 2 had it. Hell, even Bubsy games probably had it.

However, I do like how the story highlights the incompetence of a programmer who would probably max distance jump in front of a speeding train to take a selfie.

>>715822936 (OP)
Ok, boomer.

>>715823145
And whatever they don't outsource is done by DEI dregs and spineless toadies

>>715822936 (OP)
What the fuck is he talking about? Fucking Super Mario Bros. had this feature. "Most games used the amateur solution," has this retard played a video game before?

Sounds like a skill issue.

>>715824325
I genuinely believe this because they knew that they were going all in and making groundbreaking games in the late 90s/early 2000s. Then just went full stop. It’s obvious that video games were a distraction while they moved millions of shitskins to white countries

>>715833052
Go to play bing bing wahoo remastered. It only Wahoos.
>>Skill issue

>>715822936 (OP)
Unpopular but correct opinion: Every remake or sequel should have at least 1 person on staff who is utterly obsessed with the original game(s) and would actually catch story, gameplay, and character design issues. If you don't have someone who "gets it" with veto power, there's a high likelihood your product will turn out to be shit and tarnish the legacy of your franchise.

This isn't an issue when the original team is still working (for example, Halo 1 - 3, Metroid Prime 1 - 3, Sonic 1 - 3&K), but when you have few, if any, of the original creators on board, you NEED some fanboy obsessed with details working on it.

>>715823357
Oversight by the managers, incompetence by the grunts.

>>715833534
Hear hear!

>>715822936 (OP)
honestly nobody cares about console games that had to work around toilet hardware back when nobobdy was laive people who act like this are shit

>>715833534
But then they'd have mostly white male candidates for the position, and that's racist.

>>715833936
So why did they remake it? Oh that's right it was to make money by selling to all those people that you claim so not care.

>>715834103
And sexist. And ableist. Us nuerodivergent otherkin have more hurdles when making video games than the patriarchy.

>>715834103
There are plenty of autistically detail-oriented Japs as well. Takeshi is just as viable of a candidate as Thomas.

>>715822936 (OP)
>borderline insane
What a convoluted way to toot your own horn. Everyone did that.

>>715822936 (OP)
>(key word: opinion!)
Immediately disregarding whatever else you have to say.

>>715822936 (OP)
yes and it'll get a hell of a lot worse when gen alpha has to take over

>>715823357
You're describing incompetence

>>715823793
This was a murder suicide though

>>715834969
Especially because some members of Gen Alpha are going through extremely precocious puberty due to the massive uptick in Estradiol (tranny drug) due to the tranners. There's a case going viral right now of a 3 year old who started growing breasts and pubic hair and having "vaginal discharge" because her mother(father) was a tranner and the skin-to-skin contact caused her to go into puberty at 3.

https://abstracts.eurospe.org/hrp/0097/hrp0097p2-91

Gen Alpha is completely fucked.

For all the work done to gaslight me into believing it was always like this, it's hard to compare the current crop of "great" games to those of a decade ago and start noticing some real substantive differences in the risks being taken and just plain SOVL. Gaming as a medium is a syphilitic mess right now

>>715822936 (OP)
The industry is vibrant, diverse and inclusive you incel bigot!

>>715822936 (OP)
There's a competency crisis, period. It's not just mai vidyer, I struggle to think of a single sector of society that isn't facing a competency crunch.

>>715835389
This is true, India is all of those things

>>715835558
See >>715835583 as to why that might be

>>715823132
Variable jump height is a very basic mechanism in a platformer. If you can't even tell if a game uses it or not, you should not be programming one.

>>715823726
Lol exactly.

>>715835032
incompetence would be not being able to implement variable height jumping

He definitely got filtered by Crash 1 Remake and wrote an incorrect post on LinkedIn. The jumping arc and hitbox are different but you can playtest the two right now, he's not telling it how it is.

>>715836528
>filtered
He says the remakes were easier

>>715823132
>you know the button that you will have to rely on for the next 40 hours?
>yeah we didn't notice
kill yourself

>>715824325
>>715825215
>>715833430
This conspiracy theory doesn't make any sense, making everything terrible including entertainment will just make people get so fed up that at some point they will revolt. This is where we are headed now basically, but if the small hats wanted the whites to be quiet and complacent while consooming media, why did they make the media total shit?
I fully believe that the big noses hate us and have a hand in many events that contributed to this gay modern society, but no I think for videogames it is just incompetence and corporate greed.

too many people working on games right now and the people that should have the power don't have it
no one really has a connection to the product and why would they when they'll get laid off when it finishes
finance retards aren't as smart as they think they are, most aren't even money smart as you can tell by looking at the games industry

>>715822936 (OP)
yes
aaa studios need conduct a sweep for the weasels who dont belong there
the recent 10 years some activists have snuck in and wrecked them from within

>>715834523
Japs are white as far as leftists are concerned.

>>715839058
fucking white adjacent sexist assholes!

>>715824953
>anon thinks he's super smart and cynical
>is actually a retard who can't think long term
Most cynics are stupid, anon. If your goal is to look smart try something else.

>>715825457
It's about the remaster not having it. I can tell because I wasn't almost suffocated to death while being a toddler.

>>715822936 (OP)
Oh THAT's why the remakes felt off

>>715822936 (OP)
>so we built something borderline insane
No, every platformer since super mario borthers had that mechanic

>>715835558
Only fans is keeping an even keel.>>715835558

>>715840514
Underrated

>>715840871
This. OP is a game designer issue not a programmer issue. Something unsurprising for a remake. Hell, fucking KOF has timing based jumps and short hops with digital inputs and that’s a fighting game, not a platformer.

>>715822936 (OP)
This has nothing to do with competency, they simply took the easy way out of fixing an issue.

>>715825485
The ones that are make great shit.
See: Sonic Mania

>"we built something borderline insane"
>implying Super Mario Bros. 1 didn't do exactly this
Why are Westoids so dumb?

>>715822936 (OP)
There's a competency crisis sure, but if the vidya industry is anything like my industry you have project managers who are mbas instead of from the field their people are managing from, or if you don't have that problem the good talent is stretched so thin and has so little focus that their talent goes to waste. That last part is really important because this also means they have no time to pass on industry knowledge to their colleagues and the guys that work under them. It's not enough that we live in the era where productivity is the highest, we also are expected to produce more than ever before relative to what our productivity allows. And THEN you have fucking street shitter jeets on top of all that. Shit is fucked, I just want to see all the mba types crash and burn hard and lose fucking everything and for every last shitskin to be deported.

>>715845708
>I just want to see all the mba types crash and burn hard and lose fucking everything and for every last shitskin to be deported.
more management is required for every brown h1b worker that's imported because their natural state is to do nothing and they need a manager breathing down their neck to do anything

>>715824295
The point of the director is to tardwrangle all the people that don't care about something into doing their jobs as if they did.
That includes getting things like the control scheme right even if the programmer in charge of that task at the company never played a Crash game before.

>>715838135
Bread and circus, right? Except jews want to make the bread stale and the circus gay unless it's their own (((stuff))) like kosher food or blacked.

>>715825457
He is either very silly or ignorant of platformers in general, even if he made one.
But he did do something right when working on one, or at least his teammates did.

>>715824953
I avoided buying this game for that exact reason.

>>715822936 (OP)
I want to go back

>Is there a competency crisis in the industry?
no

>normal coding
valve on/off
>game coding
everything inbetween. under time pressure

it doesn't pay to be in game development. most these studios "survived" (they didn't really since they've all been bought out) on the fact their employees worked for "the fun"