That tickled my nostalgia boner.
I am so glad I stopped buying Ubisoft games after Rayman Legends.
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@Worgen, @laggyteabag, & @NerfedFalcon, a special and entertaining Call a Duty retrospective for you all. This video is six hours long, but contains all the Infinity Ward games. Appreciation Culture is a much younger gamer. His first COD was COD4 back in 2007, and he was 10 at the time. Amazing how time flies.
I will wait for the actual trailer. To be honest: I am not even excited for this. If they bring back Cole as the main lead, then I am not watching. Nobody cares about this OC character.
ok that sorta worked for me, are they actually going for lighthearted for the real movie?
Okay.... so Cole seem to take more of a backseat, and this is gonna be Johnny Cage's story? I also see a lot of familiar characters, such as Kitana (who will always be my MK girl!), Shao Kahn, Kano (who is alive somehow?), Jade, Baraka, Sindel, Noob Saibot, and other characters returning from the first movie.
It also seems to keep the theme of the game; The brutal and gory fights!
THANK GOD!!!!
Castle Super Beasts Supports Stop Killing Games
Castle Super Beasts Supports Stop Killing Games
My god. No $16M is never worth having your mother pass away.
And what a shitty thing the radio station did.
Oh yeah, the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest. Did the station not have a lawyer to run that idea past?
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6 days ago (edited)
I worked on The Last of Us, Uncharted 4, and Lost Legacy. At the time, both my wife and I were in crunch—she in the film industry, and I was at Naughty Dog.
The long hours didn’t just come from working on Uncharted 4—they came from everything around it: the commute, waiting for her to get off work, trying to line up our schedules. Most days I’d wake up at 6:30am, drop her off after 1 or 2 hr drive, and then head to the studio another 15-20min drive. I’d work until 8pm, sometimes 10pm. Then I’d go pick her up, and we’d get home around midnight or 1am. We'd still need to eat something... some kind of late dinner... and then get up and do it all again. That cycle went on for about 6–8 months straight during Last of Us and Uncharted 4 production. For me those two projects were back-to-back without a big break in between. So, while we had some slow/normal times consider Uncharted 4 being a 2-year dev cycle at least a year was spent on crunch.
Since it’s LA, traffic was its own beast. A commute that took 30 minutes with no traffic could easily take 1–2 hours during rush hour, so sometimes staying late was the better option just to avoid that grind.
Do I regret it? No. I knew what I was doing. I chose to push hard during those years, to invest that time and energy into projects I believed in and to help strengthen my resume. After Lost Legacy, I did a bit of work on The Last of Us Part II before deciding it was time to move on and try something new.
The people at Naughty Dog were great, this isn’t me trying to defend the studio, just being honest. The internal mindset was always, “We can make it better.” That’s a very different experience than working at a studio run primarily by production and corporate timelines.
I still have friends at both Naughty Dog and Crystal Dynamics. Eventually, I transitioned into tech companies. I do miss making games—but now I get to enjoy them, instead of constantly being in the middle of building them.
6 days ago (edited)
I worked on The Last of Us, Uncharted 4, and Lost Legacy. At the time, both my wife and I were in crunch—she in the film industry, and I was at Naughty Dog.
The long hours didn’t just come from working on Uncharted 4—they came from everything around it: the commute, waiting for her to get off work, trying to line up our schedules. Most days I’d wake up at 6:30am, drop her off after 1 or 2 hr drive, and then head to the studio another 15-20min drive. I’d work until 8pm, sometimes 10pm. Then I’d go pick her up, and we’d get home around midnight or 1am. We'd still need to eat something... some kind of late dinner... and then get up and do it all again. That cycle went on for about 6–8 months straight during Last of Us and Uncharted 4 production. For me those two projects were back-to-back without a big break in between. So, while we had some slow/normal times consider Uncharted 4 being a 2-year dev cycle at least a year was spent on crunch.
Since it’s LA, traffic was its own beast. A commute that took 30 minutes with no traffic could easily take 1–2 hours during rush hour, so sometimes staying late was the better option just to avoid that grind.
Do I regret it? No. I knew what I was doing. I chose to push hard during those years, to invest that time and energy into projects I believed in and to help strengthen my resume. After Lost Legacy, I did a bit of work on The Last of Us Part II before deciding it was time to move on and try something new.
The people at Naughty Dog were great, this isn’t me trying to defend the studio, just being honest. The internal mindset was always, “We can make it better.” That’s a very different experience than working at a studio run primarily by production and corporate timelines.
I still have friends at both Naughty Dog and Crystal Dynamics. Eventually, I transitioned into tech companies. I do miss making games—but now I get to enjoy them, instead of constantly being in the middle of building them.
