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Sweet Baby Inc Detected Controversy - Comment #6,272,331

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VeteranAdventureHobo

Mar 06, 2024 at 05:33PM EST

The reason modern triple a gaming is shit isn't cause they use a consulting firm that tells them to add a gay background character or to add a rainbow flag decal to the character creator. The reason that modern games are shit are because they have been turned into billion dollar super colossuses with thousands of hands on the process, and corporate execs who refuse to have a coherent vision for their games.

Suicide Squad, for example, had 26 fucking writers. 26. Some of those were outsourced to Sweet baby, but they aren't the reason that the writing was trash in and of themselves. 26 writers are guaranteed to put out internally inconsistent mush if they all work separately if they are part of the game company designing the game or if they are outsourced, it doesn't matter who the writers are.

Ballooning budgets and more and more out of touch execs and shareholders demanding that games be as big tm as possible are what's killing the triple a industry. They overexpanded during the pandemic due to favorable governmental taxing laws, and its bitten them in the ass in so many ways. Game dev time takes fucking ages nowadays due to the complexity of triple a games, making mistakes and miscommunications bigger and harder to fix.

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ghost of aerie

Mar 06, 2024 at 06:27PM EST in reply to VeteranAdventureHobo

"26 writers are guaranteed to put out internally inconsistent mush if they all work separately i"
The operative word is "separately". if they're lacking a good centralized vision that's a problem, and even more so when you have an organization over you shoulder double guessing everything.

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polandgod75

Mar 06, 2024 at 10:27PM EST in reply to VeteranAdventureHobo

That one thing that annoying me about this sweet baby hate, it fine to dislike them, but acting like their major player of running games because of saying woke stuff is just scape goating. Like let not fall into the culture war trap again.

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ScreamingMidgit

Mar 07, 2024 at 01:59AM EST in reply to VeteranAdventureHobo

26 writers? Bloody hell, I've heard of there being too many cooks in the kitchen before but this takes the cake.

And if that's not a perfect example of all the needless bloat that games suffer from nowadays then I don't know what is.

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Nostalgist

Mar 07, 2024 at 03:59AM EST in reply to VeteranAdventureHobo

I've seen the game franchises I loved get fucked up so many times I am almost numb to it.

The knowledge that part of the fucking-it-up is being done intentionally just to pander to the interests of people who downright hate me and the things I love? Then the numbness goes away real quick.

I see the inclusion of sweetbaby's ilk as the insult to the bad game's injury.

krashlia

Mar 07, 2024 at 11:07AM EST in reply to ScreamingMidgit

Hey, at least 1/5th need to be propagandists in order for the enterprise to be profitable.

ghost of aerie

Mar 07, 2024 at 06:18PM EST in reply to polandgod75

yes and no.
Personally i'm wondering if it's a sign of the cliques that caused GG back in the day.
It's suspicion, but give it a bit of time.

Richo Vee

Mar 08, 2024 at 02:14AM EST in reply to VeteranAdventureHobo

"The reason modern triple a gaming is shit isn't cause they use a consulting firm that tells them to add a gay background character or to add a rainbow flag decal to the character creator. The reason that modern games are shit are because they have been turned into billion dollar super colossuses with thousands of hands on the process, and corporate execs who refuse to have a coherent vision for their games."

Why not both?