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Over 2000 developers and 13 outsourcing studios worked on The Last of Us Part II
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FF7R has 18min credits in a form of a video. Great usage of that 2 BD disc storage space lol
One of the reasons games like TLOU2 and RDR2 really shouldn't be using as comparisons for anything. They can move manpower and budgets even most triple-A studios can't. I'm exaggerating but games like these can havean entire small studio work on, say, bottle breaking animations and physics for months because they have 1000+ people doing else. These games are the Avatars, the Star Wars' and the Avengers' of the industry. Bashing others for not having the same graphics, animations, physics or polish is simply not fair.
Because most people in gaming side have no idea how businesse are run.
strong arming employees with threats of never working in the industry again forcing them to work long hours does wonders for the bottom line.
It had so much unique art assets used once, from what I saw, that it would have had to be outsourced. It takes many many people to make a game like that. Best game of the Gen hands down for me. Not played every game and neither have you so don't @ me :D
Extremely common these days. You can almost guarantee that every AAA game uses some form of outsourced talent.
do you think movies are made just by the director?
the hell is author art?
Sony def deserves each penny for this game. Wouldn't surprised me if Sony resells TLOU2 on PS5.
They need to make all the profit they can.
They need to make all the profit they can.
Or songs these days which will have like 9 writers and 12 producers lol. Even books sometimes has ghost writers and editors helping with the process.
It could either be a BC patch, or remaster combined with factions.
That is a staggering number, but given the end product, it doesn't surprise me. I played it for 40 hours and didn't encounter a single bug. TLOU2 is a dazzling technical and artistic achievement.
Given the length of the game and how it chews through asests, this isn't too surprising. Crazy nonetheless. I wonder how many people solely worked on the cutscenes.
They outsourced portions, every major game released today has some outsourcing.
That explains this.
Credits: TLOU 2 PhotoThread
fucking shit, i'm just so floored by TLOU2 visuals... it's just too eye melting.
and also, what explains this is ND's best in the biz characters artists :)
Yup. I'd go as far as saying that most of today's entertainment relies on outsourcing in one way or another: games, movies, animated tv shows. I've been working in the animation industry for close to 20 years and I've been on maybe 4 to 5 projects that didn't use outsoursing. It's extremely common and extremely useful (albeit not always easy).
No one is bashing others. But a big budget and staff isn't all you need. Look at any Ubisoft game, they aren't close in quality. Look at Halo Infinite. Look at Anthem (7 years in the making...). There are many examples of big budget games that aren't anywhere near of TLOU2's quality. In the end its still talent and vision that wins.
Yea, when people say stuff like "it ruins other games for me", they just mean that this just takes things to su change a high level that going back in some ways is jarring.
And ambition.. you can just go for the usual AAA game like almost everyone else or go the ND way and just set a new bar in animation quality and visual fidelity.
Eh they are skippable, but I always watch them. What helped was the killer soundtrack that played during it. So good.
Art according to the internet forum's misunderstanding of how art that cost tens of millions of dollars was made.
Yeah the credits were long as shit. That said I think they also had a limited number of names displayed at a time compared to some other games or movies.
You do realize those first 3 days of sales at full price + pre-orders probably paid the entire game, right? Sony's AAA titles are actually known for not being that expensive. Wasn't Uncharted 3 like 30M? I know the industry changed since then but I'm sure TLOU2 is already bringing in money for Sony since June.
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And yet Paper Mario is better
Just give the employees that old Nestle Crunch
Just give the employees that old Nestle Crunch
So this plus a delay plus dropping multiplayer was what was required to sneak it into this gen and not mess up Sonys we don't do cross gen plans. I had no idea there was this many people or studios involved.
I never mentioned crunch because I am not sure if they still do that there.
I never mentioned crunch because I am not sure if they still do that there.
Sony first party games are some of the most expensive in the industry
I hope they explore space next... 😊
A combination of these two, please:
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... Pretty please!
I'd make it myself if only I had the talent, money and time... 😅😅
A combination of these two, please:
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I'd make it myself if only I had the talent, money and time... 😅😅
Yea, it's already raking in money and will for a long time.
Same, if it was possible I would do it. No game has ever affected me like it.
It's just odd people think game developers are the ones modeling and painting every single one of those boxes, bricks, trees and shit in a game of this scale