She likes Sony just fine. Sony San Diego was helping with lighting engine on the Star Wars Ragtag game.
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Why does the industry keep fucking Amy Hennig over?
- Thread starter NTGYK
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Maybe she's just not as good as people keep making her out to be any more?
Uncharted 4 under her sounded like a complete mess, as did the Star Wars game. Hell the entire premise for her Star Wars game was unappealing imo.
Nah this excuse doesn't fly, plenty of single player games around these days (just maybe not as much as 15 years ago).
Even the evil EA is ok with releasing a single player Star Wars game as long as it looks decent, evidenced by Jedi Fallen Order.
Uncharted 4 under her sounded like a complete mess, as did the Star Wars game. Hell the entire premise for her Star Wars game was unappealing imo.
Nah this excuse doesn't fly, plenty of single player games around these days (just maybe not as much as 15 years ago).
Even the evil EA is ok with releasing a single player Star Wars game as long as it looks decent, evidenced by Jedi Fallen Order.
One of our level designers had 3 games cancelled before coming to our studio to work on BF1. :D His resume must have been funny and weird.
You pretty much answered your own question there, OP. Triple A games are, as you so rightly pointed out, an industry. They don't make creative works, they Provide Content. Artists have ideas. Content exists to bring you more of the same. The two can never co-exist peacefully.
THIS
Legacy of Kain ending properly is a dream for me. Amy directing and Simon Templeman voicing Kain are the only two things I think are necessary to get me on board.
I personally believe the original report that she was lowkey bullied out of Naughty Dog because Neil Druckmann felt like he was riding on a higher horse after the success of TLOU, and in many ways he also had a better grasp of what people expected of Uncharted 4. The problem is, he's such an inferior writer just when it comes to prose, characterization and dialogue, and Uncharted 4 suffered without Amy to handle its final drafts. Tonally it also faltered. While I would say Uncharted 3 also had tonal inconsistencies it was more the contrivances that bugged me than the occasionally awkward usage of different narrative genres.
When musicians collaborate, there's many stories of clashing egos, and you'd be gullible if you think it never happens in game companies.
As for Amy and EA, well... they have patrick soderlund and all these "money and fast cars" kind of executes around them. In this business, as most businesses, the money is the bottom line for various reasons but at EA it's clearly the reason people in higher up positions come to work there, whereas I believe companies like Sony or Nintendo have more ethical or artistic concern at the top alongside their business-minded employees. Ultimately, as Amy said that's why her work didn't make it out. "It didn't fit with EA's business plan". It's not the branding of the game that wasn't good enough, it wasn' that they didn't believe in the pitch, it's just that EA decided that the business model did not fit with the project.
When musicians collaborate, there's many stories of clashing egos, and you'd be gullible if you think it never happens in game companies.
As for Amy and EA, well... they have patrick soderlund and all these "money and fast cars" kind of executes around them. In this business, as most businesses, the money is the bottom line for various reasons but at EA it's clearly the reason people in higher up positions come to work there, whereas I believe companies like Sony or Nintendo have more ethical or artistic concern at the top alongside their business-minded employees. Ultimately, as Amy said that's why her work didn't make it out. "It didn't fit with EA's business plan". It's not the branding of the game that wasn't good enough, it wasn' that they didn't believe in the pitch, it's just that EA decided that the business model did not fit with the project.
This. You have bad luck one or two times and people won't see anything 'good' from you in a decade. That is pretty long and may feel like "someone's fucked over" which isn't true, though.
Thank god writers aren't athletes and could still deliver awesome stories in their 80's. So expect still some awesome things to come from Amy.