What Do You Guys Think of This Type of Thinking?

[RobertBMarks]

I see zero benefit in this kind of thinking.

I can't speak for the video game media, but you should always bring your "A" game to everything you create. After all, do you want your readers to think "this guy is great!" or "this guy is pretty good, but he's terrible at X"?

[powerplantanimations]

Also I from a Japanese game developer's perspective, I think I've been getting it even more. It's not exactly my area of expertise, but judging from all the game developer videos I've seen and how crunch culture is popular in Japan I'm like, "Maaaaaaybe we should cut these guys some slack". I wouldn't call it ego when you got game directors popping in with IV's connected to them like Sakurai in Melee or how Takashi Izuka almost died when designing all the levels in Sonic Heroes. I'd be down to give them that compromise.

[NickRowler]

Crunch culture is just a thing in general in the gaming industry in general. That is one of the reason there has been a bunch of people advocating for unions. This is also the reason why some games may be broken or missing parts at launch. They might have simply run out of time or money. Like there being evidence that cars were suppose to be in the original Sims 2 but later got added to an expansion pack. There might have been something wrong with the original cars that made them not ready for the first game (and knowing how broken Sims 2 can get, maybe that was for the best).

There is also something in Japanese culture, so I heard, where people are extremely critical of themselves. Sometimes this can be done in a way to fish for complements but it can also be done to not argue their case when they are criticized. I know Americans are not really like this, so I guess that aspect can come off as jarring to them.

[RedLenai]

Oh, I can really add into that part:

When the Sims 2 was in development, they had the game almost finished, but there was a fire (This is a rumor, it wasn't confirmed) in the building that completely destroyed all the work, and that only thanks to an employee that had a version of the game in her personal computer saved the whole thing and they literally had to rebuild and fix stuff from that beta version. Not to mention that they also had to remove certain things at last minute because EA didn't want the game to look similar to Bustin' Out <- This is the most logical reason despite EA is known for cheapening instead of spending more money in game production.

The game was going to have a total different layout and Sim menu compared to the one that we know today, there were things implemented in the early stages that were later erased due to corruption (A common issue with the game that later on, Simmers managed to solve with patches or creating clean copies of the neighborhoods and other mods), incomplete files, glitches, and other things that they couldn't fix on time and had to partially remove.
Cars were going to be part of the Base Game, as well for reflective floors (that later, simmers created Custom Content with the files of Mirrors to use as carpets), Weather and mini scenario challenges, so yeah, the Sims 2 is completely messy not to mention that Strangetown was basically the most used neighborhood for beta testing and a lot of issues within the game do happen in that Neighborhood not to mention that great part of the accidental lore of Bella Goth, actually comes from the fact that she was the most used Sims for BT as well.

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