Kyros on 04 October 2008
It still doesn't justify calling anyone in the software development industry "lazy".
True. On the other hand he mainly criticized the publisher who really have control what they deliver. (If they are a big publisher that does not depend on one game). But yes you are correct some respect is in order.
Thats only true if they are using an off the shelf engine such as UE3 where they can mock up their designs much more quickly. For games which require that an engine be developed as well such as Fable 2 - it takes a long time before they can see their game in action to bring it all together.
I don't know I would expect the gameplay people to work on the game with a very simple engine from the beginning (perhaps by using a game engine from the last game they did or by using something very very simply) So you would see if the game is shitty pretty early. Of course you only see how it looks when the game engine is getting finished. This may be more complicated with a game like Fracture that depends on the terraforming technology for gameplay but generally you should see something pretty early.
