zarx said:
Jay520 said:
Joelcool7 said:
Look Alan Wake could not be made by a team of 60 from the ground up in 2 years. Just like Uncharted 3 couldn't be done, or Mario or Halo or Forza or Gears. In fact the big games all take teams of over 100 often up to 400 over a year to make. Even games like MW3 which recycle old NPC's, Buildings and material from the older games still took a massive team.
A team of 60 can make a good game, a great casual game like Kinect sports no problem. But a big budget block buster is out of the question unless they re-use existing technology completely and have a direction pre-determined which they do not sway from. Even if the developer doesn't scrap anything using the graphics engine without alteration and does the project as fast as possible. A team of 60 would still be very hard pressed to create a quality title.
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You mind explaining how Sucker Punch (at team of about 75) managed to develop a high-quality, open-world game in about two years.
For clarification that Sucker Punch has 75 employees, find any article regarding Sony's acquisition of the team. Here's one article:
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It took them 4 years to make infamous (Sly 3 2005 Infamous 09) and 2 years to make a sequel (existing engine, pipepline, design and assets shortens dev time) plus they were an already established studio. A new studio will take longer as they need to set up pipelines, production proccesses etc. None of the 4 studios MS started this year will release a not Kinect/XBLA game for 3+ years.
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oh, I thought they were discussing Alan Wake 2. My mistake.
