| fatslob-:O said: @Underlined Shin'en and parts of the Nintendo developer ecosystem has some serious talent but you give them too much credit compared to the mainstream AAA game developers as the former hardly ever pioneers any new technical innovations anymore. The AAA gamedevs that you see on the HD twins do low level programming ALL THE TIME as there are tools readily available to them ... |
You have no idea what you're saying if you genuinely believe this.
Shin'en is a five-man squad with some of the best optimization (graphical and otherwise, such as package and compression optimization) in the gaming world. That is nothing short of technical innovation on the cutting edge, its just innovation you can't see or easily understand or point at. If you think Monolith Soft or EPD don't do technically innovative or impressive things, then you simply have no appreciation of the streaming technology used in XCX (or a lot of other things for that matter in that game), or just general appreciation of what it takes to make games even on the WiiU within the scope of the WiiU's capabilities.
Also I wasn't putting them above top of the crop AAA developers. I was saying that they have a talent that few people or studios will actually use in this day and age.
