Sillines

Apricots.

Postal Pigeon

I demand to play as a Raptor!

I'd name my airship the Cloud-tickler.

Tickle them so hard they cry.

*we'd never hear

I swear I need to re-read my posts sometimes before submitting.

"...if Blizzard did a top-down RPG version of 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand..."

Then we've never heard the end of our character thanking his marketing team for our their success.

Holy shit! You don't trade Al Michaels for just anything! Disney must mean some serious business.

My favorite Metroid moment came from finishing Metroid Prime 100%... on HARD!

At what point does the CIA/FBI kill your character and blame it on a deranged fan?

"But the landscape's changed a lot over 15 or 20 years and the stakes are so high now, when it costs tens of millions of dollars to make a game, and then the marketing budgets are tens of millions of dollars more. And the game's [development] take place over the space of 4 years."

"It's been great that every title that we've done internally has been a huge success, but when you've got 50 or 100 people on there, all their families and everyone counting on you there, the idea of "What if you screw up once?" or "What if the market changes?" Some of the things that can be completely outside of your control, that can turn something from a major hit to just an also-ran on there, and the dynamics of the successes in the markets and all these things on there at least made us somewhat more concerned about things."

I think those two quote combined express the fairly difficult and volatile nature of the gaming landscape out there these days and why what used to be powerhouse independent companies are now falling into larger conglomerates. As much as we love their creativity and innovation, the gaming market is just so difficult to navigate now that resources have to be picked up that just can't be attained internally anymore.