What happened SW

Tell me SW, why is this?

What's the difference?

Is that a guy or a girl in the left corner of "Devs Now"

Sorry. I just don't see the difference. More pictures please !

crazy and spontaneous vs boring nerds?

Aside from hair style differences, which is to be expected since the two sets of pictures are decades apart, what's so different?

I blame the internet

Whats the difference? All I see is a bunch of nerds in both pics

i have no idea but i wouldn't tap dat for sure

The great genius over our time:

Only on Playstation!

Sara Jansson, the girl making Mirror's Edge 2

I don't consider Jennifer "Hamburger Helper" a dev, not after her literary works consists of poor lesbian "novels".
Phil Fish might look kinda weird but his game was good.

By god I don't know what that other thing is.

None of them hold a candle to the great Sam Lake :p

Hipsters happened.

i was about to say that myself

Game devs then - " we should make a game that is fun, creative and offers good experience"

Game devs now - " we should make a fps that can sell like call of duty"

lmao the Hamburgler.

>>> all in op

Wait, didn't all of the devs in the now section all have a public hissy fit over something.

What?

Calories happened.

lmao

I'm pretty sure I see an adam's apple.

No, that is wrong. It's the publishers that force some devs to make whatevers popular or clone other games. You think Infinity Ward or Treyarch wouldn't like to do something creative ? Well, though luck, it's either create more COD or quit for them.

You think Danger Close wanted to rape the MOH series by making such a bad clone ? No, it was EA that wanted them to make a 'COD' killer.

More glasses in the more recent pic so either there's a general decline in optical health or there's more hipsters.

the better question is what happened to the thread quality in this joint?

the inmates took over the asylum

They all become fat? and rich? and bored to death by releasing rehashes for MS and Activision and EA?

Hmm.. now that I'm thinking about it we should find a name for this holy trio... MicroVisionArts?

I see no difference. I expected a thread about the quality of threads around here.

Honestly who cares?

I see fatter devs on the bottom.

To many shits were given by the devs on the bottom.

what a stupid thread lmao

Nerds are more accepted now a days. They are the same nerd as ever, just letting their guard down.

TC, if you're referring to their weight and the general look, well check these guys out... GS won't let me upload pictures.

It was much easier to set new standards in the time of id Software, 3D Realms, Epic etc. Everything they did back then was considered godly, mostly because it was. Wolfenstein 3D was revolutionary because it was a genre defining title. Levels that Levelord made were considered legendary because he was the first guy who had the balls to make levels like that for Duke Nukem 3D, SiN and Quake. Carmack and Broussard were considered gods. And the most important thing about their work - they didn't need insane marketing to get recognition, their games did that.

It's extremely difficult to do that today.

I did some reading on Jennifer Hepler. It seems she would prefer interactive novels to actual video games.

I'm sure your local library has a few choose-your-own-adventure novels left over from the 80's and early 90's, Jennifer.

God..........*smh*. Somebody actually hired this woman as a video game writer? No wonder Bioware is such a mess. You know what, I'm not even going to buy DA3 now. I've had it up to here with Bioware!!!!!!!!

Interweb happened.

Wonder how Fish is doing. Probably hanging out in a starbucks I would imagine.

one of the boring nerd looks like a hipster though...

And changing the subject a bit, haven't you guys noticed that most game developers are like too intelligent to be wasting their time making games? Like Corrine Yu worked for Nasa, one of the founders of Naughty Dog, Andy Gavin worked on jet propulsion, Carmmack makes rockets, etc.

Hair and clothing have changed. That's it.

I disagree, its got nothing do with intelligence or wasting their time. Game development is something they enjoy. Thats like saying. "You seem too intelligent to be playing video games, here's a serious of complex maths questions to do".