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Jaffe plays his GoW on stream. Is terrible at it.

Bartski

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Keeps dying in the tutorial stage on normal, blames controls and "lag"…




…just fucking with you davidjaffe davidjaffe .
Genuinely a great watch full of interesting dev insight into the legendary Hydra opening that kicked off one of SIE's biggest IPs.
 
I could be wrong but I heard he doesn't play his own games.
Its not bad and I wont be shock if he does not play his own games , but I will be impress if does play his own game creations especially we all know how difficult and skills needed for his game.
 
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I remember playing this on hard way back, I remember the only "difficult" part was towards the end, the section with moving spiked columns or platforms.
 
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Off topic: I wonder if Fromsoftware Mr Miyazaki is good in playing his own games especially Demon soul, Bloodborne, Dark soul and Elden ring.
He said in interviews that he sucks at them. But that's all relative and he might just want to be humble about it. He also said he didn't play Elden Ring himself. I think he likes to troll people in real life just as much as the players of his games.
 
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Holy shit, this is huge. Thank you for the link
 
Most car engineers suck at driving, some of them even didn't took the driving license test.

I kinda dislike Jaffe, but it's total nothingburger.
 
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I could be wrong but I heard he doesn't play his own games.
I remember one interview where he said he doesn't play the full game after it's released because he tests the game so much during development. But he has also said he sucks at his games when it comes to combat and bosses.
 
Off topic: I wonder if Fromsoftware Mr Miyazaki is good in playing his own games especially Demon soul, Bloodborne, Dark soul and Elden ring.
You would be surprised at how few devs play a lot of games. It's one of biggest reasons why indie games works so well, they are made by gamers who knows games in an out and knows what to change. Like Stardew Valley, he recognized some changes that gamers wanted that vastly improved the formula.
 
He still plays pretty well I think. This is not an easy game and GoW2 is even harder.

It's really impressive what they could do within PS2 limitations. As usual the limits of a system is a good thing for creativity.

At some point he says he didn't want to make a Devil May cry game and he is right. DMC combat sucks.
 
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Good listen so far.

The next god of war is inevitably Egypt, right? They have to incorporate the new pyramid shit with the giant spiral columns underneath them. Likely too late for the current game being developed, but certainly the sequel.
 
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Good thing there aren't any hallways where he has to shoot diagonally...

Thierry Henry Smile GIF by hamlet
 
It's not that uncommon for devs not being good at the games they make heck some of them don't play them.
Extremely true.

Majority of the projects I've worked on the higher ups and biggest shot callers on the project barely touched the game, some didn't at all. But even then, the amount they DID play was not enough to even warrant good feedback and input. The QA team were always extreme pros compared to them.
 
Do you guys Think Miyamoto is good at SMB or Zelda or Metroid or Pikmin or Donkey Kong?


Because I bet he is a master.
 
I feel like Jaffe was the town homeless drunk who stumbled into the office one day when they were trying to come up with a game. He pissed himself while shouting, "GREEK WARRIORS FUCK BITCHES"! They thought he was a sign from the gods, hired him on the spot, and got him some clean pants. The rest is history and no one ever questioned it.
 
Do you guys Think Miyamoto is good at SMB or Zelda or Metroid or Pikmin or Donkey Kong?


Because I bet he is a master.
For SMB, i believe Miyamoto was, at least, good... until he completely lost the 'small picture' scenario and thought repeating the same (new) super mario game (so to speak) for 11 years was a good idea.
 
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