Do you mean 'I'm glad they didn't try to do more stuff because it inevitably would've been done less well' or do you actually hate GTA players and hope that we have as little fun as possible? No wait don't answer thatStark wrote:I'm actually glad they dropped so much functionality from SA.
This may not be entirely obvious to people who haven't worked in games, but game mechanics and game content (particularly stuff as superfluous and arty as the Internet sites) are fairly disjoint. The later can be parallelised quite effectively (particularly the Internet stuff) - the amount of it you can make depends pretty much solely on how much money you have to throw at it. Game mechanics aren't like that; trying to program lots of features in parallel is hard, and even with very good architects and project management there's a sharp limit to how many people you can have working on it (things like arcade mini-games excepted). Thus for a given release date, there's a fairly strict limit on how much stuff you can get into the game.Admiral Valdemar wrote:When you go to the lengths they went to to make a full Internet and TV station network to go with the radio stations, I think that kind of thing was just to be expected. They have the raw processor power and engine to do it, so why not?
That said, I'd rather have a tank than pool and bowling.
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