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This is a good (hour long) watch on the story of DMA/Rockstar from noclip. I found the stuff about their other early games extremely interesting.
noclip also have a great video about Half-Life called Unforseen Consequences which is an equally interesting tale about another game that changed gaming.
i remember playing that game when it came out. A boy who was friends of one of my best mates invited us around to play it and his parents were the church type, once they found out the content it was banned in his house, a really great playable game.
This is a tenuous link but I thought it was a cool story. A guy I know is good friends with my sister is good mates with someone who was involved with the making of GTA Vice City. I think he was a designed or some such role. Anyhoo, as a 'nod' to my mate he incorporated his initials into the game. They were in graffiti on a random wall somewhere, but he gave my mate the coordinates so he could drive there and have a look. I was well jealous.
How did we gut ourselves from being a front runner nation of game development? Rare were also a 90s UK gem that spat out hit after hit after hit.
We do still have a decent number of game developers to be fair.
- Rockstar are still massive with GTA making money hand over fist. - Rare are still alive and kicking, maybe not at quite their 90s heyday but Sea of Thieves is a cracking game and they've got another in the pipeline - Traveller's Tales makes lots of the LEGO games which are very successful. - Sports Interactive set the watermark for sport simulation games - Creative Assembly's Total War games have been hugely successful, especially their teaming up with Games Workshop who are also British.
It's not quite as dominant as we were back in the 90s but there are still loads kicking around, and we've got a really good indie scene.
We do still have a decent number of game developers to be fair.
- Rockstar are still massive with GTA making money hand over fist. - Rare are still alive and kicking, maybe not at quite their 90s heyday but Sea of Thieves is a cracking game and they've got another in the pipeline - Traveller's Tales makes lots of the LEGO games which are very successful. - Sports Interactive set the watermark for sport simulation games - Creative Assembly's Total War games have been hugely successful, especially their teaming up with Games Workshop who are also British.
It's not quite as dominant as we were back in the 90s but there are still loads kicking around, and we've got a really good indie scene.
Alright Dan and apologies for hi-jacking your post - but this happened recently, and it's the most ridiculous gaming achievement I've ever seen.
This bloke spent 7 years creating, and then subsequently completing the hardest Super Mario level ever.
Well worth a few minutes of your time if you're feeling pure geek, as I often do.
Just look at it - level starts at 16:40, it's fully, fully crackers.
Alright Dan and apologies for hi-jacking your post - but this happened recently, and it's the most ridiculous gaming achievement I've ever seen.
This bloke spent 7 years creating, and then subsequently completing the hardest Super Mario level ever.
Well worth a few minutes of your time if you're feeling pure geek, as I often do.
Just look at it - level starts at 16:40, it's fully, fully crackers.
That was very good, not heard of this particular feat! I would absolutely not have the patience for anything like that, can barely make it through a Souls game.
One of my favourite YouTube channels does the history of certain speedruns which are well worth watching.
That was very good, not heard of this particular feat! I would absolutely not have the patience for anything like that, can barely make it through a Souls game.
One of my favourite YouTube channels does the history of certain speedruns which are well worth watching.
www.youtube.com/@SummoningSalt/videos
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This link is most interesting, thank you Bossman.
There's a whole rabbit-hole of this stuff on YT; mans really needs to stop wasting time watching all this guff, and get some sunlight.
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