• jonne
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    AAA video game budgets have surpassed Hollywood years ago.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, way more work went into something like GTA V than any movie. The script alone is orders of magnitude longer.

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          Well I don’t know how long the GTAV script is, but A Girl Who Chants Love At the Bound Of This World: YU-NO came out in like, 1996 and its script has ~1,300,000 words in it.

          That’s more words than Mass Effect 1-3’s scripts combined.

          That’s about 100,000 words less than the combined scripts of the entire Metal Gear Solid series excluding MGS5.

          And YUNO was made by like, 25 or less people I think. At a time when making computer games was not so easy. They didn’t have the tools that make game development easy like we do these days, they mostly had to write their own software and had to deal with a lot of hardware limitations.

          Effort to make good games these days has actually gone down a lot. There is really no excuse to have such a massive budget and still release a bug ridden, unfinished mess.