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Re:Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job by gowld on Friday April 05, 2019 @10:10AM (#19582633)
And earlier Civilizations had game-breaking exploitable bugs. People have been pining for the mythical good old days since the age of Pliny.
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Re:Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job by Nasrudith on Saturday April 06, 2019 @10:01PM (#19594314)
The issue isn't that they had flaws - it is that they had them despite the budget and man-hours involved showing 'they just didn't care' aspects.

Whereas the older ones did it with smaller teams and more constrained resources where seeking efficiency had some weird side effects - granted there were also plenty of 'shovelware' examples from the past.

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