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Too Big to Fail (Gaming)

by Revenant1988 ⌂ @, How do I forum?, Tuesday, April 05, 2016, 22:43 (2941 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Sources, please.


History.

Oh, Lawd.

Portal, Rocket league, MineCraft, and Limbo are recent games that come to my mind that were very innovative and successful, and made by small teams with small budgets.


Of those, only Portal pushed gaming forward in a meaningful way. Limbo did not advance the puzzle platformer and was actually a regression for the genre. Rocket League is standard party game fare. Minecraft is bested by any 3D modeling / CAD app ever.

Portal was developed by Valve using the Source Engine, which they spent tens of millions of dollars creating. There's nothing small or cheap about the tech that went in to Portal.


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