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Anon wants American companies to make a good RPG (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Honestly, everyone's developers are all over the place. Almost every studio hires contractors from wherever to do things as basic as spell checking to pathfinding to artwork. Hell, sometimes they outsource story writing too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

pathfinding

Pathfinders, you could say

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For RPGs they almost always outsource the writing. Crafting a good story is not really a skill that a lot of the major developers have a lot of call for (normally they just have you shoot the bad guys because) so they don't have people on staff for it. In RPGs stories are a lot more important though, so they actually have to put some effort in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Aren't most RPG video games developed by companies that primarily do RPG video games? Like, Warhorse was founded specifically to make KCD. Fallout Shelter is the only non-RPG Bethesda has developed since 2008. And The Witcher Adventure Game and the Gwent games are the only non-RPGs CD Projekt Red have ever done.