headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 21d thinking about takashi tokita's 90s career. doing this many different projects with this many different styles and rising from contributor to leader so fast at ages 25-35 is literally impossible now. the conditions for it have disappeared into dust
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I can do that i just don’t want to
The job title variety is something no non-Japanese game developer would do
THE BOUNCER mentioned
Right??? the industry is soooooo different now bsky.app/profile/5uki...
yeah, over a similar time frame in my career (2010s) I went from a senior programmer to a somewhat more senior programmer. during that time I worked on a handful of games that were all competitive online multiplayer games but only two of them shipped while I worked on them, so arguably just 2 games?
Doing Live A Live and Chrono Trigger back to back alone is already the kind of staggering achievement we'll never see again let alone the rest of these games
very nice. what happened after that?
FFIV - > Live a Live -> Chrono Trigger -> Parasite Eve is like a good version of the door-to-door reaper meme
Looking at videogame output from 90s - 05 is quite astonishing in contrast. Look up beloved IPs from that period and they were coming out all of the time. Yearly even.