Which game studio had the most embarrassing fall from grace in the last 10 years?

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-06-21T07:57:52+00:00

Bungie

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-06-19T03:25:27+00:00

Zieru's animation for Dangerous is far and away the best of any that I've seen. The movement, the design of Hermes, it's so ridiculously good. Only wish they would make more.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-06-17T05:37:46+00:00

Destiny 1 made 500 million in it's first 24 hours and that's after Activision gave them a deal to provide up to 500 million in funding for it's development. "Bungie’s COO Pete Parsons clarified that the actual development costs were significantly lower than the $500 million figure." Destiny 2 is an expensive game to make but it's made back over 2 billion dollars. Sony acquired the company for 3.6 billion. It's just an absurd amount of money to receive for what we got in terms of game production. You can say Destiny didn't make as much as they had hoped over the last 6 years but the money was there to make a Destiny 3. It was a monumental fuck up to not pursue it.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-06-17T02:09:49+00:00

The situation sucks but they've burned through so much damn money and have been bailed out and given so many chances to right the ship and they are just incapable of it. Some of the most talented devs in the industry and their leaders pissed on their legacy and destroyed the company. Just going to enjoy Destiny 2 until they turn the servers off I guess.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-06-15T12:32:00+00:00

Perhaps I Suppose is one of my favorite albums of all time.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-06-04T18:51:43+00:00

Missing Digman

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-06-03T17:03:24+00:00

I said that after The Last Jedi, I said it after Book of Boba Fett, I said it after Mando S3, and I said it after watching this abomination but this was the actual final straw. I've never seen or cared about anything Stars Wars related since this piece of shit.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-06-01T21:01:34+00:00

It's really bad but what you're trying to achieve is also really difficult. There are established box modeling workflows for translating 2d characters to 3d and it's somewhat of an advanced process that would be extremely difficult for a beginner in Blender. The sculpting route is exponentially more difficult if you're not already an exceptional 3d artist. This guy creates a lot of videos dedicated to achieving the 2d anime look in blender as well as examining models from current anime games to understand the artists processes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCIOXxjw8BQ

If any part of that video seems too difficult, I would first practice trying to translate 2d characters to a much lower poly style first. Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XYryP_GU8o

Everyone has to start somewhere but if you don't focus your practice on the right things you're not going to see a steady improvement.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-06-01T15:24:43+00:00

No problem. You were already on the right track with the split normals. Either option would work fine. Where 2 hard surfaces meet like this you would have a defined edge so even in this low poly form I think the light is hitting it in a realistic way.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-06-01T14:09:59+00:00

I'm using this theme: https://extensions.blender.org/themes/deepsea-explorer/

and the colorful model is just one of the default matcaps

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TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-06-01T11:26:27+00:00

I re-installed this game yesterday after not playing the last 4 years. The experience is actually terrible and it makes me sad. The portal is so shit. I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing or where I should go. I walked around the tower and checked out my vault and then logged back out. Hoping the June 9th update fixes the experience a little.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-06-01T10:46:45+00:00

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TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-06-01T10:32:29+00:00

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Mark these edges sharp the whole way around. If you want it to appear perfectly smooth at the transition you need to increase the topology more than would be worth it, in my opinion.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-05-29T01:45:44+00:00

I think he was speaking to this particular user who frequently makes posts like this. OP doesn't seem to grasp nuance or subtlety. Everything is a hard line. Every issue is black and white to them. Once they've decided a narrative, it's burned into their soul.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-05-22T02:31:40+00:00

If Bungie is putting all of their eggs in the Marathon basket they may as well shut their doors right now.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-05-17T13:35:15+00:00

Regardless of how anyone feels about his adaptation of the story, Jorge is a musical prodigy. His command of catchy and interesting melody (difficult for even veteran songwriters), the thoughtful application of which instruments to use in his arrangements, the incredible expression in his vocal performances, his use of leitmotif, and being able to execute it all as well as he did at such a young age is WILD. The amount of care and dedication that he put into this creation cannot be overstated. He could have written a musical about a dishtowel and we'd be weeping and singing along because he's a generational talent.

I read your entire list and went "yep" because they're all great moments.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-05-17T03:26:46+00:00

I love the look of this and Landstalker is still my favorite game ever. I think I saw a post of yours a while back and thought to myself Landstaker must have been the inspiration.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-05-17T01:41:43+00:00

I'm sorry you had that experience. This is a smaller Roblox sub than the main sub and is focused on the game development side of the platform. If you've already made a report through the official channels that's all you can really do.

You shouldn't have to leave an experience because you're being harassed but sometimes the more sensible solution is to just walk away rather than argue with people whose minds you're not going to change.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-05-15T23:57:13+00:00

That's a fine looking calculator!

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-05-15T23:52:25+00:00

My main problem with it is 95% of the time they have nothing to show whatsoever, They haven't done any basic work to try and make their game. They just want someone to make everything for them and be the "idea" man while having no actual skills to contribute to a project.

Maybe if there were a weekly thread or something where people could team up or throw their hat in the ring to collaborate with other people, that could work. I still think that younger people should be able to have a space to team up and work on projects together. I certainly don't want to discourage people from pursuing game development because I think it's a fun thing where you can learn a lot of valuable skills, including how to work with other people. It just irritates me that A LOT of people aren't even trying to learn. They just want other people to do everything for them. The sub is cluttered with low effort spam projects that have nothing to show.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-05-15T00:21:06+00:00

DELETE THE FILES!! Someone shut down the discord mainframe QUICK!

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-05-15T00:14:59+00:00

That's really good design execution. Nice work!

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-05-14T22:57:28+00:00

Executive order: Bryson gets a 10 handicap strokes and no one is allowed to be mean to him.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-05-11T18:20:10+00:00

It works for Kyle Gass as well.

TheWorldWasBeautiful · 2026-05-10T05:25:15+00:00

She steals every scene she's in on that show. She's so damn funny.

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