OXM considers the L.A. Noire/Team Bondi work ethic scandal, and asks whether it's ever worth punishing your staff to deliver a fantastic game.
Members of the original development team behind Rockstar Games' LA Noire are working on a new psychological thriller called Sowden House.
Hopefully McNamara is as far away from this as possible he set up shop in Australia then did nothing but complain about Australian labour laws while trying to make his workers live at the office working 24/7 on la noire punishing them for leaving at 3 am and being 10 minutes late to work at 9am the next day.
It's astonishing that none of the workers went to the fair work ombudsman as the studio would have been fined astronomical numbers
Brendan McNamara is a brilliant writer and director but he should never, ever be in charge of a studio. What he did to those devs was far beyond "crunch", and it went on for, what, 7 years? That's insane.
But I'm glad to see some of that team have come together again to create something new. A psychological thriller sounds right up my alley.
BLG writes, "Do you ever get that feeling after you’ve finished a game that you just wish there was more? Or do you spend years hoping and praying for a sequel that never comes?
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Would love to see a sequel to the 7th gen FPS campaign SINGULARITY from RAVEN Software..
L.A. Noire is coming to the library of free games available to GTA+ Members on Thursday, May 2.
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We, as gamers, want great games, but I see no reason to place excessive strain on the dev team. Maybe the publishers should rethink issuing deadlines. Give the devs as much time as they need, and the games might come slower, but they'll be 100% finished.
No more deadlines=no more crunch time=considerably fewer bugs + significantly better games.
As far as the end of the garden is for an agoraphobic person.
I will never buy nothing from Team Bondi again. Maybe rent if game is good at best.
"Our game's worth £50" far...