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Last week, Daedalic Entertainment, the developers of the stealth adventure J.R.R. Tolkien video game The Lord of The Rings: Gollum, posted an apology for the game failing to “meet the expectations” of players and devs alike. #AppleVisionPro #DiabloIV #FreeSenegal

preciouslifemovie.com/catch-all-the-… Although Gollum being one of the worst-rated games of 2023 on Metacritic is a tough L to hold, it led to a pretty wholesome Twitter thread where a bunch of game devs shared testimonials about the lessons they learned while having fun

filmetriks.com/what-to-expect… working on their respective “worst” games.

The ongoing convo among game devs was sparked by a tweet from God of War: Ragnarök senior environment artist Danni Carlone. In a quote-retweet of a Video Games Chronicle article about Gollum

filmetriks.com Games are hard to make. Regardless of the score, every project has positives/lessons learned. I display my ‘lowest score’ game because I’m proud of the time I had working with some of my favorite people in this industry

r2.community.samsung.com/t5/Galaxy-S/Ca… Carlone wrote in the tweet. “Some things are out of your hands. Be kind to each other.”

BonusXP environmental artist Ashley Rochelle soon retweeted Carlone alongside a screenshot of Aliens: Colonial Marines’ middling 43 Metacritic score

jobs.drupal.org/company/26538 The resulting thread, which features confessionals from devs who’ve worked on —a poorly reviewed project which she had worked on—and encouragedother game devs to share what they loved about working on their own “lowest reviewed game.”

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