9 Video Games Ruined By Ridiculously Last Minute Changes
They were SO close!
The creation of a video game is a pretty good metaphor for life. Everyone is trying their best to do a good job in the face of a ticking clock moving far too quickly, nobody knows what they're really doing, and at the very end they have to hope that what they've achieved will end up being meaningful, so they can look back and not worry about all the time they wasted.
To keep the metaphor going, even the best video games aren't perfect. Even if there was a perfect plan conceived for the production, with so many voices pitching in their ideas, technological limitations and the presence of a financial marker that needs to be hit, ideas chop and change on the daily, resulting in huge creative curveballs that keep coming right up until launch day.
Sometimes, this malleability can be a good thing, and a last minute spark of inspiration has managed to turn good games into great ones (as we've covered before). The opposite, though, is also true, with promising games changing something in the final stretch that hurts the final product and, sometimes, even outright ruins it.