Motorstorm Lead Designer: “Everybody makes such a big fucking deal” of Target Renders

Lead designer for Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, Nigel Kershaw, told the 1UP Show that people put too much important on a target render and its comparison to the final game. He said it in a rather annoyed tone, however.

“We always do a render. Before you do a game, you do a test render that says, ‘This is the game we want to make, now let’s go make it.’ It’s just like writing a game design document. The end result might not look like the render that you did. Who gives a shit? If you’re 50, 60, 70, 80% to that line, then you’ve succeeded. But also, it’s not about the visuals. If you go back and look at that movie, it was about the interaction of the vehicles. It was about lots of vehicles racing together…all that stuff that we achieved….

“But it’s this thing that haunts you, that you didn’t match your target render…. Everybody makes such a big fucking deal of it. Who gives a shit? That’s how we make games. If people have got a problem with that, tough.”

True that.

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