Reece “Kiwi Talkz” Reilly

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Game Developer Interviewer -Interviewed 150+ Game Devs Known most for my Retro Studios/Valve/Bethesda/Rockstar/Naughty Dog Interviews. 18mill+ views on Youtube,

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Uncharted 4 &amp; Lost Legacy is a big reason why so many devs left Naughty Dog, the crunch was the worst of any project at Naughty Dog by a mile. Quentin did 60-80 hour weeks for months on end with a few weeks of 100 hours, this is ultimately why he left the studio.

So ended up getting food poisoning🤮not a good way to start my trip in India Been laid up in bed for 8 hours straight. Just came outside to get some air and read up about more problems happening with Microsoft and Xbox lol

This was trippy being mentioned by Colin Moriarty in the latest PlayStation Podcast because of my Gabriel Betancourt interview. Thanks Colin, very humbling🙏

FUNNY STORY So during my interview with Heather Cerlan she told a story about Todd Howard basically fanboying over Neil Druckmann. In my head I remember thinking "omg Luke Stephens is going to love this". Sure enough, his reaction was priceless😆 Much love Luke!

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The main reason why Rockstar doesn't release their games Day 1 on PC is due to lack of resources. As John Ricchio, GTA 5's producer puts it "if you are working on that that means you aren't working on something else." During the development of RDR1 they actually had a PC build running early on.

Nintendo has a mandatory retirement age of 50, at which time you are taken off the frontlines and then you move into a support role to train up the next generation. That is why Nintendo is a well oiled machine.

Jeff Kaplan says Zelda: Breath Of The Wild is the greatest game of all time. Jeff has great taste

During the development of Uncharted 2, Neil Druckmann was playing Resident Evil 5 at the time and loved the truck sequence. This directly inspired the truck alley chase in Uncharted 2.

Every time I see a failure of a live service game I think back to my interview with Shawn Layden where he explained why these games fail. The Highguard devs provided a mediocre product that no one wanted, in an overcrowded market. It really is that simple.

When Andrew Kim went for a 1 year contract position at Sony Santa Monica for God Of War III he had to do a 6 hour interview. This is way to different to Naughty Dog, where his interview was 20 minutes lol

The Last Of Us Part 2 was controversial within Naughty Dog as the studio was essentially split on the decision to kill Joel. I am not at all surprised by this lol

Near the end of development on The Last Of Us, a Sony exec took a look at the game and didn't think the game was going to do well and gave the game a small marketing budget as a result. A number of people at Naughty Dog also thought the game would flop as well.

When John Ricchio (Producer on GTA 5 &amp; RDR1) would interview devs to work at Rockstar he would warn people that " Rockstar is run by crazy people but you get to work on the best games in the world, that is the exchange." At least devs knew what they were getting into lol.

During the development of Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, Nintendo devs flew to the U.S. to meet Retro Studios artists and handed them pantone chips for DK's fur colour. The devs thought that was weird cause once you add lighting it won't look like that anyway lol.

Uncharted 4 & Lost Legacy is a big reason why so many devs left Naughty Dog, the crunch was the worst of any project at Naughty Dog by a mile. Quentin did 60-80 hour weeks for months on end with a few weeks of 100 hours, this is ultimately why he left the studio.

When John Ricchio (Producer on GTA 5 & RDR1) would interview devs to work at Rockstar he would warn people that " Rockstar is run by crazy people but you get to work on the best games in the world, that is the exchange." At least devs knew what they were getting into lol.