At that time it was the news and people at GAF who hyped her joining Naughty Dog, which is why I posted the link to the old thread. No, you can't just join a studio at will. She was invited by Naughty Dog.
Ask any Halo fan, most won't know who Corrinne Yu is. Heck, they are more familiar with her husband who ruined the art style.
Also, if she abandoned 343i for Naughty Dog(because apparently it's a charity that anyone can join) because it was a sinking ship, then I guess now Naughty Dog is the sinking ship(No offence, I love their games)
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/naug...n-joins-343-to-work-on-halo-infinite.1463126/
Yeah sure body, ND staff didn't come from anywhere, they were all hatched by Kutaragi in incubation centres. They never needed Corrinne, she just accidentally joined. I guess I will now join Space X because it's cool.
I remember the old thread, it was not the one you posted, many people did not even know who Corrine Yu was...... Some asked what was so special about her? Yet others knew, mostly because she was hyped up as a very good coder by MS fans because she worked on Halo......Which is my point, many of these guys didn't even know her history prior to Halo, but because she worked on Halo. that is when all the hype ensued.....Which is the point, that MS and it's fans hypes anything into Oblivion....
This is not to say that Corrine Yu was not a good coder, I think she is very good......I think she got lots of love because you hardly find women working as engine coders or technology leads at studios, so her accomplishments were great in that regard and she should be encouraged and showered with love for it, but let's not take this to heights you don't need it to be.........I personally esteem Corrine much more than I do Jade Raymond, but Corrine is no Andy Gavin, Christophe Balestra, Arjan Brussee, Tim Sweeney or John Carmack, she's no Gabe Newell.......Corrine was not hired as an engine programmer at ND, because ND is also home to the ICE team from SWWS........People come and go, you know how many people have left ND, Santa Monica, Guerilla etc..? What does it matter if someone shifts over and goes to a studio that offers them better or if they leave to start up their own studio, where they are their own boss with a chance to make their own money............At the end of the day, it's about an individual's progress and what would make their portfolio even better.......I'm sure Corrine was overjoyed to be taken in by ND who had just delivered yet another GOTY in TLOU that generation......That's a big deal on her resume...
Yet the real question is why has this thread shifted to Corrine Yu, Clearly, she does not stay anywhere for a longtime, she went to Amazon, she has left there too.....This thread is about Robert Ryan? Who? but you would never know.......People mention that he worked for Naughty, but fail to mention that he recently worked under Jade Raymond at EA, who never produced a zing or showed us what was to be a huge AAA game from Motive.....,
Yet, the crucial thing is this; Anybody leaving a studio, no matter how great you may esteem them, does not make their successive projects a guaranteed success, you need a good team........Look at Jaffe after he left Santa Monica Studios, I don't think Cory Barlog will be remembered for Tomb Raider or Mad Max as he will be remembered for GOW........You need a great team.....How about Cliffy B after he left Epic Games or more appropriately, Tomonobu Itagaki after he left Tecmo......One name is no guarantee or rather a few accomplished names is no guarantee that your game will be great....You have to wait on the results before you say so.........Corrine moving to ND didn't turn the game from a 85 to a 93 Meta, it does not work that way, sometimes some of the biggest and hardest workers on a team are those that shun the limelight......
You know in Halo fanbase most important devs are remembered like JRPG fans remember their creators and Corrinne Yu isn't one of them. In 343i Halo we have Frank O'Connor, Brian Reed and Kazuma Junoichi. And let's not forget the legends from Bungie era Halo.
Most people don't even know these guys unless you were listening to Halo podcasts and reading Halo Wiki's......How many do?......Most people know Frank because he posted on GAF (a very active poster at that), he did live streams, he did Youtube videos......He was also a PR person for Halo..........Ask yourself, how comes everyone knows about Cliffy B or Kojima, Dennis Dyack or Peter Molyneux.......It's because they are very active communicators or in the case of Kojima his work transcends him...So if these guys shift around, I could expect to hear some buzz or trash talk ( in Cliffy B, Dyack's and Molyneux's case), because these guys are also controversial characters....but Corrine Yu? never fitted in that pedigree level, far less for Robert Ryan.....
At that time it was the news and people at GAF who hyped her joining Naughty Dog, which is why I posted the link to the old thread. No, you can't just join a studio at will. She was invited by Naughty Dog.
Ask any Halo fan, most won't know who Corrinne Yu is. Heck, they are more familiar with her husband who ruined the art style.
Also, if she abandoned 343i for Naughty Dog(because apparently it's a charity that anyone can join) because it was a sinking ship, then I guess now Naughty Dog is the sinking ship(No offence, I love their games)
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/naug...n-joins-343-to-work-on-halo-infinite.1463126/
Yeah sure body, ND staff didn't come from anywhere, they were all hatched by Kutaragi in incubation centres. They never needed Corrinne, she just accidentally joined. I guess I will now join Space X because it's cool.
You think UC4 was going to fail without Corrine Yu? That the programmers would be lost without her? Come on now....People leave studios all the time, you need replacements......A female programmer is being boasted all about on Social media and she has a good profile, she wants to be on the team, why not? It's as simple as that....
How is announcing a new hire “hype”? Do you know any large companies who do not do that because I don’t.
You know how many expansion studios were recently acquired by Guerilla, ND, Santa Monica and San Diego......Did we have a thread for every hire?
I see these kinds of announcements and tweets all the time. It’s not hype or even a big deal until someone on GAF or some other forum gets butthurt.
I would expect a new studio to announce the talent they have because that attracts more talent. We’ll have to wait to see if the game is good or not but these acquisitions put to rest the argument from GAF that this is an indie or AA studio.
They are very clearly making a AAA game. I know that upsets many on GAF but it is what it is. Learn to deal with it or stop following news related to this topic. That simple really.
What attracts talent the most is a studio known to makes great games.....Just like Corrine wanted to work at ND and many other coders did too.....Good coders always want to go there or be affiliated with A-Teams..........Another is better compensation packages or working on something different or a bit more challenging to them....
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