Creating games within a very short timeframe like two weeks is an extremely challenging but possible feat for an independent developer.

“I actually made this game in about 14 days and this is working”

The speaker does not view game developers as lazy, but rather as people constrained by business realities and resource management.

“I have had the pleasure of meeting of meeting some game developers and I haven't met a single one that I would characterize as just lazy yeah”

Luke suggests that episodic game releases or releasing a game in parts is a reasonable business compromise to handle rising development costs.

“I don't think just expanding on the story is fair to the writers just saying I mean yeah get owned no I mean okay sorry I meant like from the non technical side of things right you don't have to remake the engine or or redesign the concept or anything like that I don't know man”

The speaker commends the developers for removing most top-end scripting in favor of an array-based tagged system that improves performance by reducing CPU load.

“One of the ways they're able to do this is because they've removed almost all of the top-end scripting you see pretty much on everything. This is this is basically C++ without almost any scripting.”

Game developers should be encouraged to use their own proprietary engines to achieve optimal performance and unique game feel rather than relying solely on Unreal Engine.

“we want to see more companies using their own engines because like look at look at the re engine, right, with Resident Evil and Monster Hunter Stories and what kind of crazy stuff that's doing.”

Developers should avoid locking themselves away to build games because it is easy to miss flaws when working in isolation.

“if you go off in a back room or lock yourself in a bunker and iterate and make you and the people in the bunker all love the game and then you come out of the bunker you're like look what we got and somebody's like well the assault rifle is backwards like what what have you been doing”

The player lacks emotional investment in the game characters because the writing is poor.

“I find it hard to get invested and but people get mad at me I'm like but it's a bad story”

FromSoftware's performance issues in Elden Ring are significant, and the developer should be held accountable for them.

“the console performance is still subpar and the way they do things on that specific game on the PC I don't know man it's super weird there there's just a lot of deep issues with it that I'm suspect probably aren't that easy to fix at this point right and I'm not sure that they would be able to corre”