Chris Kohler
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<cite>Heavenly Sword</cite> Developers Just Working Out The Bugs

The guys at Ninja Theory say that their upcoming first-party PlayStation 3 adventure Heavenly Sword is "95% done". But, they caution: Here’s a secret: whenever you hear a developer say "We’re 95% done. Nearly there folks!", they’ll normally follow it up with something along the lines of "The last 5% is the difference between a […]

HsguyThe guys at Ninja Theory say that their upcoming first-party PlayStation 3 adventure Heavenly Sword is "95% done". But, they caution:

Here's a secret: whenever you hear a developer say "We're 95% done. Nearly there folks!", they'll normally follow it up with something along the lines of "The last 5% is the difference between a good game and a great game and that means lots of testing, tweaking and polishing to make the final experience for the player so much better than the sum of its parts" or something like that.

So, while this is true, they also mean, "We have loads of bugs and we're fixing them at the speed of light... Sometime soon QA is going to stop finding new bugs and we’ll be done!"

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