Asset reuse – two forbidden words for fans of franchises like Dark Souls and Yakuza, but also, according to Far Cry 4 and Assassin's Creed 3 creative director Alex Hutchinson, possibly the answer to saving video games.
He tells PC Gamer in a new interview, "We do a lot of dopey things in the games industry. We redo too much stuff." But modern Japanese developers, he argues, "got their head around it now."
