Random: What if...?

**mrwiseman** · April 5th, 2004, 12:14 AM

You see, some people are arrogant, just because they think it makes them look tough or something, and yet they have some deep emotional problem like low self esteem.

I don't think being arrogant makes me look though, the only thing that really makes oneself look though is being though. As for low self esteem, well, the people who knows me tend to say I'm just the opposite, that I value myself too much. Anyways, you're free to think anything you want.

People working as a team can accomplish all kinds of things, just look at WW2, countries working as a whole, a team, to over come.

Working as a team is good and productive, and it's the only way to achieve a lot of things. However, this is right if and only if it comes out of everybody's individual will, not some imposed working bee culture, and the best teams are those where its different individuals have different strong and weak points, so they are all strong together and may do everything.

If you get an arrogant music guy and he does the music without looking at the game but he sees himself as so good that he doesn't even need to know about the game, then you have a problem, the final outcome will have plenty of flaws.

When did arrogancy get in the middle of individualism?

**Nevan** · April 5th, 2004, 01:46 AM

I don't think being arrogant makes me look though, the only thing that really makes oneself look though is being though. As for low self esteem, well, the people who knows me tend to say I'm just the opposite, that I value myself too much. Anyways, you're free to think anything you want.

I'm not calling you arrogant, I'm using some people that are arrogant have low self esteem and are arrogant because of this to boost their confidence. I was not refering to you, just using the trait of arrogance as an example.

When did arrogancy get in the middle of individualism?

It didn't, but it is a part of it, in some people it is a major part and in other it is minute.

**mrwiseman** · April 5th, 2004, 02:05 AM

Well, in that case, I think one should always try to get "best of the best" team members (for example, in games, the best music composer, the best story writer, etc.), and they should be pretty confident and motivated, but they need to work together for the team to be as glorious together as they are separately. If arrogancy gets in the way of the team's cohesion, it'll botch the job. But everybody should defend his/her points on how to do the product, it's a good sign that they argue about things because it means they are really motivated and want the best for the project. I can remember the directors of Xenosaga (Takahashi) and Shenmue (Suzuki) both mentioned the teams have had lots of arguments because every team member cared a lot for the game and he/she was not going to accept easily something that differs from their idea of what's best for the game. And I don't think it's a coincidence that both games are so great and scream of motivation on developers' behalf, with every little detail in every game aspect being taken care of and extremely polished.

**One Classy Bloke** · April 5th, 2004, 06:29 PM

We've turned into a What if debate now.

I really have just been explaining a massive what if. I think it's true though.

**Nevan** · April 6th, 2004, 01:43 AM

I can understand where you are coming from, Wiseman.

Let's conclude this and get back to the random what ifs.

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What if the French actually won a war?