Crash Bandicoot - Teaching an Old Dog New Bits

This entire series of retrospective articles about the Naughty Dog team has been fascinating. Definitely worth the longish read.

This was definitely true in the PS days. Nowadays it's more like this:

1. License the Unreal engine

2. Skin it with your content

3. ???

4. Profit!

And people wonder why games are so samey today.