I can't help but love Levine. There are a lot of problems with the gaming industry, with culture, with business. All of us at one point or another have some trend to complain about or a rant to get off our chests, but when I think about a person like Ken it always makes me happy. I can always look up to him creatively. No matter how confusing things get or how weird I feel about some issue in gaming, if I can look around and see that an old-school gamer, old-school designer, down-to-earth, intelligent, nice guy like Ken is on top of the world making great games and running a good studio, it makes me happy and let's me know that the sky isn't falling. Gaming isn't all about Bobby Kotick or any other wicked witches of the west. To be honest, if it weren't for the Ken Levines, Miyamotos, Jason Jones, and John Carmacks of the world, I probably wouldn't have any aspirations of getting into the development world.
Ken doesn't try to follow any trends for the most part. Nobody in the entire gosh damn planet was asking for a game like Bioshock, but he made it. Nobody asked for it, nobody could anticipate it, he just did it and it was really great. Sometimes you just have to take a wild shot in the dark, and provide the masses with something they never asked for, or never knew they wanted.
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