I’ve been playing what is probably one of the most expensive video games ever made, Red Dead Redemption 2. Every detail of the game is painstakingly polished. It’s hard sometimes to find the seams in the game and see it for the bundle of code that it really is.
Rockstar, the developer, has gone to incredible lengths to build something perfect. But the closer you get to perfect, the more noticeable flaws are. Small imperfections or glitches you’d never notice in a lesser polished game are suddenly glaringly obvious.
Perfect, of course, is an illusion, and pursuing it endlessly has a downside: small flaws become big flaws.