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Over at http://www.video-fenky.com/ he's got an interesting Miyamoto lecture/discussion from a college workshop. Makes for interesting reading at the very least-
http://www.video-fenky.com/features/miyamoto.html
Any comments? Personally, I'm kind of depressed on his views on American games and gamers but I really would have a hard time telling him he's wrong.
James
That was great, Miyamoto rocks. I really like interviews like this, that shed light on a developers personality instead of the same interviews you get in the mags where they sound like advertisements instead of people. I'm not sure I go along with everything he said (some of it seemed muddled, I dunno), but he does seem like he gives a shit about making unique videogames.
Wow, an interview with Miyamoto that's actually long. Great stuff.
And as a bonus, there's a Kodama interview on that site that's a must-read for Sega fans.
Thanks for the heads up, that was a great interview. I always wondered what really makes him tick and how he goes about producing games. I'd like to see more interviews done like this. Nintendo must give him so much to do it must be hard for him to breath.
"I just want to make games that make high-school girls happy."
Priceless. Thanks for the link James.
Pearls before swine... :(Quote:
[Promotional movie starts here. First off, Zelda: The Four Swords GC]
SM: This will come out this year or early next year. The response at E3 was just okay; people were like "It's not real!" and "I want to shoot guns!" and so on. That's the way America's pointing right now, I guess.
Comedy gold! :lol: Can't wait to get my hands on that.Quote:
[Eventually he moves on to a demonstration of Pac-Man GC; three students sitting in the front row are handed WaveBirds.]
SM: This, as you know, is Pac-Man. Recent games aren't really the type you can pick up and play right off, so we made a game where you could do that. I'll be Pac-Man, all of you ghosts have to chase after me.
[Miyamoto is eaten several seconds after the game starts. The audience laughs.]
SM: All right, now you're Pac-Man. ...Hey, everybody, Pac-Man's in the lower left corner!
[All the ghosts swarm to the bottom left-hand corner. However, just when he's surrounded, Pac-Man eats a power capsule.]
SM: Aahhh! Get away!
[Audience laughs]
SM: ...Well, it's that sort of game. We made this in a month, though I'm sure it probably cost 20 or 30 million yen anyway. (laughs)
But he's not ;)Quote:
Originally posted by James
Personally, I'm kind of depressed on his views on American games and gamers but I really would have a hard time telling him he's wrong.
Ditto (Not that there's anything wrong with games that shoot guns..).Quote:
Originally posted by James
Personally, I'm kind of depressed on his views on American games and gamers but I really would have a hard time telling him he's wrong.
I don't think that's his point. His point is that games nowadays have to be viciously violent to get any headway in the market and this brainless fun cripples any style anybody decides to put in games.
Oh well. It also helps the industry by supporting its entire economy, so it's a trade off.
His opinion about violence in American games might be correct, but his assesment of criticism over 4 Swords was totally wrong. My peeve with 4 Swords was that it (1) is a GCN game with GBA graphics and (2) unexplicably requires 5 systems and 4 extra cables for the full experience.Quote:
[Promotional movie starts here. First off, Zelda: The Four Swords GC]
SM: This will come out this year or early next year. The response at E3 was just okay; people were like "It's not real!" and "I want to shoot guns!" and so on. That's the way America's pointing right now, I guess.
Here he just sounds desperate for sales.Quote:
...this is a business, so you do have to work on some sellable products, too... So where do we try to make a difference? In the software. That, and Nintendo has the GBA, so we have to keep on building up the GC/GBA link.