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I love it when I'm playing a game and I can feel the genuine love put into it. Old Nintendo games for example. now most games feel so bland and corporate
Called HR.
What is he trying to say? How can something be weird and unique but also consumed by millions of people as a popular product?
If he thinks riding a dragon in modern Tokyo to fight a big naked statue is weird and unique, he's probably sad that the world has moved on from holding up sporks and going "lol random XD!"
The markets can't sell Weird™ to the masses. Now there's no "weird" people making super high budget art. Terrible!
Dragon Age 1-3 all had their drawbacks but could always fall back on how beloved the lore was and how it was present. Dragon Age Veilguard has much of the lore the original creator laid out but presents the revelations in its game poorly and retcons lore from previous games in sterile ways. The original creator left after 3 and over the decade has dropped tidbits about the changing culture of the studio he left
Who knew kicking out every passionate person with artistic integrity and forcing the death of the artist would impact the creativity of the industry?
Jesus christ I hate game CEOs, they need to be locked in a room with games until they learn how to have fun.
Yoko Taro talking about weird shows a healthy deal of self awareness... +1 respect in my book
I know im late to the party but... I just started playing Death Stranding. Lets just say its more than just a walking simulator...
It is mental, but I also kind of wish he'd hire somebody else to write dialogue for him.
And maybe somebody to check all the women characters, and make sure he's not coming across as being a little bit odd.
I JUST started collecting chrysalis crystals. (so mabyt 4-5 delvilvery/walking sim missions in)
To quote an old meme, 'I know nothing Jon Snow' but one i saw the Title
Hand prints in the sand,
I knew this was more than a walking simulator
By the time you finish the game, whatever you've seen so far will seem like the most normal thing in the world.
Definitely a lot of standard Kojima gameplay in there, among the apocalyptic Deliveroo simulator and bonkers 4th wall breaking.
And maybe somebody to check all the women characters, and make sure he’s not coming across as being a little bit odd.
Yeah....
And Death Stranding is better about its female characters than most of the MGS games...
Not sure what you mean - "Mario and Princess Beach" is obviously peak cinema
I mean it's an Amazon delivery simulator so yeah
I mean, it's being a mail carrier in a world that is maximum Kojima.
Capitalism at its finest.
The weird people are still there, but development teams are much larger now, so their input is not as prominent. Plus the budgets are so large that a flop can heavily damage a company or even ruin it, so they're very risk-averse. We need more AA or A games instead of relying so much on heavy-hitters.
The weird people still make tons of indie games.
Indie games are great and all, but everybody I know is still waiting for great AAA games again that we can play together.
I mean, sure, complaining and while doing the same thing and expecting a different result is one strategy. AAA games are purely capitalistic endeavours.
Well you need better friends
That's the entire tech industry. I got in at the tail end of it being full of nerds who were interested in computers. Then jocks and the like found out it pays really well and now it isn't fun anymore.
Yeah, it was nice as long as it lasted, now it's all meetings and stupid "agility" (as agile as DPRK is democratic) and measurings of your percieved productivity.
I'm still looking, maybe some c/c++ old legacy system needs a geek somewhere?
Jocks != Business c suite
What's a jock if it isn't the highschool quarterback?
Non usa-ish here
Too many business majors joined game dev teams
Yeah man all those well known jocks like Spez and Zuckerberg sure did a number on tech.
+1 to this, I feel like having a ton of money is what corrupts leadership, not necessarily their technical background.
Maybe Spez and Zuck haven’t changed much, but I feel like some others started out as relatively reasonable people who were also technically brilliant, but eventually their companies started doing shitty things and they are both aware and apparently unwilling to stop it.
Perhaps corruption in the Soviet Union is a good example of how even people from normal hard working backgrounds (i.e. not billionaires who have never worked a day in their life) can still be corrupted by power and a lack of accountability.
hey mark does ju jitsu and he's totally really good at it and all the other martial artist guys love hanging out with him
Is he actually good at it or are guys who want to hang out with a billionaire saying he's good at it?
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