“Developers and publishers have not come up with more interesting ways to play together online. Online games continue to suck. It’s generally… melees, bad behavior and poor matchmaking. There are more ways to play together.”
–Billy Pidgeon, ” The Year In Review: Game Biz Analysts On The Worst Happenings Of 2010“
Category Archives: quotes
Outside
“In speaking with game designers like this, I increasingly come to the conclusion that it’s vital to be involved in activities… that feel like they’re derived from somewhere outside of the industry. This doesn’t seem to be a popular opinion.”
– Baiyon, ‘Sense of Wonder: Indie-fying Japan‘ (Gamasutra)
[Today’s Good Song: ‘Teenage Dream’ (Cover), Weed x Foxes In Fiction]
A Single Star In The Sky
“At E3 I saw people putting on speeches but I thought the future seemed a bit dark. The 3D games didn’t spark my interest. I think motion control’s a bit old now, I don’t think those games are the future. It all seemed a bit dull.”
Maladaption
“Games help me understand serial killers better: I want to interact with people I meet, but I don’t have the tools, so I shoot them.”
– Tim Schafer
[today’s good song: sunday girl, ‘self control’ (young empires remix) …no, i did not choose a cover of an iconic gta vice city track by coincidence!]
[today’s good song: sunday girl, ‘self control’ (young empires remix) …no, i did not choose a cover of an iconic gta vice city track by coincidence!]
Sustainability
“While it is hard to look at your life and say ‘this is unsustainable’, it is even harder to look at your life and say ‘the reason my life is unsustainable is because I am unsustainable.’ It takes courage to do that, and it takes even more courage to take steps to rectify it.”
– The amazing Clint Hocking, on his decision to leave Ubisoft Montreal
Makes You?
“You’re so totally the kind of girl that makes me beat women in GTA.”
– ‘Pete’, in my Kotaku feature today entitled ‘Nice Guys, Stressed Ladies And The Things Video Games Let Them Do‘
[Today’s Good Song: ‘Numbers Don’t Lie‘, Mynabirds]
Rationality
“Those products are developed for rational adults. You surely don’t believe that a rational adult would be influenced by such a game into committing rape, do you?… We make works of art. Let me say that again. It is just art. I assume that you are capable of distinguishing fiction from reality like we do. Are you not?”
– Manga creator Takeshi Nogami (‘Strike Witches’), in an open letter to CNN regarding “offensive” and “insulting” RapeLay coverage
Contract Killer
“Yeah, and let’s not kid ourselves. If you sell a game that’s a first-person shooter, then no matter how many RPG elements you shoe-horn into the game, the shadow that hangs over every character interaction that you have, no matter who they are, is the question in the player’s mind of “What happens if I shoot this person?“
And that’s our own fault! We’ve sold the player that; we’ve made a contract with the player that says it’s okay to kill people. Why would we then chastise them for exploring that?”