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 Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 14:12 Post subject: Most Influential People In The Games Industry |
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xDBS
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 14:15 Post subject: |
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Surprised they forgot to name Yu Suzuki.
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 14:16 Post subject: |
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So basically it's a copy paste of all the well-known names in the industry.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 14:20 Post subject: |
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chiv
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 14:21 Post subject: |
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i liked how they said that cliff blazinkdkhklasdkinski guy wasnt arrogant. pretty big indicator that the people putting the list together are utter twats.
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 14:22 Post subject: |
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Wheres Timothy Cain or Brian Fargo?
Or I suppose the likes of Fallout, Descent, Sacrifice, Dungeons and Dragons, Lords of the Rings, Baldurs Gate etc weren't important or influenced anything in any remarkable way.
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chiv
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 14:22 Post subject: |
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everyone knows its only important if it was on a console.
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 14:25 Post subject: |
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Hironobu Sakaguchi is missing. Pffft.
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ixigia
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 14:26 Post subject: |
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| Epsilon wrote: | Wheres Timothy Cain or Brian Fargo?
Or I suppose the likes of Fallout, Descent, Sacrifice, Dungeons and Dragons, Lords of the Rings, Baldurs Gate etc weren't important or influenced anything in any remarkable way. |
There's Steve Jobs instead  |
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 14:45 Post subject: |
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Just confirms the level of derp we're at here right ixigia 
I would've thought that someone like sabin would've been more annoyed with the lack of Timothy Cain, afterall without him there would've been no Vampire: Bloodlines.
Nevermind some of his other works like Arcanum.
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 15:02 Post subject: |
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Believe me, there's a ton MORE that I'm pissed off about too... but I have a lot of respect for Sakaguchi considering he founded the the biggest (j)RPG software houses on earth. I know it's "cool" to hate jRPGs and to piss and moan about everything related to Final Fantasy, but I love them and always will.
To think that he's excluded from this list and instead we get people like the fucking Zynga CEO? Yeah ... influential, right. I'm sorry, I just don't see Facebook shit as influential in the gaming industry. Cash-cow yeah, since people are so fucking retarded they'll pay £100s for useless "Zynga Currency! LOLZ!" -- but influential? Nah.
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 15:14 Post subject: |
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I just realized you guys are so much more geeks than me. I know about Sid Meier and that guy in ID that went to play with rockets. For some reason I keep remembering the name Braben too.
I do however love that you guys take notice of the talent behind the pixels. Good craftmanship deserve credit no matter what their line of business is.
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 15:18 Post subject: |
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David Braben - founder of Frontier Developments - and Ian Bell, creators of Elite and Elite 2 Frontier. Braben later split from the duo and went on to make the rest of the games by himself, like the hilariously poor Frontier- First Encounters.
Actually, if I'm not mistaken; Braben and Bell split after Elite and it was Braben and his Frontier Developments company that made Elite 2-Frontier.
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Hierofan
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 15:43 Post subject: |
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Steve Jobs ? Kotick ? what the fuck ????
John Carmack , Warren Spector , Ken Levine , Peter Molyneux and Sid Meier , ring a fucking bell ?
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garus
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 15:52 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 15:56 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | Actually, if I'm not mistaken; Braben and Bell split after Elite and it was Braben and his Frontier Developments company that made Elite 2-Frontier. |
Yes.
I think Bell is/was a "little" piss off with Braben.
http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/archive/b5081501.htm
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 17:28 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | Believe me, there's a ton MORE that I'm pissed off about too... but I have a lot of respect for Sakaguchi considering he founded the the biggest (j)RPG software houses on earth. I know it's "cool" to hate jRPGs and to piss and moan about everything related to Final Fantasy, but I love them and always will.
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Are you insinuating that I hate jrpg's because I think it's "cool"? 
I grew up on western rpg's thats why jrpgs seem simplistic to me. I never owned a super nintendo or a comparatively similar sega machine, I had real computers with real rpg's and not linear adventure games.
Aside from that
Theres just no way I can get past stuff like this in my mind, japanese designs and animations are so far of of what I can accept.
Look at that guy in the middle, yes that is a guy, nevermind the fact that he looks like a girl and that he's wearing a top and a skirt, it's still a guy. Nevermind the girly haircut, the girly eyes or the girly clothes, it's a guy.
All their clothing is form over function, they have huge swords that one couldn't possibly wield with one hand, and the games are usually littered with two dimensional main characters that never develop through the course of the game, and over the course of the game the same things will always happen, you never have a choice.
To me thats not an rpg, when I'm not able to roleplay.
Rather I'm put in a role of some 16 year old transvestite who's unsecure about his place in life and not quite sure if he can kiss that girl he's saving the world with while all the grownups who should care about saving the world, sit around on their asses while the children ride around in huge robots or wield gigatic swords... |
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tonizito
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 18:41 Post subject: |
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What bout:
console tards - derping all games.
pc piratez - destroying pc gaming  Spoiler: | |
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 19:56 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | I wasn't insinuating anything. I'm just commenting on the typical NFOhump behaviour  It's "cool" to hate on jRPGs and woe betide anyone who actually *gasp* ENJOYS them, for that way lies "derp" apparently  For the record, not only have I owned PCs since I was in my single digits, I've also owned every major - and most minor - consoles made since the 80s. I guess that just makes me more impartial when it comes to my game choices, since I've grown up with everything and not ignored stuff. |
I just dislike jRPGs because of their stylistic choices. Some of the combat (which is very important for me) is quite good, and tactical, but it didn't evolve much these past ... decades? 
The real problem is, I find almost all of the characters ... fucking annoying. There's always the same archetypes, and always this over the top shit, which I hate. It doesn't have to do with consoles or PCs, it's simply so annoying for me. Everything from the girly boys to the huge swords they swing around like ballerinas. And then, there's the haircuts ... and the huge anime eyes.
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 20:50 Post subject: |
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Well... the title says the most "influential" people in the industry. It doesn't say in which way... and since Bobby Kotick made the list...
As for JRPG....the last good one I played was The Last Remnant - yeah I'm a PC gamer -although even the Japanese admit that they're gaming market is out of ideas. Kind of like the console market is today (cover, health regen, military shooters).
Even genres aren't so varied today. I think the gaming industry has become too big for it's own good They keep passing old ideas as brand new and since it has entered the mainstream market I haven't seen anything new and refreshing. So they could do more with less while now they're just throwing money on it and hope it sticks.
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xDBS
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 21:51 Post subject: |
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Regardless of the state of the pop culture mainstream JRPGs now, I will always say xenogears is one of the best stories I have ever come across in a JRPG, very mature, very original.
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Feb 2011 22:32 Post subject: |
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Xenogears might be one of the best JRPGs ever.
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| Posted: Wed, 16th Feb 2011 02:02 Post subject: |
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whos responsible for DLC's?
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| Posted: Wed, 16th Feb 2011 02:05 Post subject: |
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If we're talking about DLC as we know it, and not just map-packs/etc, then Sega. The Dreamcast was the first machine to have what we know as DLC. Atari actually had the world's first game-based digital distribution with their GameLine stuff, alongside Sega and the Sega Channel, offering full versions of their games for download -- but Sega and the Dreamcast was the first platform (as far as I know) to offer addons/paid content for games over the net.
So if you want to blame any one company, blame Sega.
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| Posted: Wed, 16th Feb 2011 06:18 Post subject: |
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dam sega!
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