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Full Edge Ueda Interview on The Last Guardian
- Thread starter Poetic.Injustice
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well, can't argue with this
I'm not just talking about graphics. If worst comes to worst, I'll take quality titles that have been inspired by his work over nothing for almost a decade.
Maybe some day TLG will come out, but the development of it has been beyond an embarrassment for all involved. We've long since passed the point of caring, for a lot of people. Myself included I think. Hopefully whatever comes out at the end of all this is at least a decent game. Yeah yeah 'art takes time' but that's not really an excuse after 7 years... I still believe in his vision as a creative, but that's kind of beside the point at this point.
Oh don't worry, it made sure to lift from SotC as well!
http://youtu.be/UHgrSnEpwfY?t=1m1s
ultratruman
Banned
Screwing him out of reaching level 400 in Candy Crush Saga, certainly! Damn those Sony fuckers, actually wanting this example of incompetence to work. Indeed, how dare they.
qualitydisc
Member
It has me in tears too, but not from laughter.
Thread has misleading title. Should be
Full Edge Ueda Interview on Everything Except The Last Guardian
Risk Breaker
Member
Well, I think he has a right to be pissed off if he designed the game and they keep postponing the actual development of the game to do things like Rain or Puppeteer, no?
Specially because people keep hating on him and blaming him for everything, in general.Just look at this thread: "the game got delayed for 2 more years because he did this interview ehhehe" and other snarky comments like that. Only a few people here understand that the real problem is the management of Japan Studio, kinda like Square-Enix. Why focus on (good and pretty, sure) things like Rain, Puppeteer and Knack first if you know what people ACTUALLY want is TLG. Why do 3 Lightning games and 2-3 MMOs before actually creating FF V XIII/FF XV? *shrug* But let's not blame Nomura/Ueda for that.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Two games for PS4 confirmed
The game has been in development for over six years, pushing seven. The management of this game has really been a trainwreck, to put it lightly. It feels like no one is driving this thing anymore. Even Ueda seems complacent with the status of the game. This Shikata ga nai attiutude from the game's director is.....not really making things better either.
Someone has to move this game from the shape that it's in. If it's unsalvageable and if the drive isn't there anymore from the team to start over development for the next generation, it's just better to call it a day and move on to something else.
Someone has to move this game from the shape that it's in. If it's unsalvageable and if the drive isn't there anymore from the team to start over development for the next generation, it's just better to call it a day and move on to something else.
JasonUresti
Member
Only one man can save The L(o)st Guardian now.
Enter-George Broussard
Enter-George Broussard
When they said Japan Studio is wild wild west with no particular control, that's basically a fact
LeeRoyBrown
Banned
So, why did your game miss PS4?
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TLG treatment is nothing compared to what happened with FFvs13.
Its not like they lead us on for years. There was only one video for the game, nothing else.
Meanwhile, SE showed FFvs13 off for years, behind closed doors, for an entire generation. They then renamed it, and here we are again with no release date attached at all.
TLG was announced after FF13 and I honestly believe will release before FFvs13/XV.
At least Ueda feels genuine disappointment for not coming through, and I am sure Sony wants the thing out as soon as possible. I doubt the same can be said for SE.
Its not like they lead us on for years. There was only one video for the game, nothing else.
Meanwhile, SE showed FFvs13 off for years, behind closed doors, for an entire generation. They then renamed it, and here we are again with no release date attached at all.
TLG was announced after FF13 and I honestly believe will release before FFvs13/XV.
At least Ueda feels genuine disappointment for not coming through, and I am sure Sony wants the thing out as soon as possible. I doubt the same can be said for SE.
Well, I think he has a right to be pissed off if he designed the game and they keep postponing the actual development of the game to do things like Rain or Puppeteer, no?
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Poetic.Injustice
Member
Feel bad for anyone who bought a PS3 for these games. :lol
adamantypants
Member
Guys, guys, GAIZ. We've all been playing TLG this whole time. It's a meta game about waiting for his last game. And alcohol addiction. Lots of booze.
Yeah, he does. He's the director. It's his name in the credits that says this was his project.
I find his attitude to be disgusting and I am almost 100% sure he's been a huge diva on this project and the reason why Sony had to boot him.
Risk Breaker
Member
He's obviously not gonna talk about this stuff (why development has been stopped so many times giving other titles priority) out of respect/discretion.
Thaumaturgic Tomato
Member
EVERY game needs more giant monsters. As soon as I'm head of Sony, it's SOTC sequels every 6 months no matter the cost. Top global priority for my company.
i think that guy is heavily overrated.
his mentor kenji eno is much of a dude who influenced him heavily but no one is mentioning him.
unfortunately, eno did not have that much luck to release most of his games in the western hemisphere.
ueda doesnt get his shit done.
i respect him for ico and sotc, but really good games, but sotc was technically on the ps2 a mess. controls on the horse sucked, and the game struggled to hold onto those 30fps.
two games, and he is considered by some sonyfanboys as god who can compete with miyamoto... lol.
ueda has been working on TLG for at least... 7-8 years??? is he doing everything by himself?
this wont end well, unfortunately.
i was totally expecting this game to arrive at the end of the gen(by NOW AT MAXIMUM)
but its nearly alpha.
he will have the same problems as dennis dyack after this project.
his mentor kenji eno is much of a dude who influenced him heavily but no one is mentioning him.
unfortunately, eno did not have that much luck to release most of his games in the western hemisphere.
ueda doesnt get his shit done.
i respect him for ico and sotc, but really good games, but sotc was technically on the ps2 a mess. controls on the horse sucked, and the game struggled to hold onto those 30fps.
two games, and he is considered by some sonyfanboys as god who can compete with miyamoto... lol.
ueda has been working on TLG for at least... 7-8 years??? is he doing everything by himself?
this wont end well, unfortunately.
i was totally expecting this game to arrive at the end of the gen(by NOW AT MAXIMUM)
but its nearly alpha.
he will have the same problems as dennis dyack after this project.
CosmicGroinPull
Member
I think he's fairly rated. People loved his games, and at two great games, he should've been considered a 'star' like Kojima et al, but isn't, precisely because of his inability to deliver on time.
And since I value narrative/thematically deep games over gameplay, I would place him in the stratosphere compared to Miyamoto. Ico has been out for more than 12 years, and there hasn't been a game like it from anybody. Nor Nico. On the other hand.... well... you get the idea.
That said, if Trico is dead, so's pretty much his career, I think.
Hi, guys. Did you know this?
I was browsing the PS webstore searching for the LOTR game Guardians of middle earth (and it was removed for some reason?). Anyway, when I typed guardian on the search bar, look what came up:
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/pt-pt/cid=EP9000-NPEK00189_00-DISCONLYPARENT00
It says "disc-only" though... lol
I was browsing the PS webstore searching for the LOTR game Guardians of middle earth (and it was removed for some reason?). Anyway, when I typed guardian on the search bar, look what came up:
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/pt-pt/cid=EP9000-NPEK00189_00-DISCONLYPARENT00
It says "disc-only" though... lol
dont get me wrong, the games were good, but did you play games like el shaddai?
its one of these games, which are forgotten, because some other games enjoyed more PR such as journey.
the gameplay sucked in el shaddai but the artstyle and the story... unbelievable awesome.
its a matter how people would like to see certain games published by certain companies.
ico and nico were really good games, but because sony pushed them to be so.
fumito ueda is something what sony does with the ps4= it rides on the negative waves caused by the xbone.
i seriously hope that TLG sees the day of light, because these are the games i love and i look forward too.
I am very confused by this post. What does HR refer to?
High Res?
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
I really hope Sony's Japanese development wing starts pumping out quality titles for the PS4. Their lack of production really hamstrung Sony. They are the only first party japanese studios with any shot at big time software sales but that is only becuse the PS4 user base will be huge soon. I wish we would hear about some japanese dev poaching like we have been hearing for Naughty Dog. I would love to see Japan Studio get some new programming talent.
castlemadeofsand
Banned
haha ueda is a genius!
TheJollyCorner
Member
I believe they will.
Japan Studio absolutely rocked in the PS2 days, but something went horribly wrong in the PS3 gen (likely piss-poor R&D and production management). From everything we've heard, that ship has been righted thanks to the direction of Allan Becker- but we haven't really seen much regarding the fruits of that labor.
Gravity Rush, The Puppeteer, Tokyo Jungle, Rain, and Knack are a decent start, but two of those are small projects, one is a portable on a struggling handheld, one was mistakenly released right around the time of a brand new console launch, and the other one was a launch game that probably could have used a few more months of polish.
With dev assistance on Deep Down, rumors of a new Demon's Souls (or, at least, a new Miyazaki DeS/DaS-inspired game), Toyama hinting at wanting to make a new horror game, a rumored new big-budget JRPG, and the worst-kept secret in gaming, aka TLG on PS4, the next two years could be the best from Japan Studio in almost a decade.
The key is to get the Japanese market interested in console gaming again. PS4 launch in February will be very telling. I believe if PS4 makes a big impact on Japan we will see a big boost in hiring & production within Japan Studio this gen.
Hell, depending on how massive PS4's install base is worldwide this gen (and I think it'll be massive), we might see this happen regardless.
All that said- where the hell is Clap Hanz & a PS4 Hot Shots/Everybody's Golf, Sony?
CosmicGroinPull
Member
Dunno, El shaddai looked like a more artsy DMC to me, so I didn't pay much attention. Also, reviews didn't help.
robertsan21
Member
What could have happened to Team Ico when they didnt put one out single game on PS3?
there must have been some crazy shit going down there.
there must have been some crazy shit going down there.
Chuck Norris
Banned
What's special about this? The game wasn't cancelled, it's on a ton of sitesHi, guys. Did you know this?
I was browsing the PS webstore searching for the LOTR game Guardians of middle earth (and it was removed for some reason?). Anyway, when I typed guardian on the search bar, look what came up:
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/pt-pt/cid=EP9000-NPEK00189_00-DISCONLYPARENT00
It says "disc-only" though... lol
Then I'm sure other projects were stopped for him at some point.
He's a director saying that the delay in getting it out is not his responsibility because he's done his part. Why even say anything or do this interview in the first place? So much for respect.
qualitydisc
Member
This is revisionist history. Ico sold really poorly in the US due to poor promotion from Sony, to the extent that it was a rarity until the HD collection replaced it. I found out about it by word of mouth from my friends that I should play it.
SotC on the other hand got solid promotion from Sony and resulted in respectable sales.
wrong, the demand for ico was huge. it had a reprint before sotc hit the shelves, at least in UK and germany, and still prices for it on ebay went around 100euros.
it didnt sell poorly, sony in the first place never printed enought copies.
JohnnyChase
Banned
I really can't believe that it will be for PS3..
If it will, Sony are really crazy.
If it will, Sony are really crazy.
TigerBrown
Member
No way this is still in development for PS3..r-right guys?