Its also the most honest. The actual article isnt that big a deal.This is the most positive interpretation of the situation I've seen.
Its also the most honest. The actual article isnt that big a deal.This is the most positive interpretation of the situation I've seen.
Its also the most honest. The actual article isnt that big a deal.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=289455He does some blogging on platinum's facebook I believe. Or he used to at least.
There are people who sit on twitter all day and repost thingsSince that 'Do you eat shit?' tweet I have followed Kamiya. This guys tweets like crazy. I couldn't believe how man tweets I saw today in my timeline.
Thankfully, someone tweeted to Kamiya about valve/pc gaming so this issue could finally be given the proper weight and examination it deserved in a well presented format for the public. Who knows how long we would have had to wait for a western audience to be exposed to the intricacies on the state of general japanese attitudes toward the role of the personal computer in the present, otherwise?Its also the most honest. The actual article isnt that big a deal.
Thankfully, someone tweeted to Kamiya about valve/pc gaming so this issue could finally be given the proper weight and examination it deserved in a well presented format for the public. Who knows how long we would have had to wait for a western audience to be exposed to the intricacies on the state of general japanese attitudes toward the role of the personal computer in the present, otherwise?
No not really. I'd like to know reasons from a developer in more detail than 140 characters allows.140 characters is all you need for stuff like this. Honest.
Would it be fair to assume that this is just a side job got him, and his full-time gig is something maybe not even video game related? The article just reads so sloppy and poorly sourced, it's like it was written just to fulfill a quota (but I don't know if that's true or not, which is why I was asking if he gets paid or if he just does it to have a bullet point to add to his resume or something).
The article is perfectly accurate with the standards of 'blogosphere' - no matter how much they cry 'we are the future' most articles for fan sites and magazines are terrible.
I wonder if he'll be at pax east, because I need to talk to him one on one and plead for him to release a sequel to Infinite Space.
Actually he was one of the main designers or something for RE0, which is horrendous. Nobody's perfect.man, im here playing Okami HD
it's like...this dude did this
plus viewtiful joe
plus DMC
plus bayonetta
plus the RE's you like
plus other stuff
there aren't a lotta resumes that stack up like his, at all...i'm ready go in on wonderful 101 with the same 60 FPS trailer ya'll saw and not much else cause his name = quality.
a lotta people talk shit on twitter/the net in general, not as many have that kinda credit in the bank with me
Actually he was one of the main designers or something for RE0, which is horrendous. Nobody's perfect.
Kamiya should make a game about himself and the internet. Really, it would sell.
Limited edition comes with a random Kamiya rage tweet postcard
Actually he was one of the main designers or something for RE0, which is horrendous. Nobody's perfect.
Really? I would like to clear his name because everything else he's been heavily involved in has been rather great, and RE0 just sucks.I think he said he was in charge of making the basic mechanical framework of the game but that he left once the game's main development period started.
Man, there were some bad games spawned from the old RE formula.
Given how it ultimately sold you'd be right. Especially as it's not appealing to an entirely new market many of us wouldn't hold in regard (Deer Hunting), but went directly AT many of us.no doubt, but you can't get mad at a late 90s/early 2000's corporate suggestion of "what if ya'll took the RE formula...PLUS DINOS POPPIN UP ERRWHERE"
i mean this is 2013 and no one should leave me in charge of shit but that still sounds like MONEY IN THE BANK
I wasn't being sarcastic. Flip that around for Japan's perspective and tell me how portable gaming PCs are compared to handhelds, especially on a cramped series of islands where small devices are valued more than bulky machines.
The other factor is just sales numbers. Handhelds don't sell that well in the west right now, though even when they did, the west basically ignored any significant investment in the platforms. Flip that around for Japan's perspective. PC games don't sell at all in Japan, so they haven't developed for it.
You don't think it was worth a mention though? The head of Kamiya's studio just said they're going to start focusing on Steam mere months ago.
I'm not from Japan and I feel the same way about cloud gaming. I don't have On Live, despite all the articles out there claiming it's the future. I want to own my games physically.
I live in Kansas, not Japan.
Anyone with bandwidth caps would feel the same way, or anyone living in a rural area without highspeed internet, or anyone who likes to collect games. It's not at all a uniquely Japanese phenomenon to have a few reservations about cloud gaming. He even went out of his way to say it was just his personal opinion at the end. They took that and spun it into a representation of all of Japan. I can see how he would get annoyed.
It's a sound plan.no doubt, but you can't get mad at a late 90s/early 2000's corporate suggestion of "what if ya'll took the RE formula...PLUS DINOS POPPIN UP ERRWHERE"
i mean this is 2013 and no one should leave me in charge of shit but that still sounds like MONEY IN THE BANK
Actually he was one of the main designers or something for RE0, which is horrendous. Nobody's perfect.
Really? I would like to clear his name because everything else he's been heavily involved in has been rather great, and RE0 just sucks.
Now if only Shinji Mikami could explain Dino Crisis 1, another bad black mark on an otherwise perfect track record. Although he was the director on that so he probably can't make an excuse for it. Game was like a parody of that certain aspect of the old RE formula with hyper-obtuse puzzles that felt like they were designed to sell guides.
Scratch corporate getting the idea, clearly Mikami went "fuck yeah that zombie game would be better if they were all DINOSAURS instead." Then corporate approved it without even pausing to think.Woah get the fuck. DC1 is great, still one of my all-time favorite games (and still one of Mikami's, he prefers it over any BH).
Scratch corporate getting the idea, clearly Mikami went "fuck yeah that zombie game would be better if they were all DINOSAURS instead." Then corporate approved it without even pausing to think.
You could ask carpefulgur, they're just two guys.How did games like Reccetear come into existence?
You could ask carpefulgur, they're just two guys.
The long and short is: it was a game out in japan that was out for a while, these guys wanted to bring some japanese games they enjoyed to the market as well as start up a company. They contacted the developers of reccettear, and those people told carpe fulgur "we need to sell x amount of copies. If you don't, we're done and to heck with this"
They sold a lot more than that. They sold so much in fact that the developers want them for future projects. The other two games from carpe fulgur did not get nearly the same amount of attention though, because they weren't nearly as unique of a concept, at least to western environments.
Ironically, western users tend to think that carpe fulgur did something special or something, when all they really did was localization.
You could ask carpefulgur, they're just two guys.
The long and short is: it was a game out in japan that was out for a while, these guys wanted to bring some japanese games they enjoyed to the market as well as start up a company. They contacted the developers of reccettear, and those people told carpe fulgur "we need to sell x amount of copies. If you don't, we're done and to heck with this"
They sold a lot more than that. They sold so much in fact that the developers want them for future projects. The other two games from carpe fulgur did not get nearly the same amount of attention though, because they weren't nearly as unique of a concept, at least to western environments.
Ironically, western users tend to think that carpe fulgur did something special or something, when all they really did was localization.
It's not so much the word, but in my opinion, the idea.I really don't understand the outrage here.
He said some stupid fucking idiot foreigners. Have you seen the tweets this man gets? I don't understand why the term "foreigners" gets people so heated, but there are stupid fucking idiots who send him messages constantly.
Would it have been better if he said "stupid fucking non-japanese people?"
Kamiya should make a game about himself and the internet. Really, it would sell.
Limited edition comes with a random Kamiya rage tweet postcard
These are the sorts of messages he blows off with that line in Japanese though:It's not so much the word, but in my opinion, the idea.
It makes it look like he's blowing off other people's opinions because they are foreign, which happens to a lot of us here in Japan. Any time I express an idea on a controversial subject, someone will roll their eyes and write it off because of where I was born and my white skin and the funky music I therefore play. Can't tell you how old that gets.
Me: "Yes, but the nuclear disaster was because of human error by way of neglecting maintenance duties, and a tsunami of unprecedented size. Shutting down all nuclear plants is kind of a hasty reaction based mostly on the emotions of the event."
A lot of Japanese people in the room: "Yes, you think that because you are foreign! You can not say!"
Me: "I was here. I've been to Iwate on volunteer trips to clean up the damage. Have you?"
A lot of Japanese people in the room: (Insert blowing off anything I say because I am a foreigner.)
If someone said something about an American developer -- inaccurate or not, inflammatory or not -- and that developer said "Stupid fucking foreigners" in response, what do you think the general reaction would be? It's not necessarily his words themselves that are causing trouble -- at least to me -- it's the ideas behind them.
Guild03?
Scratch corporate getting the idea, clearly Mikami went "fuck yeah that zombie game would be better if they were all DINOSAURS instead." Then corporate approved it without even pausing to think.
Haha. That is priceless.
These are the sorts of messages he blows off with that line in Japanese though:
https://twitter.com/PG_kamiya/status/289052715055734784
https://twitter.com/PG_kamiya/status/289179089389117440
https://twitter.com/PG_kamiya/status/288866629889187841
https://twitter.com/PG_kamiya/status/288702746385854465
Among others...
If you ask him a good question, he will give you an earnest reply. He's not always angry.
lol, views are pretty close too (and the other thread is from 2010)
Well, I was talking more about time than size, but, if you're serious: Most people own a computer in Japan, do they not? We're not talking about a world where people are literally choosing whether or not a computer can fit in their house. Besides, wouldn't it make more sense--if you already have a computer, like most people do--to just have a computer, and not buy extra, dedicated gaming machines?
Haha, he deserved that.
Edit: Holy shit, I love this https://twitter.com/PG_kamiya/status/289339793152806914