7th June 2005, 3:45 AM
Tutorials in games have always been annoying. In OoT it wasn't all that much a tutorial as it was just easy until you became adult Link. But he brought up Halo specifically which is strange... the only Nintendo-brand first person shooters out there is Metroid Prime and Echoes, and the new Geist franchise. Both are franchises which require tutorial levels, both of which are expansive, epic games.
So the point is...?
Then he makes reference to GTA... as an expansive, epic game. Since when did GTA become an expansive, epic game? :D Most, if not all people who play it do not take part in the missions as the meat of the game. Instead, they use GTA as a quick fix to just run around and kill things or drive off cliffs, in to people, etc.
The GTA type of genre, which I guess can be called Free Roam Games (though Zelda is a free roam game, it should probably be called a Law Breaking Game or "How long until you lose all your morals Game") is the onlt genre really untouched by Nintendo.
There is no Nintendo game where you exist in a giant single city and get to mess around in it using multiple game engines such as driving, flying, 1st person shooting, 3rd person fighting, etc. The only thing that comes close is Zelda.
Nothing is more expansive or epic than a Zelda game.
So again.... wtf is he talking about? He uses Nintendogs and Electroplankton as bases for what types of games Nintendo wants to bring to the table. Getting a neat little game for my handheld sounds like fun. But when I sit down with my $250+ console and $50 game I better get treated to something that's atleast epic and expansive in some way because those are the types of games Nintendo has always made and that's why I like them.
In a way, it's almost like he's saying "Let Nintendo make the big expansive epic games and the 3rd parties make the smaller, gimmicky games. See how well Nintendogs is doing? dont you wanna cash in on this $$$? we know you do, developers!"
I seriously have no idea what Miyamoto or anyone from Nintendo is saying anymore. It sounds like strange nonsense.
I can see how straying from expansive games will mean quicker dev time, cheaper games where more money is to be made than spent on its creation and R&D. But the expansive, epic games will always outsell them.
So the point is...?
Then he makes reference to GTA... as an expansive, epic game. Since when did GTA become an expansive, epic game? :D Most, if not all people who play it do not take part in the missions as the meat of the game. Instead, they use GTA as a quick fix to just run around and kill things or drive off cliffs, in to people, etc.
The GTA type of genre, which I guess can be called Free Roam Games (though Zelda is a free roam game, it should probably be called a Law Breaking Game or "How long until you lose all your morals Game") is the onlt genre really untouched by Nintendo.
There is no Nintendo game where you exist in a giant single city and get to mess around in it using multiple game engines such as driving, flying, 1st person shooting, 3rd person fighting, etc. The only thing that comes close is Zelda.
Nothing is more expansive or epic than a Zelda game.
So again.... wtf is he talking about? He uses Nintendogs and Electroplankton as bases for what types of games Nintendo wants to bring to the table. Getting a neat little game for my handheld sounds like fun. But when I sit down with my $250+ console and $50 game I better get treated to something that's atleast epic and expansive in some way because those are the types of games Nintendo has always made and that's why I like them.
In a way, it's almost like he's saying "Let Nintendo make the big expansive epic games and the 3rd parties make the smaller, gimmicky games. See how well Nintendogs is doing? dont you wanna cash in on this $$$? we know you do, developers!"
I seriously have no idea what Miyamoto or anyone from Nintendo is saying anymore. It sounds like strange nonsense.
I can see how straying from expansive games will mean quicker dev time, cheaper games where more money is to be made than spent on its creation and R&D. But the expansive, epic games will always outsell them.