Deus Ex creator Warren Spector explains why next-gen console graphical expectations can hurt game design.
Warren Spector, Deus Ex creator and widely respected game designer spoke on the state of storytelling in games at a GDC session on Wednesday in San Francisco. Spector rated the current state of story and characters in games, which is somewhat mediocre overall, but most interesting were his thoughts regarding next-generation hardware and its negative effect on story design...
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
If you spent more time worrying about the quality of your game rather than crying about "expectations" maybe you could get some work done Mr. Warren Spector.
I didn't see Epic crying about Gears of War or Insomniac crying about how hard it was to make Resistance Fall of Man?!
No, they worked their @sses off, put out a quality gaming experience and made us all happy that we spent our hard earned $60 on their video game.
Shut up!
make a version of deus ex for my 360 so that i can see your visions.
Basically, above is correct. He's only saying this AFTER Deus Ex: Invisible War basically tanked. He was all about the graphics when the original Deus Ex came out.
And Epic not only made the bar that was set, but they may have even beaten the original Unreal Engine tech demo that the game was based off of- which nobody at all thought could really happen.
I'm not a graphics whore..
This game was great when it first came out. I remember on my Old computer. these days you need the best to run new PC games.
with that said, gamers today have become spoiled rotten graphics whores. If the graphics are not to their liking or on par with other games(example:GOW), they completely trash the developers and the game.
Back in the 2-D days who cared about pixels as much. I understand games have come along way but I still enjoy 2-D games.(example:Castlevania SOTN) I got a feeling it's the new generation of gamers born in the PS era.
Game will eventually look better as hardware advances. It's s till up to the Developers to polish a title but jeeze louise, take a minute and enjoy other aspects of some of todays titles.
I rather an Awesome Story/Gameplay rather then graphics.(example:Final Fantasy VII) Best game ever...
I will always take a game with these scores:
7.0 Presentation
7.5 Graphics
8.0 Sound
8.5 Gameplay
9.0 Lasting Appeal
Rather then this:
8.0. Presentation
10.0 Graphics
2.5 Sound
3.5 Gameplay
4.0 Lasting Appeal
I think games are getting better and better and will one day exceed our vision as far as what we want out of a story and graphics! Mass Effect, Lair, Bioshock, and even Assassins Creed seem to all have a huge focus on story as it so I just think we need to just wait and give these guys time to change the way we play games!