happydolphin said:
I love the misinformation here and Nintendo-hate propagation...
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How did you took knowledge of that lack of support from Nintendo? Did you feel disappointed?
Nintendo published the game, so if they had any doubts we’d never have got that far. They were absolutely behind it
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lol
And I love how the assumption was that Nintendo wanted to kidify the game.
| Did you thought, at some point of the development, about to change the game to make it more “family friendly” and get the promotional support of Nintendo? Did anyone in Rare of Nintendo asked you to do that? |
The answer was basically no, save for some KKK parodying.
This was awesome, I wanted to cheer:
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Some times ago Rovio said than Angry Birds will me more important than Super Mario. I think that you, like me, get sick when you hear something like that. I also believe that you don’t keep a Farmville in your spare time, or am I wrong? Sometimes I think that nowadays games are, or like large hollywood movies or small like Zynga games to kill time, with less and less room for creativity and traditional games. Do you have the same impression?
As you may have gathered i’m a big fan of Nintendo , not just their games but also their way of doing things which incidentally sits very much in line with how Rare used to do things… ie: They make the games they want to. They take as long as they need to take. They make hardware purely to support the needs of these aforementioned games.
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I miss the old Rare... :(
Clearly Rare isn't what it used to be, staff is gone and all, but its mandate is completely changed. They now make Kinect Sports games majorly, good stuff :S
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In view of your twitter, you are a person who speaks openly. Recently you left Rare for whatever reason, and many people too, even the Stamper have left the company, and everyone can see that the games that Rare make now are not, either in quality or quantity, comparable to what Rare make a few years ago. What happened there?
Now we get to the Rare question… Unfortunately i’m not really at liberty to talk about where Rare is now or where it’s going and tbh, i have no idea where it’s heading in terms of portfolio anyway (but i suspect the word ‘Sports’ figures largely in that picture)
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How sad...
Alas, the sad and true story of how capitalism rots talent:
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Conker was a great game, but it’s been ten years since its release and we want more crazy stuff from you. So, what is Chris Seavor doing now?
As for me now, like anyone gives a shit, but I’m working mainly on expanding my home brew project from partial grain to full. I currently have 4 beers on the go. I write and illustrate when i can be arsed, a long term project which i can’t decide yet is a comic with lots of text or a book with lots of pictures.. somewhere in between. It’s dark, it’s not for kids, and it’s definitely not a comedy. I also play a shit load of games (which ironically is next to impossible to do as a FT developer),. I also smoke a pipe from time to time, grow my own veg, bake my own bread. Basically I’m living my long term dream of being a Hobbit (the height and feet aspect of this, already ticked)
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Lesson learnt: Enjoy talent while it last, because it might not last forever...
Very nice thread btw, thanks for the super interview, I love the guy.
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