Hipocricy of Mayimoto.

[ZenfoldorVGI]

twesterm said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:

outlawauron said:
Wow people jumping to defend their almighty from a joke that meant no harm.

This is almost as bad as whenever some said that insomniac said that SMG copied R&C.

Your constantly at odds with me on opinions, and being pro Jaffe, I deduce you are Sony fan?

 

^^ Wish I could delete my own posts, lol.

Why do you take things so personally? Jaffe does not equal Sony and liking Jaffe doesn't mean you hate Nintendo and love Sony.

Would you call me a Sony fanboy because I respect Jaffe as a good game designer and a funny fellow?

Man, I can't help it, I just hate Jaffe. I really do.

 

I'll go into it.

 

I always liked Twisted Metal: Black, so when God of War came out, and I heard it was so great, I picked it up.

 

I certainly don't call anyone a fanboy for liking his games, or his humor.

 

However, I just couldn't get into God of War, and I'm not making this up. I realize the game is fantastic, lol, but I just didn't think it was, well, very stylish. I felt the gameplay was crude and lacked the variety and style of the DMC and Ninja Gaiden series. So, TM, great, GoW, not a big fan. The jumping just messes it up for me.

 

Anyway, so, that said, it's obvious that I don't respect the man as much as most people do, from a design standpoint. This is a silly opinion, yes, but I can't help that I have it.

 

So, when I read Jaffe's blog for the first time, I'm like, oh, cool, a real developer blog about the industry.

 

So I read it, and it has the crap about how the DS is worse than the PSP. I'm no retard. I have both systems, and I can see that no sane person could judge the PSP's actual library superior to the DS's library, its like saying the Wii has a better game selection than the 360 at this point. It would be nice, but it's just not true.

 

This kinda pisses me off a little, but I let it slide. I do a quick wikipedia on Jaffe and find out that he's basically worked for sony for a long time, but has recently left to do his own projects, which are basically on the sony systems, probably exclusively.

 

He's kinda like the developer of Brawl. Freelance, but basically a 2nd party with strong ties to the company.

 

That's cool, so he prefers Sony because of his long history.

 

So I read his next blog. It's all about how he's playing Galaxy, but doesn't see what the big deal is so far. Maybe he will.

 

Then, he comes out and says some PSP game is better than a DS game, and Rachet and Clank is better than Galaxy, but makes it seem like he's some unbiased observer.

 

Now, it's obvious to the outsider that Jaffe has a little bit of a sony fanboy leant. This isn't debatable to me, you can disagree, but please don't try to tell me he doesn't, the man could be a Sony PR agent, tbh.

 

The issue is, he's not JUST up-playing the sony products, he's passive-agressively flaming Sony's biggest rival, Nintendo. What's worse, he's attempting to make his opinion seem unbiased and relevant, in an attempt to give it more creedance, and since he's a developer of a famous games, it DOES give him more creedance, than that of the average fanboy. The press loves him, because he's one of the few publishers who will give them the time of day, and again, their anti-Nintendo biased goals(believe in them or not) are furthered with every word that comes out of Jaffe's mouth, which, since he has become "independant" involve much less of the pro-sony talk, and much more of the anti-nintendo talk.

 

The final straw against him for me, was when that stupid ass interviewer quotes Miyamoto out of context(who has more than likely never heard of Jaffe or Twisted Metal) in an attemt to get a good new controversial anti-Nintendo line out of him, and of course, he delivers with a zinger of epic proportions. All the sites(kotaku especially) LOVED it and prominantly displayed it.

 

This pissed off Nintendo fans, to no end, who feel that Miyamoto is, of course, the best developer of all time(which can be backed up with facts, but I digress), and Jaffe is a flavor of the month, who stumbled onto a great franchise, but hasn't quite proven himself as the struggling artist he likes to picture himself as.

 

So, Jaffe apologized to the Nintendo fans, in his own way, realizing that insulting Miyamoto might have stepped over the line, considering it's quite obvious that unlike myself, or himself, Miyamoto would likely not have insulted him in retort. "Here's my fucking Wii remote," he says, paraphrased.

 

It'll do for now, but I still hate the bastard, and won't buy any of his games, I dont' give a shit if he develops Twisted Metal on the Wii. I actually like sony, PS3, microsoft, and 360, and many of their great developers, but I hate Jaffe, I think he's a fanboy in disguise, one of the biggest assholes in the industry, and I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.

 

Then again, maybe I'm taking things too seriously.