Mummelmann said:
To be fair, he never expressly said that "all game designers suck", he actually says "most game designers suck" and he's right about that. He never stated that Blezinski, Kojima and Miyamoto are bad designers either, that's just you guys putting words in his mouth. Besides, for my part, all three have lost their flare and original zest a long time ago and become predictable and long-winded in their work. I think that Garriott is right in his statement that "most game designers suck", I really do. |
Well Kojima needs to make a new game I'll admit, but Bleszinki has worked on Gears, Shadow Complex, Infinity Blade, and was also working on Fortnite until he had left recently. That is in the last 5 years. He has also done Jazz Jackrabbit and Unreal Tournament. He has already been talking about returning with a new studio so I'm sure we will see more from him.
Miyamoto has released a ton of Ip's that not only was huge hits but has been huge decade after decade. I don't even need to talk more about him because he is a legend in the industry.
Kojima, well he has only given us one really great series but it's story was good enough and complex enough to last 20 years and still going. I agree that he should probably make something else although I dont think he will.
You are right that he said most but he also said that "I've met virtually no one in our industry who I think is close to as good a game designer as I am." He has a huge ego, specially seeing as what he has done recently. He needs to talk with his game rather than make statements like this because it is going to piss a lot of people off.
