| Hynad said: I've been saying for quite some time now that most of the major japanese developers now create extensive tutorials with games around them. So while I don't think their games suck, I do agree with what Jonathan Blow expressed in that indie thing video that was circulating here recently. |
I would agree with you on some of that. As I stated myself, many companies I used to love, like Capcom, like Konami, like Squaresoft, they used to put out games that were almost always guaranteed to be good, if not outright amazing. A long time ago. But within the last 15+ years, they're really all gone progressively downhill, further and further. To the point now that Capcom and Konami both seem fairly incapable of actually making anything by themselves, except for RE and MGS. They farm out their other franchises, or at least the ones they even bother with anymore, to outside developers, and now even Western developers. Look what a western dev did, for example, to Castlevania. Not a fan of that at all, personally, even though I hadn't been a fan of what Konami themselves had been trying to do with 3D CV for a long time. They at least used to make solid-to-good 2D CV games for portables. Now they don't even do that. And Final Fantasy has been in the shitter for a long time as well.
But the one area that I disagree with Blow, is in acting like these bigger publishers are all that matter. As if they're the only example of modern Japanese development. A lot of the developers I've previous mentioned, like Good-Feel, like Vanillaware, like Pixel, and Nigoro, and Team Ico, and Platinum, etc., I feel they're some of the very best development houses in the industry right now. And in general, I just felt it was really snobbish of Fish and Blow, etc., to take that stance publicly, and basically dress down that poor Japanese guy, as if they were experts on great gaming and could "Teach the Japanese a thing or two"....it was just really arrogant.
