Smash_Brother on 25 September 2008
bdbdbd said: @Smash Brother: Actually, directors are artists too. |
Directors of what? Movies? Games? Human relations?
I'm not crapping on dictionary definitions. I'm irked by the tendencies of some people in any "creative" field to fellate themselves by calling themselves "artists". It's that kind of needless ego-inflating that needs to die.
Miyamoto doesn't fall into this category. From everything I've seen and heard, the man is humble like a monk and I'm sure is quite happy with "game designer" and the level of respect he has brought to the title.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks