The big game of the next five years will focus on “actual relationships instead of shooting people.”
In stark contrast to today’s blockbusters, Lucas feels the next big thing will be something quite different.
During a panel at at the USC School of Cinematic Arts legendary filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas discussed the future of entertainment joined by Microsoft’s President of the Interactive Entertainment Business Don Mattrick with Julia Boorstin of CNBC acting as a moderator.
Besides predicting the implosion of the film industry with apocalyptic scenarios and a sizable dose of doomsaying Lucas and Speelberg set their bespectacled sights on video games, and started firing.
@Lovable: I doubt they invited him there to keep quiet.
Sure, he's entitled to "know when to keep quiet" when he does his own interest, but standing there with jaw agape letting two pundits tear gaming a new one isn't exactly laudable.
Edit: @Lovable below. Which is in fact a rather contemptible conduct, and speaks volumes.
When did the guy said he cares about videogame? He cares about the money he makes from working in a videogame industry, but other than that it's all about work.
f by speaking his opinion will tarnish the relationship between them and could potentially lose the business why would he say anything? Seriously.
@Abriael Above
You can't really judge the guy based on that. You would do the same if it means securing your job and earning more money.
"Business man knows when to speak and keep quiet."
Then Don mustn't be much of a business man after his "stick with 360" comment lol.
What's more important is, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are has-beens, they haven't made a good movie in years.
"Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are has-beens"
They are both actively contributing to the situation they're complaining about. The literal very heights of hypocrisy
How do they expect video games to be as emotionally attaching as movies or even books?? It's freaking interactive entertainment!! we want to have fun playing games not F$#KING cry while holding a controller!! plus, how do you expect me to get head shots with teary eye?!?! How Spielberg and Lucas?! Hooooow?!
"The second you get the controller something turns off in the heart, and it becomes a sport."
Sad that the popularity of games like Call of Duty and Madden promote that misconception.
Lucas? Whatever, he's been crazy for a LONG time. But Spielberg. For shame.
"Business man knows when to speak and keep quiet"
.....is sitting by while 2 important people insult your product a time to keep quiet?
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Business man knows when to speak and keep quiet.[/QUOTE]
I seem to recall something about submarines and buy a 360. The one time he *could've* done some good PR, Spielberg & Lucas DRM'd his tongue.
diss video games but praise kinect?! :o
lol :D
they must know nothing about video games then '-_-
I cried one time during gaming. It was when my 360 rrod and i purchased a PS3 and Uncharted, TEARS OF JOY!!!!
I think this kind of criticisim is exactly what this industry needs if it wants to move foward. I feel like I have been playing the same games this gen that I played during the 90s (fps, hack n' slash, platformers, rpg, racing) only with higher resolutions and better sound/voice acting. Some games can feel so generic (Call of Duty, Guitar Hero and a few others) that I sometimes wonder if they are being "developed" using some kind of Wizard Tool that generates the source code for a game by simply inputting values into a screen prompt and clicking next.
These men may be wrong on some points (video games and emotions), but they are certainly right about this industry needing to create more accesible and varied experiences. Perhaps this really is a good time to bring back VR!
People who read that ridiculous headline instead of the Variety article are being misled by a a-hole from dual-shockers with his agenda.
http://variety.com/2013/dig...
Neither diss video games.
And just because they don't mention anything Mattrick says doesn't mean he remained quiet.
"Fortunately, we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity,"
"It's called Xbox 360"
it's so true, he know when to speak and when to keep quite, no wonder he is success, even xbone going to come out he still trying so hard to sell 360 to poor ppl
That's the problem with the industry, too many business men screwing it up. Sleazy people invading my hobby left and right. Makes me feel ashamed to be a gamer sometimes.
It's unfortunate that we're mostly talking about what this MS exec didn't say rather than what Spielberg and Lucas did say.
Off-Topic: You feel ashamed to be a gamer? Because it's a business? That generates profits?
Drama queen much?
If tarnishing a working relationship with someone who under sells your work is bad than I don't want to ever be right
They are trying hard to sell Kinect, remember that google glass/kinect hybrid thing. This so called future is what's on their minds. Don't be surprised as I think Kinect runs a lot deeper than Microsoft. There is a reason for this always watching, always connected attitude. MS is being pimped by someone much bigger than the good ole USA
No. He's a douche. Plain and simple.
Even a business man knows when to speak up and defend his business. Don's just a pussy thats too chicken shit to speak out against big names like Spielberg and George Lucas.
The two, think theyre GOD's in the movie industry. When you become that arrogant, you are no longer relevant.
Perhaps he's not been following where ND and QD are taking the industry? It certainly reads like that.
Ico, Shadow of the colossus, journey, heavy rain and the last of us... just to name a few of the games they should consider more than just dumb shooters.
George Lucas thought that Jar Jar Binks was a good idea.
Spielberg thought that Indy IV was a good idea.
They are both old men, fading into irrelevance.
Don Mattrick comes across as a tool.
we need some perspective here.
Lucas is talking about games being bad, yet his company lucasarts made one of the best games of all time, it was highly rated by critics and gameers.
Knights of the old republic, it resonated so much with gamers they still want number 3!
Hes talking out of his ass IMO.
And Don is a clown
Only fanboys care what a director says about something like that. Plus, this article is just trying to get hits. It's pointless. Spielberg is a fan of games and this article makes it sound like he was dissing games and he's not. It's pointless like 95% of the articles here.
@Belking:
"Spielberg is a fan of games"
"The second you get the controller something turns off in the heart, and it becomes a sport"
These are his words. So much for "fan of games".
@Belking
He is here for the 5% guys...why else would he be here? You read everything here just like everyone else dude lol
Lucas and Spielberg are washed up. They have a whole lot to say with nothing recently to back it up.
So true, who cares what 2 old men have to say about video games...... video games they probably never played from start to finish ever if they even ever played a great game before period.
Omg no.
Just play The Last of Us, and their entire argument becomes as useless as a solar powered flashlight, or an inflatable dart board.
Damn you just shot down two of my work-in-progress inventions. I still have hope for my submarine screen door.
I never thought I'd agree with you for once, but here I am agreeing lol
The movie industry is threatened by the time and money consumers spend on video games. Naturally they will talk down upon games because they are competition.
What they fail to realize is that some games are more a movie and a game all in one. Games aren't written by the same people writing the code anymore. There are Hollywood writers penning stories. There are world renowned composers scoring the soundtrack. There is every bit as much professionalism and artistic quality in games as there are in movies, and possibly more due to the interactive nature.
Take The Last of Us - Hollywood has been doing apocalyptic movies for years and none have garnered the universal praise as it has. Plus, you get to play it and live it instead of watching it on a screen and having no input.
If movie execs want to see better games, they need to stop signing away rights to their franchises to developers who make crappy tie-ins.
@ifritAlkhemyst
Fair enough - those are excellent movies! I should have said "in general, post-apocalyptic movies don't garner universal praise".
The road.....for real. Would not be surprised if that was inspiring material for naughty dog..worked well from where I'm standing
@Spinal
This! Problem is, those 2 old men are in bed with the wrong partner and are out of touch with the medium of games as a whole. Bold generalisations considering Steve's spawn play COD, and isn't he also doing a Halo TV thing? Dude, that's exactly the kind of pew pew 'sport' Lucas is deriding. So on the eve of The Last of Us coming out, they're talkin' up Kinect with Mattrick. Why weren't these 2 frumps sitting beside David Cage at TRIBECA?!
Them saying games haven't conveyed emotion or love grinds my gears too. I've teared up from more videogame charachters than StarWars CGI rastafarian aliens, I'll say that much. Losing my frikkin horse in Shadow of the Collosus gapes Padme's death scene wide open. Pixel horse for the win. No midichlorians needed.
Damn son. You just took nerdy to a who'll new level. The fact I understood your references probably means I agree. But i'm not happy about it, street cred be damned! XD
There are so many things wrong with those producers statements on games...
I completely disagree with their interpretations of it.
Every time I see this guys face it just reminds me of the devil of gaming. Everytime I see an article with this guys face. You know its bad news for gamers
Exactly man, every time you read Don Mattrick's name you know something bad is about to happen
The Titanic of gaming?
Say hello to Xbox One. Hasn't even set sail and it hit an ice berg
no Spielberg the Titanic of gaming is coming out tomorrow on PS3, its called The Last of Us, hell it happened months ago too called Bioshock Infinite.
"Because you’ve got actual relationships instead of shooting people.”
I just love this statement. These two just remind me of the average gamer who only buys cod. They think that games can't be taken seriously because all you do is shoot people and never form bonds with characters.
I advise both of them to play games such as The Walking Dead and The Last of Us, and then come and talk to me about games not forming "actual relationships" with characters.
What a bunch of has beens and George Lucas has done nothing except for Star Wars and now he thinks he's some sort of an incredible director whom everyone looks up to. What a complete joke.
I thought gaming can't tell stories? what happened now you want to tell stories in games? what a bunch of hypocrites.
GTA style open world Star Wars game. With different planets, galaxies and races. Space travel like wing commander/ privateer. Character creation like on Skyrim, with options for 3rd or 1st person like Skyrim.
Options to become a Jedi, Sith, bounty hunter, etc.