GS:Jordan Amaro responds to Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune's comments about downtrodden state of development in island nation, believes "discretion, humility, and hard work" should be emphasized.
In an interview with Glixel, Jordan Amaro, a game designer currently working at Nintendo, talked about working on Metal Gear Solid V.
And they shouldn't adopt western game design. A lot of the greatest games i have played came out of Japanese gaming culture.
Odd as MGSV seems like it was trying to be as western as it could be...which is why I thought it was the worst MGS game in the main numbered games.
Konami shouldn't be discounted or written off, according to Splatoon 2 designer Jordan Amaro, as they have really good developers.
Look I get it, but that's different. Konami treating their employees are very questionable. There was a lot of going between Ex Konami members and Konami especially how their relationship were. The result wasn't pretty. Konami wanted to change something that some ex Konami members didn't like and completely left the publisher because of Konami attitude and their marketing tactics.
Omg can we move on from this, already!?
Kojima wasn't exactly not at fault either.
The guy went over budget constantly and could never commit to a dead-line.
Yea, he's an amazing developer but the way he operates is terrible for a business. The best thing ever was for him to become his own boss and then he can see the strain of going over budget and not sticking to dead-lines.
According to Nintendo’s Game Designer, Jordan Amaro, a foreigner in the walls of a Japanese game studio giant, the focus in game development by the Western studios is on character development, story, and setting. While Japanese studios rather concentrates on gameplay mechanics and how it plays, and that this aspect in a game is far more important than the characters and story.
I wouldn't be that generalizing. You can find various western and eastern games that handle their game development process differently. Not each regions conforms to a certain way of developing a title
I'm disagree. Every developers can create a game whatever they want. Like I said, definition of gaming is everything, not just gameplay. Gameplay is always come first but it evolved for decades and open the endless of possibilities for devs to create.
Has he even played JRPGs before...
Like say Persona 5 for example
Exactly. Certain companies in the Japanese industry have gotten worse. As in Capcom.
I think that Square Enix is back on track with FFXV and KH3 and Namco Bandai has gotten my utmost respect lately, mainly with the Tales series.
Even if the Japanese industry has taken a hit, it can easily recover and it's looking pretty good to me so far.
I know that because of FFXIII people have their doubts about the Japanese industry, but just remember epic title like Xenoblade and the Last Story.
i agree, look at demons souls, dark souls
I think it kind of has, theres a few games out there that do well but the problem is Capcom and Square Enix the two biggest publishers/companies in Japan.
I know what this guy is saying but the guy works on MGS, one of the biggest franchises that do well regardless of where it's released so of course he's not going to see the full picture because a game he's worked on over the years isn't being affected by the state of the Japanese market. While on the other hand Keiji Inafune is a man who has been f***** over by the Japanese industry, I mean the guy who created Mega Man has ended up resorting to a Kickstarter to fund a spiritual looking successor to Mega Man since he's lost it to Capcom.
Fox Engine is going to tip the balance back towards the East, a little.
The problem is making a blanket statement like that in the first place. Some companies have gotten worse, some haven't. Much of what's being called "worse" is staying the same, which isn't necessarily true. Likewise, some of what's considered "worse" is changing in ways people aren't happy with.
But it's not EVERY dev and publisher from Japan that's doing any or all of these things. People have simply jumped on the train to proclaim something most of them don't even really know anything about.