Game Development Giant

As for the deceased?

When thinking of this, Kudo Yuji sneered twice. This was not a good choice. It didn't matter to him, but the problem faced by Nakamura Masaya was still the same. ? top? point? novel

Nakamura Masaya has no way to put down his dignity and go to Mars Entertainment, so does he have the dignity to die?

Don't forget, when he was competing for the chairmanship of the Electronic Game Industry Association, he had a lot of quarrels with Nakayama Hayao. In order to get this position, he completely offended Nakayama Hayao. Now he is asked to go to Zhongshan The president of Hayao's company, the association, went to the vice-president's company to hug his thigh. How could Nakamura Masaya, a person who was obsessed with face, accept this?

Unconsciously, Kudo Yuji thought a lot. When he kept thinking about Sega, he couldn't think of a reason. At least from the companies that Nakamura Masaya just mentioned, he couldn't find any suitable company, except for that one. Dispensable others...

Thinking of this, Kudo Yuji's expression suddenly changed, and he thought of a recent incident.

Then, he looked at Masaya Nakamura with straight eyes, and Masaya Nakamura still looked at him with a smile, without any change.

Somewhat unsure, Kudo Kaji asked in a suspicious tone: "Have you reached an agreement with the Sony people?" Kudo Kaji was a little angry when he asked this question. They had left Nintendo's development camp with Nakamura Masaya. At that time, he had reached an offensive and defensive alliance in private. If not, why would he bother so much about leaving PC-E and Nippon Electric?

For him, whether Hudson goes to Mars Entertainment or Sega, it is not a bad choice.

"of course not."

After hearing Kudo Yuji's question, Nakamura Masaya certainly would not admit it. He did not agree to Sony's request, but it was true that he had met Sony's people in private. After saying this denial, Nakamura Masaya fell silent. seconds. He seemed to be organizing his words before speaking.

"I did not agree to Sony's request. I didn't even meet with them. I just let one of my subordinates come into contact with Sony people..."

Before he could finish speaking, Kudo Yuji's expression changed again, and the look in his eyes became more and more suspicious.

Seeing this scene, Nakamura Masaya was also a little impatient, and said angrily: "Why do you not believe me so much? Do you think I will violate our offensive and defensive alliance? Just a few hours before this, I just I asked someone to meet with someone from Sony, but I didn’t talk about specific things. I just wanted to ask and I didn’t mean to meet. If so, then it will be tomorrow. After I got the news, I contacted you immediately. I understand. ? Kudo!"

After hearing Nakamura Masaya's explanation, Kudo Yuji's expression softened slightly.

"Sony? Are they really reliable?"

There was a strong hint of disbelief in Kudo Yuji's tone. This was not their fault. They had trusted Fortune 500 companies before. But Nippon Electric, which is also a Fortune 500 company, does not deserve their trust, and Sony has almost zero experience in the current video game industry. He had been bitten by a snake once, so he would not want to be bitten by a snake again.

Moreover, it is impossible for Hudson to be bitten a second time now.

Faced with this problem of Kudo Kaji. Nakamura Masaya is also difficult to answer. He met with Kudo Kazuji tonight, and he was not trying to convince him to join him as a third party in Sony. Because he himself has not yet confirmed the idea of ​​joining Sony as a third party, he just wanted to discuss with the other party tonight how to deal with the other party when he officially meets with Sony people tomorrow.

Agree or disagree.

After Masaya Nakamura explained truthfully, Kazuji Kudo fell silent. To be honest, he personally was not optimistic about Sony, especially since their console problems with Nintendo have not been resolved. Now he wants to enter the game industry. No matter how you look at it, it is unreliable.

"Are you worried about the host?"

Nakamura Masaya asked, and when Kudo Kaji nodded, he spoke directly.

"People from Sony told me tonight that we don't need to worry about this. They have reached an agreement with Nintendo privately and the console will not be a problem."

"That's it."

After groaning again, Kudo Yuji still couldn't make up his mind. Although he directly betrayed the alliance and was scolded at most, he didn't want to join Mars Entertainment from the bottom of his heart. The reason was that Hudson was a family It is a very conservative and traditional game development company. Many people in the company boycott Mars Entertainment from the United States.

As for Sega, when he helped Nakamura Masaya get the position of president, he also offended Nakayama Hayao. Although Nakayama Hayao might not care about this, now they are almost open to third-party development companies. But maybe they will settle old scores after Sega develops and grows.

Going to Sony is a good idea, but the premise is that Sony can succeed. They are the heroes of Chonglong, but they have already failed once before. The ending is not very ideal - and what is Sony better than Nippon Electric?

Officially, it was because of the lessons learned from the past that it was difficult for Kudo Kaji to make a decision.

Until after ten o'clock in the evening, the two people still did not come to a result of the discussion. Nakamura Masaya did not want to continue the discussion without results, so he simply drank up the wine in front of him and said resolutely: "In this way, we There will be no results if we continue this discussion. Tomorrow, tomorrow you come with me to meet with Sony people and listen to what they have to say. If they want to win over us, they can't just rely on empty words."

"That's the only way it can be." Kudo Kaji also sighed and said this.

Sony thought it was a secret to win over Namco and Hudson, but this kind of thing spread the fastest in the industry. Needless to say, even Jester, who is across the Pacific Ocean, knew about it, not to mention those in Japan. Yes, both Hiroshi Yamauchi and Hayao Nakayama got the news as soon as possible.

Hiroshi Yamauchi was naturally furious, but there was nothing he could do about it, unless he was willing to wipe his face and take the initiative to find that bastard Masaya Nakamura. But for Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo has not yet reached a point where he can survive completely without shame. .

And what about Nakayama Hayao? It is impossible not to say that he is jealous of Namco and Hudson. His relationship with Nakamura Masaya is not good, but although his relationship with the Kudo brothers is somewhat strained because of Nakamura Masaya's incident back then, it is still largely due to him. In the unrelenting situation, he also asked people to contact Hudson, but Hudson didn't even give him a chance to meet, and even replied very strongly. If he wanted to talk to them, he would have to talk to Namco. Let’s talk together, or we won’t.

From this point, Nakayama Hayao knew that there must be some agreement between the two to make common progress and retreat to bind both parties.

But let him talk to Namco about this matter. Hey, Nakayama Hayao would not be ashamed to do something that he did in spite of himself, so he had nothing to do about Sony's recruitment of these two.

Jester himself had had this plan before, but after considering that it was basically impossible to succeed, he gave up the idea. Namco and Hudson were very good, but he couldn't live without them. The current third-party development alliance of Mars Entertainment is strong enough, and there is no need to actively win over anyone.

What he is busy with now, apart from the RTS game he plans to make, is Sid Meier's "Civilization". As for the new FPS game, until John Carmack's 3D engine is perfected, even if He wanted to do it, but there was no way to do it. Moreover, the main person in charge of the second FPS game was not himself, but Carmack. This was something he had discussed with Carmack before.

And for Carmack, Jester also has great trust. The founder of the 'old-school' shooting game has talents and talents that others can't imagine for this type of game. Of course, old-school has been around for more than 20 years. Later players called it a type of shooting game with a similar style when games like FPS were first born.

old-school, which means old school.

Old-fashioned, but not outdated. There is no such thing as being outdated or outdated. There is only whether it is fun or not. Just like more than 20 years later, using an emulator to play Mario, Fire Emblem, etc. on a PC. Just like new players who can enjoy playing the first generation of pm, fun games are fun.

Even old-school shooters are far from outdated in the future.

Needless to say, the later benchmark for this type of game was "Halo", Microsoft's Xbox game. The representative work of this old-school shooting game can be said to be "Team Fortress 2" with a strong Carmack style, or the blood of Thor. 》 is the representative of this type of old-school shooting game.

When Jester was playing "Team Fortress 2", someone once asked him why this game could not find 1 but only 2?

In fact, many people don't know that the game "Team Fortress" is very similar to Dota. Their first game, "Team Fortress 1", was just a mod for "Quake", and the later "Team Fortress 2" 》 is an independent game.

This is why some people are always saying that this is a game with a very strong Thor bloodline.

In addition to the certain inheritance relationship between them, there is also the fact that they are both old-school.

Let’s not mention these.

Jester knew that sales of Civilization would not be high, but he still wanted to do his best to promote the game because he knew how great it would be.

A great game cannot be reflected by sales volume alone. (To be continued...)