Game Development Giant

"I don't know why there are such rumors recently. I do have one thing to announce at GDC, but it is absolutely impossible to say that this game related to Balotelli will be my last game. Finally, I wish you all the best. Merry Christmas to you.”

Jester's reply was brief.

But this reply was unintentionally very heavyweight, and it completely shattered the rumors during this period.

Later someone asked again, are you really thinking about retiring?

Jester quickly responded.

"I have said in the community before that I only have one thing for game development, that is, if the game can make something different and be full of passion, then I will never give up game development until the end of my life. At that moment, I knew that a person’s talent, wisdom, experience, vision, and ability always have limits.”

"For so many years, I have been committed to making the best games. At the beginning, I had countless wonderful game ideas in my mind, and I was extremely eager to produce them all."

"But I know that it is not enough to rely on my own strength, so I formed Mars Entertainment. With Mars Entertainment, I have grown a lot. However, it is regrettable that as the game becomes more and more popular, The more games I play, the more the types of games become more and more refined, and I find that there are fewer and fewer games that give me the idea that I have to make them."

“I don’t even know how many more games I can make, and how many more games can keep me this passionate, but this Balotelli is definitely not the last one, and this Balotelli When Turley comes out, you will know why he is so different - or even more accurate, that is unique."

Seeing Jester's reply, many people felt a bad feeling in their hearts.

Because you can feel it from Jester’s words. He actually has the idea of ​​retiring in his mind. Maybe even if Balotelli is not his last game, then his last game should not be far away.

"Don't leave us."

Some players responded this way.

"I won't leave you, but you have to know. When I founded Mars Entertainment in 1984 and created the first game "American Cube" on my computer in my bedroom, I was in college that year. Two, nineteen years old. It is now 1997. Thirteen years have passed and I am already thirty-two years old and the father of two children. In five or six years, I may be in my forties. .”

"Many people say that the age of forty has just entered the peak period of one's career, with mature abilities and high energy, which is the easiest time to start a career. But what I want to say is that, in fact, for front-line game development Said. When you are forty years old, you are basically entering the final stage. In fact, producers in this period rarely participate in the front-line development of the game, but are responsible for a lot of behind-the-scenes and coordination work. "

“Because the front-line development of games consumes so much energy, working overtime is commonplace. Moreover, this industry also needs passion as motivation and endless ideas to fill games. After a producer has been working on games for twenty years, In fact, almost all of his game ideas have been implemented."

"I am in such a state now. I have many good game ideas, but there are not many unique games. My game concept has never been about good games. It is about unique games. If If I can’t make a unique game, then I won’t make games, and this is my bottom line when it comes to making games.”

"That's all."

After Jester replied this, many people immediately asked questions.

"Although I really don't want to ask, I still have to ask. Otherwise I will have trouble sleeping and eating. Could it be that we will play your games less and less in the future? As a person who grew up playing your games As a person, I can’t imagine how I would spend my days without your games - it would be a disaster like every day is like a year!”

Jester hesitated to say this question for a while, but after thinking about it again and again, Jester decided to reveal the curve.

"All I can say is that Balotelli is my next work, but it will definitely not be the last one. In fact, after Balotelli, I will have one hidden in my heart. The game that has been in the works for many years is about to be put into practice. I have not disclosed this game to anyone. It is very large and will even be larger than "The Heroes", but the required team size may not be as large as "The Heroes". many."

A game bigger than "The Heroes"!

As soon as Jester said this, the forum immediately became abuzz. Although Jester said that he had not shared his ideas for the next game with anyone, he heard such news. It’s exciting enough!

As we all know, "The Hero" is a landmark work in the field of video games. This game completely subverted almost everyone's development of video games.

But what Jester said is that after completing Balotelli's new work, he will develop a game bigger than "The Hero". This is simply the greatest good news for gamers!

"Really?"

Immediately, countless people's replies followed.

Many people wanted reassurance that this was just a joke made by Jester.

However, Jester immediately said with certainty: "As long as I don't have any accidents at the time, then this game will definitely be included. In fact, this will be a summary of my entire gaming career. I have already prepared for this game." It has been conceived for many, many, many years, and many of the things I did before that you don’t understand why were actually preparations for the author of this game. So far, the effect is very good.”

Someone immediately caught the message that was vaguely revealed in Jester's words, which was a summary of the sentence 'This is to make a living in the game'.

So, is it true that although Balotelli's new game will not be Jester's last game, then the next game will be his last game? However, after this question was asked, there was no answer from Jester. It is not known whether Jester has been offline or whether he deliberately ignored this question.

Although Jester came to the forum this time, he successfully solved the rumors that Balotelli would be his last work.

But similarly, two other important pieces of news were also revealed by him.

One of them is after Balotelli. It will be a bigger game than "Gallant", but it does not require so many people and so much money, because the reason "Gallant" requires so much money is because this type of game models various systems from the sandbox It almost needs to be done from scratch, and no one has such experience.

The other one is one. It was the speculation triggered by the summary of Jester’s ‘gaming career’.

Moreover, regarding this speculation, Jester did not refute the rumors like Balotelli did, so this is very likely to be true.

at last. As the opening of GDC approaches, the discussion among players in the player community about whether Jester will retire has not slowed down with the passage of time. On the contrary, with the arrival of GDC, the discussion has become more and more heated, because before News has spread through countless channels that Jester will attend as a guest at this year's GDC awards show, and he will answer many of the current speculations about him.

Including whether the rumors about the final game are true.

This is also the topic that players are most concerned about.

This year's selection awards are becoming more and more abundant, such as the industry benchmark award. Represents studios that have made extremely outstanding contributions to the industry.

Plus best new releases and more.

Back then, the heavyweight award was Game of the Year. This year's competition is extremely fierce because the release of "Final Fantasy 7" has been delayed to next year. However, the competition has not weakened, because this year's two major competitors are Hideo Kojima's Return of the King, which caused "Metal Gear", which has received miraculous reputation and sales, and "Zelda: Ocarina of Time", which Shigeru Miyamoto worked on for three years.

Both games have very high reputations in terms of word-of-mouth evaluation, especially "Zelda: Ocarina of Time" is praised as a flawless work of art, and "GAME" magazine also gave it the only perfect score in these years. They didn't give such a score to "The Heroes" last year. The score they gave to "The Heroes" was 9.9 points. In the shortcomings column, the shortcomings evaluation given by "GAME" is because the reading problem seriously affects the game experience, but because other aspects are really too good, so. Zero point and one point deducted.

But for "Zelda Ocarina of Time", this time "GAME" directly gave it a perfect score.

They even put the title of art within art on this game, and they also wrote something in the shortcomings column. They wrote like this - The-sad-raelisation-that-future-RPG-game-may -never-top-this.

Literally translated into Chinese, it is a sad reality, that is, the top RPG games in the future will only stop here. Let’s translate it freely. The shortcoming of this game is that it is breathtaking.

This is really a high evaluation that cannot be higher.

Kojima's "Metal Gear" is also highly rated, especially his perfectly presented cinematic game, a very innovative concept, which has made this game have many fans. Although "Zelda" "Ocarina of Time" has the biggest appeal, but Kojima is not without hope of winning the award.

In the voting conducted by the player community of Mars Entertainment, the supporters of these two games are basically evenly split, with "Zelda: Ocarina of Time" slightly ahead.

Jester also gave an interview while attending the awards night.

He was asked why his game development philosophy is so different. Others just want to make good games, but you really want to not only make good games, but also make unique and good games.

Jester smiled and replied: "Because I don't like to sit still and stand still. I know that if I continue to make old games according to the previous ideas, countless players will buy it, but I am not such a person. For me, I have never been I won’t take the path I’ve already taken.”

In fact, Jester has been deeply abhorred by such behavior since before he traveled through time.

The most typical one is "Fallout 4".

Is "Fallout 4" a fun game? Yes, "Fallout 4" is indeed a fun game. Its fun is exactly the same as playing "Old Gun 5" back then, but all its features, all The gameplay, everything, including some bugs in the engine, are all the same as Lao Gun 5. Jester’s behavior of covering up is absolutely intolerable.

If a game company deceives players as if they are fools, then I'm sorry. No matter how good the game is, Jester won't play it because there is no sincerity.

Just like at the annual awards ceremony of the original VGA, which was renamed TGA in 2015, "Fallout 4" was a complete failure. It didn't even get a consolation award. Even the best mobile game had nothing to do with them. In a true sense, he is the character who accompanies the prince to study.

In fact, this is what the judges are telling Company B.

It's 2015 now, not 2010, and relying on you to keep rolling 5 is no longer feasible.

It's that simple.

But The Witcher 3 became the biggest winner, winning three major honors: Game of the Year, RPG of the Year, and Producer of the Year. Even the semi-finished MGS5, Hideo Kojima, the last "Metal Gear Solid" series, also won the award. When it comes to the important award of the best action/adventure game of the year, of course MGS5 is only a semi-finished product. If Kojima is given time to complete the complete MGS5, then it is really unclear who will win the game of the year.

This living example represents that both players and people in the industry have always abhorred the behavior of just resting on credit without making progress.

anyway.

Joining Jester is Shigeru Miyamoto, who has also been sought after and interviewed by countless media, because Shigeru Miyamoto is the protagonist of this year's awards show. Not only is he the most popular possible winner of Game of the Year, Moreover, he is also the most likely winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Basically, the Lifetime Achievement Award is basically determined to be his, because he has been nominated since the very beginning, and now it is his turn. .

The other people nominated with him are not as good as Miyamoto Shigeru in terms of fame, honors, works, qualifications, and contributions to the industry. (~^~)