THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: pilonv1 on April 12, 2012, 06:26:11 AM
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http://www.edge-online.com/news/miyamoto-heaps-praise-angry-birds
Talismanic Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto has lavished praise upon Angry Birds, telling us Rovio's mobile smash is his favourite game of the past year.
Miyamoto admitted the high regard in which he holds Rovio's game, which has been downloaded over 600 million times, during an interview in Paris yesterday.
"I usually don't comment on these sorts of questions," Miyamoto said, before praising the Nintendo-developed audio guide for the Louvre museum which prompted his visit to the French capital. "Non-Nintendo… Angry Birds, maybe.
"What I like about Angry Birds is that it has a traditional videogame [feel] to it, but also a very creative side. And you can really feel that they’re having fun developing the game. That's what I like about it."
Given comments made during the past year by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, and US boss Reggie Fils-Aime, it's surprising to hear the company's most high-profile and respected developer praising a smartphone game.
At GDC last year, Iwata blasted cheap games, saying traditional companies had to "focus on a single question: is maintaining the high value of games a priority or not? What we produce has value, and we should protect that value." Fils-Aime hit out at "candidly disposable" smartphone games which he said represented "one of the biggest risks today in our industry."
Those comments, however, were borne out of business considerations, of the need to continue to sell £40 games in an era where conventional business models and attitudes to pricing are rapidly changing. Miyamoto is a designer, and he sees merit in small games built on one solid idea. Does he keep an eye on smartphone games in general?
"I check up on them sometimes, but I don't have a lot of time," he admits. "I think we also have a history of having certain fun ideas and making a game out of it, and there's lots of other people also doing this [now].
"This kind of environment inspires us to try even harder, and create even more unexpected new things."
Not sure how the nthings will cope with this news. Will Angry Birds be retconned as a great game now?
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Never cared for the series that much up until space which I actually like.
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What a senile old man
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Casual gamer likes casual games. What's the big surprise? ???
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This is even more proof than Wii Music that he's going senile. What a sad day for videogames. :'(
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Angry Birds will soon be Nintendo's property. I can see it already.
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Angry Birds is better than 99% of the Wii catalog.
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Where does he say it's his favorite game of 2011? Seems like editorializing by EDGE.
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Where does he say it's his favorite game of 2011? Seems like editorializing by EDGE.
"I usually don't comment on these sorts of questions," Miyamoto said, before praising the Nintendo-developed audio guide for the Louvre museum which prompted his visit to the French capital. "Non-Nintendo… Angry Birds, maybe.
Presumably the "sort of question" he was asked was "What was your favorite game last year?"
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They make it overly vague if that's indeed the case. Sounds more like it's his favorite smartphone game, though.
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:P
They make it overly vague if that's indeed the case. Sounds more like it's his favorite smartphone game, though.
"I usually don't comment on these sorts of questions," Miyamoto said, before praising the Nintendo-developed audio guide for the Louvre museum which prompted his visit to the French capital. "Non-Nintendo… Angry Birds, maybe.
Nintendo make smartphone games? ???
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Not sure how the nthings will cope with this news. Will Angry Birds be retconned as a great game now?
Well, now you know how nthings are coping with the news.
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Look, jus cus Polanski raped a 13 year old girl doesn't mean that I'm not allowed to think Chinatown is a great movie, k?
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Nintendo SHOULD make smartphone games. I'd pay a premium price for a retina native Paper Mario on iOS
I've always liked Super Mario RPG more than Paper Mario, but yeah Paper Mario on ps vita would be great.
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Look, jus cus Michale Jackson raped a 13 year old boy doesn't mean I'm not allowed to think Beat It is a catchy song, k?
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Casual gamer likes casual games. What's the big surprise? ???
yup.
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I loved SMRPG as much as the next dude, but Paper Mario clearly is a much better fit for the hd era.
As well as the fact that square would fuck it up