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Paper Mario: Sticker Star (3DS)


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Yeah, sorry, Miyamoto. You had a good run, but you're getting too old for this shit.

Personally I think that Miyamoto's an old outdated relic who has sadly refused to change with the times.

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Miyamoto is a friggin brilliant man, but he specialises in gameplay.  Shigsy overstepped his bounderies on what he's good at here, nothing more.

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A relic who makes freaking awesome games.

But also limits those awesome games for being the best they could be. Let him only handle gameplay, and bar him from everything else. 

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Personally I think that Miyamoto's an old outdated relic who has sadly refused to change with the times.

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon says hello.

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But also limits those awesome games for being the best they could be. Let him only handle gameplay, and bar him from everything else.

Miyamoto giving teams ideas =/= teams following black/white directives.
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Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon says hello.

So one good game proves that Miyamoto's not an out of date relic?

 

Just to be clear I don't hate Miyamoto but he has failed to change with the times. In this day and age video games are interactive movies so there's really no reason why we can't have Mario games that have a good story to go along with the gameplay.

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In this day and age video games are more like interactive movies

If that's the case I'm kind of glad Miyamoto's not following along.
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Absolutely. If I want to watch a movie, I'll watch a movie. I don't need hour long cutscenes that show up in so many games these days.

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It's called story-telling. Every game does it differently. Some people love games with tons of story, others like simple games with little story or exposition. Just because you prefer one method does not automatically make the other one bad. And I highly doubt any game has a cutscene that's an hour long. Even MGS4's longest cutscene wasn't as long as that.

 

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Just to be clear I don't hate Miyamoto but he has failed to change with the times. In this day and age video games are more like interactive movies so there's really no reason why we can't have Mario games that have a good story to go along with the gameplay.

 

Games shouldn't be interactive movies. They should be games. 

 

A video game is many things. It is musical. It is logical. It is artistic, and it is entertaining. It is a sport and it is a puzzle. It is not just one of these things, but all of them at once. A game may suffer without proper art or music, but the game is not a lost cause for it. Those are but pieces of a bigger machine, a machine that can ultimately run without them. 

 

Think of it a bit like a symphony. Sometimes the greatest compositions make excellent use of every player in an orchestra, and the display is quite a spectacle indeed. But this does not mean that the whole show is lost if one part doesn't get to play. To me, then,  the "cinematic game" is akin to the orchestra with one instrument. It may play that one instrument well, but there are whole dimensions of music that it will never achieve. Miyamoto may still have more instruments to master, but he plays the ones he knows so well that I'm content to wait until he does.

 

Sorry for that bizarre aside. I am rather terrible at formulating arguments on the fly.

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I think Miyamoto's entered creative fatigue. It's easy to get burned out when you become the creative lead for a multibillion dollar international entertainment company.  Time was, if he had a cool motive or idea, he knew how to wrap something around that.  Like how his exploration of the fields behind his house as a kid was his inspiration for creating a massive fantasy adventure in Zelda.  Now it's come to "I like dogs, so I will make a game where you take care of dogs.  I like music, so I will make a game where you play instruments."

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So one good game proves that Miyamoto's not an out of date relic?

 

Just to be clear I don't hate Miyamoto but he has failed to change with the times. In this day and age video games are interactive movies so there's really no reason why we can't have Mario games that have a good story to go along with the gameplay.

 

It does when it's the first game he's been heavily involved with in years. He's been in an advisory role for many of the games you would use as evidence for him being an outdated relic. In other words, though he would suggest such things, there is no reason for the actual developers to use those ideas. With Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, he was in complete control. It was his own special project that he chose Next Level Games to work on for him.

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