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Anonymous Source  Posts: 4 Joined: 14 Sep 2009     | Was the part about quick time events done well screwed up purposely? the sound skips, but the video moves fine.. hmmm.. Yahtzee you genius idea witholder! You're saving that for a game you're designing aren't you!? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 199 Joined: 1 Jun 2009     | When Yatzhee says "It's very hard" the sound bugs out...or was that done on purpose? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 134 Joined: 4 Dec 2008     | it's very harrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :D damn it |
Video Producer  Posts: 377 Joined: 21 Jul 2008     |
Not on purpose. The streaming software sometimes cuts out the audio like that when it records at the same time it streams live. Hopefully you can still understand what's going on from context. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 1 Joined: 20 Oct 2009    | Is it just me or is this one of the stiffest interviews evar? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1223 Joined: 25 Jan 2009   | He touches on some good points, overall pretty nice to hear some of his thoughts on game design. Sorry to say this but the interviewer was supremely annoying, I'd prefer a little less enthusiastic babble and more actual conversation next time, maybe that's just me though. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1240 Joined: 11 Mar 2009   | Gah! Damn it! I really REALLY wanted to hear his statement on a positive use of QTEs. I've said it time and time again, if he demands QTEs as a core part of gameplay in a game (as a requirement for them to feel organic and useful) he should check out Ninja Blade for the X360. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 363 Joined: 18 Apr 2009   |
Not a whole lot the interviewer can do when the guy's clearly not much of a people's person :p |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 499 Joined: 4 Jun 2008   |
There's a difference between gushing enthusiastic babble and a conversation between two professional geeks. To me this falls firmly into the latter category. |
Vault Legend  Posts: 2198 Joined: 30 Jul 2008    |
I'm inclined to believe that part of the problem is the interview questions were supplied by the community. It meant that while there was no visible lag-time between the interviewer (Susan Arendt) and the persons asking questions, there was still a small space where the question had to be translated, then submitted. It made the whole interview more improvisation than interviewing, which probably was the main cause of the "stiffness." Considering it was also in a booth on the show-floor of a gaming show probably didn't help too much.
Just hopping in to say the same problem occurred during the live broadcast. Maybe Yahzee will show up and explain it for us one day. Who knows? |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 115 Joined: 18 Jun 2009   | Bar in which you can drink and play at the same time? :D. PS. Oh and the drink called Kamikaze could easly be called "mana pot" :P. |
Paperboy Posts: 33 Joined: 18 Apr 2009   | LOL! EPIC FAIL. She tries to make up a game name to be generic in her question but their actual is a game called "Z". So I wonder if he'll review Z now :). |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 652 Joined: 30 Jun 2009  | wow, I thought he was going to say silent hill 2... but he said project zero (fatal frame instead... sweet! |
Muckraker  Posts: 234 Joined: 10 Jun 2009  | its very harrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4815 Joined: 3 Jan 2009    |
Yes, I saw that too. Fatboy Slim remix. Let's hope that phrase never slurs for him like that at an innapropriate time with a lady. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 525 Joined: 18 Aug 2009   | Putting aside "IT'S VERY HARRRRRRRRRRRR," the thing that annoyed me about this is his answer to my JRPG question. Not that it was negative (that was a given, which is sort of why I asked), but that he didn't really answer it. My question was what titles he'd played to give him such a negative view of an entire genre, and his answer was a brief mention of FF7 and then stereotyping the whole genre. To be fair to Yahtzee, Susan added a lot of extra things to the question that rather changed the nature of it. The bar idea sounds interesting, I'd drink there. But that would require me to go to Australia, which is something I swore I would never do. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 128 Joined: 21 Jan 2009 | Yahtzee looks like a friend of mine! HA! Very interesting watch though... |
Beat Writer Posts: 128 Joined: 21 Jan 2009 | Can anyone get the text of what we missed during the HAAAARRRDDD moments? I'd like to hear his answer to that! |
Paperboy  Posts: 14 Joined: 29 Jul 2009 | lol @ the mana bar |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3946 Joined: 17 Jan 2009     | Oh how I larfed. The whole interview was pretty good, though as others have said, it did seem quite dry in terms of it's social nature, but Yahtzee clearly isn't a people person. As NewClassic said, the questions came from IRC, and to back up his point, I would like you to cast your mind back to one of the questions in the interview: "Worst Game Ever?" Can you not see why now things may have been a little unsettling when the majority of the questions had to be rephrased to make a decent topic? Anyway Escapist, thank you for supplying this. I enjoyed all of it. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 198 Joined: 10 Dec 2008 | This interview with Mr. Croshaw is decent. However I feel that Mr. Croshaw is nervous. It was nice having him arrive in Philly. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 444 Joined: 22 Apr 2009  | "Less fans would make the world a better place." Seconded. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4889 Joined: 22 Feb 2009  | And the secret of the well done quick time event is lost. Forever. Something we're just not meant to know. |
Senior Editor  Posts: 2259 Joined: 9 Jan 2007    |
Actually, when referring to something generic, I usually use "X", as in the mathematical variable, but given that we were at "GameX", that seemed inappropriate, so I went with Z instead. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 405 Joined: 15 Jul 2009  |
The perfect quicktime event shall be the greatest creation in video game history, for it will unite people who love as well as people who hate quicktime vents under one banner and bring peace to the world of games (And maybe it'll cure cancer to :D) |
Press Junketeer Posts: 499 Joined: 4 Jun 2008 |
I don't think that means what you think it means. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1766 Joined: 2 Jul 2008  | About 25 minutes in he's asked whether he would rather play a game that had a: - strong story/characterisation and meh gameplay He kind of wriggled out of giving an answer. - yes, he liked some games that had really strong stories, but meh gameplay (cites examples) then he sits on the fence and says that there are some games that have both, e.g. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
I suppose it is nice he isn't unduly biased - neither a diehard narratologist, or a ludologist, but an aspirational "holist" ideally seeking both. However, I was hoping he'd say that deep gameplay was of paramount importance, to give value for money through repeat replayability and make the observation that stories force linearity onto the space of possibilities generated by a dynamical interactive game world and players soon notice that their choices are artificially limited and their movements are spatially directed along a kind of "corridor" of sequenced contexts that trigger events in a narrative order, rather than an open world in which stuff happens partly as a result of their actions, but also irrespective of their involvement (i.e. other NPCs are pursuing their own goals behind the scenes, affecting the game world even if you are not around to witness their interactions with each other). Frankly, I'd be happy to give up on Story, Character, Celebrity Voice actors, Orchestral Music, Photorealistic HD Graphics, and the enormous number of Artists, Animators and Level Designers these AAA projects require (e.g. Assassin's Creed had 300 staff, mainly doing "the look"), if it meant that the developers spent more time balancing and polishing "the feel": Gameplay, Controls, AI, Physics. Yet, I doubt this will happen given that magazines sell on the basis of preview screenshots and web-sites like IGN do well from what often turn out to be pre-rendered non-interactive trailers that are "representative of in-game graphics". These publishers will even use footage that is fake when their game is finished and they are promoting it in TV adverts. It is a pity gaming isn't just discussed on the radio. Anyway. I didn't mean to sound so negative, I liked the interview. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1766 Joined: 2 Jul 2008 |
Funny thing, there's a game called Z: see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(video_game) There's probably one for every letter of the alphabet though, much like programming languages... I'm just too lazy to look. Personally, I think you did a good job of the interview and the sound quality was perfect compared to The Guild interview. I don't mind not knowing Yahtzee's secret solution to implementing QTEs well. ;-) |
Senior Editor Posts: 2259 Joined: 9 Jan 2007 | Ok, having watched a bit of this now, I'm stunned by how quiet the ambient noise in the video was compared to the actual show floor. We basically had to shout at each other to be heard at all - glad to see it wasn't quite so overpowering in the video. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1315 Joined: 11 Jun 2009    | I like how She's trying to be funny next to Yahtzee! The Charlie Brooker of the Gaming world! Intresting |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 87 Joined: 8 Mar 2009   |
Oh god I think I've played that game before |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1789 Joined: 8 Nov 2008   | God, if his bar becomes a reality as soon as I turn 18 I'll be down there. |
Paperboy  Posts: 32 Joined: 12 Mar 2009  | His idea for a more natural conversation tree is fantastically good. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 8 Joined: 3 Apr 2009  | harrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrdddddddddddddddddddd |
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Live Chat with Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
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