With visual fidelity on consoles reaching new levels one acclaimed video game director Hideki Kamiya says that pretty visuals alone don’t do much for him these days. Kamiya went on to say that a good action game needs mechanics no other game has and he points towards the games that he has directed:
“When I make a new game, I try to come up with a unique gameplay mechanic that can only be experienced in that game. For example, in Bayonetta it was the Witch Time system where dodging an enemy attack slows down time, and in Okami, it was the Celestial Brush, which lets you directly affect the game world by drawing.”
Kamiya went on to say that innovation is one of the most important things in video games and that graphics can not carry a game alone. Morbid Metal creator Felix Schade said that the most games these days do not include some innovative formula and Kamiya said that he’s not drawn to games that only offer improved graphics. “As a player, I want to get excited by the unique experiences which only that one game can offer.”
I personally have never owned a PlayStation or XBox because I find most of western gaming to suffer from graphics first, gameplay second. The only non-Nintendo console I’ve ever owned was a Sega Genesis. Fun gameplay (and fun visuals) please. Watching my friends play FIFA or COD made me wanna die of boredom growing up.
Xbox had Japanese support look at Itagaki and the Sega support on the OG and PlayStation is Japanese they had a ton of Japanese exclusives for the longest amount of time Devil May Cry, Yakuza, Persona, Final Fantasy, and many others.
Nintendo owns western studios like Retro and has had western studios make games for them in the past like Rare and Silicon Knights. Nintendo owns Nex Level Games too another studio not in Japan and recently bought Shiver Entertainment a studio based in Florida.
Lol imagine making a game…and spending so much time on graphics you forget to add the game cough forspoken cough
Concord was the opposite, they forgot to add both graphics and gameplay, they focused so much on DEI for 8yrs straight.
Buy Ninja Gaiden 4 if you feel that way about DEI honestly GOTY and the media are trying to undermine it. I know Geoff awards will give yotei the award but help NG4 go up in sales surprised the usual channels are not promoting it maybe if they spent less time hate playing yotei and supported a good game like NG4 we’d be in a better place gaming wise then we can show NG4 sold better.
Exactly and call out the grifters not plugging Ninja Gaiden 4 instead spending time attacking yotei. Push a actual good game Ninja Gaiden 4 and in a way to honor Itagaki and it’s not woke. Buy Ninja Gaiden 4 its on PS5, Xbox, and PC if you want to dunk on woke games like Silent Hill f and yotei support the game that isn’t woke and make it a mega seller help it get to 5 million in its first month. None of them are talking about it instead spend all day talking about yotei the same thing.
Forespoken looked awful what do you mean.
Yup and Kamiya’s supervised projects look bad too like another Square game Babylons Fall. Visuals do matter but so does the game itself. I blame millennials for this they needed to be self validated playing games hat looked realistic so they could say it’s not for kids and would belittle anyone not playing COD and M rated games now these tards simp for Astrobot the hypocrisy is real. Gen Z prefers art style so hopefully more goid things get made.
Graphics are nothing but extras. If the gameplay and story is not good, the graphics can’t save the game. Whoever believes that only graphic is important, is just a sheep that follows the shiny keys.