klikbeep
Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Location: Tokyo
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 Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:03 am |
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| Yes, indeed. Kojima is such a character in the industry. |
Kojima is a half-mad bomb-thrower; one of the few in the industry with the clout and guts and sense of humor to show the Emperor without Clothes. You want a video game, huh?
Oh, he'll give you a video game.
Basically, he uses the stifling nature of the medium against itself. For Kojima to exist as he does, things must be pretty damn bad.
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| The problem is not that they are not "Art" -- that is a useless, loaded term that only leads to sterile squabbling about definitions, and please nobody bring it up from now on. |
People use terms as shorthand for concepts. Terms are dead useful! Just because you've already chewed a term overmuch doesn't mean that it deserves an INVALID stamp.
So, just to juggle semantics around a bit, video games are not a good medium for creative expression. Because they're so costly to produce, decision-by-committee becomes inevitable. No one person could produce a game that could compete technologically with the Big Boys, and audience hunger for new tech is fierce. Directorial freedoms get chucked out the window.
It would be like you laboring on a sensitive and delicate painting, and your teacher comes up to you and says "HOW WE GOING TO MOVE 300,000 COPIES OF THAT?"
That, and the paint and canvas cost a million dollars.
Fortunately for the industry, though, nobody really seems to care, save for a small group of prickly chiptunes enthusiasts. Perhaps in some dark corner of the internet, there's a message board wondering why McDonald's doesn't serve a really nice Valencian paella . . . but it probably doesn't impact sales too much. |
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