Damn! I wonder if he resigned or if he was forced to resign. If it's the latter then it's a major blow to his ego. Head of Sony then tried his luck with Atari and coming to this...
I wonder if the recent "failure" of Alone in the Dark and the rumored cancellation of the Witcher game has anything to do with this...
shatteredhalo :: Kojima-san doesn't have to make Metal Gear any more was starred
shatteredhalo :: Kojima-san doesn't have to make Metal Gear any more was unstarred
Oh geez. Does this mean he doesn't get to make the big decisions anymore? Atari was actually starting to look like it'd be coming around as a respectable publisher again, and I'd hate to think of somebody else coming in and fucking it up.
@SocraticMethod: I liked Phil while he was at Sony. I liked him when he first went to Atari... Then he had to make those infamous comments about the industry. The man can become QA now, for all I care... No... Actually, I want a QA position open for me if i can't find an English teaching Job in Japan (or wherever)... So, no, he should just leave the game industry.
@SocraticMethod: Have to agree, everytime I see a Sony keynote or press conferences - I begin to miss him. And also how he'd pronounce beta as "beeee-tah." :)
I'll still support Sony. PS3 is the best turn around any gaming platform has ever made and many features were added to improve. I had it at launch and some people's memory may be short. I remember when there was no background downloading, there was no themes, the no vibration SIXAXIS was the only controller, PS Store was primarily browser based and poorly designed, and more.
With all that said, the games have gotten better. We now have awesome games like Ratchet and Clank Future: ToD, Uncharted, Killzone, Pixel Junk Eden, Flow, Flower, Metal Gear Solid 4, and titles multiplatform titles like GTA IV, etc.
All of this visiting of the past and it seems noone remembers DRE, which drove UP the price of first gen US PSX units (Due to the fact that they could play imports unmodded thanks to the disc swap trick) and how it returned to terrorize us all on the PS2.
ahh.. the original playstation.. how i hated thee so. i still look back at the system as rather bland, in the 4th gen... i didnt like the graphics. they reminded me of a 3d version of atari graphics.. blocky and low colors. the nintendo 64 looked better and the saturn still did 2d quite well.. which is why iw as in heaven on those consoles. then the ps2 came out, and i had plenty games for it because it was almost the only game in town.. but i still dug the dreamcast, original xbox, and gamecube more. now the ps3 is out.. and im a pretty big fan of the thing... whodathunk. still miss sega though.
@B33: Did I say the N64 was perfect? No. But I do feel that it did a much better job at providing 3D graphics without MUCH aliasing. Whenever I played PS1 games, I always felt like it was trying to create 3D using pixels instead of polys from the sheer amount of aliasing.
Because you TOTALLY KNEW what aliasing was back then--it was a common topic of discussion. I bet you were "aw3" struck by the mad anti-aliasing in the N64 and told ALL your friends.
@aw3str1k3r: But what about those FMV and CGI cutscenes. My 10 year old self was blown away by them having only known of sprites from SNES and Gameboy.
@Hiroken: I didn't know the term "aliasing" back then (or if it even existed), but only an idiot wouldn't be able to see "jaggies."
@Leanid: Those were quite impressive. Often superior to the N64 in those moments. That's what made the aliasing during gameplay even more of a turn-off for me.
@Combichristoffersen: all opinion my friend, all opinion. most of the games that people throw out there for psx that were big deals i didnt really care about. final fantasy, metal gear solid, gran turismo, tekken... and so on and so forth... meh.
for me, it was all about goldeneye, die hard arcade, nights, mario 64, f-zero x, killer instinct gold, starfox 64, guardian heroes, mischief makers, virtua fighter, virtua cop, daytona usa, the thq wrestling games, shining force III, ocarina of time, panzer dragoon series, clockwork knight, astal, legend of oasis, sega rally, perfect dark, bomberman 64, legend of the mystical ninja, wave race 64, and since i have a jp saturn (or played some of these back then too)... all the cool capcom fighters that were broken on playstation were great on saturn like x-men/marvel super heroes vs street fighter, the real bout fatal fury games..
i could go on for days.. and probably not list more than 20 games i liked on ps1. i was a big fan of beat em ups, platform games, and fighting games (still am) and the ps1 just wasnt the place to go for that kind of stuff for me. like i said, the lack of colors and blocky graphics killed stuff like spyro for me.. and the capcom fighting games suffered on ps1, fpses sucked on all consoles back then cept for goldeneye and perfect dark. multi tap? nah i got 4 ports on my 64.. i mean.. those 2 systems were my combo then.. and i still would play them way before the ps1.
I never actually played a Saturn (I'm not even sure if they were officially available here in Norway), but I'm completely opposite of you; the N64 and its games never impressed me much (never liked Zelda, stopped caring about Mario after SMB3 and I never thought of Goldeneye as being better than mediocre.. Wave Race 64 was gold, though), while I had my gaming fun on the PS1 (Gran Turismo, FF VII and IX, Crash Bandicoot 1-3, Nightmare Creatures, SoulBlade, Tekken 3 and Silent Hill were made of finest win back then).
@shouryuuken Guardian Heroes!!! I returned my PS1 and got a Saturn and a top loading NES and could not have been happier. Guardian Heroes was the first game I purchased, for a measly $16, and was literally stupified at it's awesomeness. Speaking of which... *dusts off Saturn*
@Combichristoffersen: yeah.. see i dont like super serious racing games like gran turismo, not big on rpgs (yeah.. final fantasy VII is legendary i know.. but it wasnt enough to make me enjoy the ps1 more than everything else), i thought nightmare creatures was pretty bad.. and tekken (at least until 3) was a definite rip off of virtua fighter. even though soul blade was okay, i still never liked 3d fighters nearly as much as 2d. i also never thought silent hill was all that good.. lots of games like that bore me.. i thought resident evil was much better.
as for goldeneye.. sure it may not have been as hot as whatever fpses were on pcs.. but it definitely trumped anything on a console. not only did they control bad on ps1 or saturn.. they looked horrendous.
@FuriousMantis: man i remember seeing a small half page article on that game in egm back in summer 96. i didnt even have a saturn yet.. but i went and bought it because it looked and sounded so wonderful. 59.99 i believe, and i rented the saturn like 5 times that summer. amazing game... still one of my favorites to this day.
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I wonder if the recent "failure" of Alone in the Dark and the rumored cancellation of the Witcher game has anything to do with this...
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if not...then....well,good luck with wherever your future takes you
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They need you, and we need you to be there.
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Come back...
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But, best of luck to ya Phil.
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That man was great in all his "Alright, nappy-time SCEE" three times a day.
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With all that said, the games have gotten better. We now have awesome games like Ratchet and Clank Future: ToD, Uncharted, Killzone, Pixel Junk Eden, Flow, Flower, Metal Gear Solid 4, and titles multiplatform titles like GTA IV, etc.
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Because you TOTALLY KNEW what aliasing was back then--it was a common topic of discussion. I bet you were "aw3" struck by the mad anti-aliasing in the N64 and told ALL your friends.
*rolls eyes*
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The N64 did 3D better and the Saturn did 2D better, but the PS1 had the majority of all the good games, so..
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@Leanid: Those were quite impressive. Often superior to the N64 in those moments. That's what made the aliasing during gameplay even more of a turn-off for me.
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for me, it was all about goldeneye, die hard arcade, nights, mario 64, f-zero x, killer instinct gold, starfox 64, guardian heroes, mischief makers, virtua fighter, virtua cop, daytona usa, the thq wrestling games, shining force III, ocarina of time, panzer dragoon series, clockwork knight, astal, legend of oasis, sega rally, perfect dark, bomberman 64, legend of the mystical ninja, wave race 64, and since i have a jp saturn (or played some of these back then too)... all the cool capcom fighters that were broken on playstation were great on saturn like x-men/marvel super heroes vs street fighter, the real bout fatal fury games..
i could go on for days.. and probably not list more than 20 games i liked on ps1. i was a big fan of beat em ups, platform games, and fighting games (still am) and the ps1 just wasnt the place to go for that kind of stuff for me. like i said, the lack of colors and blocky graphics killed stuff like spyro for me.. and the capcom fighting games suffered on ps1, fpses sucked on all consoles back then cept for goldeneye and perfect dark. multi tap? nah i got 4 ports on my 64.. i mean.. those 2 systems were my combo then.. and i still would play them way before the ps1.
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I never actually played a Saturn (I'm not even sure if they were officially available here in Norway), but I'm completely opposite of you; the N64 and its games never impressed me much (never liked Zelda, stopped caring about Mario after SMB3 and I never thought of Goldeneye as being better than mediocre.. Wave Race 64 was gold, though), while I had my gaming fun on the PS1 (Gran Turismo, FF VII and IX, Crash Bandicoot 1-3, Nightmare Creatures, SoulBlade, Tekken 3 and Silent Hill were made of finest win back then).
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@shouryuuken Guardian Heroes!!! I returned my PS1 and got a Saturn and a top loading NES and could not have been happier. Guardian Heroes was the first game I purchased, for a measly $16, and was literally stupified at it's awesomeness. Speaking of which... *dusts off Saturn*
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as for goldeneye.. sure it may not have been as hot as whatever fpses were on pcs.. but it definitely trumped anything on a console. not only did they control bad on ps1 or saturn.. they looked horrendous.
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