Honestly, we should have posted about this almost a week ago, but since it's such a unique interview, different from everything else I saw people ask id during the recent QuakeCon, it still deserves your attention.
Gameriot -- a gaming site catering directly to the esports ("electronic" sports) set -- conducted an interview with Marty Stratton, Executive Producer at id Software, at the recent QuakeCon, and managed to touch base on a lot of topics that everyone else seem to have missed. For instance:
Gameriot: Quake 4 wasn't allowed to be on CBS sports due to its ESRB rating. Do you think this will be taken into account for the next Quake Arena game, to have it somewhere in the middle of being too violent and not being violent enough to be believable? Maybe an ability or option to turn things like blood and gibs off?
Marty Stratton: Simple answer, yeah. I think we need to think about that. The more games are broadcasted on TV, the more aware we are that blood and gibs don't exactly make great Saturday TV. I mean, I don't think we should remove those aspects of the game, but just be able to turn them off if necessary.
Hit the link at the top for the rest of the interview and a striking look at why the NBA-ization of gaming is an inevitability, whether you like it or not.
Now if we could only convince Jonathan Wendel to rape some white chick ...
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9:53 PM on 08.14.2007
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hahaha =)
omfg haha... haha
and Warren Spector should have demanded a 8-year/$80 million contract with Disney
and Peter Moore should have his own magician-esque character-driven movie called "Pa-zam!"
and G4 should really take some notes from PTI and build a childish montage shrine of all our favorite game characters, placing it behind their hosts and have more arguments over important issues such as Jack Thompson's penis size, how many times people should reserve a copy of Halo 3 and how PC gaming suxors for noobs
AND Rockstar should stop competing the monthly horror flick-violence with Manhunt and GTA and start learning some character form non-violent entertainment like football, hockey and Cellular Field.
CAUSE JUST REMEMBER...
once those terrorist sneak in and program brains, giblets, and blood in our kids video games, we've lost every war every fought.
gotta call the boys tonight and see if anybody is up for some ztn3tourney1!!!