Pokémon Black/White director Junichi Masuda is saddened by this year's E3 offerings, citing a lack of originality and an overabundance of violence.
"This year, FPS war games were trend!! A lot of splatter scenes!! Blood spread everywhere. Shooting a lot, killing a lot," he said with a charming amount of broken English. "The game developer seems get used to 'kill' the target. Therefore, I felt 'how to kill' became a focus of developing game. For that reason, target become zombie and alien ...
"These targets' savage attack and human counterattacks ... It became savage contents and you never know. Mmm ... It is the player who choose the game to play. As a game creator, it is little sad! Majority of the games look like a same game. There were little of original games. I felt a sense of crisis with above part."
He might have a point, but you could argue the Pokémon series is about forcing animals into brutal bloodsports and has repeated itself about four times. So, let's just say everybody's to blame here.
Pokémon Director Sad That E3 Was All About Killing [Siliconera]
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12:45 PM on 07.28.2011 | 
Really?
Junichi can lament all he likes but it comes off a little silly when his games are mega popular and have no doubt made him a fortune.
But yeah, dude's making kid friendly cock fights. I think that's a bit more disturbing.
Alright, no argument here but the comparison between Pokemon Red and Black is about as intellectually honest as a comparison between Bioshock Infinite and Battlefield 3. Red and Black both have little monsters that fight each other. Bioshock and BF3 both have guns in them. That's about as far as the comparison goes.
The guy is just leaving himself WAAAAY open to a reversal of his own shitty logic.
However, FPS's are getting tiring. Because most of them ARE the same. Gone are the days of original shooters like Goldeneye and Metroid Prime.
Almost all of the Pokemon in Black/White look absolutely hideos, in the way it's going, in my mind, he doesn't deserve money for these aborminations.
And Junichi didn't create Pokemon, anyone onvolved into creating the Black/White Pokes is a noob, so STFU before I slap you!
There were definitely a lot of shooters at E3, but it's been like this for awhile now. Still, there were a good amount of original games at E3 I'd say.
Anywho, I like his engrish. It reminds me of Terry Bogard
pewpewpew... YAWN.
Almost all of the Pokemon in Black/White look absolutely hideos, in the way it's going, in my mind, he doesn't deserve money for these aborminations.
And Junichi didn't create Pokemon, anyone onvolved into creating the Black/White Pokes is a noob, so STFU before I slap you!
Dialga used Draco meteor
Bidoof fainted??
No bidoof is a stain on the floor I just dropped meteors on your ass.
Ever used toxic on something, yeah hey I gotta fight this battle out just chill in your ball despite the fact that you were just hit with what is apparently the worlds worst poison ever and your dying. No there won't be any permenant damage.
Electrode used selfdestruct. Electrode fainted.
How you just blew the fuck up and one yellow revive crystal later and your fine ?!?!?!
But the logic allows me to do awesome things so I don't care.
I wonder if there's a discussion of this story that doesn't have at least one person pointing out what a hypocrite he is?
We will have original games the day WE start buying original games instead of the same ones.
Or 20 street fighters.
Or the countless Mario, Zelda or Mario mart games.
Bye bye Japanese devs,we had a good run together but alas it seems your time is up.
You can't just spit out a game name and expect everyone to enjoy it though. I've been playing through Catherine and have been pretty disappointed in both the gameplay and the quality of the writing. Given the choice between Catherine and a very polished sequel to a game I already love, (not COD, I have no love for that franchise) I'd take the sequel because Catherine takes all of its potential and squanders it. I'm all for supporting new ideas, but at the same time we shouldn't have to support average or bad games just so we could theoretically see good games in the future.
I love Shadows of the Damned, but I don't see how Resident Evil 4 but with a great sense of humor is original. I haven't gotten too far yet though, so maybe the game undergoes some radical changes later on.
Each generation has a trend, and you'd have to be a dumbass not to acknowledge that "the good old days" were just as shitty and piss-filled as "these days".
Of course, each generation also has its gems (Asteroids, Pong, SMB, Ys, Valis, Doom, Chrono Trigger, Conker, Ratchet and Clank, Bioshock, and countless others.)
I don't think that's a jap dev exclusive problems. How many repetitive shooters are one the market, as well as western RPGs with dialoge that consists of good answer, evil answer and inbetween answer.
Repetitism is just part of the industry period.
Thats an Arbok you silly, the evolve form of Ekans.
I KNOW MAI POKEMANS!!!