Game Industry Musings at GDC

The Game Developers Conference gains a little more attention with every passing year. This year's "Burning Mad: Game Publishers Rant," is surmised in an article by 1up. A choice excerpt from, Chris Hecker, who works for maxis.rnrn"At the 2005 GDC, Hecker delivered a rant about the balance of graphics, physics and gameplay, and now with the 360 and PS3 released, the balance is out-of-whack in favor of graphics and physics. At his 2005 speech, he posed the question "Will Nintendo save us?""rnrnHis answer in 2007? Read the article.

GDC 2007: Game Publishers Rant About Industry news from 1UP.com (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3157818)

Post the news link in the news post automagically pls >:\

rants sessions are so empty but entertaining

Lots of hate on MS and Nintendo.

Wasn't quite expecting the latter, either.

What a bunch of assholes they had do rants.

LOL NINTENDO ISNT SERIOUS ABOUT GAMES LOL

Who gives a fuck if the Wii is two gamecubes taped together? It's a blast to play, the games are fun, I don't care about the philosophical side of how it was made or if they took it seriously enough. That guy's rant didn't even make sense or have a point. What a fuckass.

you guys realize that loud obnoxious ranting is what makes you popular, powerful, and "respected"... just look at anne coulter, michael savage, and all those muslim clerics and evangelical leaders.

he had no right to call out nintendo and suggest they should treat games as an art when nintendo games have been among the funnest and most creative in the history of gaming.

I don't know who has read the internet, yesterday. In a [unintelligible] panel I said a bunch of things. I was trying to be thought provoking and entertaining and fun and a lot of the stuff went too far over the top—on the entertaining and fun side, so that it was no longer thought provoking, just inflammatory. And in the process I hurt a bunch of people I care about. And so, I want to apologize now.

When I'm on stage, I'm me. I'm talking talk from me. From me. I'm not representing EA or Maxis.

I want to make two things perfectly clear.

I do not think the Wii is a piece of shit. Nintendo needs to be applauded for trying to interface on the controller front, the user interface front, on making games accessible, on making a console that you don't need to mortgage your house to afford.

Secondly, it's totally obvious—and I'm sorry that I implied otherwise—that everyone at Nintendo is passionate at making great games. Some of the games give me hope that we will be seen as an art form on par with movies and books.

:lol:

Someone almost lost their job.