I mentioned this in the buried AIAS thread. Interesting reading and great quotes snagged by Rob de los Reyes. Scroll down for the 20 or so quotes.
Rob mentions, as someone else did here, how embarassed Will Wright seemed when accepting the MMOG of the year award. I bet he’ll survive though.
There are some great quotes in there. I liked these:
Cliff Bleszinski (Epic Games) on message boards:
“There are members of our team that just won’t read the message boards because it would require a doubling of the dose of Paxil or something.”
Chris Taylor (Gas Powered Games) on games that start too slowly:
“Where’s the exit to town?! I just want to kill something! Can I kill you? I can’t kill that woman with the baby?! That sucks!”
I found a quote for Wumpus:
Cliff Bleszinski (Epic Games) on taking a franchise into a new genre:
(while shimmying in his chair) “Dance Dance Medal of Honor! Schnell! Schnell!?”
My personal favorite:
Raph Koster (Sony Online Entertainment) on balance:
"Give one fish, somewhere in the ocean, one more hit point, and all of a sudden, BAM! You have too many paladins.”
I wish we could lure Raph back here. Not only because of his quotes, but he just seems to be bursting with things that need to be said about stuff that needs to be talked about on subjects that need to be discussed with people that want to hear it.
Another great Raph line: “Players aren’t stupid, they’re just … highly involved.”
:)
Raph rox or something. Not to good with the 1337 sp3ak. Is that right?
I almost snatched all the quotes and copied them here. Rob roped some beauties, but his discussion of the AIAS awards was what most interested me. I guess no industry is safe from award show nuttiness.
“back here”? As in, return here, or over here? I’d love to see the guy post. Anything as classic as the fish/paladin quote deserves a red carpet invite =]
He posted for a bit and had some cool MMOG stuff to say among other things. Just do a search with Raph Koster in the author space. :)
Well, the guy’s pretty busy I’d guess. When does SWG launch? It’s soon, isn’t it?