Director del Toro predicts 'Citizen Kane of games' will appear in next decade

I know this man

If he made a game and it was half as good as Pan's Labyrinth the movie was, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Anything associated with the Del Toro name is an instant feast for my senses.

Oh yeah, and Mexicans FTW!

What will make a game great will be what separates games from other forms of media, it wont be reading a text box, it will be the game play and the experience. Braid was reading a boring book with interesting game play in between.

Right, which is why Braid wasn't it. He has bigger and better things in his future. The story being so separated from the gameplay was Braid's biggest flaw, except for in the ending, but oh, what an ending.

He showed enough flashes of inspiration in Braid that I can count on him to produce even better stuff in the future.

Get your caps fixed.

WHAT IS CITIZEN KANE?

Nothing important, dude burns his sled and feels bad about it.

So many things about your question depress me.

The most important film in all of film history. Highly regarded as the best movie of all time.

....Rosebud....

the best movie of all time? that's highly debatable, what about the 7th Seal or even modern stuff like shawshank redemption, oh and let's not forget titanic won all the academy awards (that last one was pure sarcasm)

I don't know about this. Starcraft and Half-Life are still played by many and are masterpieces from 10 years ago, even though we've gone further in the last 10 years than we will in the next ten.

It's easy to get caught up in the new releases of any industry, and it's true that it's more likely for games, but classics still endure. I think you're vastly understating the influence of older games.

I say we've already seen what should have been it: Shadow of the Colossus. And I predict those graphics will hold up in 20 years time.

I would venture to say that Shadow of the Colossus surpasses Citizen Kane

I would venture to say that Shadow of the Colossus surpasses Citizen Kane

I believe there are those few games that have come out that are the gaming industries great classics, Think of how many people still play mario, and how many games it has inspired, in 10 years people will still be playing super mario bros and enjoying the experience. Games are different than movies and books, its not about the visuals, or writing, its about how everything comes together to form the experience.

The Team ICO games are very artsy, but I wouldn't call them the Citizen Kane of gaming, and I doubt their new project will be either.

I have no idea what you're talking about, if you're saying a movie from 1930s really has the same picture quality as a modern HD film you're crazy.

DarkWayne, HD resolution PALES in comparison to film resolution. It looks damn fine, yes, but well shot film stock-no matter how old-will always have more detail.

Have you tried watching an older film on BluRay? The level of detail increase from DVD to BluRay is incredible, and the same is true from HD to film (ie, my Star Trek 2 Blu Ray looks great, but when I saw a pristine film print recently it looked even better)..

SuckItTrebek, you must not have a very nice HD screen. Unless I'm seeing a movie on a digital projector, the film version is always a disappointment. I frequently find myself thinking, "I can't wait to see this on BluRay," while I'm sitting in the theatre. Kind of a shame, really. I miss when the theatre was the end-all be-all of movie-watching.

I think the biggest difference is just screen size. Of course you'll "see more detail" when the screen is 80 feet wide, as opposed to 60" diagonal (if you're lucky), no matter what.

Jess, I don't mean this as a slight (simply a sad fact) but you're probably watching movies that are being run in a suburban bajillion screen multiplex where the "projectionist" is a bored 16 year old kid who is barely trained on the basics of how to do the job-if at all. Find a theatre run by film nuts, who know and care about proper presentation and care for their product. HD resolution is WAY below 35mm film stock, and even the supernice 4K projectors are incredible but don't offer what film does (hence, for instance, why IMAX is shot on FILM and not digitally). If HD were across the board superior, no one would be using film, but it's still the dominant medium in Hollywood. The James Bond movies recently got a 4k scan-which is far beyond the definition offered by HD-for future posterity. A 4k digital scan and it's STILL not the level of detail of the original film stock, not that most users would notice, but that's the kind of scope needed to make a quality presentation even in a lower grade format.

Movies can actually lose even MORE detail and look worse on BluRay due to digital grain reduction. I love a pristine image, but in the quest for crystal clarity studios are simply scrubbing away minor detail, making an image look unnaturally sterile.

I'd suggest checking out www.thedigitalbits.com and learning more about all aspects of the digital video revolution!

Is your mom telling you that you'll never get anywhere with these games?

and pan's labyrinth was great.

Dude did you get infamous?

nope, not today. i couldn't because i had to go somewhere. i'm getting it tomorrow. i did download the special powers from the gamestop preorder today though. haha. have you?

This is joystiq... every blog post is front page news because that's how the site is set up...

In what way is Del Toro's prediction "unjustified?" I don't think you know what that word means.

Sled burning quicktime events. Sign me up.

You looked way too much into his statement. I'm sure that he only meant that there will be a game that is as highly regarded as the film, which is indeed highly regarded, whatever the opinion of it was at the time. Many, many things are not appreciated until way after their time, and I'm sure that there are at least a few things that you like that fall into that category. Really, that has nothing to do with it. He wants a highly regarded game that matches a highly regarded film. That's all.

and also, you're a jackass for calling me a prick.

it's sheppy, you'll get used to it. :P

Sheppy, I think you went a little too deep into the analogy with that analysis. Nobody wants to get people fired or ruined, he was just talking about an iconic game that would change things.

There you are! I was getting worried no one was left who would read way too much into everything and get offended for no reason, but you always deliver, Sheppy.

"he's like the greatest director of all time" no. Just no.

The person you are thinking of is Stanley Kubrick.

"Eyes Wide Shut" begs to differ...

Peter Jackson? Tim Burton? J.J. Abrams? They all get my personal vote. Del Toro has yet to move past "artsy weird" status.