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

If this man makes a game that he finds entertaining then I'll be playing it.

Sheppy says:


"Fact of the matter is Citizen Kane wasn't even recognized as a great film until decades late"

"The movie was largely hated by filmgoers and critics alike"


Actually, though it only broke even at the box office, the film was well received critically at the time of its release. Reviews were overwhelmingly positive on average. It was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, won Best Screenplay, and won the National Board of Review Best Picture. Additionally, it was no where near twenty years before it reached its current position of respect. By the time it finished its run in Europe in the mid-1950's, Welles was being discussed as a genius by the most influential critics of the time.

That said, I agree that the genre already has plenty of work that legitimizes it as an art form. That doesn't mean that we don't need a Citizen Kane that we can all point to and say "look at what can be done in the medium." My money is on Team ICO providing such a game this generation or next.

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I believe they already have a game about a sled.

It's called Line Rider.

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It's already here: Fallout 3

Every paint stroke, every note on a sheet of music, every word in a novel, every syllable of a poem....a single one missing ruins the most classic of works.

until a video game is equal measure of this, we shan't have our citizen kane.

I don't doubt its possibility, but to go with del Toro's cinema analogy, I would say we are still in the era of attraction. We're still messing around with the camera, seeing what crazy crap we could film, and what will drive people to the theaters just out of pure primitive interest. We've sitll some time before we turn video games into an equally effective story telling medium. Again, I don't doubt it's coming, but we are taking a long time to get there.

Citizen Kane is an overrated film. So if a video game is going to be like the movie, at least impact wise on the industry, than it will be the most overrated game ever.

It's already been made. It was called Planescape: Torment.

He was probably just misquoted, he really meant we'll all be seeing Citizen Kane: The MMORPG soon.

I remember he said he was inspired by Gears of War for one of his movies (either Pan's Labyrinth or Hellboy II). He said he liked the look of blood hitting the screen.

Well, Guillermo, being a Team ICO fan I'm surprised you didn't know that the game already came out and it's called Shadow of the Colossus.

I really see what the means, games are uniquely positioned to tell stories in a way different and I feel better than any other form of entertainment. Basically the best way I could say it is Citizen Kane level choose your own adventure stuff

Apparently Del Toro hasn't played the Halo Trilogy yet =)

i like his movies. mimic was just on

This game came out in 2000. It's called Shenmue.

Maybe Guillermo classifies that one as the industry's "Birth of a Nation", "Battleship Potemkin", or "Metropolis". It's so hard to get into his crazy genius head.

I'm not sure that gaming culture would embrace a Citizen Kane-like game. It would involve over 120 hours of gameplay, lots of griding, and in the end, you find out that the super-weapon was an item you'd had in your inventory from the first cutscene. There would be a lot of rage at that.

But let's see... the ingredients of Citizen Kane:
1) An epic game
2) that bombed on release and very nearly destroyed its creators and the publishing studio
3) that came into critical acclaim, beloved by nearly all who have played it
4) and is widely considered one of the best of its time.

It's already been made. It stars a woman of ambiguous ethnicity, a pig-man, and a bunch of jamaican rhinos.

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That's not what I said at all. My point was that movies from the 30s, unless the film has deteriorated badly, maintain a visual quality that allows it to be appreciated at the same level as modern movies. The constantly evolving technology of videogames makes that more difficult, as games made even 5 years ago pale in comparison to the cutting edge of PC or even console games.