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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:30PM (Unverified) said

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Kill it with fire.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:09PM Xoonaka said

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"Shigeru Miyamoto sounds like kind of a jerk, actually."

I'm pretty sure he kind of is. God complexes are unhealthy for anyone, and if he doesn't have one considering how the industry at large treats him, I'd be surprised.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:12PM mr nimblewick said

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Heck, the God Complex is bad for God himself. Who does he think he is?
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:19PM Da Largest said

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I've heard Miyamoto throws tables and shit.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:31PM idiot said

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People think Urban Meyer is a jerk... gets the job done though.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:38PM (Unverified) said

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"Video-games are bad for you? That's what they said about Rock 'N' Roll."
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:47PM TaskMaster said

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This is how the Japanese get shit done. I would rather have him for a boss than some spineless pacifist who keeps missing deadlines.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 9:17PM Roto13 said

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I really don't think it's anything like a God complex, since he apparently doesn't make a ton of money. :P
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 10:15PM Mr Khan said

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He doesn't make a lot of money, no, but he does apparently (seriously) have the power to table or completely cancel any internal Nintendo project at any stage of development.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto#Work_style
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 10:54PM JoshMilewski said

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Yeah, he's got a lot of power, and uses it to get shit done as he wants it.

It's only natural to fear that power a bit.
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Posted: Jul 8th 2009 10:44AM (Unverified) said

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@ idiot,

Well said, good sir.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:13PM mr nimblewick said

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Interesting development cycle. But don't all the best games happen like this?
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:43PM Xoonaka said

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I'm pretty sure in most games, one person can't go out and promise a feature in a single off the cuff comment and then get it shoe horned into the development cycle. Then again, a lot of games today have a longer dev cycle then 1 year as well. So it's really a double negative for that poor team... unless of course they get incentives, such as royalties. Then they'll be living fine, I'm sure.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:52PM mr nimblewick said

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No, not with most games. Just the BEST ones.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 9:48PM Xoonaka said

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I guarantee you the best games aren't made in less then a year, and I'm sure the management puts more thought into their feature sets. As for Resort, I've played it, it ain't that great. More like Wii Play 2, not Wii Sports 2.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:17PM Lemmiwinks said

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"Miyamoto is a jerk"

sounds like the new #Pachterfacts.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:21PM (Unverified) said

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When you read about Miyamoto in interviews, sometimes he does come off as a jerk, like when Miyamoto said he thought Ratchet and Clank was a PC game, I wonder If he was serious though?
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:37PM Jacksons said

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I hope he wasn't serious. If he's really that out of touch, that would be rather sad.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:54PM MystileArmor said

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We're talking about a guy who thought Wii Music was a good idea.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 10:04PM (Unverified) said

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We're also talking about the guy that's the reason that any of us play videogames.
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Posted: Jul 8th 2009 5:52AM Kaminaaa said

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I'd also like to point out that Rachet and Clank isn't as OMFG as PS3 fanboys think it is. There's no reason why Shiggy should have heard of it.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:41PM CyberAly said

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He's a jerk like Steve Jobs is a jerk, but they get things done.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:37PM (Unverified) said

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Oh, I'm sure he's just trying to help...

in a very roundabout manner.

He's still cool 9/10 times in interviews.

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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:37PM Lemmiwinks said

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re: Miyamoto's island idea -- Imagine if Blizzard licensed out Azeroth.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 8:56PM Danzaiver said

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Miyamoto yelled to Luigi once... and he never recovered
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 9:24PM (Unverified) said

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Is that why he's always dodgy.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 10:02PM Typicalgamer said

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No wonder he's a fucking pussy. I'd piss my pants and live in a basement ofr the rest of my life if i got yelled by God #2
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 9:15PM cesaria said

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People fear Miyamoto. As they should.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 9:25PM (Unverified) said

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Wouldn't you be with all that power.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 9:28PM Mr Khan said

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Miyamoto does randomly kidnap employees, after all.

Also: this does seem to feed the idea that they threw together the E3 2008 presentation as a desperation move, with the idea that the Sony & MS motion solutions were going to be unveiled that year.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 9:37PM RadiXe said

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it's pretty polished all right, considering there really isn't that much of a game to polish.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 10:12PM FNG said

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shit like this doesn't take long to poop out I guess...
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 10:17PM Mr Khan said

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You realize how much content they packed in there with little over a year of development? No? You're just here to troll?

Sorry. My mistake.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 10:30PM (Unverified) said

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He has a point actually. Rachet & Clank: Going Commando was made in just a year, and it had more content than this.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 11:40PM (Unverified) said

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I'm going to agree with him. It shouldn't take that long to polish a bunch of glorified mini-games.
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 11:41PM (Unverified) said

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Just goes to show how complacent Nintendo gets when they know their shit is going to sell.
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Posted: Jul 8th 2009 5:23PM xxxsam said

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@mercy: (and no I didn't downvote, everyone else did)

Actually, it does take at least that long to polish mini-games. That's why Nintendo's minigames are so much better than the 'cash-in' minigame collections. It's still just minigames, so yeah they're not *that* good, but you know you're at least getting the best quality minigames. :)

A lot of the 'polishing' deal is about gameplay mechanics, too. If you have to 'polish' a ton of minigames, that's harder than polishing just one gameplay mechanic for a typical major title. (But, of course, they don't have to spend a lot of time polishing the graphics, because there's not much in the way of that, so it evens out.)

I actually didn't plan to get Wii Sports Resort (after E3 2008, it looked pretty meh), but since they revealed the full list of sports and stuff, I changed my mind. I still don't expect it to hold my attention that long but so what? You only have to play each minigame for an hour on average (i.e. you play the crappy ones for twenty minutes, and the good ones for a couple hours) and that's a respectable play length. Sports Resort looks like fun!
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Posted: Jul 7th 2009 11:57PM matias said

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I don't care if he is a jerk as long as he keeps the magic.

And that kind of actitude is the reason because we have all those great games to remember.
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Posted: Jul 8th 2009 12:59AM (Unverified) said

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So he's like the Joe Biden of gaming?
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Posted: Jul 8th 2009 9:43AM Uncle Jesse said

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He's not a jerk. He's just been in the game for a long time and knows what he wants. And he wants it his way! You could say that he treats Nintendo like Burger King.
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Posted: Jul 8th 2009 3:39AM CaptainProtonX said

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Japanese humans should be honored to work with Godman Miyamoto.

You don't mess with GOD.
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Posted: Jul 8th 2009 5:36AM Shiaoran said

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Can I have a link yo your avatars full image? :)
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Posted: Jul 8th 2009 9:42AM AntiVillian said

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whos god #1?
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Posted: Jul 19th 2009 3:21AM zfallen said

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Elvis.
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Posted: Jul 10th 2009 1:27AM (Unverified) said

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YES YES YES
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Posted: Jul 10th 2009 1:30AM (Unverified) said

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opps i mean I don't think he is a jerk, that doesn't sit right with me. - ,-
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