Chapter 806 Suzuki Yu's new game
This year's e3, Mars Entertainment's press conference was scheduled on the afternoon of the pre-exhibition press conference, which was almost dinner time. △¢
Generally speaking, this is also the tradition of game manufacturers before the launch conference.
First, after breakfast, lunch or dinner, the organizer will hold a meal similar to a cold meal to entertain reporters or selected players who attended the pre-exhibition press conference.
The three major console manufacturers occupy the best time points for the press conference in three time periods. In the morning, the superstar Sony press conference. As expected, Sony brought a large number of new works this time, especially in 3D games. The new videos they displayed can be seen. It is much better than the ones they showed when they last participated in e3 more than a year ago.
Of course, Sony did not deny that they learned a lot from Mars Entertainment’s games, especially in 3D games. Although they thought that the 3D game era would bring, they believed that they would lead this era. But now Mars Entertainment has come to the forefront of them. Despite this, Ken Kutaraki still kept emphasizing his English with a heavy Japanese accent at the press conference.
The development of 3D games will be a long process.
It may maintain two host generations or even three host generations, and it will definitely not be the ending of one host generation.
Therefore, although Sony was behind its opponents at the beginning, it does not mean that Sony would not have the chance to overtake in the future. Moreover, Ken Kutaraki also admitted that especially in terms of performance, there is a certain gap between their P2 and Mars Entertainment's Dream Wave X3. It has always been a great game concept that Mars Entertainment designers can do it easily, but they are very difficult.
Although Ken Kutaraki did not admit or announced that P3 is being developed. However, this is basically no longer a secret in the industry. After the pre-exhibition press conference, a reporter familiar with Ken Kutaraki also asked the same question.
Ken Kutaraki did not directly deny this issue like before.
Instead, they talked about when they would release a new host.
"This problem is actually determined by feedback from our third-party developers and our first-party studios. When they feel that the functionality is not enough and there is no way to complete their ideas, hoping to achieve this and that, and ps2 cannot do it, then there is no doubt that we will definitely make ps3 - but the problem is that not all companies are as good as Mars Entertainment, which can produce so many incredible games."
Although Ken Kutaraki's answer is a little bit vaguely negative.
But he still admitted that if the game developer feels that the current P2 is not enough, then a new console will arrive.
However, the lack of functionality of ps2 has become a practical situation. A very simple method of distinguishing is that a game can be developed on DreamWave X3, but it is not possible on ps2. If you have to do it on ps2, you must reduce the picture quality and other things that developers are unwilling to do, reducing the quality of the game.
Unlike Sony's press conference, whether there are new consoles and old consoles that are not enough, Sega's press conference is much more serious. As usual, Sega announced some of their arcade transplant works.
This is also Sega's killer weapon.
Their arcade works are particularly popular in Europe and the United States. Since Mars Entertainment entered the 3D era, it has consciously reduced its investment from the arcade market.
At present, Sega has basically exceeded fifty in the European and American arcade market share.
Of course, Mars Entertainment is still investing in research and development in fighting games.
However, it is said that there is news from Japanese game media that when interviewing Sulfurized Itagaki Pashin, Itagaki Pashin accidentally revealed a piece of news that has not been disclosed within Mars Entertainment, that is, the next generation of "Iron Fist" will not have an arcade version. Instead, it is directly released on home machines. It seems that Mars Entertainment has begun to look down on the arcade market.
On the contrary, Sega continues to increase investment in the arcade market.
Especially in the "VR Warrior" series, the next generation of Sega's most signature fighting game is also first logged in to the arcade and then ported to the host.
Of course, Sega also mentioned their strategic mistakes at the press conference.
They just underestimated the impact of 3D games on the entire game industry. They also admitted at the press conference that they had previously believed that 3D represented the future, but it was just the future. In a short period of time, 3D will not become the mainstream, because in terms of exquisite pictures, 3D is far inferior to the 2D picture that has already developed to its peak.
However, I didn't expect that both Mars Entertainment and Sony have developed a dedicated processing chip specifically for 3D graphics.
Then, the effect shown by the 3D picture is so outstanding.
This surprised them.
After they wake up, it's too late - Sega Saturn has been released, but Sega also admitted that players don't have to wait. Sega's powerful 3D console will be released in the near future - they are also the first among the three console manufacturers to admit that they are developing a new console.
Of course, in addition to this, Yu Suzuki also took the stage to announce his new plan. He admitted that being lucky enough to participate in the development of Jester's "The Legend of Heroes" did have a great impact on him. It was also during this period that he first came into contact with how the world's top game development team developed the game. How a team of hundreds of people worked together like an arm, without looking bloated at all.
He admitted at the press conference: "To be honest, if I hadn't been personally involved in the development of this great project and held an important position in it, and knew the entire development process of this game, otherwise, if someone told me that a development team had hundreds of people working together at the same time, I would have thought that he had burned his head - hundreds of people developed a game? There are so many things to develop a game? And how do hundreds of people collaborate? It's simply playing the piano randomly."
In addition to sighing at the excellence of the "Hao Hero" project, Yu Suzuki also admitted: "Since I returned to Sega and was responsible for the production of VR Warriors, I have no way to get interested in other games. It's like you're boring to ask someone who has graduated from high school to go to elementary school courses, so I applied to Mr. Koko Okawa."
"Is it possible for us to plan like this?"
"Mr. Okawa Kou and Mr. Nakayama Shinoo attach great importance to my proposal, but they did not reply to me immediately. Until the release of "Hao Hero", the crazy explosion in console sales brought by this game was simply phenomenal - at this time, Mr. Okawa Kou came to me and asked, are you still interested in developing such a game?"
"I told him without hesitation that I would do it at any time."
When Yu Suzuki finished talking about this on the stage, the reporters below the stage were instantly excited.
Although there is already a "Hao Hero" in the world, this kind of game was definitely not enough for many players to play only one. They want to play more, but the investment in such a game is too great. For any game company, it is not worth the effort. Even Mars Entertainment, including Jester himself, has said that in a short period of time, Mars Entertainment will not restart such a huge plan.
Later, Yu Suzuki revealed some information about Sega's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
The time period of the story will be in modern times, and the starting location will be Japan. As for how the story develops, it has not been revealed much, but Yu Suzuki also revealed a little. This is a story he really wants to tell in his mind. The protagonist of the story he originally chose was Yukishi, the protagonist of the VR warrior. A master of Bajiquan.
However, this proposal was denied by him during internal discussion.
Because Yu Suzuki felt that in such a game, he should have his own protagonist. His own story - one thing that can be revealed is that this protagonist will also be a person who practices Bajiquan. Of course, there is no need to worry about the combat system in this game, because in "The Legend of Heroes", the combat system is led by Yu Suzuki and the development team he brought from Sega.
The announcement of this news directly triggered the scene.
Later, all the game industry insiders were excited after hearing the news.
It is even more exciting than when Jester revealed the development plan of "Haoxia" on e3 for the first time - because everyone did not have a rough understanding of the game "Haoxia", and they could not directly shape the actual appearance of a game from Jester's text description.
But now it is completely different from the time.
After people already know what Jester said about full visual reaction entertainment, that is, what the famous ‘free’ game is like.
They began to look forward to Sega's "Hao Hero" by Yu Suzuki.
When Jester learned the news, he was preparing for his company's pre-exhibition press conference soon. Although he listened to the people around him discussing the relevant information about the game that Yu Suzuki had just announced at the Sega press conference, Jester still sighed secretly. In any case, he was from Yu Suzuki's description.
You can see the shadow of "Shenmu" in the original history.
"Will "Shenmu" come out again in this world?" Jester suddenly became a little curious about the fate of "Shenmu" in this world. He wanted to see that Yu Suzuki participated in the development of "Hao Hero" and learned some design ideas of the mature sandbox game. Will this game, which has left a lot of highlights in the original history?
"Boss, what do you think of this new game by Yu Suzuki?"
While Jester was thinking alone, someone suddenly asked Jester this question, and then waited for Jester's answer in anticipation.
After all, the most qualified person in the world to evaluate Yu Shin Suzuki’s new game is the pioneer of this type of game himself. Jester did not refuse. He first thought for a while, and then said: "How to say it, Yu Shi is a very outstanding and very good at learning. Through my cooperation with him, I can understand how amazing his understanding of games is."
"However, in this era, it is very difficult to develop such a game. With a huge team, a long development time and a large amount of capital investment, he can make a company's chain run like a tightening, and if he is not careful, he may break down."
"I hope Suzuki can succeed."
A few hours later.
The pre-exhibition press conference of Mars Entertainment begins at 8 pm.
You can enter the venue at 7:30, and when it is almost eight, the venue is basically full. Although it was revealed before that Mars Entertainment will not have any particularly big news this time except for Jester's new game, Jester's new game itself is the biggest news in this e3 - after all, this is the game of the God of Games!
Even Jester has revealed before that he will not continue to develop like this. When he feels his mind is exhausted and he can no longer make a game that can refresh him, he will quit the development industry.
Because his personality doesn't like to do the same job.
He likes challenging work that others have never done before. Playing games is just about being happy, and playing games is the same.
Now that the game type is refined, it will become increasingly difficult to innovate. Basically, Jester, the game recognized by the game world, will make one less game. Maybe you get up a little, turn on your computer, and go to the game website you often go to to read the news in the industry. You will see a news that Jester announced his retirement on the headlines.
This is not a strange thing.
Isn't this what Carmack, the god of the previous fps game?
Because he lost his interest in game development as vigorously as before, he chose to withdraw. It is said that he is working with others to invest in a company that develops virtual reality equipment.
You should know that although virtual reality has a concept, there is still a long way to go before you can take out the product.
Just as everyone was waiting for the press conference before the Mars Entertainment exhibition and discussing what unexpected news would be at this press conference, the lights in the audience suddenly dimmed, and a beautifully-made video began to be played on the large screen behind the stage.
As the video was played, a figure also walked into the middle of the stage.
It's Jester. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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