Jomega
@Jomega@lemmy.world
- Comment on Miyamoto: Games based on developers’ personal interests resonate around the world, not those aiming for global appeal | VGC 3 days ago:
That’s not the point of what he’s saying. You’d be hard pressed to find any human experience that was had by exactly 1 person in history. He’s saying that this is more appealing than starting with “Let’s make looter shooter with co-op #58369158”.
Also if you’ve got 30 minutes to spare, I’ll suggest you watch Jacob Geller’s video essay “A Thousand Ways of Seeing a Forest”. Here you go. It’s explains this sort of thing way better than I have the ability to.
- Comment on Miyamoto: Games based on developers’ personal interests resonate around the world, not those aiming for global appeal | VGC 5 days ago:
A work story is still a life experience, but if you want something else there’s plenty to work with. The iconic Chain Chomp enemies were inspired by a particularly nasty dog he’d walk past on the way home from school. The mean old dog would charge at him, sometimes coming inches away from biting him, but would be stopped by the chain keeping it in the yard.
The Legend of Zelda was inspired by his childhood, exploring the woods near his house.
He enjoys gardening, which inspired the setting of Pikmin.
Lastly, according to his Wikipedia page, he’s a “semi-professional” dog breeder. (I’m not sure what that means) which inspired Nintendogs.
Basically what he’s trying to say is that inspiration from one’s personal life is a more appealing starting point than what you think will make the most money.
- Comment on Miyamoto: Games based on developers’ personal interests resonate around the world, not those aiming for global appeal | VGC 6 days ago:
I’m allowed to downvote for whatever reason I feel like, and you’re being super obnoxious right now so I downvoted you. Deal with it.
- Comment on Miyamoto: Games based on developers’ personal interests resonate around the world, not those aiming for global appeal | VGC 6 days ago:
Bruh, I know how capitalism is killing us. That still doesn’t make him responsible for the actions of an entirely different person. Blame who actually did the thing.
- Comment on Miyamoto: Games based on developers’ personal interests resonate around the world, not those aiming for global appeal | VGC 6 days ago:
You seem to be under the impression that Miyamoto is running Nintendo. Your anger at their legal practices should instead be directed at their actual president, Shuntaro Furukawa.
- Comment on Miyamoto: Games based on developers’ personal interests resonate around the world, not those aiming for global appeal | VGC 1 week ago:
Oh, I know this one! ahem
So Donkey Kong came about out of happenstance. Nintendo was just getting into the budding arcade scene, and was in the middle of producing a licensed game based on Popeye. In fact, they were so far into production that when some behind the scenes bullshit meant the deal was off they had a nearly finished game that they still wanted to sell and not feel like they wasted all that time, money, and effort. That’s when Miyamoto had the idea to keep the gameplay while changing the games art assets and premise. Popeye, Bluto, and Olive Oil, were replaced with Mario, Donkey Kong, and Pauline respectively. After they unexpected success of Donkey Kong lead to them to do more with these now unaffiliated characters, there came a need to flesh out they world they lived in. Miyamoto always thought of Mario as a cartoon character, perhaps owing to the circumstances of his creation, so the Mushroom Kingdom as it was now came to be known was given a sort of classic cartoon aesthetic, the kind where it feels like anything could happen. The rest is history.
Star Fox doesn’t have quite as interesting story behind, sorry to say. Miyamoto says he had seen Top Gun and wanted to make a game about fighter pilots.
- Comment on I will keep recommending weird, old, and obscure films 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really watch Doctor Who so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on I will keep recommending weird, old, and obscure films 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I guess. Short story time: My mom can’t watch King of the Hill. She knows, on an intellectual level, that Hank is supposed to be the butt of the joke. It doesn’t matter. She still doesn’t enjoy watching it. She finds the experience to be unpleasant to watch. She has the same problem with Archer as well, but I haven’t seen as much of that.
If it’s like that for you, then I fully get it.
- Comment on I will keep recommending weird, old, and obscure films 2 weeks ago:
Kingsmen is supposed to be satire though. The whole thing is drenched in camp and hamminess, as a sort of riff on the old Bond flicks. You can practically feel the writer rolling his eyes ironically during parts of it. They had Samuel Jackson play a character who is almost the exact opposite of the kind of character he’s known for playing. It’s funny that you’d pick that example and then talk about your superior media literacy.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 5 weeks ago:
Ryuk was pretty hands off throughout the whole thing. He kind of just sat there and basked in the spectacle. Hell, there were points where he was shocked a human was even capable of going as far as Light did.
- Comment on Tune In 1 month ago:
Oh, is it? I thought this was Secret Life of Pets.
- Comment on Tune In 1 month ago:
This frame is actually taken from an Illumination film, not Disney.
- Comment on I'm sure it'll be fine! 3 months ago:
Doesn’t NASA use older tech because it’s more secure? I think I remember reading that somewhere.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 4 months ago:
Yeah, until chatty slime tells you to talk to a nonexistent NPC and you spend countless hours trying to find a character he made up.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 4 months ago:
Bruh, I’ve been called all sorts of nasty things here. Your experiences are not universal.
- Comment on I wouldn't worry about it 4 months ago:
The mother had dementia. It was unambiguously rape.
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- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 4 months ago:
At least it’s possible to hold a CEO accountable, we just aren’t. Putting a computer program in charge of any kind of management decision is a terrible idea.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 4 months ago:
AI can’t be held responsible when it hurts people though.
- Comment on Diphalia 4 months ago:
Furry image board.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 4 months ago:
I didn’t know about the risk of fertility
…is that a deal breaker? Genuine question, am cis. I kinda assumed trans people were adopting.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 5 months ago:
What, you don’t?
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 5 months ago:
In Dragon Ball’s case, this is because Akira Toriyama would always write before dinner, so he would always have food on the brain. He was kinda quirky like that.
- Comment on Acciracy 5 months ago:
This isn’t real. Someone posted the real dialogue elsewhere in this thread.
- Comment on Anon watches star wars 5 months ago:
I think there’s a bigger demographic of people who just saw these movies as kids when their standards were lower and are too blinded by nostalgia to see their flaws. I remember really liking them when I was 8 years old, (especially RotS) and I’m sure I’m not the only one. These days I’m much more critical of course, but some part of me can’t help but the things this very flawed trilogy got right.
I’m not going to defend the very racially coded aliens though. That shit’s cringe as fuck.
- Comment on she just doesn't understand me 6 months ago:
If they were really concerned about me damaging my ears, why not make the maximum volume lower than that?
- Comment on Scientists of Lemmy, explain: 8 months ago:
Not true. Magikarp turning into Gyarados is a reference to an old Chinese legend.
- Comment on How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"? 8 months ago:
10ish, but I thought it was pronounced “face-ist”.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 9 months ago:
I think it’s still like that, actually.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 9 months ago:
I appreciate the honesty.