Takaya Imamura Sings Praises Of "Hard Working" Shigeru Miyamoto

You forgot to link the song so we can hear his singing.

Except when it comes to story

@batmanbud2 Miyamoto funny enough recently addressed this. He doesn't care if a game has a story or not, it's just how he approaches games that is different. He's more exciting gameplay over heavy story type of dev and that's okay.

There is nothing wrong with a having a story in game, it's just games sometimes are terrible at balancing the two. You have games that are more about telling you a 70$ story, than letting you experience it.

@batmanbud2 Story is not part of game design at all. Story writers should obey to game designers, not the opposite like in most western games and their copy pasted game design. That's the condition so videogames can be identified as an artistic medium. Nintendo is fighting to make videogame medium a unique art while Sony is fighting against this to make videogame a corporate product made by algorithms. History will judge.

@batmanbud2
Did you forget that miyamoto created Zelda and its storyline? Its not that he cant. His focus is more on the complete gameplay. Which is good.
If the gameplay is good, it makes me keep coming back. Thats what his games do. I keep playing them. As for story driven games, i only play ones or maybe twice.

@batmanbud2 I'm fine with that. Video games are for gameplay, and that's what most people care about first (myself included).
If I want a compelling (read as: good) story, I'll read a book.

@LadyCharlie @The-Chosen-one @glaemay @Fangleman32 honestly, you aren't wrong about that.

I’ve bounced off of a few PS games lately. Blockbuster stories backed by tepid if flashy gameplay.

They have a large lineup of samey games: “What will angry man fight next in this gorgeous photorealistic game!?”

@batmanbud2 Looks like you need a bit of backup. So im going to offer you some defense.

@Fangleman32 @glaemay @LadyCharlie @The-Chosen-one. I think having a story being part of the game is fine. Especially if the devs manage to make both interweave brilliantly so each shines together.

Now will a game's story be as a good as a book? No, of course not nor should strive to it. It's a different medium that calls for the story to be told in a way a book can't and vice versa.

But, the wonderful thing about storytelling is spans multiple forms of art and what's important is the teller, and how the audience perceives it.

I've played games where the devs mixed a personal journey from their real life into game form because to them that was the best form to express themselves. And some of the games left good impressions. These types of games the story is mixed in with the gameplay.

Man i love Nintendo ❤️

@cedarhyped @LadyCharlie @The-Chosen-one @glaemay @Fangleman32

Word!! I'm in heartfelt agreement with y'all.

I know that working from your own imagination, once you’ve hit on an idea that nicely sums up your inspirations, is the most rewarding. Good for him for getting to that creator stage

Legendary game designer, nothing more to say.

@The-Chosen-one Yeah I remember reading a interview with Miyamoto where he said he wasn't against story.

But what he prioritised is player participation, that story can be something to the player to uncover the story through play. e.g. you meet a character but you don't really learn about them unless you do their side quest.

I think in a way Miyamoto's approach is interesting because it leads to games where the player can have their own unique experience/story and can enhance its own through memorable moments that are down to the player to discover, that way players can have their own personal different stories/experiences on the way to completion. Like something like Anju and Kafei's sidequest in Majora's mask is a memorable moment but entirely optional and difficult to achieve, or the route you take through BOTW or TOTK is entirely your own.

In Star Fox you can't visit every planet in a single playthrough, so each playthrough can vary.

The problem with big cinematic story driven games is that they'd never dare make its moments be optional. Which means that everyone's experience ends up largely the same, with all the well-crafted scenes are displayed to 100% of players 100% of the time, with side quests largely just being filler that player's will forget the moment its finished. There's less sense of discovery or player participation because the best scenes are there as award bait.

Those kind of standards don't exist now a days.

@Dr_Lugae Exactly. Nintendo tells the story through gameplay, not exposition.

I much prefer playing the game and learning the story, or telling my own story, rather than listening to boring text or (even worse) long boring cut-scenes.

@Lone_Beagle Don't tell that to the Famicom Detective Club team at Nintendo

Wii Music felt like a huge compromise

When I was younger, "story" was what happened for a couple of seconds between a game's levels.

Now, in a lot of games, "gameplay" is what happens for a couple of seconds between "story".