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March 15, 2005
Takahasi Agrees, Games Should be Fun
There's been lots of talk around the office about how games should be judged more on its fun factor than the usual graphics, gameplay, celebrity elements found in most every video game review. For instance, almost the entire game community panned Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines because of all of the glaring bugs in the first release. But, who cares? The game was more freakin' fun than eating a block of cheese in your underpants.
Keita Takahashi, creater of equally fun game Katamari Damacy, agrees, and in his Game Developer's Conference speech taked about wanting to make games that make people happy and justifying his wacky roll-up-trash-and-shoot-into-space game by saying "it's fun to roll something."
Damn right it is. Three cheers to Takahashi to getting back to the basics in video game enjoyment, or as we like to call it, EFF-YOU-EN.
Posted by gamegal at March 15, 2005 03:47 PM