Warren Spector - vorbe de duh. Ai $20 milioane?

Unii îl ştiu de pe vremea lui Origin şi Looking Glass (System Shock îţi spune ceva?), alţii îl asociază cu jocul Deus Ex al studioului Ion Storm, dar mai sunt şi din aceia cărora pur şi simplu le place să-l asculte ore în şir, vorbind despre starea precară a industriei de gaming. Exact, e celebrul designer şi producător de jocuri Warren Spector, care recent a mai ţinut o prelegere memorabilă, la un colegiu din Austin. Next Generation au fost pe fază şi au surprins cele mai interesante citate, remarci şi comentarii spontane din discursul lui Spector, iar acum le împart generoşi cu lumea pe site-ul lor.

Iată mai jos câteva dintre ele, cât să prinzi gustul:

"Clearly, if what you see in games right now, even in the best games, is all we're capable of doing, then I'm getting out of the business. I don't know about the rest of you... there's so much more we can do."

"You can't imagine what you can't imagine. There's a reason some of us make games, and others of us play them. We have to give them something they can't imagine themselves."

"If you go to E3 and you're not depressed, you're really not paying attention. I mean, three-thousand identical, noisy, crappy... With, like, five good ones you have to spend three days seeking."

"There is a chance that I will work on a game very soon, that is photo-realistic, and modern-day, because it's amazing how easily you can be typecast... If I end up working on a photo-realistic, modern-day game where a guy wears dark sunglasses, carries two guns, you know, and shoots his way through... I will kill myself, alright? Not really."

Spector a răspuns şi unor cereri de a-şi exprima gândurile cu privire la jocurile episodice, afirmând din nou că lucrează cu Valve la un proiect ce va distribuit prin platforma Steam, însă fără să ofere nici un alt detaliu. La final, a conchis:

"Let me just say, that's what I spent the nine-months that I was trying to get financing, that's what I was doing. I think episodics are critical for our future, for about a thousand reasons I've got a whole other talk about. I've got a big proposal, if you've got $20 million, I'd love to talk to you about it."

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