Gaming-Village

Clawhunter hat geschrieben: ↑19. Aug 2024, 13:18 Ach und nebenbei stellt sich mir die Frage ob GTA4 heutzutage immer noch als nonplusultragame angesehen wird (wie damals in Wertungen) oder ob das Gameplay nicht doch zu träge war so dass es heutzutage nicht mehr als Krönung schlechthin gilt?! (bin mit GTA4 auch nicht warm geworden)

Clawhunter hat geschrieben: ↑13. Sep 2024, 10:48 https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/ ... character/

Since before release, the new device (Super Famicom / SNES) rose to the level of a social phenomenon, didn’t it?

Imamura: At that time, magazines like Famimaga had articles that said things like “This is the future!” and “The screen’s rotating function is amazing!”. Because the internet was still not popular and the state of information was truly not there, I was deeply surprised when I saw a screen working during development.

And then, this lead to F-Zero, the first game you worked on?

Imamura: That is correct. The tastes of the director Kazunobu Shimizu and myself matched, the movies “Back to the Future Part Two” and “Batman” (Tim Burton) were being screened at the time, and there was a lot of talk about it by both the public and between the two of us.

The former had a flying DeLorean time machine, but the latter had the amazing Batmobile which was gaining popularity.

Imamura: The Batmobile was particularly cool. We were also strongly influenced by that point and I think the director wanted to do that in a game. I feel the director created the base world and I added the characters and designs.

Prototype Super Famicom with red buttons (this has been shown online previously)
Ultra 64 controller prototypes (they had this label instead of N64); one controller that seemingly had a control stick made out of a shiny metal material and another prototype that only had a center grip; museum also has final clay mold of the completed design of the controller
Prototype GameCube that looks similar to what’s previously appeared online, but this one was a greenish blue color, and was slightly transparent, revealing there were no innards
Prototype GameCube controller similar to a standard GC controller, with the button layout already in place, but much longer grips and the left grip was made out of clear (now yellowed) plastic
Prototype Wii Remotes at the museum which were previously shown online, but also unseen ones including one shaped like a fidget spinner with a d-pad and buttons; another looked like a giant d-pad with buttons all over it
Prototype controller that was seemingly the Wii Classic Controller that allowed you to dock it with a Wii Remote; attach the Wii Remote to the middle of the controller
Wii U GamePad prototype, which was previously shown publicly, is at the museum; has a lot of cables that appeared to be several meters long
Prototype Virtual Boy headset at the museum made out of clear plastic as well as controllers for the hardware made out of styrofoam, with buttons and cables attached
Multiple Game Boy prototypes at the Nintendo Museum, including earliest model that was black with red buttons and layout similar to the original GBA; has “Dot Matrix Game” instead of “Dot Matrix With Stereo Sound” that the final product has
Another Game Boy prototype that appears to be further along, which was now in the vertical layout we all now know, but it was an all black unit with red buttons; has the phrase “Game Boy Are Protected Widely by Patents” under the screen
One GBA prototype at the museum seems to have been designed to be used one handed; size of a standard GBA Micro but it was instead designed with a vertical layout, has a tiny D-Pad / scroll wheel, and buttons
DS prototype with two screens that opened horizontally instead of vertically; D-pads and buttons at either side, which makes it look like an early Switch

While 3D Mario and gaming in general is the standard nowadays, that kind of play was pretty new with the introduction of Super Mario 64, especially in the platformer genre. Getting that kind of experience just right required a ton of work from the dev team, along with all sorts of playtesting for feedback.

Among the playtesters was none other than Shigeru Miyamoto’s son, as was revealed in a decades-old, newly-translated interview from Shmuplations. Not only does Miyamoto mention his own son putting the game through its paces, but apparently his gameplay was so tough to watch that it drove Miyamoto up the wall.

“Seeing him try dozens of times, over and over, to get up this unclimbable hill, as a parent I couldn’t help but think, ‘Geez, does this kid have any brains?’ (laughs) Afterwards we asked the children what they thought of the game, and they said it was fun, and that they wanted to play it again.”