Phil Fish, the outspoken developer behind the upcoming indie platformer Fez, had some harsh words for a Japanese developer at GDC.
According to Develop Online, the incident occurred at a screening of Indie Game: The Movie, a documentary on the independent game development scene that prominently featured Fez and Fish.
According to the report, after the screening there was a Q&A session, where an unidentified Japanese developer came to the microphone and praised the movie, then asked Fish his opinion of the current Japanese game industry.
Fish responded, "Your games just suck," and went on to criticize Japanese development.
Some in attendance criticized Fish for his remarks via Twitter, but Fish himself seemed unrepentant on Twitter today, with a tweet that read: "im sorry japanese guy! i was a bit rough, but your country's games are f****** terrible nowadays."
Fish thinks he's hot s***, but he's been working on this single game for like seven years, which hasn't even been released yet. Earlier today he was comparing himself to Arcade Fire. Sorry bro, you haven't won the Grammys of the video game world.
I think it would have been okay for him to say "I don't think Japanese games are very good these days," since the guy asked for his opinion, but from what I understand of the way he said it, it wasn't even close to respectful.
Admittedly, Fez does look like a good game.
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From: WazzupGenius00 | #003 Fish thinks he's hot s***, but he's been working on this single game for like seven years, which hasn't even been released yet. Earlier today he was comparing himself to Arcade Fire. Sorry bro, you haven't won the Grammys of the video game world.
I hadn't heard of this guy until today but he sounds hilarious
I mean really, would ANYONE on this board be talking about this guy or his game if he didn't make outlandish dick comments like this? it's good marketing.
I mean really, would ANYONE on this board be talking about this guy or his game if he didn't make outlandish dick comments like this? it's good marketing.
Exactly, I never heard of Fez until this. It does look like a fun game. Like Cave crossed with Super Paper Mario, but with the 3D thing done better. But why does it have to look exactly like Cave?
GANON1025 posted... So, you people think the Japanese game industry is A.OK?
I don't follow these things as much as most people here, but there does seem to be more innovation of the American side. But Japan made Xenoblade so they're cool with me.
the japanese game industry is in a bit of a creative funk but I would never tell them "your games suck", it's just tactless and really not even true(it's down as a whole but there are some great games like xenoblade and metal gear still coming from them)