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PAX 2010 Keynote Video Feature: Warren Spector 1

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We kick off PAX 2010 with the keynote address by Junction Point founder Warren Spector.

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41 Comments

  • chtgamer

    Posted Jun 1, 2011 10:30 am GMT

    great story

  • OtherFabbros

    Posted Jan 24, 2011 5:16 am GMT

    @Slash_out

    This is the today Generetion of gaming.

    Warren Spector knows this and said, "f**k everything and everyone, I make games because I love writing stories, i love making games for everyone wants challenge himself, not to make happy those stupid little kids."

  • sodiumpentathol

    Posted Oct 28, 2010 2:24 pm GMT

    Man, I thought we were long past this stigmatized stage of gamers. I guess, big publishers, whom mainly focused on the mainstream have deflated the image of gaming to its immature infancy again. Not too surprising really.

  • mikey1611

    Posted Oct 22, 2010 3:28 am GMT

    @Ravenchrome

    He's not. Warren Spector is a gamer, he wants everybody to experience his games. If you watch Bonus Round on Game Trailers, Spector was interested in putting this on the Move as well but it was Disney Interactive's decision to keep it a Wii exclusive.

    (PAX Keynote: Warren Spector)

  • Hkshinfug

    Posted Sep 12, 2010 5:31 pm GMT

    Warren Spector is my hero.

  • Slash_out

    Posted Sep 7, 2010 5:07 pm GMT

    I agree with mister Warren. And finding a way to educate others gamers, to find a way to get better games, with challenge and not just casual cr*p. Because so far with how things are going, I can't help but think that reaching a broader audience IS bad for us.
    Look at all the cr*p on the wii, and all the cr*p that's coming on the x360 and PS3 with kinect and Move which are basically aiming at the casual gamers.
    I don't mind more people playing games, I mind when those bigger audiences have an impact on the games I play. Now instead of one big game from a dev, they'll split that budget into 5 and make 5 crappy games. Instead of a great RPG we have a party games, a rope jumping game, a fresbee games and whatever they can think of. We have 5 years old level puzzle solving. We have games that have an option to play without the player (recent nintendo addition). I mind when the licenses I love are changed to appeal to casual gamers (Gothic for exemple).
    Where is the challenge? Where is the pleasure? If I want a game that play itself I'll watch a movie. A game is meant to be played. And playing means challenge. Otherwise if there is no challenge, why not just push a button for each level? It's easier tha tway isn't it?

  • abillionandone

    Posted Sep 6, 2010 10:21 pm GMT

    "A platform for letting players express how smart they are"..

    Exactly.. what I hate most about the dumbing down and lack of choice in games is that it doesn't let us use our brain to surmount virtual obstacles in a lateral way. Our "choice" is a choice between a few essentially identical guns, our "problem-solving" has degenerated to mean using a particular item at a certain location. Games should mirror reality -- and our ability to survive in the real world is tied to our lateral thinking, not by cycling through 1-5 cookie-cutter solutions.

  • kintama88

    Posted Sep 6, 2010 6:59 pm GMT

    totally agree. but honestly, i still enjoy sequels of games i love. i can't help it!

  • GymFox

    Posted Sep 6, 2010 2:32 pm GMT

    btw guys and gals.. Don't forget to go to the site he mentioned. We need to protect our rights as gamers!!!

  • ThaElementz

    Posted Sep 6, 2010 11:50 am GMT

    Excellent keynote, Warren is right in the sense that the acceptance of a medium just takes time, and that history certainly does repeat itself.

  • zinngg

    Posted Sep 6, 2010 11:43 am GMT

    This guy knows what he is talking about. However there is only one thing I disagree with casuals or majority of them cannot be talked to. They do not understand what we grew up with and how games work. Majority of them are the ones who enjoy there mindless movies and television shows and so it translates into their games. You cannot reason with a Cod or Warcraft fan because they don't understand. They have blinders on. It isn't that thier fanboys they just don't get it.

  • gbrading Site moderator

    Posted Sep 6, 2010 9:46 am GMT

    Warren Spector speaks so much sense it's almost unbelievable. Excellent talk.

  • Kid2812

    Posted Sep 6, 2010 9:14 am GMT

    I don’t knw what the purpose of this speech was and I don’t knw if am a 'casual' or 'hardcore' gamer coz I spend the right amount of time playing the games I love. This speech is something I don’t understand 100% but what am trying to say is that I feel much better about being a gamer now

  • NeoJedi

    Posted Sep 6, 2010 8:49 am GMT

    Every gamer, young and old, should watch this keynote. Warren Spector, aside from being a fantastic orator and brilliant human being, is also right about current generation video games. Such an amazing keynote. Thank you GameSpot for uploading this.

  • Ravenchrome

    Posted Sep 6, 2010 3:32 am GMT

    @syapiqjabar

    Thanks for the info.
    Now I see.

  • dlind70

    Posted Sep 6, 2010 12:18 am GMT

    HELL YEH. My first major rpg was Deus Ex:IW and I loved it. Now that I'm older and have access to a PC I've discovered it's "hardcore" predecessor, Deus Ex 1. I played them both and can enjoy them both for their own unique style. I had never even heard of the term consolization until a die-hard fan made up the term on a forum simply for the cause to demean the casual player. Labels like 'casual' and 'hardcore' on gamers and people in general only seeks to put others down and that kind of "master race" attitude, frankly, sucks!

  • nathan83_xp

    Posted Sep 5, 2010 9:06 pm GMT

    you heard the man bethesda!, offer us something better than oblivion/fallout 3 or offer us a mouse rpg, you're choice.

  • syafiqjabar

    Posted Sep 5, 2010 8:47 pm GMT

    @Ravenchrome

    He works at a Disney studio. Disney publishes games for other platforms too, like the TRON game coming soon, and the last Turok game.

  • pattyp77

    Posted Sep 5, 2010 7:17 pm GMT

    THIS GUY IS F'ING BRILLIANT... BIG Publishers PLEASE Listen to this guy!

    Get Over CoD: LMNOP, HALO: XYZ, Final Fantasy 76, and GTA5:Bagdad... etc

  • sunio

    Posted Sep 5, 2010 4:13 pm GMT

    wow, wing commander brings me back alot of nostalgia memories.

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