Regarding the Chris Hecker statement, (dont quote it or this WILL GET LOCKED)
I think this guy is very smart. But this guy could barely be considered a game developer, since he has never even published one game. Not only that, this guy is not a Wii developer as you stated but a PC developer. If you look at his website, this guy is totally a pc guru expert.
Link.
Why his statement is so grating is because he basically spits in the face of developers that have made great games for GC such as RE4, Killer 7, etc. And those developers have praise for GC and even higher praise for Wii. And those guys have been in the field much longer than Hecker.
If you read Hecker's full statement, he basically sets himself up to be exposed as a poor developer. He complains how you cant have great AI because of lack of power. But if someone does create great AI on the Wii, then it just shows Hecker isn't creative enough to work with limitations. Limitations is his biggest gripe, and if you work in the programming field long enough, you are almost ALWAYS working around limitations. Working around limitations breeds creativity, and one could argue creativity breeds art. In fact, you cant create great art without being creative.
Hecker is not a veteran game developer, even less of a verteran console developer at that. So he comes off as a big mouth and insults all past console game devlopers.
He talks about how Nintendo does not care about 'Art' or encourage it.
I couldnt disagree more with this statment. How do you argue 'Art'.
In fact, once could argue the Wii Remote brings game 'Art' to a whole new level that has never been experienced before. One could also argue the weak graphic power doesn't encourage art to be at its best. However, I think this is weak because if you don't think Van Gogh is art because of how it looks, your basically a graphic slob.
In fact, I'll argue as games get more 'realistic', art gets lost.
He does a diservice to developers of the past and all the current developers that currently develop for weaker systems.
His 'Art' statement exposes him as an uncultured fool. In fact, I can go into Target and buy shirts with Mario, Pac-Man, and Dig Dug. Those games that became art. There is point in this paragraph somewhere.
Im writing the company distributing Spore for the DS telling them I won't bother buying the game because apparently its only good for systems that can support 'art'. And I might just campaign others not do so as well.
Chris Hecker, you are smart, but stay out of the console argument until you published a few. In fact, try publishing ONE first. Get some experience before opening up your ignorant mouth.
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