"I don't know why this rumor has been around lately, I do have something to announce at GDC, but it's absolutely impossible to say that this game related to Balotelli is my last game, and finally, Merry Christmas to you."

Jester's reply was brief.

But this reply is not intended to be extremely heavyweight, and it will completely shatter the rumors during this period of time.

Later, someone asked, do you really want to retire?

Jester was quick to reply.

"I said in the community before that I have only one way to develop games, that is, if I can make games that can make something different and be full of passion, then I will never give up game development until the moment of my life, but I know that a person's talent, wisdom, experience, vision, and ability always have limits."

"I've been making the best games for so many years, and in the beginning, I had a ton of fantastic game ideas in my head, and I was desperate to make them all."

"But I know that it's not enough to rely on my own strength, so I formed Mars Entertainment, and along with Mars Entertainment, I have grown a lot, but unfortunately, as more and more games are made, and the types of games are more and more refined, I find that there are fewer and fewer games that can make me have to make him."

"I don't know how many more games I'll be able to make, and how many games I'll be able to keep that passion going, but this time Balotelli is definitely not the last, and when he comes out, you'll know why he's so different -- or even more accurate. That's uniqueness. ”

Seeing Jester's reply, many people had a bad feeling in their hearts.

Because from Jester's words, it can be felt that he has actually had the idea of retirement in his heart, maybe even if Balotelli is not his last game, then his last game should not be far away.

"Don't leave us."

Some players replied like this.

"I'm not going to leave you, but you know, when I founded Mars Entertainment in '84 and tinkered with my first game, American Cubes, on my computer in my bedroom, I was a sophomore and nineteen years old. It's ninety-seven years now, thirteen years have passed, I'm thirty-two years old, I've become a father of two children, and in five or six years I'll probably be in my forties. ”

"Many people say that the forties have just entered the heyday of a person's career, and the ability to mature and energetic ~ is the easiest period to have a career. But what I want to say is that in fact, for game development in the front line, forty years old is basically entering the final stage. Producers at this time were rarely involved in the front-line development of the game, but were responsible for a lot of behind-the-scenes and coordinated work. ”

"Because the front-line development of the game is too energy-consuming, overtime is commonplace, and. It's also the industry that needs the most passion to act as a motivation and endless ideas to fill games, after two decades of making games by a producer. In fact, almost all of his game ideas have already been put into practice. ”

"I'm in such a state now, I have a lot of good game ideas, but that kind of unique game, there are few anymore, my game concept is never to make a good game, but in a unique game, if I can't make a unique game, then I won't make a game, this is the bottom line of my game."

"That's all."

After Jester replied to this, many people immediately asked.

"I don't want to ask, but I still have to ask, otherwise I'll have trouble sleeping, is it that we will play your games less and less in the future, as someone who grew up playing your games, I can't imagine how I would spend my days without your games - it would be a disaster like a year!"

Jester hesitated for a moment to say this, but after much consideration, Jester decided to reveal the curve.

"All I can say is that Balotelli is my next work, but it certainly won't be the last, in fact, after Balotelli, I will have a game that I have hidden in my heart for many years to put into practice, this game I haven't revealed to anyone, he is very big, even bigger than "Heroes", but the team size may not be as large as "Heroes".

A game bigger than Heroes!

As soon as Jester's words came out, the forum immediately boiled, although Jester said that he hadn't shared his idea for the next game with anyone, but hearing such a news was enough to make people excited!

As we all know, Heroes is a milestone in the field of video games, a game that completely revolutionizes almost everyone in video game development.

But what Jester said was that after he finished Balotelli's new game, he would develop a game bigger than "Heroes", which is simply the biggest boon for gamers!

"Really?"

Immediately, countless people's replies followed.

A lot of people want to be confirmed again, not wanting it to be just a joke by Jester.

But Jester was quick to say with certainty: "As long as I don't have any surprises at the time, then this game will definitely be released, actually, this will be a summary of my entire gaming career, I've been thinking about this game for very, very, very many years, and I've done a lot of things that you don't understand why, in fact, it's just preparing for the author of this game, and so far, it's working very well." ”

Someone immediately caught the faint leakage of the message in Jester's sentence, that is, the sentence 'This is a summary of a game career'.

So isn't it, while Balotelli's new game won't be Jester's last, the next one will be his last? But after this question was asked, he didn't get an answer from Jester, and I don't know if Jester was already offline, or if he deliberately didn't add to this question from time to time.

Although Jester came to the forum this time. Successfully resolved the rumours that Balotelli would be his last work.

But in the same way, the news of the other two heavyweights was also leaked by him.

One of them is that Balotelli's later work will be a game that is bigger than "Heroes", but it doesn't require so many people and so much money, because "Heroes" needs so much money because these kinds of games have to be made from scratch from sandbox modeling systems, and no one has such experience.

The other one is the speculation sparked by the summary of Jester's 'gaming career'.

And, for this speculation, Jester did not refute the rumors like Balotelli, so. There is a good chance that this is true.

Finally, on the eve of the opening of GDC, the discussion among players in the player community about whether Jester will retire has not slowed down due to the passage of time, but with the arrival of GDC, the discussion has become more and more enthusiastic, because the news has been spread from countless channels before, and Jester will be a guest at this year's GDC Awards Gala, and. He will answer a lot of the news that is now about his speculation.

Including whether the rumors of the last game are true or not.

This is also the topic that players are most concerned about.

This year's awards are becoming more and more abundant, such as the industry benchmark award, which represents studios that have made extremely outstanding contributions to the industry.

There are also the best new works and so on.

The heavyweight award was still Game of the Year, and this year's competition was fierce. Because the release time of "Final Fantasy 7" has been delayed until next year, but the competition has not weakened, because the two major contenders this year are Hideo Kojima's return of the king, "Hidden Dragon Gun", which has triggered a miracle of reviews and sales, and "Zelda's Ocarina of Time", which Miyamoto has painstakingly honed for three years.

Both of these games have very high word-of-mouth reviews. In particular, "Zelda's Ocarina of Time" is praised as a flawless work of art, and "GAME" magazine also gave the only perfect score in all these years, and they did not give such a score to "Hero" last year. At the beginning, they gave "Haoxia" a score of 9.9 points, and in the shortcomings column, the shortcomings of "GAME" were evaluated because the problem of reading strips seriously affected the game experience, but because other aspects were too good, so, 0.1 point was deducted.

But for "Zelda: Ocarina of Time", this time "GAME" directly gave a full score.

Even the title of art in art is hung on this game, and they also write something in the shortcomings column, they write like this - The-sad-raelisation-that-future-RPG-game-may-never-top-this.

Literally translated into Chinese is a sad reality, that is, the top RPG games of the future will only stop there, paraphrased, it is the shortcomings of this game that are breathtaking.

This is really a high evaluation.

Kojima's "Metal Solid" is also very highly rated, especially his perfect presentation of the cinematic game is a very innovative concept, so that this game has a lot of fans, although "Zelda's Ocarina of Time" is the most popular, but Kojima is not without hope of winning the award.

In the voting conducted by the player community of Mars Entertainment, the supporters of these two games are basically five or five, and "Zelda Ocarina of Time" is slightly ahead.

Jester also gave an interview while attending the awards gala.

He was asked why his game development philosophy is so different, others just want to make good games, but you really want to make not only good games, but also unique good games.

Jester replied with a smile: "Because I don't like to sit still, I know that I continue to do the old game according to the previous ideas, and countless players have bought it, but I am not such a person, for me, I will never go down the road I have already walked." ”

In fact, Jester had hated this behavior since before he crossed over.

The most typical is Fallout 4.

"Fallout 4" is not a fun game, yes, "Fallout 4" is indeed a fun game, his fun is exactly the same as playing "Old Roll 5", but all his characteristics, all the gameplay, all everything, including some engine bugs, are all the same as Old Roll 5, and the behavior of covering up Jester is absolutely unbearable.

A game company cheats ~players like fools~, then I'm sorry, no matter how good the game is, Jester won't play it because there is no sincerity.

Just like the annual awards conference of the original VGA, which has been renamed TGA in 2015, "Fallout 4" can be described as a failure, not even a consolation prize, and even the best mobile game has nothing to do with them, it is a role in the real sense of accompanying the prince to study.

In fact, this is what the judges are telling Company B.

It's 2015 now, not 2010, and it won't work anymore by relying on your old roll 5.

It's as simple as that.

And The Witcher 3 has become the biggest winner, Game of the Year, RPG of the Year, Producer of the Year three major honors of the grand slam, even the half-finished MGS5, Hideo Kojima is the last "Hidden Dragon Granulate" series, and also won the important award for the best action/adventure game of the year, of course, MGS5 is only a semi-finished product, if you give Kojima time to be able to finish the complete MGS5, then it is really unknown who will kill the game of the year.

This is a vivid example of how players and industry professionals alike have always hated the behavior of just lying on the credit book and not wanting to make progress.

Then again.

With Jester is also Shigeru Miyamoto, who has also been sought after and interviewed by countless media, because Shigeru Miyamoto is the protagonist of this year's awards gala, he is not only the most popular possible winner of the Game of the Year, but also, he is also the biggest possible winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award, basically, the Lifetime Achievement Award has been basically determined to be his, because he has been nominated since the first session, and it is his turn now.

The other people nominated with him, whether it is fame, honors or works, including qualifications, and contributions to the industry, are not as good as Shigeru Miyamoto. (To be continued......)