Jester thinks he likes to talk without being shocked.

For example, this time, this game that you have never seen before, once again aroused everyone's great interest.

Every time Jester mentions his new game, intentionally or unintentionally, he will say that this game must be something you haven't seen before, and he always makes it happen.

New games have never disappointed players, and it seems that Jester always has a ruthless and endless idea to squander, not only the games he made himself, but even some other games of Mars Entertainment, which he participated in planning, are also full of creativity, he is like a magician, and he can always come up with something incredible to mention.

What exactly is Jester's new game?

Many people, whether it is players or the media, want to find out, but Mars Entertainment has always implemented the strictest confidentiality system, and there has never been a case of Jester's new game being leaked in advance.

This time will certainly not be an exception.

However, Jester himself does not seem to refuse to talk about this topic, he was asked this question during an interview about the Monster Hunter promotional event, although Jester said that it is not a good behavior to ask another game at the Monster Hunter event, but he answered anyway, and the answer was not what everyone expected.

"This game hasn't actually started production yet, because it's based on a new console, and now the new console hasn't been developed yet, so of course there won't be any news."

Although Jester didn't say anything specific about the new game.

But judging by his answers, there are still many very useful things to be gained.

For example, after Jester finishes working on Monster Hunter, his new game will appear on the new console, that is, on Dreambox 3. "Monster Hunter" may also be his last game of this generation, and whether there will be a PC game, this situation is not easy to say, but from the perspective of time, if the Dreambox4 comes out in five to six years, that is to say, the life cycle of Dreambox3 is also five or six years.

And if Jester's new game will be a big production like "Hero", maybe this game has already started to be made.

But now there are clear no signs of a big project starting.

After all, a project carried out by a team of several hundred people cannot be concealed in any way, although the content can be hidden from the outside world. But for such a large project, the transfer of personnel and the allocation of resources are definitely different from usual.

And the current Mars entertainment is no different from before, which shows that what Jester said is true.

This project only exists in his own imagination.

As we approach this year's carnival, the entire Mars entertainment revolves around the carnival, and this time the main game promoted by the carnival is the demo version of "Heart of the Swarm" and "Monster Hunter", a PC game. A console game, of course, there are many other games, such as Shigeru Miyamoto's "Zelda Ocarina of Time". Originally, it was also going to be promoted at the carnival.

However, because the two new games at the carnival were able to have the greatest promotional effect, the promotion of "Zelda's Ocarina of Time" was postponed for the current period.

I stayed at next year's E3 show.

Next year's E3 may also be the most important E3 for Mars Entertainment in the past few years, because "Zelda Ocarina of Time" is almost the second investment project of Mars Entertainment since "Hero". The investment in the entire project is as high as 50 million US dollars, second only to FF7 with 70 million US dollars.

However, FF7's schedule is next year's Christmas.

The chief designer who previously announced "Warcraft 3" is also Rob. Pardo finally put some die-hard RTS fans at ease at this year's carnival. Rob. In addition to introducing his Heart of the Swarm, Pardo will also have a small discussion dedicated to sharing Warcraft 3 with players.

In this session, Pardo will talk about what kind of RTS game this is, and how it differs from traditional RTS games, such as StarCraft, and Age of Empires.

Moreover, when Pardo was interviewed before and asked about "Warcraft 3", his answer surprised many people.

Because I thought that Pardo would take over the production task of "Warcraft 3" when he was forced by Jester to do so, because he had just finished "Heart of the Swarm", which Pardo called in several interviews a game that I poured all my understanding of RTS games into it, there is really no need to make any other RTS games after completing this RTS game that may be perfect in his mind.

This would have been unconscionable.

Jester isn't the only one in video game development who doesn't like to repeat things that have been done before and done very well, because such things are very boring.

There are many designers who have been influenced by Jester's idea.

Pardo has mentioned more than once that Jester is his mentor when it comes to game development. Jester's words and actions have influenced his approach to the development of games and if he develops a game that he loves and that others will enjoy.

SO, AFTER PARDO FINISHED "STARCRAFT: BROOD BATTLE", HE WENT TO MAKE A "STARCRAFT" THAT MAY OR IS VERY LIKELY TO BE A FANTASY STORY - THIS WANTS TO BE NOT COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

But this time, many players didn't think StarCraft in fantasy skin was a cool idea.

Although Jester has said more than once that Warcraft 3 is going to be a completely different game, you can't even think of it as an RTS game, he adds a lot of other factors, he is very special, he is completely different from StarCraft.

But this statement is completely beyond the imagination of the players.

Warcraft 3 will be an RTS game after all. And since it's an RTS game, they can't imagine any RTS game that can go beyond the scope and standards of StarCraft.

However, Pardo mentioned this in an interview, saying, "I was absolutely surprised when I heard that I was forced by the boss to take over the production of this game, and it was a colleague of mine who showed me the post and he knew the whole process of it, so he showed it to me and made fun of me. ”

"Actually, I was going to the community to explain it, and I knew that the boss had been addicted to it lately, and he would often go to the community to interact with the players in person. Answering some of their questions, but because some things have not been dealt with, some information needs to be kept secret, so I held back at the time. ”

"Apparently I can tell you a little bit about what it was like."

"The boss said at the time that he was right to talk to me about WAR3, but there were some things he didn't say, and the boss talked to him about a lot of the ideas for WAR3 - or the idea was not very precise, because the scope of the word was so small, it should be said to be a brain hole."

Pardo was visibly excited when he said this. It seems that he really wants to share this with others.

"Yes, it should be a brain hole, and the first thing I thought when I first heard the boss talk about what kind of RTS he was going to be with WAR3 was - how is this possible? This is an RTS game and nothing else. But as I continued to listen to him, I realized that the idea was so great that I couldn't wait to play WAR3 as described by the boss! ”

"I explained my attitude to the boss at the time."

I told him. I'm going to make this game, and if you don't agree, I'll quit! ”

"At that time, the boss was very surprised to see my attitude. He became very happy and said that he was worried that I would not agree to this, so I became the producer of "WAR3". ”

It can be seen that when talking about this, Pardo is still proud, obviously, he is extremely optimistic about the project "WAR3".

But the reporter at the time also asked a question.

"As we all know, the "WAR" series must pay attention to the plot of the game, whether it is Jester himself, or the entire development team, want to use the game to improve it into a fantasy world to complete the other party, it seems that now Jester is still organizing people to create a real world of Azeroth, how do you, as a person who has never been in contact with this aspect and was transferred from outside, deal with this matter?"

Pardo is not taboo either.

"It's not something that can't be talked about, in fact, I learned a lot from the WAR series in the campaign design of the StarCraft series, and I also attach the same amount of importance to the plot, although I can only call it a little scratch about the plot of this series, but we have a complete plot design team of dozens of people, such as the one that is temporarily formed by the boss now."

"So, the problem of the plot is definitely not a problem, I am not responsible for this aspect, I am responsible for how this game will be fun."

And through Pardo's slightly simple interview before this year's carnival, many RTS players are even more interested, especially for this one in Pardo's mouth, if you don't let me make this game, I'll quit "WAR3", of course, even if "WAR3" can't satisfy them, this year's carnival still has a "brood war" that can make them crazy.

Jester's Monster Hunter certainly wasn't idle.

After all, this time the main stage, the opening ceremony, will be the first demo of the game to be rolled out to players.

In this game, it is still a question mark whether the fighting and hunting mode in Jester's mouth can satisfy players - although now players can't wait for this carnival, after all, Mars Entertainment and Jester have explained on different occasions before, on this carnival, there will be a version of "Monster Hunter" DEMO trial, which version is still being discussed internally.

on top of the community.

Once again, Jester comes out and interacts with the players.

This time it was a vote of players who wanted to add another weapon to the game, which would be the eighth universal weapon, but they were debating what exactly it was.

No one can convince anyone, because all kinds of weapons have their favorites, so we think it is better to leave this question to the players, relying on the votes of the players, the last two most popular will enter the candidates, and then the two weapons on the carnival will have a PK, and the final winner will become the eighth universal weapon of the three versions of "Monster Hunter".

Involving players in the design of in-game items is still very rare in the current gaming industry - even in the game development industry in the future, it is actually very rare, although many production teams say that they will listen to the player's voice, but no one knows whether they listen or not.

Instead, Valve's Workshop is a cool way to involve players in the design of the game.

And Blizzard has also asked players to participate in the design of legendary equipment in Diablo 3 several times.

Jester borrowed from these two, and then wanted players to choose what weapon they most wanted to play in the game, of course, this time the number of alternative weapons was a lot, various styles, long and short weapons, basically to meet the range of all players' preferences.

So when someone asked if these weapons were on your design plan list, Jester replied that they were on the list, but adding weapons wasn't the most important thing.

In short, the Mars Entertainment Carnival in 97 was opened in the midst of great anticipation, and even in the eyes of Mars Entertainment players, the carnival is a festival that is grander than E3 than the Tokyo Exhibition and the Cologne Exhibition - the announcement and trial of exciting new games, the World Finals of Mars Entertainment's competitive games, it is said that this time there are a total of eight games in the finals.

The total prize fund reached five million dollars!

In the past, the entire sports world was in an uproar, because except for those most mainstream sports, other sports really did not have such a lucrative prize competition. (To be continued......)