{"id":13188,"date":"2011-07-28T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"pok-mon-director-laments-violence-lack-of-originality-in-games-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13188-pok-mon-director-laments-violence-lack-of-originality-in-games-these-days","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon director laments violence, lack of originality in games these days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pok&eacute;mon Black\/White director Junichi Masuda visited E3 this year, and came away somewhat disappointed about it all.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This year, FPS war games were trend!! A lot of splatter scenes!! Blood spread everywhere. Shooting a lot, killing a lot,&rdquo; he writes in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamefreak.co.jp\/blog\/dir_english\/?p=350\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>, the distress visibly affecting his language usage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;The game developer seems get used to &lsquo;kill&rsquo; the target. Therefore, I felt &lsquo;how to kill&rsquo; became a focus of developing game. For that reason, target become zombie and alien&hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These targets&rsquo; savage attack and human counterattacks&hellip; It became savage contents and you never know. Mmm&hellip; It is the player who choose the game to play. As a game creator, it is little sad!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Majority of the games look like a same game,&rdquo; he adds. &ldquo;There were little of original games. I felt a sense of crisis with above part.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Which is kind of ironic, considering every single Pok&eacute;mon game is pretty much exactly the same.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/16068-Pokemon-director-complains-about-lack-of-originality-in-games-these-days?p=483866#post483866\" target=\"_self\">Are games not original enough these days?<\/a><\/strong><\/span> &lt;&lt; Share your thoughts in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heal the woooorld, make it a better plaaaace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}