One industry leader that's never released a video game on a Nintendo platform is the American developer and publisher Valve.
Despite this, the company's founder, Gabe Newell, is still a big fan of Mario's creator. In a recent interview with outlet 1 News, Newell was asked if he still regularly played games himself and took a brief moment in between conversation about Apex Legends and Cyberpunk 2077 to praise Shigeru Miyamoto.
"Playing Miyamoto's games, it's like, one, they're a lot of fun, but I can't think of any of his games I've ever played that didn't make me better as a game developer."
A few years ago, it was revealed by Gabe's son, how he and his father actually visited Nintendo's headquarters in Japan and played Super Mario Galaxy alongside Miyamoto. The two video game legends apparently spoke about a "joint project" at the time, but "it was super casual" and nothing ever came of it in the end.
Newell is obviously not the first high-profile developer to pay tribute to Nintendo's most famous employee - even Nintendo's own employees are still excited and inspired by him.
Gabe is best-known for the Half-Life series and his digital distribution game service Steam, and is currently living in New Zealand due to the state of the pandemic in America.
[source tvnz.co.nz, via purexbox.com]
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Miyamoto's made us all better.
Mii music.
Star Fox Zero
Gabe must’ve never played those.
Also...when’s the last time HE even made a game? Lol
Miyamoto made god better
Half-Life 3 is a Switch Pro exclusive.
@LUIGITORNADO Star Fox Zero was good. Not excellent, but it was a good game once you got past the learning curve.
Can't say anything about Mii Music though.
If only their encounter could've inspired Gabe to release Half Life 3.
@LUIGITORNADO Miyamoto is like the reverse of a broken clock. He is allowed to be off twice in his life.
Wii Music is silly but there’s loads of content for what’s ultimately complete nonsense. There’s far more imagination and little details put into that game than a lot of recent Nintendo games.
Has Miyamoto made a game since Starfox Zero?
@LUIGITORNADO Valve are supposedly in the process of making new games.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/01/21/valve-making-new-single-player-games-says-gabe-newell-13942749/
Miyamoto-dono is a treasure to this world.
Steam made him a worse one, it seems.
@LUIGITORNADO Half-Life Alyx released not even a full year ago. Gabe confirmed they're working on more games as well, and Half-Life 3 is absolutely coming in the next few years. Geoff Keighley's book on Half-Life Alyx also confirms that Valve had been working on numerous games during their quiet period, but they had to scrap many of them as they were still in the process of creating the Source 2 engine and were facing a lot of technical difficulties. They've also been working on hardware between the Steam Link/Controller and the Valve Index VR kit. Valve's worked on a lot, and with Source 2 now being ready for development (as proven by Half-Life Alyx and Artifact), they'll be releasing more in the near future.
@fafonio I always liked star fox zero! I get that the control system was not to everyone’s taste but I was personally fine with it. The main thing I wish that would teach Nintendo is give players the choice. Offer in the setting a cut back version that plays like star fox 64 and people would have lapped it up
He never made all those games. A team of very talented people did.
Miyamoto's games feel like having a conversation with someone who is fun to talk to. They make you want to up your own game and have more fun with things. <3
In the same interview, Gabe also said Pizza Hut made him fatter
He also can't count to 3.
people seem to think Gabe never actually made any games, but he was a big part in making some of the games ya'll love most. Half-life 1&2, portal, etc.
Both are great game developers. If you take a step away from the screen and introspect a little, you can understand what Gabe means. Not every Miyamoto game is pure gold, a smashing hit, nobody is like that. But every single of his games take into consideration many "hidden" design choices. From physical to emotional player experience, almost everything is premeditated, and that is what makes Miyamoto a special kind of developer, not how many goals he scored
@Pod I wholeheartedly agree
I'd buy a few of these at a low price, but this sale doesn't get me there.
@LUIGITORNADO
No one played those games.
Miyamoto made superior games 80's - 90's. But he seriously declined duing the Wii-era, where after he only seem to be interested in adding annoying gimmicks and create gimmick-oriented games. Wouldn't surprise me if he was the one pushing for adding annoying waggy- steering in Star Fox Zero.
To bad no one ever taught him how to count past 2.
When was the last time they made a game? Miyamoto is a real dev with a passion of his work. Gabe is riding on his last big successful title from 17 years ago.
The Half Life games were great in their time but the people behind them need to make something new at least vaguely close to that level of quality to retain my respect.
[edit] Fine. I suppose there was that VR game. I have less respect for VR games than even mobile, but I suppose I can't say it doesn't count.
I have over 2000 hours of Team Fortress 2 on PC and its the only PC game I really play besides Garrysmod lol. Mario Pikmin and Team Fortress 2 are the best. Nintendo and valve are the best this industry has to offer.
@Trajan I am pretty sure he has directed all the mainline mario games up to Galaxy 2. I dont think he directed odyssey but he over saw it in a lesser role but I could be wrong. I think he became less involved during the ending of the Wii U era and the early switch Era. However I know he was in Canada assisting the development of Luigis Mansion 3 to so maybe he is still pretty active.
Miyamoto is a legend. I hope he's working on an epic new ip. An RPG maybe?
@Vasilios
I loved Team Fortress but I refuse to use Steam.
@Heavyarms55 2020. You know, GameSpot's 2020 Game of the year:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/game-of-the-year-2020-half-life-alyx/1100-6485617/
@yuwarite Game Spot still exists?
@Heavyarms55 It won best VR/AR game across almost every major game awards, and made several outlet's top 10/won in the overall category, too. So just give it a rest with whatever argument you're about to come up with.
@yuwarite Lol, alright buddy. VR games. Lol.
@Heavyarms55 Your opinion on VR. Lol.
Also, 93/100 on metacritic, so shhh: https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/half-life-alyx
@LUIGITORNADO Kazumi Totaka was the Director on Wii Music. Beyond that ignorance, to pretend that his involvement in two bad projects negates the hundreds he has done is what you call a fallacy.
@RasandeRose To say he has declined is to not understand his current role. He doesn't direct games anymore, he produces mostly, he has taken a higher role in the company with his hands in almost every project Nintendo develops.
@Trajan
This is off topic but...is that Monolith soft Zelda spin off still happening?
@BongoBongo123 no idea. I’m thinking it was never actually started to begin with.
@Trajan
The concept art though...looked like it could have been more mature and less stylized.
@Trajan
I like Zelda being stylized but a more serious, darker tone once in a while would be good.
@BongoBongo123 Nintendo tried that with Twilight Princess. Idk if it sold well or not though. Majoras Mask was also a bit more mature.
I don’t think you’ll get much beyond that being a Nintendo franchise.
@Trajan yeah I wouldn't want an M rated Zelda game.
@Zidentia Its worth it lol I have like 300 games on my steam account but I only ever play Team Fortress 2 on it haha
@Vasilios
yeah, I have tried them but the issue is the digital rights are not yours, Steam still owns them and if they shut down or pull a title you are out of luck and money. I use GOG mostly but I stick to Physical where possible.
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