Gundam Creator Thinks "Games Are Evil"

[Wildrow12]

He has a giant robot.
He can say whatever the Hell he wants at this point.

Hard to argue with a man who can brandish a cannon the size of Guatemala, eh?

 

[Del-Toro]

Coming from the guy who's series generally take 18 hours to marathon through, yes I just said that.

 

[FROGGEman2]

His rant reeks of hypocrisy... TV is just as bad as videogames...

he wanted to create a full blown Sci-Fi Drama that would change an entire genre like a fucking thunderbolt. And he did that, When he created Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979 he was told "This is Ten Years to early, nobody is going to watch this" what did he say "Then lets bring Ten Years right now."

He did not want to make Model Kits but he had to because his only sponsers were toy companies, hell the Gundam was just supposed to be uniform white like a millitary weapon. The original Gundam was freaking tanking because it was Ten years to early, it's Re-Runs made it what is pretty much Japans star wars.

And lets see what Gundam has done, It's influenced millitary research and technology, it resulted in a boom in the engineering buisness, it changed what Anime would do forever. It was just supposed to be Tomino making a Sci-Fi War Drama disguised as a Toy commercial. In the same way Star Trek got by with intelligent dialogue as a crutch for it's shit animation, thats what Tomino did, the writing was Wonderful.

Though if you don't wanna make him cry watch the damn movie trilogy where he cut out a LOT of what the toy companies made him do.

Tell me exactly what Video Game was SO DAMN GOOD that every Video Game after it had to up there game, that things outside of Video Games were influences. They are far and few if any at all.

Also note in the article he is saying he does not see the worth, he probably DOESN'T get games it would not surprise me one bit. We have people OUR age who don't get games. But he has a point.

What game was ten years ahead of it's time? you could say Psychonaughts was ahead of it's time definitly.

He made Xabungle which took an after the apocolypse world with murder and rebellion and revolution and he turned it into a comedy, it sold hardly any toys and it's not his most memorable work but it's one of his best.

Why do people think he made Gundam? cause he was sick of making the Daitarn 3 and Zambot 3 Super Robot Toy Commercials (Oh don't get me wrong both are great watches, but they did nothing for the genre)

Not all criticisim is bad, I think he's wrong about games being worthless, but I don't believe he is wrong that nobody in the industry wants to go forward ten years in a single jump. Regardless of selling potential.

This is a man who liked to kill his casts so there could never be a sequel.

Jeez, calm down mate, no need to get all in a huff! *huffs*

 

[thiosk]

I think JimmyBassatti is a pretty cool guy, eh kills raepers and doesn't afraid of anything.

People on the internets should be aware of two things:

1: Memes are important to know.
2: How babby is formed.

OT: Not much more to contribute here; giant robot tv show guy says sitting in front of a box wasting electricity is evil.

This guy should stick to cuddling with voltron at night.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Ahem.

Games are evil my ass.

 

[hypothetical fact]

His rant reeks of hypocrisy... TV is just as bad as videogames...

he wanted to create a full blown Sci-Fi Drama that would change an entire genre like a fucking thunderbolt. And he did that, When he created Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979 he was told "This is Ten Years to early, nobody is going to watch this" what did he say "Then lets bring Ten Years right now."

He did not want to make Model Kits but he had to because his only sponsers were toy companies, hell the Gundam was just supposed to be uniform white like a millitary weapon. The original Gundam was freaking tanking because it was Ten years to early, it's Re-Runs made it what is pretty much Japans star wars.

And lets see what Gundam has done, It's influenced millitary research and technology, it resulted in a boom in the engineering buisness, it changed what Anime would do forever. It was just supposed to be Tomino making a Sci-Fi War Drama disguised as a Toy commercial. In the same way Star Trek got by with intelligent dialogue as a crutch for it's shit animation, thats what Tomino did, the writing was Wonderful.

Though if you don't wanna make him cry watch the damn movie trilogy where he cut out a LOT of what the toy companies made him do.

Tell me exactly what Video Game was SO DAMN GOOD that every Video Game after it had to up there game, that things outside of Video Games were influences. They are far and few if any at all.

Also note in the article he is saying he does not see the worth, he probably DOESN'T get games it would not surprise me one bit. We have people OUR age who don't get games. But he has a point.

What game was ten years ahead of it's time? you could say Psychonaughts was ahead of it's time definitly.

He made Xabungle which took an after the apocolypse world with murder and rebellion and revolution and he turned it into a comedy, it sold hardly any toys and it's not his most memorable work but it's one of his best.

Why do people think he made Gundam? cause he was sick of making the Daitarn 3 and Zambot 3 Super Robot Toy Commercials (Oh don't get me wrong both are great watches, but they did nothing for the genre)

Not all criticisim is bad, I think he's wrong about games being worthless, but I don't believe he is wrong that nobody in the industry wants to go forward ten years in a single jump. Regardless of selling potential.

This is a man who liked to kill his casts so there could never be a sequel.

Videogames are being used as a medium to develop realistic military training without the person getting injured. They have brought thousands of people together and able to communicate in real time from their own home thanks to mmo's and for better or worse they imploded the markets for comic books and children's novels. To get into a grey area they also contributed to the social change from drawn out drama to all action immediately. Which you can see if you compare any movie from the 50's and any movie today.

You can not deny that games have caused a global impact from 1999 to today.

 

[Wildrow12]

He has a giant robot.
He can say whatever the Hell he wants at this point.

Hard to argue with a man who can brandish a cannon the size of Guatemala, eh?

Really bad idea to argue with a man who admitted that making Anime has helped calm his desire to want to kill people.

I'm SERIOUS

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/4231/tominointerview2.jpg

"...Also by directing combat and war pieces, I could experience catharsis and successfully avoid committing a murder in real life."

....I'm scared. Hold me!

 

[FROGGEman2]

His rant reeks of hypocrisy... TV is just as bad as videogames...

he wanted to create a full blown Sci-Fi Drama that would change an entire genre like a fucking thunderbolt. And he did that, When he created Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979 he was told "This is Ten Years to early, nobody is going to watch this" what did he say "Then lets bring Ten Years right now."

He did not want to make Model Kits but he had to because his only sponsers were toy companies, hell the Gundam was just supposed to be uniform white like a millitary weapon. The original Gundam was freaking tanking because it was Ten years to early, it's Re-Runs made it what is pretty much Japans star wars.

And lets see what Gundam has done, It's influenced millitary research and technology, it resulted in a boom in the engineering buisness, it changed what Anime would do forever. It was just supposed to be Tomino making a Sci-Fi War Drama disguised as a Toy commercial. In the same way Star Trek got by with intelligent dialogue as a crutch for it's shit animation, thats what Tomino did, the writing was Wonderful.

Though if you don't wanna make him cry watch the damn movie trilogy where he cut out a LOT of what the toy companies made him do.

Tell me exactly what Video Game was SO DAMN GOOD that every Video Game after it had to up there game, that things outside of Video Games were influences. They are far and few if any at all.

Also note in the article he is saying he does not see the worth, he probably DOESN'T get games it would not surprise me one bit. We have people OUR age who don't get games. But he has a point.

What game was ten years ahead of it's time? you could say Psychonaughts was ahead of it's time definitly.

He made Xabungle which took an after the apocolypse world with murder and rebellion and revolution and he turned it into a comedy, it sold hardly any toys and it's not his most memorable work but it's one of his best.

Why do people think he made Gundam? cause he was sick of making the Daitarn 3 and Zambot 3 Super Robot Toy Commercials (Oh don't get me wrong both are great watches, but they did nothing for the genre)

Not all criticisim is bad, I think he's wrong about games being worthless, but I don't believe he is wrong that nobody in the industry wants to go forward ten years in a single jump. Regardless of selling potential.

This is a man who liked to kill his casts so there could never be a sequel.

Videogames are being used as a medium to develop realistic military training without the person getting injured. They have brought thousands of people together and able to communicate in real time from their own home thanks to mmo's and for better or worse they imploded the markets for comic books and children's novels. To get into a grey area they also contributed to the social change from drawn out drama to all action immediately. Which you can see if you compare any movie from the 50's and any movie today.

Also, they are a developing art form.

 

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he may also be mad that every Gundam video game to date has sucked

 

[TheSunshineHobo]

Video games do provide the user with benefits. Certain games teach math, hand-eye coordination and expose you to different stories and possibly cultures in an interactive way.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Who cares what the creator of Gundam thinks?

"Hi, here's the creator of dildos to give her opinion on classical music."

Seriously though, video games are good. They let people release aggression and other emotions into a virtual world, I would say that video games are in fact better than therapists in some senses.

Also, they're fun, I enjoy them. I challenge my mind, my reflexes... whatever is pertinent to the game I'm playing.
They're not evil, they're not useless. That would be George Bush (zing).

 

[Sigenrecht]

Let's play a game: if you can think of any one thing you could be doing instead of playing video games you instantly lose the argument.

Also, for this game, let's ignore the hypocrisy of the ten minutes I wasted trying to think of the most clever way to intellectually trump all of you, and the inhumane hours I spend firing pixels that represent streams of coherent photons originating from the pixels representing my Internet spaceship directed at a larger group of pixels representing an asteroid.

 

[KDR_11k]

Wii Fit anyone?

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

I have one thing to say to that: Organized Sports.

How are they contributing to society? The only difference between the two is that one consumes electricity and the other wastes millions of dollars on players.

They make people drink a lot of shitty beer and cause murders.
Videogames make people eat a lot of shitty food and cause mass murders.

ONE IS OBVIOUSLY WORSE

They do not cause mass murders. Thats just the bullshit the media print whenever someone who once touched a videogame goes and does something like that. Insane sport fanatics are different.

 

[GundamSentinel]

He's probably only been playing Gundam games. He's right about those.

 

[Exocet]

Hold on,how is spending a shitload of money on giant robot statues supporting the economy?
Plus,his approximations and if's are bullshit:
3 billion gamers?Add 10 more billion on the planet???

Buddy,if there were 16.5 billion people on the planet,I don't think gaming would be much of a problem compared to say...oh,I don't know,famine,disease,war.

 

[WhiteTiger225]

His rant reeks of hypocrisy... TV is just as bad as videogames...

he wanted to create a full blown Sci-Fi Drama that would change an entire genre like a fucking thunderbolt. And he did that, When he created Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979 he was told "This is Ten Years to early, nobody is going to watch this" what did he say "Then lets bring Ten Years right now."

He did not want to make Model Kits but he had to because his only sponsers were toy companies, hell the Gundam was just supposed to be uniform white like a millitary weapon. The original Gundam was freaking tanking because it was Ten years to early, it's Re-Runs made it what is pretty much Japans star wars.

And lets see what Gundam has done, It's influenced millitary research and technology, it resulted in a boom in the engineering buisness, it changed what Anime would do forever. It was just supposed to be Tomino making a Sci-Fi War Drama disguised as a Toy commercial. In the same way Star Trek got by with intelligent dialogue as a crutch for it's shit animation, thats what Tomino did, the writing was Wonderful.

Though if you don't wanna make him cry watch the damn movie trilogy where he cut out a LOT of what the toy companies made him do.

Tell me exactly what Video Game was SO DAMN GOOD that every Video Game after it had to up there game, that things outside of Video Games were influences. They are far and few if any at all.

Also note in the article he is saying he does not see the worth, he probably DOESN'T get games it would not surprise me one bit. We have people OUR age who don't get games. But he has a point.

What game was ten years ahead of it's time? you could say Psychonaughts was ahead of it's time definitly.

He made Xabungle which took an after the apocolypse world with murder and rebellion and revolution and he turned it into a comedy, it sold hardly any toys and it's not his most memorable work but it's one of his best.

Why do people think he made Gundam? cause he was sick of making the Daitarn 3 and Zambot 3 Super Robot Toy Commercials (Oh don't get me wrong both are great watches, but they did nothing for the genre)

Not all criticisim is bad, I think he's wrong about games being worthless, but I don't believe he is wrong that nobody in the industry wants to go forward ten years in a single jump. Regardless of selling potential.

This is a man who liked to kill his casts so there could never be a sequel.

Videogames are being used as a medium to develop realistic military training without the person getting injured. They have brought thousands of people together and able to communicate in real time from their own home thanks to mmo's and for better or worse they imploded the markets for comic books and children's novels. To get into a grey area they also contributed to the social change from drawn out drama to all action immediately. Which you can see if you compare any movie from the 50's and any movie today.

Also, they are a developing art form.

Not to mention mister Ranter asks, and I quote "Tell me exactly what Video Game was SO DAMN GOOD that every Video Game after it had to up there game, that things outside of Video Games were influences. They are far and few if any at all." But he admits there are some, totally destroying his point he tried to make. Know what, show me a medieval fantasy novel that changed the world for the better. Show me how madlibs changed the world for better. Claiming a form of entertainment as "Evil" is just as retarded as claiming my butter fondles me at night. And claiming that said escapism wastes electricity when the escapism you build for also 99% of the time is unproductive and wastes electricity is completely beyond the scale of retard. Infact, Mentally challenged people across the world at this moment are laughing their asses off at the irony of such a statement.

PS: I might also add that movies suffer the same fate. Citizen Kane is considered the greatest movie of all time. Why then does Borat exist if movies have to up the anti to match citizen kane's epic writing, why does bruno exist? Why does Poly Shore movies exist?