Jonathan Blow: "Japanese games treat you like an idiot"
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Who is this man and why should I watch three hours of him playing this
is this the new dsp
good thing to, the old dsp is about to commit suicide im pretty sure
>Pretentious Talentless hack that makes games that seem as wide as an ocean but are as deep as a puddle, pretending to have substance but lacking all types of it, exhibiting no understanding of the craft through his works by demonstrating his lack of awareness to techniques such as ludonarrative by completely seperating his writing from his gameplay.
>Is bad at videogames
who would have thought???????????????????????????
Creator of Braid and the Witness.
So, basically a pretentious fag.
Why is he calling everything lemons?
>Treat you like an idiot
>Pot calling the kettle black
>Braid isn't a love story but about atomic bombs
>takes him a total of about 4 minutes to get past the first "puzzle" of the magnesis trial
He has to be doing this on purpose.
Jonathan Blow looks like the crazy madman who make weird ass cakes. I'm sure STAR_ made a video about it once.
>finally a Japanese game takes his advice and doesn't treat the player like an idiot
>"lmao look he was wrong all this time!!"
That child learned quickly that pain is the greatest teacher.
I'm sure you're treating me with more respect by having puzzles that make me wait for hours or showing me your piss jar, Mister Blow.
>Jonathan Blow: "Japanese games treat you like an idiot"
Must have been rough for his father, having a name like "Japanese Games".
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Only difference is that guy is a talented chef while Blow lacks any value as a human being.
terrible joke
off yourself
You know what's funny is that Western games have been much more prone to handholding and player coddling than Japanese games have for years now. Not even Kirby does more than "here's the controls figure it out"
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"Johnathan Blow"?
More like Johmathan Blow's cock amiright?
Don't let it get to you, Johnny boy.
Add "pretentious" to that and I'll check one box
Braid is a pretty fun 2D puzzle platformer but all that shit about the story is retarded, I was better off when I didn't know any of that shit because nowadays its the only thing people remember about the game instead of the actual gameplay.
The Witness is fucking shit. It's a very mediocre puzzle game with none of the spark that Braid had and is essentially a flamboyant Talos Principle. It is only getting praise because the actual puzzle interface is as abstract as possible and because it has Blow's name attached to it.
How assblasted was blow when he made this image.
>Be inspired by..
>I GIVE YOU, AIR
this guy is a complete bonkers
I dislike him because he makes pretentious 2 deep 4 u bullshit when in reality his game has depth of a puddle
>successful
Blow spent literally all his Braid bux PLUS LOANS on The Witness which flopped hard. $5 million in profits from The Witness wasn't enough to break even.
>"Japanese games treat you like an idiot"
Nearly everything inside the mountain in The Witness says "hi".
WTF I LOVE JON NOW
*Nintendo games
If you don't want to watch for four fucking hours just skip to 1:42:00 through about 1:53:00. I think that about sums up the experience.
holy shit, an actually reasonable lefty indie dev? I wonder if he's still in their clique.
Literally who?
>Wait a minute, that card!
The second point makes it seem as if the aspect he was referring is exclusively found in Japanese games when it is also commonly a Western game issue as well.
>Nope
>No, I agree with him
>No idea what this is about
>I understand "big words"
>No, I've played all his games
>Nope, I love Notch for example. Besides Blow isn't that successful.
[X] He's pretentious and makes pretentious games
So he thinks Japanese games treat you like an idiot yet are too complicated for him to play?
dunno why Sup Forums hates this guy
he's made 2 great games and he's pretty brilliant if you listen to his lectures
>skip to 1:42
>he STILL doesn't know the controls
>even after they are shown on screen
>presses every button at random to find the one that uses the bomb
Holy shit he's actually retarded.
That kid was clearly replicating that comic.
holy fucking shit the magnesis shrine. How is someone so fucking incompetent?
this is a joke, right? has he only played his games?
>2 great games
Braid was good but it could've done without the "THE GAME IS SO DEEP NO ONE UNDERSTANDS IT" shit, it's just annoying. I dunno about The Witness being "great", Blow talks about The Witness not wasting your time but then makes you hold the mouse button down for like an hour.
>literally calls the shrine music "patronizing"
>The Witness not wasting your time
I swear, taking the "fast" travel boat (which includes calling it) actually takes longer than just running across the island.
>bomb shrine
>keeps using the round bomb on the moving platform
OH IT'S ROLLING!
>uses round bomb again
Goddammit Blow, they gave you a square bomb for a reason.
Those things around the island all go really slow on purpose because of the environmental puzzles, so I can understand it from a designer's point, but at least speed those fucking things up after the player has found the puzzle or something
>Claims to be an intellectual
>Fucking records his TV with a phone camera
The shrine was designed specifically to teach you the differences between the two bombs as well. He is, in a way, failing a tutorial.
>l resent all successful people
so blow isn't allowed to dislike japanese games then as he's far less successful than the japanese video game industry as a whole, thanks for telling us
but the stick is infront of the forks in the last pic, i think this has been staged
>The Witness
>great
I want reddit to leave
recoil
I hate that this statement about those two guys disliking jap games was taken out of context, like a couple of seconds later they said that there are some positives and iirc even named a few good ones, so it's not like the retarded "east vs west" threads that Sup Forums does every day.
This is what happens when you go into a game wanting to hate it
he triggers weebshits, the man is cool in my books
Are people still talking about that panel with Fish and Blow?
Phil Fish was the only one who went full dick and said that Japanese games sucked and there wasn't any good games from there.
Blow just gave legitimate criticism.
McMullen refused to comment.
>tfw to intelligent to solve tutorial zelda puzzles
This was done as a parody on DSP, right?
Monster Hunter
Earthbound
Chrono Trigger
FF10
Ninja Gaiden
DMC
Pokemon Platinum
Silent Hill 2
Demons Souls
I mean he's not wrong. These are the only good Japanese games.
Sengoku Rance
crap taste you have there
I get that youre all butthurt as fuck by one statement Jon made at a convention years ago. But this Zelda compared to old ones really is a breath of fresh air in the right direction for japanese games (HURR DURR DARK SOULS).
Personally I agree with his statement, previous Zelda like Skyward sword that holds your hand for 40 minutes before you even get to play turns me off completely.
Sup Forums's desperate attempt to feel superior comes off as petty, 0/10
>Pokemon Platinum
You're a platinum retard, my friend.
Fish should've explained more from the beggining like he did with LoZ after Blow instead of going full retard, it's like he started shitposting but then forgot that there are consequences in real life.
Why would you upload this/stream it to begin with. A four hour showcase of either showing that you suck at tutorials or that you're so fucking anal pained that you pretend to suck at them.
All he did was hurt his personal brand. If he was trying to be satirical he failed, and if he was trying to showcase the GAMES faults he failed.
>Skywards Sword is every Japanese game
>Blow sucking at BotW is okay because shut up
ok
>indie dev dislikes Japanese games and suck ass at them
Who would have thought?
Hotline Miami is unironically a better game than anything Japan has ever produced.
The issue is that Blow said that all Japanese games, save a few, were filled with tutorials that were unnecessary and should be removed from the games. He got that with Breath of the Wild, and he can't grasp even the most basic 'puzzles'. I almost thought this video was satire. I'm sure most people on this board could easily understand what to do in the early areas of the game. The majority of Sup Forums users are probably much better at this game than Blow.
Skyward Sword is obviously not every Japanese game. But a japanese game that doesn't treat you like a retard is still the exception, not the rule.
Even almost universally praised japanese games like Persona 5 treat its players like they are literally braindead, by letting npc explain how to solve the most basic of puzzles and beating you over the head with the most simplest of plotpoints and constant flashbacks.
>t. 12 years old
It's true, the humor comes from Blow flailing around and failing utterly when BotW doesn't hold his hand.
>t. 12 year old disgusting weaboo
Hey John, you BLOW. HAHAHAHAHA
kill yourself weeaboo
Aight, I see the comedy in this now. But still don't understand the butthurt. He wasnt going all DSP: WHY GAEM DOESNT WORK??? When the game doesnt hold his hand.
Apparently they're right, since Blow fails even at the first tutorials of the game.
Reminds me of Arin from GG, but even he likes the game
How so?
>babby doesn't know what profit is
>10/10 gameplay
Smooth, heavy, fast and satisfying.
>10/10 soundtrack
Subjective, but everything is.
>10/10 artystyle
Great original artstyle, combination of 80's Miami disco aesthetics and retro games.
The only 3 thins that matter in a game and it does all 3 perfectly.
lol
Damn nigger you stupid.
What a fucking idiot
I fucking don't understand why loving The Witness has to do with browsing reddit, but in any case I loved The Witness. There are not many puzzle games out there, which does not mean every one of them should be considered good, but if you can come up with 500+ puzzles that use the same panel (or call it gimmick if you like) but are all different, by any means make a game, I'm waiting to play it.
But I'm right.
>weeaboo
kek. Showing your critically acclaimed indie pixel trash looking like ass in comparison to random Japanese game makes me a weeb?
>Johnathan "I respect the player's time but heres a 20 minute documentary you must watch to finish my quirky puzzle game" Blow
lmao
lol
>faggot that doesn't play or make video games tries to make a game
stop posting shit that isn't vidya you retarded petrol huffing aussie nigger
Again, Hotline Miami is a better game than anything Japan has ever released.
It's the fourth box
Ahahah
so why should we watch this guy playing an overrated piece of shit for 3 hours ?
You're not wrong. Blow is actually a certifiable homosexual. Just watch and listen to his mannerisms. It's pretty obvious.
What a retarded thing to say. Hotline is good but like 75% of all video games are made in Japan.
Why does it look like it's made by a person who can't draw then?
Phil would never commit suicide. He makes narcissus look like an amateur.
I like this rant. His games still suck, though.
>75% of all video games are made in Japan
And how much of them are shitty visual novels?
>t. Pretentious cunt