Polygon or Kotaku should have THR style round-tables

[NTGYK]

Edit: shoot, hit the post thread without finishing the sentence. Should say " Polygon or Kotaku should have THR style roundtables"

Routinely, there are great roundtables of different directors and actors on the THR YouTube channel:

Examples:






I'd personally love a writer's roundtable with Hideo Kojima, Sam Lake, and Amy Hennig. The only outfits I can think of (tho I don't pay attention to gaming media much anymore) that have the pull to put something together like that would be Kotaku or Polygon.

 

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[Vex]

In the case of Japanese/non native English speakers and Westerners who mostly know English... I dunno if this would work. Having to speak through a translator kinda takes away from the "comfyness" of it. Discussions are a lot less personal when you have to speak through someone else. Unlike the movie/tv industry, we have great minds all of the world that we frequently interact with through social media. Language barrier sucks but it is what is.

 

[piratepwnsninja]

I, too, think that they

 

[CloseTalker]

Games industry folk aren't conditioned to speak as openly about their experiences as other industries. It could happen, but I could see it being a bit less interesting

 

[SolidSnakex]

While not exactly the same, Sony did something earlier this gen where they got a group of developers from specific studios to sit around and talk about games







And this, which is closer to what you're wanting



I wish they'd do more stuff like that.

 

[Nikus]

We kinda had something like that in written form with Iwata Asks.

 

[rawhide]

It's not as if people haven't had this idea before or that these sorts of features are easy to coordinate--even the biggest game outlets have no money, no resources and no prestige, so there's no way to make this happen unless all the individual creators want to do it for their own selfish reasons and/or they happen to be doing PR at the same time.

 

[NTGYK]

In the case of Japanese/non native English speakers and Westerners who mostly know English... I dunno if this would work. Having to speak through a translator kinda takes away from the "comfyness" of it. Discussions are a lot less personal when you have to speak through someone else. Unlike the movie/tv industry, we have great minds all of the world that we frequently interact with through social media. Language barrier sucks but it is what is.

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Kojima speaks and understands English

It's not as if people haven't had this idea before or that these sorts of features are easy to coordinate--even the biggest game outlets have no money, no resources and no prestige, so there's no way to make this happen unless all the individual creators want to do it for their own selfish reasons and/or they happen to be doing PR at the same time.

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Logistically speaking, Gamescom or E3 would be the best times to do this or publisher's would pay for it.

I'd love to see a first iteration of this have Kojima, Lake, Hennig, Sam Houser, David Cage (not that I think he's a great writer but he might have interesting insights) and Ken Levine. It works if they've got prolific careers and an appreciation for each other's work

 

[JehutyRunner]

Kojima speaks and understands English



Logistically speaking, Gamescom or E3 would be the best times to do this or publisher's would pay for it.

I'd love to see a first iteration of this have Kojima, Lake, Hennig, Sam Houser, David Cage (not that I think he's a great writer but he might have interesting insights) and Ken Levine. It works if they've got prolific careers and an appreciation for each other's work

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As much as I appreciate the sentiment, you ain't seeing Sam Houser appearing in any such thing. EVER.

 

[Lowrys]

Yes, they should. It's a standard content type you see virtually everywhere else, no idea why they don't do it more in the game sector.

 

[Vex]

Kojima speaks and understands English

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Kojima isn't the only Japanese dev? Unless you were saying you specifically wanted kojima at a round table?