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Here we go. Team ICO legend Fumito Ueda has been confirmed as a GDC speaker.
The news is likely to cause many, many people to go fucking nuts, quite frankly.
Ueda’s involved in a panel titled, “Evolving Game Design: Today and Tomorrow, East and West Game Design”. Grasshopper’s SUDA51 joins him.
With Ueda in town there’ll only be one assumption: that Sony’s readying to show the next Team ICO game.
Dig yourself a bunker for Monday. Ueda’s hot hot hot. Thanks, No_PUDding and Johnny Cullen.
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No_PUDding said:
FUCK YOU…
It was not Johnny, it was me dammit!!!
Obviously!
No_PUDding said:
Needless to say I have gone fucking nuts.
Patrick Garratt said:
hahaha
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Cort said:
Is that Ueda and Kojima in the same building, at the same time? :^o
Patrick Garratt said:
And Suda. It really could be crazy awesome.
Cort said:
One well-placed bomb….
Patrick Garratt said:
Cort said:
Weren’t Suda and Kojima supposedly working on something for the PS3? What happened to that?
No_PUDding said:
Suda and Kojima were apparently working togther. Platform unspcific for the moment.
But I suspect now that Kojima is working on other things, and Suda is working on an EA game, that well, it’s no more.
Cort, with that one bomb, you’d wipe out the ONLY things Japan has going for it, in the games industry.
Hunam said:
You can’t kill Kojima. It’s impossible.
No_PUDding said:
xD
You’d blow him up, and he’d emerge from the ashes and dust and say: “Did you rike it?”
I get why people love Kojima, he’s done a lot of good playing on gaming paradigms. But MGS4 lost all of that, and the cutscenes were just unecessary.
As much of a controversy, attention loving bloke he is, Jaffe was totally right.
Cort said:
Kojima transcends being. He just *is*.
Hunam said:
Jaffe is never right about anything though. All he does is talk constant shit all the time. Mark Rein and Dennis Dyack are two others who talk bullshit 99% of the time.
No_PUDding said:
Haha, he does love the sound of his own voice.
But he reminds me of my dad. My be a massive insult to him, but he’s pretentious and egotistical, and yet I find it funny to watch.
I did the banner of his site.
Anyway, Pat, what’s this about Monday? Why? GDC is not Monday?
Hunam said:
Maybe he has DICE and GDC confused. There are so many of these things latley.
No_PUDding said:
DICE is the ONLY true developer forum convention I feel.
GDC is just a glorified staging of announcments and Press releases. With a bit of dev discussion involved, not too much.
Bleak Harvest said:
Sigh…
Nothing will come of this. Nothing at all….
Johnny Cullen said:
Happy to take the credit
Still, if this is leading to an announcement at GDC or at least teasing an announcement at E3, either way, it’s megaton.
Johnny Cullen said:
¬_¬ crappy moderation.
No_PUDding said:
Shutup Johhny Cullen, you credit stealer….
xD
Bleak Harvest, very possible. But it’s a comfortable subjects for there to atleast be enough for us hardcore fans to speculate over his words.
ANd more to the point, the schedules haven’t been finalised yet, so Ueda could be involved in more.
ecu said:
Jaffe is a fucking legend, he’s ALWAYS right.
No_PUDding said:
By the way, I am pissed off about that.
Been fucking freaking out for 5 hours about it. If I’d known an article would be done on it, I’d have told you sooner.
Over at Team ICO Gamers we’ve all had our fair share of messed undercrackers.
ecu said:
The new game won’t be announced anyway. He’ll just talk about game development and such and, as usual, won’t even mention the new game.
Withnail said:
This is a panel discussion at a developer conference, what are people expecting to happen exactly? The most we’re likely to get is a hint or two. The actual reveal of Ueda’s next game will be carefully stage-managed by Sony, not done at something like this.
Johnny Cullen said:
XD
I am sorry babes, its all good, we’re finally getting what we’re looking for.
<3?
Monk said:
Grasshopper’s
isn`t the game that makami and team no more
heros develop it ?
can`t wait for the GDC
Zarckan said:
My info says that Trico is at least a year away!
Gekidami said:
I’m surprised so many people are exspecting actual announcements from GDC, i mean; sure its possible but most of the Japanese devs prefer to show their stuff at the TGS, blantant build up for later criticism really.
Mike said:
ICO 2 360 confirmed!
Syrok said:
Heh, the comments to that would be fun.^^
Johnny Cullen said:
Now THAT would be a 20 tonne megaton
Johnny Cullen said:
Oh and btw (and PUD can vouch for this), I actually believe Ueda will tease something at GDC because of one thing.
NICO.
There was a concept trailer for the game shown at DICE 2003 (I think) which was meant to be a sequel to ICO 2 even though Ueda never said it was ICO 2.
So if they can show NICO (which then turned out to be Shadow of the Colossus) at DICE 2003, then they’ll at least tease trICO at GDC 2009.
You can find a vid for NICO on YouTube.
No_PUDding said:
Johhny, it wasn’t quite as big a deal as this. Shadow of the Colossus cemented Ueda’s position.
It was such a small deal then, that a SCEE Spain representative leaked some pictures VERY early on in development.
And it was shown behind closed doors at DICE 2003, the fottage from DICE 2003 came LONG after the time of recording.
Anyway, there is never any record of him announcing anything at GDC. And I think ti will be asved for E3, but can’t wait to get a transcript of the panel.
No_PUDding said:
I didn’t actually know about the SCEE Spain leak until WanderIssun (on EG forums) told me.
Cool stuff.
Johnny Cullen said:
I seem to vaguely remember that leak as I read it in OPM2.
And thanks for the corrections
Blerk said:
Come on! We need to see this! Need!
No_PUDding said:
I agree Blerk, but I don’t think we will this GDC. It will still be great to hear him speak.
I think it will be E3.