In his first interview since 2024...

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In his first interview since 2024...

In his first interview since 2024, reclusive copy writer Shigesato Itoi has given a rare interview to Hikaru Katada of Famitsu ostensibly to discuss his career and the drone of modern life.

>When Katada asked about the alarming new study revealing birth rates in Japan have plummeted to an all-time low, Itoi paused, studied the table between them, and then simply pointed at the Katada’s iPhone with a withering expression of pre-apocalyptic clairvoyance.
>“That right there,” Itoi said, according to the piece. “That rectangle is the baby now. It glows. It pings. The adult baby rattler.”
>When pressed further on the game industry’s role in this decline, Itoi responded: “Game companies still believe it’s in the enlightenment business. It’s not. It’s packaging plastic for people who want their shelves to look quirky on Line.”
>In the full interview, the legendary writer also laments the current state of video games, saying most of them now are “just long-form apologies disguised as self-help manuals with a shounen coat.” When asked if he still believes they can change the world, Itoi clarified: “Video games did change the world. This is the result.”

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it's a boomer opinion, but it has infantilized people

long-form apologies disguised as self-help manuals with a shounen coat.

I don't really get what he means with that, maybe im dumb.

“just long-form apologies disguised as self-help manuals with a shounen coat.”

What the fuck did he mean by this?

Every video game story is apologist morals where people are browbeaten for trying to change the world, every Japanese story is about how everyone should just heckin get along and be friends and old people are bad and all old things are bad. They put a shone. coat of paint on it to make it seem like it's a story about growth when really it's adults telling kids "sorry for trying to make you grow up, you can stay a child forever, actually"

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Video games did change the world. This is the result

This webm will make you think

you are seething

The stories are dragged out to make them seem appropriately long enough to justify spending $70, they have the pretence of being “healing” or having an “uplifting message” but this is insincere and they use marketable character designs to draw people in. But the actual story in the games is mediocre and propped up with overdone content, the flashy characters and an insincere positive message.

The pikachu in the landfill with the phonedrones seems like a pretty good metaphor for that franchise in general lmao

I just reached Summers in Earthbound, how much of the game do I have left? No spoilers please

I call it liberal therapy fiction, it's demoralising garbage that celebrates ignorance and passivity.

"I am become Death, destroyer of Japan's birthrate" - Itoi

Expedition 33 will be remembered because it went against this in its ending.

Why can't I find the source of this interview?

This is Florence in the 1600s

Imagine if 70% of it was parking lots and streets to accommodate 3,000lb hunks of metal

This is the problem that causes American social isolation, the internet just exacerbated it.

The less affordable cars become, the worse the problem becomes

I only use my phone to call my parents.

You are literally starting the second half, i clearly remember the summers coffe break being the halfway mark of the game, it is pretty lenghty too.

walkable city fags unironically, genuinely, prefer this hellish mixture of brazillian favelas and washing in the rivers like jeets to comfy suburbs?

There is none. It's fanfiction OP made up and retards argue over it.

We had parking lots full of nothing for ages in America, and people still socialized just fine.

You know what they did instead? They all met up in a fucking barn and square danced. This is what people did in the middle of nowhere where there was no entertainment. There was no TV, no radio, obviously no internet, not even playing cards in many cases. People going out to the dance. That was their main way to "have fun". Dancing was actually a huge part of many cultures around the world.

It's the fucking internet that is keeping people locked up inside their houses, not empty parking lots you retard.

Boomers are right about phones, social media has made people go completely fucking insane. It's fucking up the development of the younger generations too. Look up studies, talk with people who have jobs that involve kids, it all points to the same thing.

That's fine. OP can write Itoi fanfiction for us.

The internet was better when people like you couldn't access it because smartphones hadn't been invented yet

I find it hilarious that all these authors who create worlds that have innocent pure paradises and hope for an idealistic utopia where we can all come together end up being the most hatefilled blackpilled people imaginable.
The irony is palpable

I made it up so I have no source :)

No source.

Can't find any articles by searching the text in the OP.

Fake, gay, anyone who believes it unquestioningly is a rabbid homosexual.

unfortunately Itoi is too addicted to twitter to have said this.

I fell for it. It's a great quote OP made up, to be honest. I'm impressed. Maybe I just got rusty with how shit bait is nowadays.

Brown hands typed this post

isn't this literally the message of what andrew allanson said that one time that he sperged out about people not liking yiik

Difference is Yiik is shit so his word has no merit

persona 5, objectively one of the most popular and influential japanese games of the last 10 years, is a game entirely about having the superficial trappings of rebeling against a society that hates and exploits you while actually playing completely within its rules outside of your magical mind control powers to the point where the re-release adds a villian who actively wants to use magic to ensure bad things never happened and the characters actively fight against that because they would really like to continue to live in modern japan where schoolgirls get raped by their gym teachers but its okay because they'll mind control them to go to jail after the raping happened while doing nothing for the victims.

japanese media has been propoganda to the younger generation that they should be okay with neo feudalism because they can jerk off to anime girls for a long time. see also all the isekai stories where if you think life sucks just kill yourself and revive in a fantasy setting where working as a corporate slave rewards you with exp boosts instead of alcoholism

immediately didn't fall for OP's bullshit because I remembered that Itoi started using AI like a defeated little bitch recently

antiaischizo

Kazuma Kaneko fell for AI

Shigesato Itoi fell for AI

The slop supernova is unavoidable

I wish I could make video games or comics that people like but I'm too lazy and stupid

Itoi's ideal game, apparently: "Life sucks and then you die. Fuck off, you waste of existence. Preferably as painfully as permanently as possible! Oh, this took thirty seconds, no refunds!"

Man that's depressing, didn't play the sequel but if true, sounds kind of like a backstep. How dare you question your neoliberal overlords.

Post salsa or else...
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What did the webm mean by this?

This makes me think of that sims meme of the mom on the computer while the baby is in the background

bro it's the tech that's keeping people from breeding, not the fact that my generation fucked up the economy and no one has money to support themselves, let alone themselves, a wife and a child while working unpaid overtime every day in a cramped shitty Japanese office

<MUH EEKONOMY muh howzing

midevil times living in mud had lots of kids, your ancestors who had it infinitely worse had many kids, the only difference between poorfags not having any and poorfags that have many is phones

b-but le working all day!!!!!!

Black people exist and somehow didn't go extinct under literal fucking slavery, cope milennial sissy

Countries like gookland have tried just giving out money to people who have kids, it doesn't work.

120 (one hundred and twenty) millions of people on a small archipelago considerable part of which is pretty inhospitable for life

NOOOO WHY IS THE POPULATION SHRINKING IT SHOULD GO UP OR MY LINE WON'T GO UP THE LINE MUST GO UP UP UP

There is objectively no reason to be concerned about population downsizing unless you're in the 1% of 1% and concerned about the future where all your peons will rent favelas and compete 5 people for 1 job that pays peanuts. There is nothing but good things for an average person in population decrease.

Video games are a massive cope for men who are currently facing a loneliness epidemic. Incels are more widespread than ever before even if they wouldn’t refer to themselves as such.

I think the overall population going down would be a good thing, the problem is that it isn't going down consistently throughout the world. Notice how it points out the birthrate in Japan, not the world as a whole.

As of the latest data birthrates are going below replacement rate even in India and many places in Africa. Turns out, there was no devious plan of joos to destroy whypipo that way, the effect of the industrial era ending was just staggered for 3rd world.

loneliness epidemic

Incels

Nonsense copes by scaremongers useless NEETs effect nothing when we can import bipoc to do what they won't, nothingburger issue.

He did?

Itoi started using AI

NEET meltdown thread

I wonder how many people will fall for this obviously fake post

In his first interview since 2024

anons read past this and took it seriously

you guys worry me sometimes

It isn't 2024 anymore tho

How the fuck does someone make 3 of the most obsessed-over and influential video games of all time and then genuinely go on to believe shit like this? Yes, gamers still need to take care of their children. Yes, modern tech and video games suffer from diminishing returns and homogenization problems. Both of these things have working solutions. This guy went from being super enthused about the Mother 3 anniversary and cheering for the fans to this? In one year? What the fuck?

The problem has always been the human condition. Those thoughts that make you want to hurt people, believing those that lead you astray because they "sound confident", doing what's easy instead of what's right, never admitting when you're wrong. The human brain and psyche need to be physically altered on a mass scale to fix the root of the problem. We probably have the tech to do it now, but because of stated above, whoever would do it probably has ulterior motives.

what if its the milquetoast 3 anon who orchestrated this thread

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Okay.

source: my ass

Imagine being Itoi. You're an author, actor, entrepreneur. You then take a liking to video games as an art form. You fly too close to the sun with 3, but at least it came from the heart. Eventually you amass this cult following in the west of basement dwellers that completely missed the point. They cannot fathom being inspired by life experiences like an actual human being. Giygas in 2 is like an Egyptian relic to them. You tell them that the story's over and that 4 is the rest of your life A.K.A go the fuck outside and they fall to the floor flabbergasted because you didn't want to turn it into a corporate multi-media franchise. They make these twisted mockeries of your sincerity poisoned by irony and media worship. Whenever one of these fail it's not because the scope became too high - it's because they got into a gay little slap fight over spending the budget on furry porn or some shit. You just want to make your cute little dog app in peace, but they cling onto your leg like monkeys. OMG ITOI! TOBY! DO YOU KNOW TOBY? YOU INSPIRED MY GAME THAT'S LIKE EARTHBOUND BUT EVIL THAT SYMBOLIZES MY TRANSITION!

I know your shit is fake and gay OP but it's definitely something he'd say if he ever got pushed to the brink lol

sorry you had to find out this way

Talking about devs making Earthbound-like games or their own Mother4. Pic related explains well the issues hack devs have.

KEK funny sigma that makes transvestite AIphobes cry and seethe

Has anyone played this? Is the super famicom version better than the n64 version or what? I've never heard anyone talk about it which is surprising to me.