Is it not a galgame?

Not long after Monster Hunter was released, sales reached one million copies.

"Hey guys, Monster Hunter's monthly sales have reached one million again."

Over at Rentendo, Shigeru Miyamoto was drinking water while reading relevant news. He was now a little numb about pokeni's results.

The main reason is that the game "Monster Hunter" has shown extremely strong strength since the E3 electronics exhibition. Shigeru Miyamoto was quite surprised when he was still watching at the scene. At first, he felt that this thing did not seem to be able to play in this era. something made.

Where can a game console have such powerful performance that can support the performance of a lava dragon several hundred meters high?

It turned out that he was wrong, and very wrong.

During the on-site demonstration, you can clearly see the behemoths in Monster Hunter. Monsters more than ten meters tall are ordinary guys. In addition to the Molten Dragon that is several hundred meters high, there are also old monsters in the first generation. Mountain dragon.

All in all, it was very shocking.

What I saw during the demonstration at that time, Miyamoto Shigeru could still dream about it at night.

Sometimes I wake up with a fright like a nightmare, shouting that this can't be true, and then sit up all of a sudden.

After opening my eyes, I felt even scarier——

Because it is indeed true.

A company that can make games to this level is already enough to overwhelm Rentendo on a technical level. I originally thought that how could a small company like Pokeni be successful?

Now I think pokeni is so powerful, it would be really strange if it doesn't succeed.

Sometimes when Shigeru Miyamoto was studying the growth history of pokeni, he always couldn't help but think:

Obviously this company has such strong strength, why did it continue to hit the market around the 90s, and then it became popular with games such as galgame.

Just like a literary master who can win the Nobel Prize for Literature has to write some vulgar little blue text, this is the feeling of pokeni to Miyamoto Shigeru.

You are obviously very strong, but you have to use your talent on such a strange track.

If Qing Zhiyuan had given President Yamauchi a game like Pokémon back then, Shigeru Miyamoto would have even given them a guarantee that Pokemoni's game would become one of Rentendo's partners.

But it's too late to think about anything now, pokeni has been hopelessly pushed to the opposite side.

What Miyamoto Shigeru couldn't figure out, small companies could figure it out.

For example, Masato Hiruda, the president of the Elf Club, clearly knows why pokeni chose galgame as the starting track.

Mainly because this thing is easy to develop, has a short cycle, and has a high rate of return.

Especially suitable for small companies to produce.

Rententian and Sega are both successful companies created by the times. Their experiences are different from those of Hirutian Masato. They are the first wave of people to eat the cake.

When the Elf Club was established, the cake was basically divided.

At this time, it is quite difficult to carve out a path in RPG or action games.

Therefore, Zhitian Changren and Qing Zhiyuan made similar choices. They both started working on galgame.

Of course, up to now, the Elf Club is still making galgame, and it has never been able to develop like pokeni.

Therefore, when seeing a game like "Monster Hunter", Hiruda Masato can only look at the ocean and sigh. His observation angle is different from Miyamoto Shigeru's, but he comes to the same conclusion:

What a powerful company pokeni is. It’s enough to crush other competitors just on the technical level, right?

If we also have such a team of programmers, such a powerful art, planning and music team...

Ok……

Hiruda Masato couldn't help but frown. It seemed unrealistic to be able to gather so many big guys at once. It was just like playing a gashapon machine. You want to get a particularly rare gashapon, and there are so many rare ones. All of them are drawn by you. What is the probability? !

If we really have such a team, why worry about big things happening?

I guess even a pig can fly into the sky, right?

but……

When he thought of this, Zhidian Changren's whole body trembled, and he jumped up from his chair as if he was electrocuted.

"So how did Qing Zhiyuan do it?"

How come so many top talents in the industry were eventually taken away by Qing Zhiyuan?

Isn't this just like playing a gashapon machine?

Although Zhidian Changren did not think in the direction of [traveler], he inexplicably felt a mysterious power called [destiny].

Isn't this guy Qing Zhiyuan very lucky?

Why don’t I have such great employees?

……

Many game manufacturers have become accustomed to this. Such a powerful game can be said to be the world's top in terms of performance and playability, and it also incorporates P's unique ecological concept. From Pokémon to Bug Master to Monster Hunter, the transition in between is so smooth.

It is normal for sales to exceed one million, but it would be abnormal if sales fail to exceed one million.

Perhaps it can also be used by many game manufacturers to study why such a powerful game does not have millions of sales. The current results have made countless game manufacturers a little numb.

It's almost like a top student getting perfect scores every time. You won't feel anything wrong at all. On the contrary, if a top student gets zero points once, maybe everyone will be amazed.

The current pokeni is in such a state.

As a benchmark in the industry, P Club has achieved the ultimate in gaming, becoming the world's leader and far ahead of the second place.

The second place in the industry now is neither Sony nor Rentian, but EA.

However, it is obvious that EA is on another track. Their main focus is sports and racing games, and they do not seem to compete directly with pokeni.

……

In fact, as far as the game "Monster Hunter" is concerned, there seems to be no competitor in the world at present. It can be said to be the only one.

There are actually quite a lot of unique games in pokeni. For example, the unique Pokémon: collection and battle game, which combines pets and battles, is now a unique one.

Then, "Insect Master" is also unique. In the world of humans and insects, it has an immersive experience like watching a movie. You can play a passerby in the game and witness the story between the characters and insects in the game. Such a big game The world ecological game is actually the only one.

Come to "Monster Hunter" to hunt monsters, play the role of a hunter in this world, and hunt with friends, which is unique. So it’s not without reason that the game is so popular so far.

pokeni has always been a pioneer and navigator of the times, and it is traveling rapidly on the waterway.

For example, after pokeni produced "Diablo", there were actually not a few games that followed suit. Similar dark-themed, maze, and action games all referenced Diablo.

There have also been games based on Diablo such as "Qin Shang" and "Zhao Yun Zhuan" in China.

"Onmyoji" became the reference for the "Sword and Fairy" series.

It is also very interesting to think about. Qing Zhiyuan obviously copied the fairy sword from the previous life, but unexpectedly it provided a reference for the current fairy sword series. Pokeni has also become one of Yao Zhuangxian's favorite game companies.

It can be said that in terms of design alone, pokeni has become a model for games in the entire world and has created many classic game cases. Later, when everyone wants to make games, they will more or less refer to them.

In the field of galgame, pokeni has developed and improved many modern galgame game settings, such as the recall system, real-time save system, different endings with different dialogue options, favorability system, etc., which have become the later galgame. classic module.

This is also the reason why Zhidian Changren has always regarded Gu Yuan Chunqiu as his teacher even though he has never met him.

……

The emergence of "Monster Hunter" once again pushed pokeni to the altar.

The only difference this time is that the producer who was promoted to the altar was changed and became Hideki Kamiya.

Everyone will be a little confused when they see the name Hideki Kamiya.

"Hideki Kamiya? Who is this person? Why haven't I heard of him before?"

"Really? Pokeni has another talented producer?! Why do you feel like there are so many newcomers at P Agency, and every time they make a big production, they always look like they can become gods?"

"It's so scary. Is P Club the birthplace of God? How could just a newbie bring the game to this level?

If I hadn't seen the name, I would have thought it would have been produced by Shinji Mikami or Hidetaka Miyazaki. "

“That’s right, I’ve never heard of Kamiya Hideki, but he’s really legendary.

For pokeni games, from Tsubaki Furuhara to Shinji Mikami, then Mika Ishino, Hidetaka Miyazaki, and now Hideki Kamiya...it’s true that as long as you have the name of the producer, you will be a great player.

Each one has extraordinary strength. "

"I remember Kamiya seemed to be the game planner of the previous "Princess Mononoke". Qing Zhiyuan seemed to have mentioned this name when asked about the production process of Princess Mononoke during the interview."

"Ah, yes, that seems to be the case. I also have some impressions. So it seems that Hideki Kamiya is not a newbie, right? Let me just say, why do you feel so familiar when playing Monster Hunter? It turns out that the producer used to be Follow Princess Mononoke’s plan.”

"It's not surprising at all. Apparently he was given the important task of being the producer of Monster Hunter by Mikami because he performed better in Princess Mononoke and gained some development experience, right?"

"Yeah, that should be right."

"But even this is actually quite remarkable. Not only is Kamiya Hideki remarkable for being able to grow up in such a short period of time, but pokeni's ability to cultivate talents is also truly amazing."

"Yes, yes, pokeni is a company that has produced many great-level producers."

"The birthplace of God can only be understood this way."

……

In short, with the popularity of "Monster Hunter", Hideki Kamiya has begun to show his talents and has become another new producer of pokeni.

Monthly sales exceeded one million.

This result may not mean much to pokeni, but it is still a bit beyond his expectations for Qing Zhiyuan. After all, the first generation of Monster Hunter in the previous life was very famous and had a very unique combat system. However, some operations were too hard. Core, the actual sales volume is not that many.

The first generation is hundreds of thousands in size.

Therefore, Qing Zhiyuan is actually quite surprised that Monster Hunter can now exceed one million sales.

The reason is that on the one hand, Qing Zhiyuan has managed and built pokeni very well, and has achieved the world's best level in terms of technology, art and design. Under such circumstances, Monster Hunter Even the graphics alone have set it apart from other games of the same era.

In addition, Qing Zhiyuan did not advance the game purely through missions like the first generation. Instead, he adopted the plot and setting mode of the future "Monster Hunter: World", especially the section about the Molten Dragon, which directly integrated the game into the game. The sense of anticipation is raised, and there is a very good thread in the middle, allowing players to maintain their enthusiasm for the game at all times.

In terms of network, in the previous life, the network function of the first generation of Monster Hunter was actually not very good. On the one hand, it was because Capcom had no experience in making network games, and at the same time, it was also because the technical difficulty of an action-type 3D game like Monster Hunter was higher. It is much higher and not so easy to accomplish.

Moreover, when Capcom made Monster Hunter, it went through some iterations along the way. At first, it wanted to make it a large-scale online game, but later found that it was not able to do it, so it changed it to a single-player experience.

Then I suddenly thought about making a small-scale online game for a few people, so after several changes in the middle, some problems appeared in the core structure.

So after Monster Hunter introduced the online function, various bugs emerged one after another. Even though Capcom tinkered with them for a long time, they could not completely solve them. Later, in the second generation, they simply reconstructed the underlying architecture. Only slightly better.

Now, Qing Zhiyuan, who already has very rich experience in online game production, will not make mistakes in such basic details. The underlying structure of the game he planned from the beginning has been very advanced.

Otherwise, his role as a master programmer in his previous life would have been in vain.

Therefore, precisely because of Qing Zhiyuan's control, whether it is Monster Hunter or the company's game platform, there is no problem at all in terms of online effects. As long as the Internet speed keeps up, it is quite smooth.

In LAN battles, players can also experience the hearty multi-player cooperative battle mode.

More advanced game development technology, coupled with game design from the future, and the most powerful art team at the moment, create the world's top games. It is difficult to imagine whether they will be popular or not.

This game combines the aesthetics of Neon and Omi in its painting style, so it sells very well in both Neon and Omi regions.

Dimensionality reduction hits yes.

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