Cory Barlog Quotes

The point of view is the biggest problem with games, because what we play must be clearly presented in the best way for me to have an immersive game experience.

I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.

We have worked with a range of input approaches. We've worked with the range of mechanisms to drive immersion into the gaming experience.

Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool.

It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game.

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

The Xbox 360 is the best game console ever designed. It's fast and powerful - games look as good on the 360 as on high-end PCs that cost six times as much. It's easy to navigate and has lots of useful secondary features - the ability to play digital video, stream MP3s, and so on.

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

I do crazy amounts of research. I want this stuff to 'work,' so to speak. I need to be, at least to me, believable - because if I feel - if I cannot invest some element of verisimilitude, the reader is absolutely not going to buy in.

In order to be totally spontaneous, you can't be too obsessed with accuracy, but if you're inaccurate in a drawing, it will look fake, and when you act, it will sound fake. You have to find miraculously some proper balance between the two, but there's no formula.

For Nintendo Switch, it really is about a big-game experience.

Don't define the game by the list of the features. Define it by the experience you want to have.

There's something about seeing someone who has actually no real supernatural powers and only being able to throw things with precision that kind of makes people be like, 'Oh, I can see that. I can put that person in real life, and I can see it play out as a human being.'

There's a part of me that feels like it gets really frustrating to keep working in the manner that I made the book 'Shortcomings,' where everything is pretty accurate to the real world.

God of War' is traditionally known for these cinematic, pull back cameras, which I think are fantastic.

That feeling of being rewarded for your curiosity is huge. It's why I play games, this idea of truly existing in a world.

If you want to depict something exactly the way it is, it takes a tremendous amount of time. If you don't get the details right, the inaccuracies will accumulate somewhere.

When we considered what to do with the graphics capability of the Wii, we put more attention and focus on the ability to create new experiences rather than the quality of the graphics.

Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.

Personally, I think that users should be able to use all the functions of a console video game machine as soon as they open the box.

Particularly with our games, people get involved with the characters and the world. They're going to take their time with it pretty seriously, so we need to take it even more seriously to make it good.

I always say you don't want to get it right, you want to get it true.

The fact that I'm even in a video game blows me away, but 'WWE 12' is even more special to me because they have a whole storyline around Sheamus in the game. It's really, really cool.

What I believe is that Nintendo is a very unique company because it does its business by designing and introducing people to hardware and software - by integrating them, we can be unique.