Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

   Chapter 483 Friends for a lifetime

  482

monster hunter?

   That's a pretty straightforward name.

"As you can see, this is a game of hunting monsters, and what this game highlights is a sense of oppression. When you face really powerful creatures, you only have the most traditional attack moves. If you are interested If so, the Monster Hunter demo area has already been opened at the carnival, but I want to tell everyone that this game may not be suitable for everyone."

  Before deciding to make Monster Hunter, Take Yusei was already mentally prepared.

   Because Monster Hunter was really a very niche game in the beginning.

   It’s just that this game has cultivated a group of very loyal players. They will spend thousands of hours on this game without any fatigue, even if they hunt repeated monsters again and again, they will still enjoy it.

  This game will also be a very long-term battle line, which will bring the core players to themselves better.

   Hayakawa Ueto watched the live broadcast carefully.

   Then he looked at the head of his game development team.

   "Did you see any features of this game?"

The person in charge of game development said with a bitter face: "This is just a game preview, we can't see anything at all, but according to what Zhu Yuxing said, this game should be a game with a certain degree of difficulty. Screen out many ordinary players."

  The vast majority of players are not the kind who like to be abused after all, they prefer to find fun in a relaxed game environment.

   That's why the simple platform jumping game Super Mario is so popular, and the story is beautiful, but the difficulty can also be adjusted by yourself, such as Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and so on.

   But so far there doesn't seem to be a really hard game.

   And Zhu Yuxing seems to be ready to break this routine and start developing some games with a certain degree of difficulty.

   But many companies have tried to launch that kind of very difficult games before, especially arcade games. In order to deceive more players with coins, they will forcibly increase the difficulty of the game.

   However, the feedback for this kind of behavior is generally negative, and there are still a few players who are willing to abuse themselves.

   So the games of Suri Electronics are also going in a simpler direction.

  Ke turned his head and Zhu Yuxing suddenly made a game with a certain difficulty, and also reminded the players in advance to let them take it easy, which is really confusing.

   "President, do we need to follow up on this game? Should we make something similar?"

Hayakawa Zhiren shook his head: "No need for now, look at the reactions of the players at the scene, they seem to be just attracted by the game's graphics. From this point of view, it seems that we should make games with more refined graphics. By the way, about the game screen How far has the attack been?"

   The person in charge of game development immediately replied: "Our latest game has already used the latest data resources provided by Unreal Engine. This data resources have greatly improved our game graphics."

   "Still using Unreal Engine? Didn't I say before that if possible, develop our own game engine as much as possible."

The person in charge of development showed an embarrassed look and said: "It's not that we don't want to do it, but our manpower is already a little short. If we can expand developers and invest more budget, we can develop our game engine. ."

   Recently, Ueto Hayakawa feels more and more that it is necessary to get rid of the shackles of Unreal Engine.

After all, this is Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's business, not its own. The value of each game developed by itself will be uploaded to the Unreal Engine team without reservation. Intermittently providing game development values ​​is a huge loss.

   Until now, he finally realized why Takeyusei agreed to use their engine in the first place.

   This is the purest numerical monopoly. Unreal Engine has jointly cultivated a behemoth with the input of countless developers.

   And this behemoth now has a vaguely absolute dominance.

   This is really not what Hayakawa Ueto wanted to see.

Hayakawa Zhiren said cruelly: "I will find a way to inject more funds into you next. Now the game team has begun to make profits, and we have some capital to develop the game engine. It is necessary for us to create our own games. engine."

  With Hayakawa Zhiren's assurance, the person in charge was still a little reluctant.

   Seriously, he's used to Unreal Engine.

   Now Unreal Engine is really super easy to use, and all functions are very user-friendly.

   And the Unreal Engine team will continue to improve according to some special requirements of their own side, and the speed of improvement is called a fast.

   If you are using Unreal Engine now, you are a customer, someone the Unreal Engine team needs to serve continuously.

   But if they develop their own new engine, they have to start all over again, and it's definitely not as easy to use as Unreal Engine.

   But this is the president's request, and they can only obey.

   "By the way, I found that the monster hunter's character movements are very smooth, how did this happen?"

   Hayakawa Ukito stared at the screen and asked suddenly.

   At this moment, the demo content of Monster Hunter has been broadcast on live TV.

   Take Yusei himself acted as a narrator to try out the hunter with the big sword.

   This hunter started fighting by looking for powerful monsters on the big map.

   From this battle screen, everything is really real, as if a whole new world was created out of thin air.

  Everything is very physical.

   This kind of adjustment in game action values ​​gave him an amazing feeling.

   So how was this action value created? It's the thing he's most curious about.

   "This... I'm afraid it is the secret weapon of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment. There is no relevant data provided in Unreal Engine for these values. It should be the secret of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment."

   The person in charge of game development was also very envious of the smooth movements of the monsters and characters in the demo.

  Unfortunately he's pretty sure these values ​​don't exist in Unreal Engine.

   Of course, the action values ​​in Unreal Engine are also very realistic, but compared to the action of this monster hunter, it is still a bit worse.

   Hayakawa Zhito sighed and said: "This is the advantage of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, they will always be one step ahead of us, this is not acceptable."

   In order to win this host war, you must first find a way to approach Yuxing Electronic Entertainment in terms of game quality.

   "President, I don't think this is worth worrying too much about. We should actually work on the picture, at least that's what we can do now."

   At this moment, the head of the marketing team said.

"Why do you say that?"

"Because according to our marketing team's research, players are more interested in games with excellent and exquisite graphics, and improving the quality of game graphics is also the easiest thing to do. As long as the performance of the game console is achieved, we can make the graphics It’s infinitely real, and it’s also the most cost-effective way.”

   Hayakawa Ueto doesn't particularly approve of this kind of thing.

   He still thinks that the innovative and powerful game development technology of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is the right way.

   But the marketing team is also right. According to the price/performance ratio, the picture is exquisite enough, and the game quality is the most cost-effective.

   Hayakawa Ukito hesitated for a moment and then said: "Let's continue to work on the development of the core technology of the game. Of course, the performance of the picture can't be put down, but it's just a secondary position."

   The head of the marketing team wanted to say something, but was stopped by Hayakawa Ukito.

   He has made up his mind and cannot be easily influenced.

  Meanwhile, the Monster Hunter game presentation at the carnival venue has ended.

  Most of the game trailers are also finished.

   For players, the news they most want to get has basically been announced.

   "Yon-chan, can you slow down? How come you've never seen you so focused on something in the past?"

   "You two are too slow. It's so interesting here, don't you have any interest?"

   In the crowd, three girls kept shuttle.

  The three girls all wore Japanese classic sailor uniforms.

  One-chan's eyes looked around without blinking.

   She was already a little dazzled.

   The game-related stuff around is so fascinating.

  Yon-chan, Kazumi, and Aiko are good friends since childhood. The three of them played together in middle school when they were about four or five years old.

  Among them, Aiko is the smartest and often gets the first place in the grade.

  Yon-chan and Kazumi are much worse than Aiko, so Aiko often gives them two make-up lessons.

   One day, Aiko, who has always liked to study, suddenly took out a handheld computer at their study meeting.

  Aiko said that she got it from a boy she had known since childhood, and said that it was a bet that she would get an obedient sidekick after completing the challenge of a certain game.

   Finally, through the unremitting efforts of the three people, Aiko completed the bet.

   All this should have been a small episode.

   But I don't know what happened, Ome-chan has been interested in video games since she experienced Fruit Ninja.

   Originally, video games are something that most boys like, but Oon-chan likes it very much.

   She has always had the image of an iceberg beauty, but she has an extraordinary obsession in front of games.

   Then, when she learned that Yuxing Electronic Entertainment was going to hold a carnival, she did not hesitate to call her two best friends and come to the carnival together.

   This is really rare in carnivals.

   Ninety percent of the players who come here are male players.

   At least 90% of the remaining ten percent of women are accompanied by male partners. In fact, they may not have any interest in video games themselves.

People like   Yon-chan are really only a minority.

   "Aiko, I'm afraid this guy Om-chan will be completely bewitched by the game, should we try to get her out of this addiction?"

   Kazumi and Aiko followed behind Otome-chan, who was running fast, and the two talked to each other.

  Yon-chan ignored the discussion between the two behind, and continued to focus on watching the interesting games around.

   The three of them have come to the demo area on the second floor at this time. Sound sauce is switching between different demo games at a frequency of almost three minutes at a time, as if she never knows how to get tired.

Aiko, who looked like a schoolmaster, shook her head and said, "I don't think it's necessary. Did you forget that Ome-chan made math problems that I couldn't even solve in order to play the game? She is very talented in learning, but she just didn’t pay attention, but now she is willing to bet with us because of playing games, and she is willing to study hard for the game, so I think this is a good thing.”

   Kazuomi muttered: "But I always feel that she will be addicted. If there is no two of us watching, she will probably become a complete waste house in Heisei."

  Aiko said, "Then we should be together all the time, even in college, right?"

   "Well... that's the problem, you know my head, I'm the dumbest of the three of us, and I might not be able to get into the same university as you guys."

   When I said this, Kazuya was a little frustrated.

   She is the dumbest of the three, and sometimes she is really inferior.

   "Don't say that, trust me, I will try my best to get you a better score, and we will definitely be admitted to the same university."

   "Aiko, Kazuya, have you two finished talking? Let's move on to the next place. We've agreed. I'll make the decision today. For this reason, I was in the top ten of the grade."

   "Ok, I'll listen to you."

  Aiko took Kazumei's hand and said, "We are friends for life, and this will never change."

   The three finally came to a brand new casual game trial area together.

   The name of the game here is Bejeweled, which is a very light game.

  The development of the game is under the name of Zhuyouxing, so there are many players here.

   However, most players are just scratching their heads, and they are not very interested in such a simple and mindless game.

   But Aiko and Kazumi liked it very much, because it was just right for the two of them who had no talent for games.

  Yon-chan tried it for a while, but it was boring.

   "Huh? Aiko? Kazumi? And Ome-chan, why are you three here?"

   Just then, a boy's voice sounded.

  Aiko turned her head and saw that it was the guy she had known since childhood, Tian Chong.

   It was no surprise to see Aiko Tian Chong here. After all, this is a carnival for players. If Tian Chong didn't come, it would be abnormal.

   "What? Can't we come?" Aiko asked rhetorically.

   "That's not true, it's just really surprising, I thought you guys weren't interested in video games."

   "Video games are not that difficult, don't forget, I beat you on Fruit Ninja."

Tian Chong's face immediately turned red: "It's just that I didn't play Fruit Ninja seriously, that kind of game is not for me at all, if I want to play it, I absolutely have to play that kind of very **** and very difficult, like a monster. hunters."

   (end of this chapter)