Quotes by Randy Pitchford - Page 2

I think I would not be who I am if I did not have experience both as an audience and as a performer in those early days of my career. It taught me what entertainment is all about.
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Experience Me I Am
Early Days
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There are times when you can take yourself seriously and there are times when you can cut loose. It really depends on your goals and it depends on what you're promising the customer.
Randy Pitchford /
Yourself Your Goals
Customer
Loose
Yourself Goals Your
Promising
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Condition Zero' introduces quite a bit of content and gameplay to 'Counter-Strike' including new weapons, characters, mission types and even new technology to enhance to look and feel of the game.
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New Technology
Weapons
Condition
Enhance
Quite A Bit
Types
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You can polish and iterate and double down on what the magic was. You can make a much better thing. A much cleaner thing, a much more solid thing. And that's what 'Borderlands 2' is to 'Borderlands.'
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Better Thing
Cleaner
Double
Solid
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One of the neat things about Gearbox that I love is, we don't look at our designs as a totalitarian regime and we're all really happy to let designers and creators within the studio explore in our space.
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Neat
Creators
Explore
Totalitarian
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And Duke Nukem, I think he is the most iconic videogame character in the industry. I think Lara Croft is the female and Duke Nukem is the male. Between them, they're the most iconic figures in videogames.
Randy Pitchford /
Figures
Iconic
Duke
Videogames
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There are several cool cross-overs between 'Blue Shift,' 'Opposing Force' and 'Half-Life.' The plots are all designed to work nicely with themselves and the observant player will catch many cross-references.
Randy Pitchford /
Blue
Half Life
Observant
Opposing
Catch
Designed
Nicely
Plots
Shift
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Sometimes you stumble when you push yourself harder and you're trying to run faster or whatever. We forgive ourselves, pick ourselves up, and keep running. We don't cry and stop running because we skinned our knee.
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Faster
Forgive
Skinned
Stumble
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We are fortunate that there is a lot of demand on us to deliver our brand of interactive entertainment within the powerful franchises we have at Gearbox Software and the challenge for us is growing to meet this demand.
Randy Pitchford /
Interactive
Software
Deliver
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You don't really want to talk about 'Duke' in terms of, how many levels are there, how many guns does it have, how many monsters… It's got everything it needs in terms of that, but it's always been about the experience.
Randy Pitchford /
Levels
Monsters
Guns
Duke
Many Levels
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I wonder if too frequently publishers and developers are so caught up with going after new, untapped audiences that they can forget to care for the largest, most loyal and reliable audience there is - the current gamer.
Randy Pitchford /
Caught
Developers
Gamer
Loyal
Publishers
Current
Frequently
Largest
Reliable
Untapped
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I've only experienced it a few times where you get to have a thing that simultaneously gets some critical respect, some critical success, while also having sales success. Sometimes you get one or the other if you're lucky.
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Sales
Simultaneously
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As successful as 'Borderlands' is and as much fun as everyone is having going after all the loot and finding and using all the weapons in the game, I often think that we really missed the mark by only doing 87 bazillion guns.
Randy Pitchford /
Mark
Weapons
Guns
Missed
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When I'm in line at the grocery store, I might pick up one of those tabloids. I might not even buy it. I'm just gonna sit there and read the headlines and chuckle at how stupid that stuff is, even though I'm reading it anyway.
Randy Pitchford /
Headlines
Tabloids
Chuckle
Grocery
Grocery Store
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Usually when we finish a game and we're at the end, we're sick of it. We want to put it in the box and be done with it. But with 'Borderlands,' it's actually become a productivity sink at Gearbox, because we're just having fun.
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Having Fun
Productivity
Sink
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I want to make sure that people with talents, who want to perform or to develop their act, know that the Peacock Theater exists and to reach out to us and know that there's a safe and fun place for them to develop their material.
Randy Pitchford /
Peacock
Talents
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If you're making entertainment on a grand scale, if you're reaching millions, there will be tens of thousands of people who absolutely hate us, and some percentage of those will take it upon themselves to let us known how they feel.
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Reaching
Scale
Grand
Let Us
Percentage
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands Of People
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Up until 'Blue Shift,' 'Half-Life' characters were repeating, expendable entities. In 'Blue Shift,' important named partners will work with you over the course of several levels and objectives in order to overcome the hazards of the plot.
Randy Pitchford /
Blue
Half Life
Hazards
Levels
Objectives
Partners
Plot
Work Important Will
Overcome
Named
Entities
Repeating
Shift
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Demand alone might let a business case be created, but things driven by that will have a risk of being soulless. You need it being driven from both directions. You need the nexus between demand and creative passion that wants to make something.
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Demand
Driven
Soulless
Directions
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If I have something that I've finished with, and someone else might find value in it, the idea of passing along for a price is a rational transaction. It exists in many aspects of our lives. But I do have to say that media is a different beast.
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Passing
Rational
Aspects
Transaction
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There's a different kind of experience you have when you experience live entertainment versus the kinds of media we tend to consume most of, when we're watching television or films or reading books. Live entertainment is a whole different beast.
Randy Pitchford /
Reading Books
Versus
Watching Television
Consume
Different Kind
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Sometimes we do derive some entertainment when we 'appreciate' something, and sometime we feel something when we're moved. So a lot of game makers want challenge themselves with 'can I move someone?' or 'can I get them to respect me as an artist?'
Randy Pitchford /
Makers
Respect Game Me
Derive
Sometime
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What a lot of people don't know is that I got started as a professional gamemaker when I moved out to Texas to join George Broussard and Scott Miller and Allen Blum who created Duke Nukem, to join those guys and become part of the 'Duke Nukem 3D.'
Randy Pitchford /
Moved
Texas
People Know Who
Allen
Duke
George
Guys
Join
Miller
Scott
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Wired gave 'Duke Nukem Forever' the first Vaporware Award, and then the next year it won No. 1 vaporware again, and then again and again until Wired decided, you know what? 'Duke Nukem' is just going to get the lifetime achievement award for vaporware.
Randy Pitchford /
Achievement
Lifetime
Next Year
Award
Duke
Wired
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Why is 'Borderlands' different from every other game with respect to DLC? It's because we haven't really worried about what the past models are. We just thought about what would be fun for us to make and what there would be demand for if it were to exist.
Randy Pitchford /
Demand
Models
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With 'Duke Nukem Forever' it was a different level of commitment for me with reference to helping the creators be true to their vision. I've been able to enjoy this game as much as a fan as I am a part of the creative process, and that's a very rare and unique for me.
Randy Pitchford /
Creative Process
Be True
Rare
Creators
Different Level
Duke
Reference
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Duke Nukem' helped bridge the gap between games designed for adults and what they wanted in their entertainment as adults who also wanted to have fun. 'Duke Nukem' bridged that gap and helped bring those things together. It's one of the reasons it succeeded at the time.
Randy Pitchford /
Entertainment
Games
Adult
Bridge
Designed
Duke
Gap
Have Fun
Helped
Reasons
Succeeded
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We're convinced that Frisco Square is the perfect environment for Gearbox Software's new headquarters and we are eager to break ground, build out and move in so that we may join the community and bring everything we can to the city as a Frisco business and as Frisco citizens.
Randy Pitchford /
Headquarters
Software
Eager
Join
Square
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