Yes. A very long time. The last time he did an extra punctuation is I want to say, 2017.
Yeah, I have no idea what he was going on about with that. The autuer era happened during the 5th, 6th, and some of the 7th generation. That era has long passed. Hell, the illusion of that era has been broken and beaten down to death. You still got a few that exists, but it still takes a team to do all that. Unless he's talking about the indie circle, but even that can't apply much of anything.
Yeah, you've got a few holdouts on the Japanese side, probably largely due to how Japanese company culture tends to work, tho I'm guessing they all still have to compromise with the corporate side of things, unless maybe if you're Miyamoto. But on the Western side? Not so much. Well yes, you've got guys who serve as the face for a developer, for example Hugo Martin for id Software, but I've never gotten the impression that the new Doom games are specifically his vision, or at least in large part his vision, not like the old Doom games were the brainchild of Romero/Carmack.
The funny thing is guys like the Hideki Kamiya, Suda 51, and Shinji Mikami don't even really consider themselves auteurs. They just considered themselves as guys that like making the games they want and whatever they were inspired by. They still give credit where credit is due, and they're more than happy to give someone else another shot a chance to direct the game in their respect development teams and studios.
He does not deserve that title. Not even close. David Cage is nothing more than a hack film writer that couldn't make it to professional filmmaking or Hollywood, so he compensates by acting like he's a deep and understanding guy. One who talks about "important and serious issues". When in reality he's just a racist and sexist jackass, with an over inflated ego. There are still some people willing to defend him, but even most of this fans (or fans of Quantic Dream) see him for the asshole that he is. I still don't understand why so many professional critics were up to bat for him back then. The dude really had nothing special. What's funny is that all of the former Best Friends Crew, called out his attitude and dickery years ago. People didn't want to listen, but as things came to light and a lot of his evil behavior popped up, they end up being right. Even the blind fenders couldn't defend his actions.
While I agree with all of that, I do believe Quantic Dream games are for the most part Cage's vision, which would nominally make him the auteur of those games. Tho of course, being an auteur is not inherently the same as being a good auteur, and Cage certainly is not the latter. He's what you get if you took Kojima, but stripped of all the redeeming creative qualities that make his games at least interesting, and replaced them with creeping on Elliot Page (at the time still Ellen). That's why it's depressing.
Last I heard there was a big row over him posting a selfie with Lindsey Ellis of Nostalgia Chick fame, talking about how they were good friends and she really appreciates him as a friend and they've very close.
That game was an insult to all things Detroit. And believe it or not, he didn't have as much on hands with writing the Detroit: Become Human. It's actually one of the better Quantic Dream games by comparison. The people who made Until Dawn and all the games they made afterward are better than all David Cage's crap. They got the concept down better than whatever he could muster.
What did he do? Unless you're talking about the creepy nude shower scene thing.
I watched MovieBob like once or twice on V1. His content must be really solid if he's still around, because the only time he ever gets brought up around here is when he fucks up again.
