Yuji Horii Professions : Video Game Designer Born : January 6, 1954 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Yuji Horii The most important part of a RPG is the player feeling like they are taking the role of a character in a fully realised fantasy world. They can explore, visit various towns and places, talk to people, customise their character, collect various items, and defeat monsters. The story is not the focus of the experience and is only there to make the atmosphere of the fantasy world more interesting and engaging during the course of the game. Yuji Horii player games character When I started, people would come to interview me, and just knowing that I worked in videogames - it was like people wanted to stone me, it was that bad. People thought of video games as kind of a bad thing in society. Now, people that come to interview me, they have grown up with video games, and they know what they are; they've experienced it. Yuji Horii me bad-people society people For 'Dragon Quest IX,' one of the biggest things was being able to create your own character and your party members, too. The importance of it is that you can customize the face, the name, or something like that, so the party members are really a reflection of you. It becomes more of your own experience. Yuji Horii face you experience character In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me. Yuji Horii day me time people I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems. Yuji Horii battle wonder sometimes negative For U.S. television series, I really like 'Dexter.' Yuji Horii really like series television Where 'Dragon Quest Monsters' originated from was 'Dragon Quest V,' where you had a monster befriending system as a main part: you could actually befriend monsters and have them fight on behalf of your party, as part of your party. Yuji Horii your fight you party It is difficult to meet fan expectations, especially when people say, 'Oh, the last one was the best one.' It creates more pressure each time for the next game to top the last one. Yuji Horii best game time people Similar Authors Brenda Romero video-game-designer Brenda Laurel video-game-designer Don Mattrick video-game-designer Howard Scott Warshaw video-game-designer Hironobu Sakaguchi video-game-designer Hideo Kojima video-game-designer All Authors
