David Cage Quotes

The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

When I'm making video games today, I want people to be entertained. I am always thinking, How are people going to enjoy playing the games we are making today? And as long as I can enjoy something other people can enjoy it, too.

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

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

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

Getting the player emotionally involved is the holy grail. We try to make players forget they're playing a game. We want them to live the experience and suspend disbelief.

When I put on my consumer hat, and I'm buying tickets to be entertained, I'm not interested in seeing, like, 'Don Quixote.' Unless someone really spectacular is dancing.

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.' In an action game, I can get that – why not? It's all about skills. But in a story-driven experience it doesn't make any sense.

A game is a series of interesting choices.

Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you're trying to do more than just make money.

Blue Shift' is a game that I'm very proud of.

With video games, imagine it's not locked - it's a TV show people can reach in and do this and do that, and you need to have dialog for all of that stuff.

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.

I find most video games too complicated to play.

What's challenging is to surprise the audience.

I would play GameBattles matches. Anything competitive is always going to get you more viewers. When there's something on the line, it's just more exciting to watch.

I love that I will have the opportunity to connect further with my fans through 'MyNBA2K17.'

Nobody is happy when they're not playing.

We're growing into an entertainment medium as opposed to 'We make games. We make Mario jump.' We no longer have to focus so hard on the technical hurdles and can ask, as a player, why am I doing this? Why am I making these choices? Games that don't have that strong foundation stumble.

I love playing Eleven.

We founded RocketJump for two reasons: to provide quality entertainment and to reach as many different audiences as possible.

If you played 'Heavy Rain,' there are very few cutscenes and very few moments where you don't have control.

One of the things I've learned is you can't really control what an audience is going to feel.