Randy Pitchford Quotes

Randy Pitchford
American Businessman
Entertainment Game Me People Think You
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. Randy Pitchford
Me Entertainment Experience I Am Think I Think Those Would About Both Performer Days Audience Am Did Taught Who Early Career Early Days
I remember when I discovered The Beatles with music and The Beatles peaked before I was born and when I discovered them I felt really special. Randy Pitchford
Music Beatles Remember Before I Was Born I Remember Born Remember When Felt Discovered Them Really Special Peaked
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
You Yourself Goals Seriously Promising Take Loose Times Depends Customer Cut Really Your
The philosophy at Valve and Gearbox is that if things can't be done better, they shouldn't be done at all. Randy Pitchford
Better Philosophy Valve Done Things
I've got a 6,000 square-foot home in Plano that probably costs as much as a three-bedroom house in Van Nuys. Randy Pitchford
Home Van Costs House Got Much
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
Gamer Care Too I Wonder Reliable Developers New Untapped Most Frequently Audience Audiences Caught Up Wonder Forget Current Going After Loyal Largest Publishers
I'm in the business to make games - I love entertaining people. Randy Pitchford
Love Business People I Love Entertaining Entertaining People Make Games
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
You Achievement First Year Gave Lifetime Wired Know Until Duke Won Forever Get Going Just Decided Again Then Next Next Year Award
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
Game Respect Thought Past Every Other Worried Would Would-Be About Demand Make Because Were Exist Models Just Different Us Really Fun Why
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
People Become Those Out Guys Allen Join Part Know Got George Duke Lot Texas Scott Moved Created Who Professional Miller Started
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
Game Think Mark Everyone Finding Weapons Guns Having Only Missed Doing Going Often After Much Really Successful Fun Using
When we shipped 'Borderlands 2,' we didn't ship it with a plan of how the level cap was going to increase. We didn't have any software built or strategy in place. Randy Pitchford
Strategy Increase Software Built How Ship Shipped Any Going Place Cap Plan Level
I think it's safe to say that 'Half-Life' was influenced by every first person action game that preceded it. Randy Pitchford
Game First Action Every Think I Think Say Safe Half-Life First-Person Person Influenced
In 'Condition Zero,' failure has greater consequences and success offers greater rewards. Randy Pitchford
Success Failure Consequences Greater Condition Offers Rewards Zero
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
Work You Overcome Will Important Several Plot Characters Objectives Entities Hazards Over Named Until Half-Life Partners Course Were Shift Repeating Up Blue Order Levels
There's no trend lines that work in entertainment. You can break any trend line by offering value that we as consumers of content want. Randy Pitchford
Work You Entertainment Trend Value Consumers Content Line Lines Offering Any Want Break
I think the first things I did, I used to try to create digital versions of Dungeons & Dragons that would help me generate a character, that would roll the dice for me. Randy Pitchford
Character Me Try Digital First Think I Think Would Generate First Things Dice Versions Dungeons Did Roll Create Used Help Things Dragons
Just as 'Half-Life' redefined the first person action game, 'Half-Life' for Dreamcast redefines what an extension of a great PC game to console should be. Randy Pitchford
Great Game First Action Console PC Half-Life First-Person Person Just Should Extension
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. Randy Pitchford
Love Happy Love Is Space Our I Love Totalitarian About Studio Look Within Regime Really Explore Creators Neat Things Designers Designs
I mean, of course there's art in video games - duh. Randy Pitchford
Video Games Art Course Duh Mean Video Games
No gamer, whether you've played 'Duke 3D' or you haven't, can play 'Duke Forever' without having experiences that surprise them. Randy Pitchford
You Gamer Having Without Surprise Duke Forever Experiences Whether Them Play Played
I owe my career to 'Duke.' Randy Pitchford
Duke Owe Career
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
Character Think I Think He Between Most Industry Female Duke Male Them Iconic Videogames Figures
The first-person shooter genre owes itself to 'Duke Nukem.' Randy Pitchford
Owes Genre First-Person Duke Itself Shooter
I have immense respect for Christopher Nolan for taking a character called 'Batman' - taking a comic book - and making people believe in him in a real world context. Randy Pitchford
Character Respect Book People World Believe Christopher Batman Immense Taking Nolan Him Comic Comic Book Making Context Real Real World
Do something good, and people want that! Do something less good, and people want it a little less! Randy Pitchford
Good People Something Something Good Want Little Less
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