Miyamoto Knighted

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From 4 Color Rebellion (http://www.4colorrebellion.com):



On March 13th three game designers will be Knighted by the French Minister. Shigeru Miyamoto, Michel Ancel and Frédérick Raynal will all be recognized for their outstanding work and contribution to the arts.

Congratulations are in order and I couldn’t agree more with the nominations. It’s great to see game designers recognized as artists and influential members of society. I guess Miyamoto now has a license to carry that sword that he was swinging around at E3.


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[Meusli]

How can the french Knight someone when they are a Republic, don't you have to have a Monarch?

[MrMeatshake]

How can the french Knight someone when they are a Republic, don't you have to have a Monarch?

good point, i thought after reading the title they were going to be made samurai. now THAT would be COOL. ;)

[Wedge]

Great news!

[baz]

How can the french Knight someone when they are a Republic, don't you have to have a Monarch?

It really doesn't have to have anything to do with a monarchy...

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=knight

knight
1.
1. Abbr. Knt. or Kt. A medieval tenant giving military service as a mounted man-at-arms to a feudal landholder.
2. Abbr. Knt. or Kt. A medieval gentleman-soldier, usually high-born, raised by a sovereign to privileged military status after training as a page and squire.
3. Abbr. K. A man holding a nonhereditary title conferred by a sovereign in recognition of personal merit or service to the country.
2. Abbr. Knt. or Kt. A man belonging to an order or brotherhood.
3.
1. A defender, champion, or zealous upholder of a cause or principle.
2. The devoted champion of a lady.
4. Abbr. Kt or N Games. A chess piece, usually in the shape of a horse's head, that can be moved two squares along a rank and one along a file or two squares along a file and one along a rank. The knight is the only piece that can jump other pieces to land on an open square.


It doesn't have to have anything to do with a Monarchy.

[Meusli]

Yeah but isn't another name for a Monarch a Sovereign or some such similar thing? I am not trying to be argumentative just interested. :)

[Blade]

Sir Shigeru Miyamoto, I presume?

[KamaItachi]

Sir Shigeru Miyamoto, I presume?

If he was knighted by the French wouldn't it be "monsier"?

[Sl1pstream]

If he was knighted by the French wouldn't it be "monsier"?

Monsieur, although that means mister, not sir.

[jacktion]

This title is not really correct. He has not been Knighted. He will be Knighted in the future. In 4 days to be exact. But you can't really say "Miyamoto Knighted" if it hasn't happened can you? You don't see CNN say "Bush Wins Election" when he doesn't get the majority of the vote do you? oh... wait...

[kokyunage]

You don't see CNN say "Bush Wins Election" when he doesn't get the majority of the vote do you? oh... wait...

I know you're being sarcastic but I'm so tired of this argument. I'm no bush lover, I mostly vote democrat but I'm starting to lean towards Libertarianism. It's just not the way our system is setup. If it was setup where majority always wins, then the entire system would be like that. Live in state with a small population? Any of the midwestern states + N.H./Deleware would have absolutely no say in government because majority wins. The New Yorks, the California's, the Virginia's would have all the say because of population.

[phantomhitman]

cut his ear off and give it to splinter

[MosBen]

Sovereign just means the holder of political power in a country. That power can be vested in the people, a monarch, a ruling class, or just about anything else. Monarch is is a subset of Sovereign.

[MosBen]

kokyunage, as far as the electoral system is set up, it's not directly tied to the votes of the people, but it's also not balanced the way I'm reading your post. Every state gets as many electoral votes as they have members of congress. Small states have fewer (I think North Dakota has three), and some states have more (California has 55 if I remember correctly). Again, you're right that with the electoral college it's possible for a president to win with a minority of the vote, but generally the candidate that wins the majority wins the electoral college. Some states have mechanisms for tying their electors to the state's popular vote, others have mechanisms whereby the electors are picked through a political process which generally and roughly emulates the popular vote breakdown of the state. Other states, like Florida, do have an all or nothing system where all the electoral votes go to the winner of the state's popular votes. Man, that was boring, wasn't it?

[Valkyrist]

OH GOD PLEASE DONT TURN THIS INTO A POLITICAL DEBATE!!!

It's a fuggin videogame news site, for chrissake....

Anyhow, back on TOPIC. If the next mario game involves him getting warped back to the medival times, there will be hell to pay. The again, it'll be great fodder for all the "Blame the French" jokes ^.^

[outontheporch]

Holy crap run!! Flame war approaching!!

[51|RandoM]

Knighted by the French?

That is a comedy gem in the rough, just waiting for the right comedian.

[Librum]

Well, the French kept killing all their nobles, but they seem to still want knights. Can't have it both ways, guys.

[Wombat]

To try and get the thread back on track, I'm familiar with Miyamoto and Ancel's work, but what has Raynal worked on?

[51|RandoM]

...in other news, Uwe Boll wins Germany's Humanitarian Award.

[Last of the Red Hot Mamas]

To try and get the thread back on track, I'm familiar with Miyamoto and Ancel's work, but what has Raynal worked on?

He founded Adeline, which did the Little Big Adventure games and some less noteworthy titles before Sega bought them up. I don't think they're still around these days.

[mister_slim]

Alone in the Dark, right?

[baz]

He founded Adeline, which did the Little Big Adventure games and some less noteworthy titles before Sega bought them up. I don't think they're still around these days.

The Little Big Adventure games were/are freaking awesome. I think Relentless Twinsen's LBA was one of the first, if not the very first, non-pirated games I ever owned.

[Thenetcase]

I'd rather be hated in France and be poor but loved by American's.