Thread 723503332

Itagaki is just the beginning. Remember most the OG legend devs are in their 50s and 60s.

In 10 years they are going to start retiring or dying. We are entering a dark age.

>>723503332 (OP)
who's gonna replace them?

>>723503332 (OP)
Keiji Inafune is the same age as Itageki.

>>723503446
Unfortunately people like this.

>>723503332 (OP)
we've already been in the dark age for a decade at least

>>723503947
We still get the occasional good game

>>723503901
>try to be free like itagaki
>game gets canceled

>>723503332 (OP)
Myiamoto is probably next.
though he's a pioneer and responsible for most innovation in the video game industry he's also a tremendous hack and faggot. but still, i'll miss that nigga.

>>723503332 (OP)
Video games, stupid faggot. VIDEO GAMES.

>smoked constantly
>talked about constant heavy drinking

These are two of the fastest ways to get cancer. His lats photo looks like someone who's lost a lot of weight through cancer.

>>723504240
Retard, that's a fucking developer

>>723503332 (OP)
It's honestly impressive how he pulls off looking like a retarded weeb despite being native japanese. RIP to a real one Itakagi-san

>>723504303
>famous for something electronic
That makes him an eceleb.

>>723504135
He's 72. I did a double take when I read an old magazine from 1993 and it had Miyamoto with his glasses.

>>723503332 (OP)
> 1 thread
> barely a dozen messages.
This """videogame""" board needs to die of anal cancer as soon as possible.

>>723504401
damn this nigga was dripped out

>>723504240
Dumb zoomer

>>723503332 (OP)
Here's something you probably don't want to hear
>A lot of those OG legend devs, haven't been relevant in the industry for a long time
We've BEEN in a dark age for the last 10 years.

Shinji Mikami is 60 years old.

>>723504538
>anon worships some ninja turtles fan streamer
>but he's not a zoomer

>>723504465
Did you see that fucking sticky? I know they’re always lightning rods for shitposters, but even then, I was disappointed by a lot of what I saw in there.

>>723504591
They still can't make an action game as fun as Ninja Gaiden Black.
NG4 will, of course, be no exception.

>>723503332 (OP)
The era of gamedevs as rockstars ended like in 2004, they are salarymen now, I doubt any gamedesigner nowadays would buy sports cars like Mikami or Carmak

>>723504510
He's pretty standard 90s business guy, even a bit casual. His image now is a bit more towards the Willy Wonka magic man.

>>723504634
I missed it, what was in it? This is the only tread in the catalog when I ctrl+f Itagaki.

Fuck the jannies for linking bluesky for his sticky.

>>723504395
Nigga is famous for having an oatmeal cookie face tho

>>723504709
Only successful indie devs can do that now.

>>723503332 (OP)
Most legend devs are already retired or in some cushy managerial position. The era of celebrity dev has been over for over a decade anyway.

>>723504812
There were several threads on the catalog as soon as the news broke, and the mods stickied the busiest one, which just so happened to have a bluesky link in the OP and nothing else.
Lots of kvetching over that, lots of /pol/ back and forth about vaccines, lots of straight up disrespect for a man who just died.

>>723504918
Can't use Twitter because it's full of chuds not fighting for the resistance.

>>723504918
Yeah, it's retarded. Itagaki family posted his farewell on his Facebook. Harada and that 1Up guy posted it on Twitter and Instagram too

Next one is the Space Invaders guy. He's 81.

>>723503901
This dude actually designed the enemy AI and combat system of NG1.

>>723503332 (OP)
"Only one thing weighs on me — I'm deeply sorry to all my fans that I couldn't bring you a new work. I truly am." —Tomonobu Itagaki, final post-death message.

Ninja Gaiden Black, Ninja Gaiden II, Dead or Alive 1 Ultimate, Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate, Dead or Alive 3 and Dead or Alive 4 didn't receive ports to modern platforms.
Koei Tecmo didn't allow Team Ninja to port NGB and NGII in the Master Collection and forced them to lie about losing the source code.
All the newcomers are playing the inferior Smegma versions.
All the underage zoomers that got bullied in the past have outnumbered the True Fans on /v/ and now they swarm Ninja Gaiden threads and claim that NG3:RE is the best NG game.
In the end, Koei Tecmo won... they succeeded in diminishing and slowly erasing the legacy of Itagaki by keeping his games inaccessible. As time goes on, his legacy will be diminished and erased even further.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZSOvfEMl4I
This masterpiece of gameplay, art, animation, music, confidence and beauty is playing on repeat in the background, as I remember all the memories. The sabotage and mistreatment of Itagaki by Tecmo and the splitting up of Team Ninja is without a doubt the greatest tragedy that occurred in the history of the gaming industry. Itagaki literally saved Tecmo from bankruptcy, is this how you repay him?
A curse upon you Yoshimi Yasuda the greedy liar.
A curse upon you Yosuke Hayashi the backstabber.

It is truly over for the True Fans of Ninja Gaiden.
Goodbye Itagaki Sensei, you fought well, but in the end you lost... I lost... the True Fans of Ninja Gaiden lost.

>>723505054
Can't be as bad as Hulk Hogan where people were very happy he died or the christfags at Ozzy's.

>>723504709
It's because the business is corporatized so the money got funneled through all over the company, instead oof being enjoyed by dozens of "clueless" craftsmen
For rare cases, there's still Notch

>>723505249
It was honestly a lot like Ozzy’s. Lots of trad larping, and one of those same guys, probably, gloating about him supposedly burning in hell.

>>723505212
True ninja post, it's surreal how shit things got

>>723503332 (OP)
it's either the vax or lack of sunlight or undisclosed illness

many devs use tech too much and avoid the sun, so they may also exit soon

>>723505587
Two more weeks!

>>723505701
Cheer up anon, you might die first

>>723503332 (OP)
You mean the guys who oversaw the decline will go? How awful.

>>723504135
He hasn't done any hands on development since mario 64.

All the best Nintendo games were directed/designed by Takashi Tezuka.

>>723504465
There was a sticky with literally thousands of posts per hour, you couldn't keep up with the conversation if you tried.

>>723504598
1 hit wonder (re4).

He should be in jail for ripping off alone in the dark. If he was a westerner he would've at least been sued over that.

>>723506013
And Neil Druckmann.

>>723505042
>The era of celebrity dev has been over
Druckmann and Zampela are more relevant names than ever at the moment, for better or worse. Nobody cares about (individual) Japanese developers anymore because all of the tentpole, internationally successful titles that had grandiose names attached to them have all gone to shit comparatively. Project Remake and the three asylum patients heading it are the closest thing they have and even then most people would probably be hard pressed to put a name to face, or even a name, no pun intended.

>>723505784
Good lookin' out bro, there's always a silver lining!

>66 years old
For me it will be a sad day when Uematsu passes.

>>723504709
most of that shit was fake marketing anyway, especially by Microsoft trying to make Itagaki and Blezinski seem cool to sell games.

Itagaki didn't do shit since 2008 that was worth anything. Acting all sad like he was about to release a new masterpiece is laughable.
Yeah he was kind of young but let's not all kid ourselves.
"Only one thing weighs on me — I'm deeply sorry to all my fans that I couldn't bring you a new work. I truly am."
This is so fake. There wasn't any conspiracy against this dude. He did two good games and ran out of ideas. When he tried to make an action game outside NG it was just trash.

>>723504401
>>723504732
>the interviewer in this article is Satoshi fucking Tajiri from before he created Pokémon
wow neat

>>723506662
devils third got fucked over by publisher hopping and THQ dying. The game had a troubled development and the publisher situation made it worse. Itagaki was essentially the man that saved Tecmo with DoA and Ninja Gaiden. If he didn't get fucked over he probably would have kept making games with KT with stable budgets.

>>723506662
>he didn't see how ludokino devil's third was
grim

>>723503332 (OP)
>>723503446
>AAAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>WASHED UP HACKS WHO HAVEN'T BEEN RELEVANT IN 15+ YEARS ARE GONNA HECKIN' DIE IT'S SO SAD I AM L I T E R A L L Y SHAKING RIGHT NOW
shut the fuck up you retarded faggots.

>>723506403
Didn't he already retire though when he got sick years ago?

at least he lasted longer than kenji "robbit stomper" eno

>>723506956
Literally most the original Nintendo team is retirement age you dumb retard

>>723506013
>He hasn't done any hands on development since mario 64.
sxcept for superior fagging any project he can at Nintendo.
Myiamoto has been constantly griefing développement of games with his autistic requests

>>723504240
Newfag.

He was only 58. The more concerning thing is how creators are dying so prematurely.

>>723507959
58 but he was a heavy drinker and smoker

>>723506013
>All the best Nintendo games were directed/designed by Takashi Tezuka.
That is correct. He’s 64 and hasn’t directed in a long time. He hasn’t directed since Mario 64, instead supervising and producing.
Wish he’d get at least one more director credit before he retires.

>>723507959
>He was only 58. The more concerning thing is how creators are dying so prematurely.

Japanese smoking culture. Look up ANY god damn interview from the 80s or 90s and it's a bunch of people sitting around a table smoking like chimneys. It doesn't matter if it's anime, manga, video games, etc. If it's Japan in this time period, it's smoke city. Japan only reall started to pivot away from smoking in the 00's onwards.

So what you're seeing is just a time-lag of Japanese office workers who were big smokers in the 90s finally getting cancer and dying.

>>723503332 (OP)
10 more years is fine with me, gaming wasn’t going to last forever, it had a great 30-40 year run, this generation has been abysmal

>>723503332 (OP)
jokes on you, the average life expectancy for men in Japan is around 82.

>>723505156
yet he kept none of itagaki's lessons in mind despite being beaten by him multiple times until he did things right

>>723508152
Miyamoto used to smoke too, but quit while working on Mario 64.

Most of these guys haven't made anything worthwhile in well over a decade

>>723508152
>Japan only reall started to pivot away from smoking in the 00's onwards.
So that explains why Itoi quit smoking in early 2000s, and also censored the Mother games by removing cigarettes

>>723509282
>quit smoking because of Americans
Was something permanent?

>>723509883
I think the 2000s is when the us started banning smoke in public spaces

>>723503332 (OP)
Entering?

CHADyazaki brutally mogs all these washed up has-been boomers devs

>>723510213
He was the death of gaming. A retard making games for other retards. 90% of the west is retarded so it worked.

name active "OG legend devs" who produced anything of value in the past decade

>>723510710
Aonuma

>>723510883
who?

>>723510710
Carmack

>>723503332 (OP)
qrd? who is that?

>>723503332 (OP)
uhhh bros?

>>723510213
with what open world rollslop? he fell off a long time ago.

>>723510883
botw and totk are low points in the zelda franchise.

just a reminder nomura was 48 when kh3 was released
now he's 55 and there's not a single disney world reveal trailer for kh4

>>723511348
t. Ocarinasnoy

>>723511447
not an argument.

>>723511447
I would agree that Tears of the Kingdom is a low point, but I liked Breath of the Wild. I just didn’t like it enough to play a sort-of sequel to it that reused the same map and retconned a fair amount of what I did in that game.

>>723503332 (OP)
>in 10 years, higher ups in a mecacorp will be replaced by the people who actually worked on the games
>this is bad
the OG legends are legends only because they got to the market before any tropes were used
le save da princess and jump wasn't a stroke of genius

he's not as old as some of them but it feels like that generation of Japanese especially has gotten fucked by cancer
around 10-15 years ago you had major VAs like Chieko Honda, Beijing Fujiwara, Unsho Ishizuka developing it

>>723511787
Smoking, heavy industrial cities, hard work culture, drinking culture, the a bomb, Fukushima

>Dumb Americans drop two nukes on Japan
>NOOOOO WHY ARE LE QUIRKY CHUNGUS JAPANERINO DEVS DYING!!!!??

>>723503332 (OP)
>We are entering a dark age.
zoomer spotted
we have been in a dark age for years

>>723512139
Remember it's european genetics that made Americans dumb and evil

>>723512212
Yeah, at least 15 years minimum.

>>723512212
99% of games are goyslop with a rare gem. It's always been that way.

>>723504465
>>723505404
Anons, if you're an old faggot like me that comes every so often to mostly read, but not post anymore, especially after the NSW2 release and all the zoomers went silent or started to campaign on not buying the NSW2 because of whatever reasons to deflect that they got priced out, and a bit before that, I can tell you for sure, that this entire board has a lot of "Read It" brain conditioning. Every post is a pretentious, unspoken conditional context and with a very dilettante to ignorant take on the subjects posted on here and it's why the catalog is riddled with bait threads with clickbait titles which has made the figurative "OP" poster, even more so than before, a high-functioning retard that you can almost ignore, ergo this entire board so far. My only hope is that - and this is a double edged sword - everyone here, young or old, that deserves to be priced out of video games, leaves this place. I also wish for social media to die. Facebook and Reddit messed up this website so don't get angry just don't come and post here as much because most people here are patently stupid.
>>723503332 (OP)
>>723503901
I don't think we're entering a dark age at all. I just think that people should step up to the plate in Japan to make games that people want and for there to be investors, primarily domestically in Japan, that are willing to pour money into projects even though success rates are not guaranteed. It's really something that you have to understand about Itagaki and all his generation of game creators and that is that they had to fight within corporations to get the money and resources to get their games be given a green light or have someone with the money to go "go for broke", "whatever" and just do something and try anything. Easier said than done especially in a post Showa Era (1989) boom era, but where there is a will, there is a way. It's not like anyone in the west is doing anything here worthwhile, much less here.

Real question is when the western ones who turned out to be massive fags start dying is there going to be a cultural crisis when all these twats start realising their deaths are going to be mocked?

>>723512334
>>723512407
Americans are unable to create they can only destroy

>>723503332 (OP)
nah itagaki smoked and drank most these guys are gonna live to atleast 70

>>723503732
Enough about that swindler lmao

>>723512468
Europeans*

>>723512635
Do you not know anything about Japan lmao

>>723503332 (OP)
>Itagaki dies
>Somehow in less than 24hrs motherfucking Ace Freehley fucking gets shutdown
Oof

>>723505249
Ozzy was a practicing Anglican with his own personalized bible. I hate these fucking trad larping faggots and reddit metal secondaries equally

>>723512468
Thank you proving my point about how stupid this board has gotten.
>>723512407
What is "Western"? I don't know.
But what can I say is that now that individual European economies (EU or Non-EU) are going to be faced to spend more on national defense than social welfare programs, the question of the people, and their attitudes will be a clue to how video games in Europe go going forward.
I don't like to mix politics and sociology because this board goes stupid with the typical reduction that /pol/ faggots push. But to answer your question: I think there are Europeans that are sensible, practical and would love to make video games but the money, the cultural environment, and the political nature of the business - even the financing - makes it almost impossible to function for business to start. I would start looking into those things to answer your questions.

>>723503947
>It began in 2004 with gen 6's ww2 fps galore
>Nothing but decay since then
20 years already...

>>723504240
>the man that redefined Ninja Gaiden with highly liked and rated titles isn't videogames
????

>>723513084
>den of gay ninjas
>games

>>723506154
>1 hit wonder (re4).
Wrong. He was also behind Goof Troop another absolute top tier game. Also; mentored Kamiya into what he is; and Kamiya has a perfect record, no bad game

>>723509282
>quits smoking because of filthy gaijins
LMAO that actually speaks volumes

>>723510710
That's the embodiment of Peter Molyneux even when he was at his best lol. Also; basically every western dev at this point

>>723510213
I don't even think that Miyazaki looks at his achievements in that way. And I would like to see more of his generation make games and step up. Because a new generation of Japanese developers in the independent (doujin) and corporate scenes have to emerge because the Showa, Heisei periods (where most people - the old fags that have left this website long ago along with some few like me that have stayed) base their understanding on video games, is gone and new blood needs to come to start new businesses.

>>723512328
No. Back then even what one could think as slop had the chance of being a rare gem; something that happened a lo in fact seeing all those Disney licensed games

>>723513067
>What is "Western"? I don't know.
I'm basically saying anyone not Japanese and have proven to be faggots on their own accord. Though to be fair there are definitely some Japanese devs who might be remembered as faggots as well. I'm wondering if when Miyamoto dies if he's going to be remembered as the magical Mario man people clearly liked to think of him as at once point.

>>723506154
>If he was a westerner he would've at least been sued over that.
That's not to the western world's credit though. Suing over copying ideas is cringe.

You insufferable faggots will catastrophize everything
This is the inexorable march of time, not le dark age

>>723503332 (OP)
It's so much worse then you know, I hope you'll never know.

>>723513806
Yeah bro I'm sure zoomers will make good games

>>723503446
Kojima

>>723513806
>This is the inexorable march of time, not le dark age
>Romans
>Things advance despite all
>1900
>Things advance despite all
>2000
>things still somehow advance despite all
>2020
>creativity is at an all-time low, capitalism reached late stage and losing functionality, escapism to the masses hasn't been any good and hasn't produced anything remotely close to anything from the 80s or 90s. Hirings are now about quotas almost killing the little prospect that usually led to good stuff to happen 30 years ago
>"no, you see you're overblowing it out of proprotion"
Doesn't... seems like.

>>723503332 (OP)
just makes me think about how young the medium is, have there even been 10 "significant" deaths in the industry? I remember yokoi and iwata then start drawing blanks

>>723503446
toby fox, that's why Sakurai invited him to meet all those japanese devs, so they could pass the torch to him

>>723505701
I'm sure he'll make the real DD2 first at his new studio.

>>723511348
BotW was the first good 3D Zelda game that was actually a worthy followup to the 2D games.

>>723514716
zoom zoom

>>723514250
You're right about that, and now isn't even a good time to create or publish anything because everything is getting censored to hell and back, and everywhere is flooded with bots or e-celeb faggots constantly grifting.

>>723513540
Then just say what you want to say; people are only going to infer what you write.
I would never put anyone in a pedestal. Never do that. Ever.
It's easy to poke fun at people and their flaws and even say how bad their games are. For example:
>Kojima is a Hollywood financed shill who makes visual novels masked >as action games; Hideki Kamiya, is a creatively bankrupt and just >makes the same action game over and over; Suda51 is making yet >VNs that are on-the-rails with "edgey" and "punk" story and aesthetics; >Swery65 is just some indie dev that makes too many studios and >publishing houses and rushes too much to make broke games
As for Miyamoto, look, you can bash him for being a corporate company man all you want but at the same time he's one of the most influential men that have taken Nintendo, second to Gunpei Yokoi, and the Japanese industry and video games world wide. So I wouldn't over think it after a while as it's pointless. With that said, if you're so inclined to view video games and the purchases you'll make subsequently, you'll just have to buy what little games you'll want to play and be fine with that. I know I do that. Lately I just buy re-releases, just emulate or play on old hardware.

>>723514449
Toby Fox is someone I can't seem to find myself to trust.
He's made a good game according to many people, sure, but I don't trust him. It simply comes down to that.

>>723503332 (OP)
Actually, it's washed up old people refusing to retire who are responsible for a lot of the bad games that are being put out nowadays.

>>723506953
It's shit man
This new captcha shit gotta be the worst captcha system I've ever made

>>723514967
>Then just say what you want to say; people are only going to infer what you write.
???
>I would never put anyone in a pedestal. Never do that. Ever.
That's just the other extreme. You can simply take a moderate "yeah he was cool, that one thing he did was a bit lame but whatever". stance instead of feeling like you have to kiss his ass in death. It's when you get people who decidedly became really annoying in later years that they might not even get a "yeah he was cool".

What was Itagaki's opinion on NG4?

>>723504240
>streams and developers are EXACTLY THE SAME!!!!
This is shit bait

>>723515706
> That's just the other extreme. You can simply take a moderate "yeah he was cool, that one thing he did was a bit lame but whatever". stance instead of feeling like you have to kiss his ass in death. It's when you get people who decidedly became really annoying in later years that they might not even get a "yeah he was cool".
That just sounds like something some Youtuber, streamer or podcaster would do in order to build consensus of opinion simply to have something to talk about or whine about. Everyone is going to be imperfect at some point in their lives but the implication from what you're saying is something I have heard for years among self-styled video game nerds who want to more gossip than learn or recall what someone did or didn't do in their profession.

>>723513376
>Kamiya has a perfect record, no bad game
Shit bait

>>723515948
Jesus that was stupidly long-winded way of saying.
>but they did do good things

>>723515985
>RE2
>DMC1
>Viewtiful Joe
>Bayonetta
>Okami
>Wonderful 101
Not a single bad game in here

bless Nomura and Yoko Taro with good health :pray:

>>723512334
>Every post is a pretentious, unspoken conditional context and with a very dilettante to ignorant take on the subjects posted on here and it's why the catalog is riddled with bait threads with clickbait titles which has made the figurative "OP" poster, even more so than before, a high-functioning retard that you can almost ignore, ergo this entire board so far.
>so don't get angry just don't come and post here as much because most people here are patently stupid.
True and very well said. It just saddens me to see what has become of this place.

Bluesky troons threw a temper tantrum about Itagaki dying

>>723516449
You forgot Bayo 3, i wonder why???

>>723516389
Now you're just being reductive.
If you're that anon, then tell me what's your point then. Because it all seems like you just want to complain about people.
>>723516949
No need to be sad or angry. Just make smores.

>>723516389
Not him, but that post is two sentences long and only missing a comma between the two clauses in the second sentence.

>>723503332 (OP)
>He thinks it hasn't started when jank the franchise was praised as difficult 10 years ago

>>723503332 (OP)
>We are entering a dark age.
We have been in the dark ages since 2006

>>723517451
>i wonder why???
Because he didn't directed. Also; Bayo 3 wasn't bad either, it was just ok but still a good game.

>>723503332 (OP)
Ripened souls transform to potential Nintendo energy through a 9th density transformation matrix
Translation?
Don’t. Mess. With. Gamers.

Waiting for Harada to retire

>>723514449
man, the industry is FUCKED

>>723517508
> Because it all seems like you just want to complain about people.
That's rich given this entire conversation is you not liking something I've said and you're constantly trying to pick a bone with it.
>>723517538
He went on a completely pointless tangent to complain about streamers or "self-styled video game nerds" instead of getting to the point.

>>723518137
I don't understand what you're getting at: what you're doing is engaging agitational conversation in order to make some vague moral complaint about someone's character based on the professional and creative decisions that someone made throughout their career. I'm tired of hearing about this because it's like backseat gaming but for business and creative aspects of an entertainment industry that most people online have no idea what it's like on the inside. That's all. As far my having a problem with what you're saying and how you're going about reasoning is part of something called "a conversation." So I'm taking time to read what you're saying, thinking, and replying in kind - if you don't like what I'm saying? Fine, whatever. But know that you're whole like "we have to historically find the precise opinion about X person for posterity" is stupid. It's what has killed the fun in video games at times.
Like you can talk shit about Phil Phish, for sure, that French-Canadian hipster deserves the hate and distrust but he had a point about criticizing Japanese video games when he did and did make a pretty cool game (Fez).

>>723517538
>>>/b/ is that way man.

>>723518137
At this point then you're pretending to not understand so you can get away with wanting to complain about people to pass off as an informed opinion. Which most of this board lately is. Keep doing what you're doing. It's scaring the hoes away.

>>723503446
no one
in 5 years 99% of games (and all content, really) will be AI slop
you'll have algorithmic feeds rotting your brain with ai videos
you'll log into your video game subscription thing and play whatever the big streamers are playing that day
the only human element will be a few human influencers that were big enough to retain an audience and will be paid by corporations to focus consoomers on a particular product or brand
until the next generation of ai native kids grows up not giving a shit about the human element and just proompt a whatever they want to consoom and get instant slop
in 30 years you will be in the pod fucking your ai waifus and slopping about in a sloppy matrix, with bug serum being pumped into your veins as your only source of nourishment

>>723520008
>in 5 years 99% of games (and all content, really) will be AI slop
Start pirating and play old games.
Buy indies that you know doesn't use AI/ML
Buy re-release that don't use AI/ML
Stop buying new games or quit video games.
Make your own games.
Start your own game publishing and development company

>>723519124
This has got to be the first time I’ve ever been told to gb2b because I can read.

>>723519058
> But know that you're whole like "we have to historically find the precise opinion about X person for posterity" is stupid.
Where the fuck did you get that from?

>>723520751
>gb2b
sorry, >>>/lit/ that-a-way.

>>723512334
>NSW2
What game?
Google only shows switch2.

>>723505587
Being Japan, it could also be seppuku

>>723503332 (OP)
hate to say it, but it could be a good thing.
sucks that Itagaki died, but he made one (1) good game and spent the rest of his time either making shitty games or seething that Tekken consistently ate DoA's lunch.

another example, Michael Berlyn. because he died, his creation was freed from his control and has found new life and a level of popularity he never had before.

>>723503446
Me

>>723522474
>or seething that Tekken consistently ate DoA's lunch.
He and Harada were good friends. His public disdain for Tekken was kayfabe.

>>723512334
>NSW2
If you meant switch 2 then zoomers are right on this one, its gimped android tablet masquerading as console.
Nintendo and console died with 3ds and modern nutendo is undead corpse puppeted by souless jap mafia.

>>723522570
>His public disdain for Tekken was kayfabe.
and the private disdain?
like the time he gathered his team together and said
>Today, we beat Tekken.
after Harada gave him a pity, noncommittal compliment?

>>723522474
>he thinks promo cuts in wrestling is real

>>723503332 (OP)
Pretty sad that the last things he did was a shitty WiiU game and NFT
Would be nice if he tried to do a comeback considering the state of action games. But it's too late.

>>723522656
>Android
FreeBSD Unix. None of that GNU/Linux garbage.
> If you meant switch 2 then zoomers are right on this one, its gimped android tablet masquerading as console...
Yes, yes I'm familiar with the new historical story that social media is propagatng. Before you know it you'll have a tract published and passed around like a Jack Chick tract titled "The Good Mario."

>>723522865
https://x.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/1884269347948146716

>>723503332 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkK8g6FMEXE
It fucking hurts. I was in the middle of 3 for the first time trying to prepare for 4, and that night, I really just wanted to sit by him as I played and talk about the game deeply and how it failed to properly learn from 1 and 2. It almost felt like he was in the room with me because I was so sure he'd agree. Then I wake up and see the news. It feels cruely surreal the timing of it all. I've spent all this year celebrating and obsessing over his works while doing my 10th ani Ninja Slayer rewatch week by week. It was the year of the ninja, and now we've lost the master.
I just want to be with my fellow Itagaki bros and grieve, but I don't even like the character action threads on this board.

>>723525045
You're going to have to find them offline or somewhere else on the Internet (capital "I") because this board, all of it, is not it. and don't even think about anywhere on Reddit because that place is where all this stupid brain rot that this place suffers of comes from.

>>723504135
Miyamoto hasn't been involved with game dev in a long time, he's fucking around with movies and theme parks

>>723503332 (OP)
Yuji Hori is next. Japan's going to have a national holiday when it happens.

>>723525357
We might be few and scattered to the winds but my fellow ninja are still out there, even on this buddha forsaken board, most of us likely just watch from the shadows while practicing our chado tea ceremonies.
I've got a friend thankfully that is willing to celebrate and honor the man. Gonna go play some super tecmo bowl, doa, katamari, and maybe even some xtreme volleyball. Could even start the night off watching Armageddon.
Itagaki was a legend, and those of you that know, know.
We will continue to enjoy the finer things in life, just like the man himself did, while the rest of these mongoloids continue to fling shit at one another.

>>723507228
>partied with western devs at CES which gave him the courage start Warp and make D
>punched a Sony exec in the face when they cut back on shipping copies of D for PS1
>hand delivered the uncut version D to replicators so the censored version wouldn't go out
>held press conference at Sony's TGS booth just to announce Warp would developing exclusively for Sega, with the PS1 logo morphing into the Saturn logo
Miss this nigger like you wouldn't believe

>>723503332 (OP)
Who cares? These "OG" devs have been exposed and haven't made anything good for the last decade+

>>723526092
Let me tell you something man, and you can take a chance at believing me being an old faggot: before this website popped in 2003, there was a local scene somewhere in any town (at least in the U.S.). And if you were never near a scene you made trips to scenes or made one you understand? Because this place once was with people that wanted to connect - this whole thing was a mere footnote tool for communicate with people at times you already knew offline. Understand? Because before FGC, it was just simple: people who played games for the mechanics, and people who played for the stories. After that, you know what was what. I'll leave the rest for you to figure it out. Deuces.

>>723503332 (OP)
>Tetsuya Nomura is in his 50s, and was talking about retiring age
Man...

>>723522705
I’m afraid you seriously misunderstood what Harada was communicating in that story. Did you miss the part where they were “comrades in arms?”
Did you see Harada’s meltdown and disbelief at the news of Itagaki’s death?

>>723526383
For real man. You can't make up this kind stuff. But there are people out there that are going to come out, make games, get the bag, all of that, and blow off all these people that are just sitting just posting on here or anywhere else whining about something.

>average age in japan is 50
>average age in america is 68
>creators of most genres are elderly or dead
>even the most influential developers of the 2000s are 50+ now

>>723526620
My advice to anyone: get offline, get away from social media, go to work, and make that game if you want or get with someone with vision and make a game. Stop waiting and start doing.

>We are entering a dark age
>entering

>>723526701
if you are at the point one of these devs want to work with you, you surpassed them what would be the point

>>723526574
The thing is, guys like Eno and Ita were already kind of rare, and like Itagaki, once their heyday came to an end, they spent the rest of their careers in limbo with failed start ups (Eno) or stuck trying to get their next game released in an industry that's now heavily corporatized (Itagaki). I think there's a lot of fear of hitting a peak and then spending the rest of your life in irrelevancy.

>>723526425
Meh, I'm cancer and I just want to read informed chatter about games and anime. It can still happen from time to time here if ya can believe it. Not interested in off topic stuff. Gonna go make some noise for the legend Itagaki.

>>723520008
I'll do no such thing, I have got enough media to keep me entertained until the stars burn out.

>>723503446
soilennials hacks and ESG corporate

why are itagaki fans so weird
didn't he just make a handful of 7/10 games for the xbox
I wouldn't call him an OG legend
also being japanese doesn't make you immune to heavy smoking and drinking

>>723503332 (OP)
The blackpill is realising most of the great people that made Japanese culture cool and interesting are getting old, retiring and getting close to death.
Some examples I can think of on the top of my head is Toriyama and Miura.
Japanese media has peaked a while ago and you will only see it decline further.

>>723528587
They weren't old according to U.S standards and just fucking died at mid point of their lives. We have had fuckers twice as old running the office or still going.

The old faggots don't make any good games. Itagaki literally didn't make anything decent for like 2 decades but nice pretending he is not a shit dev just because he died.

>>723503332 (OP)
>Yeah, these people that havent made a good game let alone good new IP in like 1-2 decades are all dying. This is truly a dark age
its unfortunate and ill o7 for them but i really dont think it means jack for games coming forward lmao

>>723516449
>>RE2
you mean the game Mikami had to take away from him in order to salvage?

>>723514449
like Pixel, Toby Fox will never make another game that even comes close to his big hit.