Thread 723920886

>2014
>In Ninja Gaiden Yaiba you play as a younger cooler ninja who appeals to younger audience! Yaiba is here, move over Ryu you old thing!
>Game flops tremendously, kills the franchise for a decade
>2025
>In Ninja Gaiden Ragebound you play as a young ninja named... I dont fucking remember his name anymore but that's besides the point! And there's a girl too! Move over Ryu, there's new cool kids in town!
>Game gets overshadowed by new Shinobi not even a month later
>2025(again)
>Ninja Gaiden 4 introduces a new edgy cool shadow the hedgehog ninja! Move over, Ryu, you old fuck here's a protagonist who REALLY appeals to the young crowd!
>the game fucking bombs, doesn't even outsell the new woke asset flip game, forgot its name desu
What the fuck is koei tecmo's problem? Just make a game about Ryu Hayabusa? What is happening

They want to stick it to Itagaki even though Itagaki didn't even create the character. according to a recent interview they're just retarded storyfags and don't think they can do a character arc for ryu after the ninja gaiden 3 disaster. totally retarded shit that shows from the outset these people will never surpass our boy.

Ninja Gaiden Z was about Ryu's rival getting fucked up so hard that a mad scientist has to revive Yaiba with a cyborg arm.
All you can manage in that game is to knock him out just because it'd be shitty to have Ryu kill the final boss.

Go kill yourself you fucking retard

>>723920886 (OP)
Wanna know the truth?

In Japan voice acting is really important. Seiyuu stuff. Ryu's voice actor is like 100 years old lol, he's a legacy character from the 80s. They want to retire him.

Remember Heihachi from Tekken? They finally killed him because his voice actor died of old age.

just drop gaiden, and go back to the main story

>>723922045
Japan replaces voices all the time. DBZ wont end when the baba dies.

>>723922045
>They finally killed him
He's literally a paid DLC character in Tekken 8, retard.

>>723922045
>Remember Heihachi from Tekken? They finally killed him

>>723922207
Noncanon. You'll see Hayabusa cameos too in the future. But Ryu is going bye bye. It's Yakumo now.

>>723922279
Nigger the entire story DLC explains how we came back and got a powerup.

>Ninja Gaiden Z

The brain child of "the man, the myth, the legend" Keiji Inafune.

>>723922279
>non-canon
the point is it isn't about srs voice acting business, japs are just as scummy about this shit as everywhere else.

in-fact, it's even more underhanded and disgusting that they said heihachi was never coming back out of respect for the voice actor, only to take it back and release him as DLC.

>>723922475
Red Ash soon?

to be fair there really isnt anything left to do with him, did you want him to go on a third quest for revenge?
i'd rather he be relegated to the role of an in universe living legend that is without peer over another story that tries to "humanize" ryu the walking human blender hayabusa
>>723922045
that wasnt even the OG voice actor dumbass, we are on the third VA for heihachi

Why does Shinobi have no problem with new heroes while NG can't do anything right without Ryu

>>723922045
Why do you have this image?

Ryu with all of his plot armor, all of his skill, all of his magic, and all of his willpower still gets shredded in less that a second by this other ninja with an "R" name.

>>723922045
>Wanna know the truth?
>proceeded by retarded fictional shit you made up in your head
EEEEEHHH NANI YOU SEE MY FELLOW SILLY WESTERNER, OUR INFERIOR WESTERN BRAINS CANNOT COMPREHEND THAT ACTUALLY.. JAPAN IS SUPER RESPECTFUL.... THEREFOR BECAUSE THE SEIYUU CHIGYUU WATASHI WA KAWAII DESU IS DYING (THIS IS NOT SUGOI..)... THEY NEED TO MAKE A NEW CHARACTER

ITADEKIMASU

>>723922593
IT'LL BE OUT WHEN IT'S OUT

>>723922728
because shinobi didnt have an expanded universe of DoA to build upon. The protags of shinobi are also boring as heck with no personality or memorable traits.

>>723922739
stRider

>>723922831
"It'll be out when it's out" we like that. The great Inafune, everyone.

>>723922831
AND WE LIKE THAT

>>723920886 (OP)
People play ninja gaiden for the story?

>strongest character in new game that constantly sucks him off
>replaced
lmao

>>723920886 (OP)
Does he actually get a character later on?
I've just started Sigma 1 recently and so far he has the personality of a wet paper towel ( with a kino design however)
Granted I'm really early in chapter 3, but dude's said like 2 lines so far

>>723924396
Ryu's never had much of a personality, other than being stoic and doing ninja things.
Like even the NES games feel like he's got a bit of a gullible side, which is more memorable than anything since then.

>>723924396
no, you've been lied to
he's just a stoic ninja guy that looks cool

>>723921732
> according to a recent interview they're just retarded storyfags and don't think they can do a character arc for ryu after the ninja gaiden 3 disaster.
Why don't they just do a reboot then? I don't understand Jap boomer autism. I would say its even more painful that DOA6 moved away from sexiness, individual character stories and stage hazards while Tekken is now embracing those things and being praised for it. I can't believe they heldback an already localized game that was ready to ship because they listen to (((community managers))) on Facebook and Twitter over their actual fucking sales data. Japanese boomers are truly something else.

>>723924396
he gets the most characterization in 3 and "fans" hated it because the game was about that despite him still being a mass murdering super warrior he's still human.