Thread 725126023

>Resident Evil
>Devil May Cry
>Phoenix Wright
>Viewtiful Joe
>Dino Crisis
>God Hand
>Killer7
>Vanquish
>Shadows of the Damned
>The Evil Within
>Hi-Fi Rush

Name a game dev with a more fucking GOATed resume, you literally fucking can't

After hearing Kamiya's original ideas for DMC1, I'm convinced Mikami is like half the reason that game was good, maybe more

>>725126826
Not just a godlike director but godlike producer too, every game he's a producer on generally turns out to be the director's best games

>>725126023 (OP)
There is a long interview with him, a really cool guy who just wanted to make relatively small games with arcade gameplay, but he's after RE4 was too big for such things

>>725128141
He said God Hand was the only game he felt he had true creative freedom over iirc

>>725126826
Most great games, movies and even books tend to have both a great director and a good producer. It's almost never a solo project.

Is he retired? I hope he gets back to making games

>>725129180
Makes sence since the plot is very mimimal.

>>725126023 (OP)
Most of those weren't his games.

Plus you left out 2 of his best ones:
Aladdin and Goof Troop

>>725130360
>Is he retired?
Basically yes - he's a producer.
They don't do shit.

>>725132808
If you read up on the history of games like RE2, DMC1, you realize he had a huge part in how those games turned out

>>725126023 (OP)
Anon he didnt direct like half of those
>RE
>Dino Crisis
>God Hand
>Vanquish
>The Evil Within (which sucked)

Thats it, he didnt direct the rest

>>725126826
DMC1 was a failed RE4 prototype.

>>725126023 (OP)
This is an insanely mixed bag, some of which he didn't direct and really god hand is the only good one. RE4 hurt video games REALLY bad and that's nothing to be proud of.

>>725134380
>DMC1 was a failed RE4 prototype.
And it would have stayed that way if it wasn't for Mikami, he literally suggested it be turned into a new IP with demons instead of getting scrapped

>>725134514
>he shouldn't be proud of making the greatest game ever made because it inspired bad copycats

>>725134675
And Resident Evil would have been some faggy bullshit with supersoldiers vs. ghosts of smarter people didn't step in and overrule Mikami.

>>725130360
he officially retired after hi-fi rush, said it so himself

Wow some of you trying to discredit his producer credits are fucking retarded lmao

>>725136079
RE2 was literally like 95% finished and when Mikami saw it he said it was trash and he told Kamiya to scrap it and start over and that's why the finished RE2 is so fucking good. It's harsh but he literally gave a first time director a second chance to refine his first game. Kamiya has even said Mikami was so essential to RE2 that he literally considers it Mikami's game, not his

>>725137007
Yup, and not as extreme of a degree but I remember Suda saying similar praise for Mikami for his advice/guidance with Killer7

>>725130360
>>725135957
He founded a new company soon after leaving Tango.
It's been a couple of years since then so I imagine whatever they're making and whether he's directing will be revealed soon enough.

>>725136079
name literally one thing a producer actually does besides slap their name on the credits

>>725137007
>RE2 was literally like 95% finished and when Mikami saw it he said it was trash and he told Kamiya to scrap it and start over
Around 70% and it was the screenwriter they brought on board that told them to scrap it.
>Kamiya: We had Sugimura, a professional screenwriter, take a look at the completed scenarios from 1.5. That was actually his first point of contact with the development. When he read them, he said “You should probably re-write these again.” Resident Evil 1.5 was actually about 70% complete then… (laughs)
>Sugimura: It was all too realistic. The ominous atmosphere from the first game, as represented in things like the Spencer Mansion itself, the armor room, key items like the jewelry box and gemstones… all that had been removed. The Police Station, too, had been changed to a very modern building. As a result, everything felt too modern and strangely sterile. “This doesn’t feel like Resident Evil…” Of course, wiping the slate clean and going back to zero on a project that’s already 70% complete is no mean feat, and in that sense, I think it was a very brave move on the part of the developers.

>>725137909

Organise the whole project

>>725132891
It doesn't work like that in Japan.

>>725137909
Turning RE4 into DMC1 was a stroke of genius
>Alchemy zombies become demons
>Oswald Spencer became Sparda and Mundus
>Spencer's BOW experiments became Dante and Vergil
>Tyrant became Nelo Angelo

When you read the DMC artbook interviews its crazy how much of DMC1 was already there as a RE4 prototype. The fact that Mikami saw the game, said it didn't fit RE, but that it could be a cool new IP really shows how smart he was

>>725126023 (OP)
>dogshit
>good
>who cares
>who cares
>dead
>killed a studio
>whi cares
>good
>who cares
>shit
>killed a studio
Wow what a career

>>725138858
>When you read the DMC artbook interviews its crazy how much of DMC1 was already there as a RE4 prototype.
You don't even need to read those interviews. The environments and enemies where nearly all design for the game when it was still RE, and then changed slightly or not at all.

And what's more a lot of what wasn't RE in DMC1 came out of Onimusha. Just compare the final bosses of both games.

>>725139051
post your favorite game dev, if you're so brave