Thread 12102098

RIP, king. Everyone will be talking about you with Ninja Gaiden 4 coming out literally in 5 days

>>12102098 (OP)
>dead

...or alive?

>>12102098 (OP)
Dead or ̶A̶l̶i̶v̶e̶
RIP.

RIP

>>12102098 (OP)
if it's true, RIP to a real man

Greatest action game of all time. I will not be told otherwise. DMC is fine but its not NGB. GOW isn't even in the discussion for GOAT.

>>12102136
Too based for this world

What does he died of? I don't wanna paste the link to the xcretion, somebody just say it here

>>12102212
Mortality.

>>12102098 (OP)
RIP.

>>12102098 (OP)
>X
ew

>>12102136
Rest peacefully in Heaven, king.

>>12102098 (OP)
Rip to a true Saturn Chad remember kiddys the definitive version of DOA 1 is on the Saturn

>>12102098 (OP)
Ruined my day
rip

https://youtu.be/e6KumZk8Tss
>Destroyed DMC4 making the producer seethe
How was one man this based

>>12102098 (OP)
RIP, a retro king.

>>12102248
He's Asian, wouldn't he prefer to reincarnate? Don't condemn him to Heaven.

>>12102264
I hope he reincarnates as a bird that takes a shit on your head, heathen

>>12102098 (OP)
>The flame of my life is finally about to be extinguished.
>The fact that this message has been posted means that time has finally come. I am no longer in this world.
>(I have asked someone important to post this final message.)
>My life was a continuous battle. I kept winning.
>I also caused a lot of trouble.
>I take pride in having fought to the end, following my convictions.
>I have no regrets.
>But I am filled with regret that I could not deliver new work to all my fans. I'm sorry.
>That's how it is.
>So it goes.

Guess he was sick for a while. Translation taken from the /v/ thread.

>>12102131
Dude, show some respect.

>>12102098 (OP)
shit rip to the oatmeal cookie god

>>12102285
>he reincarnates as a bird
Jonathan Livingston Seagull was a great book.

>>12102302
It really wasn't, it was 70s feel-good hippie pablum,written like a children's book, but children hated it because it was too fake

>>12102305
Sounds like you are suffering from an excess of mundane awareness. Shame.

>>12102309
shovel dog

>>12102314
What's that?

rip legend

>>12102098 (OP)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
FUCKK
MODS STICKY THIS

>Irony poisoned jackasses ruined the /v/ thread posting about trannies and vax shots
Christ, /v/ really is the dumbest board.
/blogpost

Here's a non-ninja best girl for meta whinging.

>>12102207
Actually finished replaying this recently. Don't know if I'll ever complete it on Hard Mode, but I'll certainly try.

>>12102321
>going to /v/
/tv/ is dumber

RIP.
Pin this.

>>12102324
/mu/ is worse

>>12102298
nothing but respect for the man

Fucking F man. This dude gave us the greatest salaryman game in history.

>>12102259
he also credits a run-in at a bar with the DMC3 director as being the reason that that game was good.

>>12102298
wow, so that's what he looked like without all the bad fashion decisions

>>12102321
>PS2 version
no gore posting plz

Wtf
F

>>>/v/723364948
Kys faggot

>>12102264
He's Japanese, not Indian.

RIP brother. I still remember my shock on seeing for the first time Dead or Alive 2 for the Dreamcast. It was so above everything else it was insane.

RIP. Last manly Japanese developer.

RIP

>>12102098 (OP)
No fucking way. Rest In Peace. And fuck (Koei) Tecmo

Wish KT would rerelease the DOA series
I can't emulate a 360 and I always wanted to play 4

>>12102105
(you) son of a bitch. Itagaki would be proud.

>>12102098 (OP)
F.
NGB is my favorite Xbox game

>>12102483
Retard. One of the main reasons the Japanese often easily commit suicide is because virtually all of them believe in reincarnation. Buddhism is one of the two main religions in Japan.

>>12102098 (OP)
NG, DOA, FF. He delivered more than most devs. RIP Legend.

>>12102483
Fun fact: Buddhism spread outside of India, midwit-kun.

>>12102594
Two wrongs don't make a right.

>>12102602
One's a race of people dying in accidents all the time because of their own negligence, the other are Japanese.

>>12102483
>>12102624
>>12102628
Brother, this is a thread about a dead man. Show some respect and stop your "country" bait shit.

>Itakagi didn't like lewd sketches of DoA girls because he thought of them as his daughters
RIP legend

>>12102098 (OP)
no sticky?

>>12102639
Based

WHERE'S THE STICKY!?

>>12102656
>>12102671
his games aren't retro

>>12102691
Dead or Alive is giga retro, right along the original virtua fighters.

>>12102691
Do you even dead or alive or dead or alive 2?

Well that's a fucking bummer.

I still have him in my Mii Plaza.

>>12102098 (OP)
Rest in peace

>>12102602
Also Buddhism originally in Nepal.

>>12102098 (OP)
RIP, he truly was too based for this world.
Also where's the fucking sticky?

>>12102742
there is one at /v/ right now with cool stories of him.
The man was based as fuck

>>12102696
>>12102656
Devil’s Third demake for retro system?

Does anyone have a list of all the games he worked on?

>>12102767
Yeah, multiple people do.

>>12102767
https://www.mobygames.com/person/40760/tomonobu-itagaki/credits/

The most significant:
>Dead or Alive 1-4 + Ultimate
>Dead or Alive Xtreme 1&2
>Ninja Gaiden Black
>Ninja Gaiden II
>Ninja Gaiden Dragon's Sword

>>12102098 (OP)
You were my perfect friend, right there until the end, I'm forever missing you until we meet again.

>>12102298
First time I see him without glasses, feels pretty weird.

>>12102785
Wish he do a Star Wars games

>>12102242
what? are you a bluesky fag?

>>12102916
Much better than being a racist/sexist piece of shit.

Was it the Russians or the Triads that got to him?

>>12102920
It's the NG4 schizos.

>>12102918
niggerkikefaggot.

>>12102920
He did foreshadow Ukraine conflict

RIP

sad shit man, 58 is young. dont know much about DOA but ninja gaiden is one of the best action games of all time

>>12102918
shoop da whoop nigga!

>>12102298
Fuck...
RIP

RIP we need more dudes in gaming who insist beyond all reason that a video game should be difficult and have lots of huge tits in it.

>>12102136
They just don't make gamedevs like this anymore

The era of JAP violence gangs is gone.

>>12102918

Nah, I'd say being a correct and supercorrect piece of perfection is by far more desirable than bluesky

>>12102918
I agree, saar!

>>12102918
This is not reddit faggot

>>12102918
Had to double check I wasn't on /v/
P.s. niggers

>>12102545
You can play them all on the current xbox

>>12102098 (OP)
What was the story behind the "sexual harrasmunt" rumor milling that got him kicked?

>>12102445
>>12102656
Dimensions and everything after 4 was fucking awful and done to spite him after they cancelled him, didn't the bitch who accused him later turned out she took DEI/HR style bribe?

What a boss Ninja Gaiden on Xbox barged in as a new level of action games that raised the standards immensely, it was like the Mario 64 of action games.
Forever a legend
RIP

>>12103373
>>12103385
It was Tecmo trying to discredit him when he filed a lawsuit against the company for the president not paying him the bonus he was promised for DOA4.
Japan has a harsh stigma against suing corporations, most especially your employer. Many shows and stories try to push the idea that doing so is selfish and anti-social, and bad things will happen to you as a result.

>>12102207
Seconding
RIP Oatmeal Cookie

>>12102098 (OP)
Crater face nip? Damn

>>12102639
>that pic
Fucking based

>>12102894
Same.

>>12102691
Itagaki's first two games made gamers notice breast physics in lieu of actual breasts.

>>12103532
Those glasses really frame his face. He just looks weird without them.

>>12103385
>>12103519
Go back to /v/ and stay there.

>>12102098 (OP)
Ninja Gaiden was where video games peaked. I have never been that impressed since.

>>12102098 (OP)
I did not expect to be tearing up listening to Aerosmith today. Replaying Ninja Gaiden Black for the 20th time in this man's honor.

>>12102098 (OP)
I usually hate coomers but the boob game was funny playing it on my dreamcast as a kid, RIP

>>12102098 (OP)
MY GOAT
IS DEAD
REST IN POWER

Best game ever to a 16 year old

>>12103396
Jesus really? it was backstabbin in other words?

>>12102321
>Helena
Fucking based

The only other doa girl that comes close is Lei Fang

>>12103616
What song?

>>12102098 (OP)
What's gonna happen to the DOA franchise now that the creators gone?

Japanese Howard Stern

>>12103754
It's been dead for years, m8

>>12103754
It's already a dead franchise, never mind that Itagaki also left Tecmo 17 years ago anyway.

>>12102098 (OP)
Without 4chan I would never know who this is. Though I never played any games he worked on

>>12102264
Galatian 3:28

You must be Protestant, because one of your preachers must have omitted that part they didn't lagree with like the whole Book of Tobit or Sirach.

>>12103532
He looks like an Injun without them.

Why no sticky?

>>12103810
Because /vr/ isn't a bastion of retarded posters spamming the same thread en masse. You want a sticky, go to /v/.

>>12103810
Jannies don't know Itagaki

>>12103754
DOA has been dead since DOA6, the game where Koei Tecmo was very vocal about toning down the franchise's sex appeal. Result: fans didn't buy it, and the people they tried to cater to didn't buy it either.

>>12103860
This. DOA's been stuck on Volleyball Gacha Island as a result and I don't think Ninja Gaiden 4's going to move the needle.

>>12103823
The Dragon Quest composer's passing got a sticky.

>>12103823
>/vr/ isn't a bastion of retarded posters spamming the same thread en masse
Lol, are we thinking about the same board?
>How the Saturn could've succeeded
>What if FF7 was on Nintendo 64?
>Jet Set Willy
>Schizo making repeat threads about how Code Veronica is a 10/10 and Resident Evil 3 is inferior, using the same filenames
>Sega System
>Ocarina of Time's alleged tragic romance
>What was the reaction to Shadow the Hedgehog in 2001?
>Floigan
>Another Sonic 3 barrel thread
>Why did Tifa lie to Cloud
>Why was the SNES CPU so slow?
>Twin Snakes copypasta

>>12103898
Careful. Someone might drop a dime on you.

>>12103898

>Castlevania SOTN on SNES and totally isnt a shitpost GameMaker mockup goof!
>Which romhack you wish existed Metroid on n64.jpeg
>CotM is a good/Bad game
>SOTN is bad err i mean OVERRATED because too heckin easy.

>>12103876
Seems like the mods couldn't beat Ninja Gaiden and have a grudge.

>>12102319
>>12102327
>>12102656
>>12102671
>>12102742
>>12103810
There will not be a sticky because Dead or Alive didn't come out on Nintendo 64.

Ninja Gaiden Black was a massive hit at my favela. I played it a lot on my softmodded Xbox. Great fucking game ever made.

RIP Itagaki.

I bought these on Steam (Master Collection) a few months ago, haven't played them yet. What am I in for, bros? I feel like playing them to honor Itagaki.

>>12102098 (OP)
F

>>12103745
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
>“No matter what anyone says, Aerosmith and Armageddon were the ones who saved my life, my company, my friends and my family,” Itagaki concluded

>first itagaki
>now ace
What a shitty day

>>12102136
Rest in peace, king.

>>12102406
>he also credits a run-in at a bar with the DMC3 director as being the reason that that game was good.

Sounds awesome, source?

Ninja Gaiden Black 2 is insultingly easy, so my hopes for 4 aren't super high. RIP to a legend.

>>12103954
The sigma versions are slightly gayed up. Play Ninja Gaiden Black for 1, and the 360 version for Ninja Gaiden 2.

>>12104069
The Sigma version of 1 isn't gayed up, nor 3. Only Sigma 2 is gay

>>12102098 (OP)
F

He made the two best action games of all time. Head and shoulders above the rest. We've lost a legend.

Regarding culture in general, we're falling.
Just look at this board (and it still is better than most other online spaces, lmao).
At least nobody will be able to erase my experience in the pre-social media world.

>>12103954
Only 1 is a masterpiece

2 turned into an anime and 3 was after SJW era

>>12103943
Wish Birdy the Mighty,Jungle de Ikou and Shamanic Princess have N64 games

>>12104180
NG1 = DMC3
NG2 = DMC1
NG3 = DMC2
Devil’s Third = DMC4 but Bayo use a katana
NG4 = presumably DMC5

>>12102918
Yikes

Bumping before the spammer shoves it off the catalog. Mods, sticky this.

>>12104538
The spammer should've died, not Itagaki.

RIP guy

Beat NGII back in August for the first time. RIP ninja master.

https://files.catbox.moe/wmxko6.jpg
Posting my wife in honor

>>12102098 (OP)
That sucks but the 8-bit games were better.

>>12102098 (OP)
Rest in Peace, Itagaki. Thank you for DoA and Ninja Gaiden.

>>12103898
Only difference between /v/ and /vr/ is density.

>>12103954
3 feels like a classic NES NG, but is easily the worst in the series.

>>12102207
>still forever trapped in the FATbox prison
Fucking Microsoft

>>12104365
>Devil’s Third = DmC
Fixed for you

>>12103976
I see. This was the song that made me a fan of them when I was a teenager. It was really fun to explore their discography. Now I will think of Itagaki too (I didn't know this). Thanks Anon
Rip legend. You will be missed, specially in this moment that pushing agendas is more important than make games fun.

Play Xtreme Volleyball in his honor. Rest in peace, king.

>>12105006
No one talk about the reboot.

>>12102131
oatagaki

>>12102136
I deeply respect his musou opinion

>>12104031
here's the web archive link to the interview:
https://web.archive.org/web/20051101214957/http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3140456
The specific exchange is on page 4. Quoted here:

[Following previous question was about which action games he recognizes and respects]

>1UP: I'm surprised you rate DMC3 as one of your choices.

>TI: You know, just looking at it I mean. I haven't actually played it. By the way, I met the DMC3 director at E3 last year. While I was out drinking at some bar, this Japanese guy comes wading through the crowd up to me, and he says, "You're Itagaki-san, aren't you?" Pretty outgoing for a Japanese guy, wouldn't you say? Anyway, so I say, "Yes, I am. Who the hell are you?" Yeah, there were two of them there then. I remember. I have a great memory [laughs].

>So, he says, "I am the director of Devil May Cry 3; pleased to meet you!" and I said, "Pleased about what, dumbass!" I was drunk at the time, after all. He was young, so I slapped him on the back and said, "You just work hard so that one day people will say 'Team NINJA in the East [Tokyo], Capcom in the West [Osaka]'." The product of his labor after that little pep talk was DMC3. It got decent reviews here in Japan, and I think he did pretty well for a young guy. If he's lucky, he might make something even better next time.


Whole interview is worth reading, he has an interesting way of looking at things. Even I forgot how fucking brazen he was in this exchange. What a lovable bastard. He will be missed.

>>12103976
Jesus fuck, what a state of depression when you're just watching Armageddon over and over again.

>>12105245
he looks a lot like tommy wiseau

>>12102098 (OP)
F.
>>12102105
CARLOS!

>>12103736
Trvke

>>12102212
>What does he died of?
SAR

>>12102321
>>12102324
>>12102329
This board is gayer, so you can get off your high horse.
>>12102918
>>12103606
See?

>>12103823
>Because /vr/ isn't a bastion of retarded posters spamming the same thread en masse
lol lmao

I'm glad his final work was Devil's Turd. That'd be like if Mikami dropped dead after shitting out PN03, or Kamiya dropped dead after shitting out RE0.

>>12106052
Devil’s Third deluxe edition one day

>>12106052
Luminous Productions last games far worse

How do so many influential Japanese artists die young? Is it just more noticeable because we know who they are?

>>12106152
They all smoke like chimneys

>>12106152
He was 58.
Van Gogh died at 37 for reference.

>>12106157
Who died at 85?

>>12106152
>Is it just more noticeable because we know who they are?
Yes, my dad died at 57. Shit happens, human bodies are frail, enjoy life.

>>12103606
Make them, fagboy.

Dead Or Alive 3 is the greatest retro 3D fighting game.

>>12102918
I agree, but I mean you know with whom you're surrounded with- also

Nigger

>>12106581
Gorgeous graphic textures

He looks like a native american.

>>12106872
Bros got jōmon blood coursing in his vein.

>>12102098 (OP)
Thank you Itagaki

>>12106581
Looks like something you'd see in a 3D Mark 2001 or something

>>12106581
Genuinely more visually appealing than UE5 games

>>12105415
kek

F for a real one

>>12102406
>bad fashion decisions
He wore sunglasses since young age, because he had some cornea illness or something, where he literally couldn't stand looking at any light (artificial or natural). Him without sunglasses is extremely end-of-life decision, clearly. He didn't care anymore, tackled it head-on. There was never any "bad fashion" in what he was wearing. It was protection.

>>12102691
DoA literally was developed before Tekken.
And Itagaki is Harada's senpai and teacher, literally his mentor and taught him nearly everything in game dev. Itagaki also playes Tekken VERY well and beat the living shit out of Harada in his own games, specifically so Tekken 2, 3, 5, and TTT. This been mentioned by Harada himself, in the past, it was recorded in annals of history. Harada was more normie-successful, but Itagaki was just better.

>>12103736
Best game to any old

>>12102321
>>12103743
For me it's Tina, though I also mained Helena since DoA 2 Dreamcast days.

Does anyone know any Russian language here, can anyone translate what this d00d speaks of Itagaki (apparently)?

>FGC bros...not like this...why...WHY the best always go away the first? Why must I witness all the legends perish and burn out right in front of my eyes, unable to do anything or help in any way? I've been a fighting game player since 1994 and evolved into a professional tourney fighter in 1998, participating in hundreds of tournaments, events, and championships, winning small and big alike, ever since. Through my hands literal several hundred of different fighting games went through, on several dozen of different platforms. And yet I can do nothing to help my FGC senpais, my admired idols. I can only stand/sit still and watch as they disappear. Why must we as a global FGC suffer so? Why?

>it hurts so fucking much
>but I will not cry
>devil may cry
>but not me
>for him
>for us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6KumZk8Tss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oth2ICQ0LMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y64hcT6iuiM

Harada was reportedly so shook by the news of his senpai's and teacher's passing, that he postponed any new developments for several months. Cuckken is cooked.

Fun fact: despite first Tekken coming out before first DoA, development of first DoA game actually started much earlier then first Tekken's, and Katsuhiro Harada is actually Itagaki's pupil, Itagaki is Harada's senior, senpai, and taught Harada almost everything he knows as a video game developer and project director/lead. Harada and Tekken are in eternal debt to Itagaki forever.

>>12102918
>Much better than being a racist/sexist piece of shit.
ngmi troon ywnbaw 41% now you gross faggot

>>12107936
sauce?

>>12108013
He mentioned it in one of the G4 interviews, back in the days. There's a fuckton of them, so I can't say which exact one.

>>12106152
chainsmoking and overworking aren't good for you. That said, yeah, sometimes people just die young. And sometimes there's no reason. You gotta live every day mang. You'll just waste your time away if you spend it looking for an answer for stuff like this.

>>12108005
based and redpilled

>>12107997
Fun fact: NG1 was voted as GameCube exclusive.

>>12108157
The what?

Why does no other fighting game feel as good as DoA?
>Street Fighter
floaty
>Mortal Kombat
Weird inconsistent physics that feels like you're magnetically snapping at random
>Virtua Fighter, Tekken
Pretty good but nowhere near as nice as DoA. Dead or Alive just feels fucking good, it's honestly sex.

>>12108167
>MK
>physics
the what

>>12108167
Tekken was developed completely from scratch, no prior development knowledge, it's engine is fully in-house built unique IP thing. Besides, arcade hardware it used and also PSOne's hardware was worse than what Sega and Saturn were providing at the time. Saturn is technically more capable sheer hardware-wise than PSOne.

First DoA, on the other hand, was developed for Sega arcade hardware, and for Saturn initially, and it had Itagaki's personal experience of dealing with Virtua Fighter as he was fiddling with AM1 boards at the time, when he started working at Tecmo.
It was extremely optimized for Sega's hardware, thus. It's the core prime reason why Itagaki completely rightfully so deemed Saturn version of DoA much better than PSOne's port, sheer performance-wise. It had higher FPS, smoother animations, etc.
The Ultimate DoA remaster is based on Saturn's version, for this reason. And DoA 2's Ultimate remaster is Dreamcast's version + Hardcore additions from PS 2, a mixture of both. Dreamcast original port always ran better than PS 2's. Sega DOES.

>>12108178
>Saturn is technically more capable sheer hardware-wise than PSOne.


No

>>12108203
It literally has more horse power,more juice, uneducated dumbass. The issue is that documentation was shit and not many developers managed to fully utilize everything that the console provided, even internal Sega's teams.

>>12108228
>It literally has more horse power,more juice
It's got more horsepower in the sense that four mules have more horsepower than a single stallion. But who will run a lap quicker, the four mules or the one stallion?

>>12102098 (OP)
Always sad to hear somone talented died of the old school.
F from the Spectrum fans

>>12108232
>what is modern multicore architecture

>>12108160
The best purple console.

>>12108321
No, I'm asking about "NG1".

>>12108343
3D revamped of NES classic

>>12108656
The WHAT
They did WHAT
No fucking way
No they DID NOT

>>12108249
Something that bears no resemblance to the Saturn. None at all. You don't understand computer enough if you're arguing for the contrary.

>>12108698
Literally unironically kys yourself, lamer.
I've built my very first own PC custom configuration completely from scratch when you weren't even been born yet. And I've been using computers since 1987.

>58
Uhhh, elephant in the room bros…

>>12102098 (OP)
How can he handle Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2?

>>12102098 (OP)
That's pretty young. What was his Yakuza status?

>>12108167
>Street Fighter
>floaty
Nah.

>Mortal Kombat
>Weird inconsistent physics
Nah.

>Virtua Fighter, Tekken
VF is asswater. Tekken is just okay, but I wouldn't place DOA above it.

>>12108249
>what is modern multicore architecture

A miserable little pile of buzzwords, like most of Sega's marketing blitzes.

>>12109309
Newfag nigger you are.

>>12107957
>For me this is a very big loss and shock, almost a personal tragedy, since Itagaki, his speaking mannerisms, behavior, and attitude towards people, in particular zero tolerance towards hypocrites of any kind, practically developed myself into the one I am today. He was one of my idols, my life "role model", you can say.
>And this is despite the fact that Dead or Alice as a fighting franchise in general has never became my main discipline, I played DoA from time to time, even participated in around a dozen of tournaments (won 2nd place in one them, in Krasnodar in 2014, it was a DoA 5 Ultimate on PS 3 tourney) since 2002, but I have never became a real pro in it. I'm just not a fan of the graphical style specifically and character design, and the series plot in general has always annoyed me, despite thinking of fighting as top class, one of the best in genre by default since at least from DoA 2 (in some regard even since the very first one). The direct competitor to Virtua Fighter (which I am a master since VF 3 TB on Dreamcast).

>>12109339
Show Ultimate remaster comparison.

>>12109364
Tanks, this works I guess.

NGB is such a tight game. Even the clunky Indiana Jones sixth generation puzzles don't bring the game down. But the non-retro NG3 with its godawful QTEs and awful gimmick bosses kill my mood.

>>12108178
The only powerful console from Sega was, unironically, the Mega Drive.

>>12104071
Sigma 1 is a closeted gay man with his gay ass bloom, gay new enemies, and wimpy removal of puzzles and wack loading mid-stage.

>>12109390
Literally off yourself. You know nothing of Saturn's or Dreamcast's hardware, capabilities, and powers. Dreamcast was de facto very first home console that had ports which were BETTER than it's arcade counterparts, because it had OIT (order independent transparency) and other effects which Naomi lacked initially, and also Dreamcast is technically capable of outputting video resolution signal of up to 720p, which specific cables, which is fucking wild for a 1998 console hardware. Only PS 2 was able to outmatch it many years later, and even PS 2 had less than a dozen late-years games made which were actually able to render honest proper 1080i with component cables (Gran Turismo 4, Metal Gear Snake Eater Subsistence, Valkyrie Profile 2, Nebula Echo Night, and couple others), usually operating no higher than at 480p.

sticky when?
F king

>>12109084
Yakuza vax their members?

>>12109502
It was before, mods unstickied it cause's they're wearing ninja dog shirts.

>>12109534
>t. Easy Mode retard who didn't go against the vax narrative and died as a result
Game Over.

>>12109534
>>12109535
Stupid faggots with long hair always have the gayest takes.

>>12109535
>>12109584
>inb4 respect the dead
Sugiyama didn't do blatantly incindiery shit like >>12109534
Guess what retard? You're the easy mode. You didn't fight back against shit in real life. You died in your own fantasy land.

>>12109584
>>12109601
>t. ninja dog

>>12109616
I'm also a chud, you forgot that.

>>12109584
You sound like a short-haired faggot

>>12109754
That's because I'm not a faggot like Itagaki who allowed kikes to walk all over his existence. Cheap japanese whore.

>>12102136
>>12109534
these opinions are probably why he got kicked out of tecmo and team ninja.

Paying my respects RIP

>>12109918
Probably, but we need someone like him in the industry now more than ever.

>>12108721
Building a computer is no different from assembling a Lego set, lmao. You're not an engineer deeply intimate with the hardware just because you can slot RAM in.

>>12109534
he doubled down on this
ninja gaiden black added ninja dog mode (easy).
in order to unlock you have to die 3 times in the first chapter.
ayane appears and asks if you'd like to abandon the the ninja way, and gives you rice cakes and little bitch ribbons to equip for buffs all throughout the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jXzfAgSAcI

>>12102098 (OP)
I have some of his ges for xbox. I really ought to finish ninja gaiden

>>12102098 (OP)
Feeling very depressed. Stages of grief and all that. The loss weighs heavily on me.
>>12110018
>gives you rice cakes and little bitch ribbons to equip for buffs
kek, I'll probably never play ninja dog mode but that's really cute

Ugly, angry people.

>>12110228
I can't pretend the peak of the series is anything other than VV

>>12109918
He wasn't kicked out of Tecmo, he left because he didn't like where Ninja Gaydumb III was going.

>>12110007
Lamer.

>>12102136
Man what he said about the Dynasty Warrior games is spot on.

>>12102298
His last words sadden me. Doesn't sound like he was a happy man. I hope his family and friends are well consoled.

>>12102916
>dealing with a south african and cryptards vs not dealing with a that
Damn anon I wonder

>>12102098 (OP)
his games were literally the only games on xbox i was jealous of not being able to play since i only had the other two consoles. i did like DOA2 a lot since it was on ps2 at least.

>>12110418
>dealing with a south African
No one should ever deal with Ishiwatari after that:

>>12110504
Handsome lad on the left.

>>12110578
Notice the hand.

This one plays really smooth on xbone emulation.

>>12110581
oof

>>12110718
>2001
>DoA 2 PS 2

Wasn't that 2000, same year as Dreamcast?

>>12110730
You are right I mess with dates.

>>12110726
That was the entire fucking point. Straight up an arrow to the knee.

>>12109601
One of the most deranged and retarded posts ever

>>12110253
>>12110228
3DS was enjoyable

>>12110794
I'm shocked this hasn't been posted yet.
https://imgur.com/a/EdJcJSU
Harada accounting all his history with Itagaki. It's an entertaining read.

>>12110821
Post his latest one, faggot. Not this stale as fuck small talk shit.
Harada was reportedly so shook by the news of his senpai's and teacher's passing, that he postponed any new development progress pipelines for several months. Cuckken is cooked.

>>12110794
>"me and my older senpai, my senior, my teacher and my mentor, who constantly bodies me in my own games".jpg

>>12110836
Last word's yours if you want it.

>>12110821
Why the warning?

>>12110821
Nice. One of his colleagues is drunk and wants to talk about spicey workplace drama. Of Mr. Itagaki himself, the details of his death being due to "a very serious illness" seem vague. Is disclosing the details ofnsomeones death considered private in Japanese culture?

>Pic rel/
An article I found about Itagaki's fin words
https://www.the-sun.com/tech/15357615/tomonobu-itagaki-dead-or-alive-ninja-gaiden-final-message/

Ahh who cares about gossip. The guy made a bunch of great games.. heres from my personal collection.

Here's a fun thing for DoA3. Its an official xbox magazine booster disk. The guy at electronics boutique talked me into a subscription to the magazine. They practically gave away magazine subscriptions back then. Anyway, this booster disk you could install a bonus costum pack. The most notable costumes in the pack were the short skirt outfits for Kasumi and Ayane. Once installed lots of panty flashing high kicks ensued.. Great stuff.

here's a period accurate demo of what that looked like back then.

I thank him for creating my wife

Here's an accurate demo of what that looked like.

>>12110581
Both the trannies and the yakuza are sharks who bite off pinky fingers.

>>12110794
>>12110821
>>12110914
?

>>12111131
The fuck are you on about? Look at his left hand in both shots. Notice something?

>>12111147
Nani?

>>12111197
lmao, cheeky

Someone post pics of Tina from DoA 1 please. Thank you and God bless.

>>12111229
Not him. Just a cosplaying lookalike.

>>12110991
Normie sloppa even more milquetoast than Kasumi, but to each their own.

I main Tina, Helena, Bass and Christie, BTW.

>>12106152
Luck of the draw really. My grandpa died at 58 from Alzheimers, my dad is now 58 and perfectly healthy.

>>12111434
>Normie sloppa even more milquetoast than Kasumi
Silence, ninja dog

>>12110914
was he rly sick or something, or did he just kys?

>>12111505
Bitch I did it on hardest difficulty. Fuck off.

>>12111645
Liver failure, apparently.

>>12111645
Bamco had him iced so they could distract from Cucken's failure.

>>12111680
>liver failure

Maybe he died of alcoholism. His games implied that he liked to party. An honorable way to die.. perhaps he felt a little washed up or was depressed. One of his final statements was about regretting that he didn't bring his fans anymore games. The exact details surrounding his death were kept vague.

>>12110383
>Doesn't sound like he was a happy man.

His last game bombed hard and he was popping up in weird places after being ousted from Team Ninja.

>>12111813
Interesting if true.

>>12111813
He did drank relatively often when hanging out with Harada and others, but he was never alcoholic or excessive. Just the usual, according to traditional relationships in Japan society and culture.

>>12111823
He wasn't "ousted" from anywhere, you cretin.
He left out of his own, when Temco tried to fuck him over on payout bonuses they promised, he and a dozen other employees sued Tecmo for it. And won. Don't ever open your fuckface hole if you don't know jack fuck all shit on this, you retard. He also won the "kissing of other employee at the workspace" case, where it was fully proven that she lied and tried to metoo him by wrongfully accusing him.

>>12111680
>My Mom and Itagaki die from liver failure in the same week

I dont understand what the universe is trying to tell me. But that is just a horrible way to die, I hope he went peacefully.

>>12111837
>I hope he went peacefully
He was writing messages right until the very last moment. Wew.

>>12111680
yea he looks like he drank a bit lol
more than the avg salaryman, at least which tbf is still quite a lot

>>12112037
That skin state he had on his face was due to some other illness (apparently he had MJ-like vertiligo slowly progressing). The liver issues appeared much later.

>>12102098 (OP)
God rest his soul.
I wish he made more games after he left Team Ninja.

>>12110981
Lucky, I knew about these back in the day but could never find em and it drove me crazy not having the extra costumes. Thankfully some guy made their own version of the booster disc with additional costumes.

>>12111813
>>12111680
He moralizing into great chads

>>12112595
What