I love how some people have such a stick in their ass when it comes to Itagaki. He's like the greatest troll in gaming, and you suckers are falling for it hook line and sinker.
Yoshi, Mamoscott, anyone else who complains about him, you lose.
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I love how some people have such a stick in their ass when it comes to Itagaki. He's like the greatest troll in gaming, and you suckers are falling for it hook line and sinker.
Yoshi, Mamoscott, anyone else who complains about him, you lose.
This industry doesn't need developer trolls. I would rather magazines find lesser known talented people to give interviews to.
Actually that's exactly what the industry needs. If more high profile guys started challenging more developers to step the fuck up, and their sales reflected that, I guarantee you that not only would the developers benefit, but the gamers would benefit greatly as well.
Everyone knows that competition breeds productivity and quality. It can only help in a field like this.
Right now, there's enough food in the kitchen for everyone to be fat, and that's a real problem, because due to the film industry's correlation, and due to the fact that developers such as capcom et al, are so damned well off and beloved, they've grown extremely apathetic.
"How do we sell a game?" "Just give Dante or Chun Li a cameo appearance, fuck actually working on the game dudez!"
Itagaki is a greedy, oily-faced, lying, dick of a man... but he's also putting his money where his mouth is for the most part. And he's also, in his own, WCW-esque fashion, calling people out for not doing the same.
Does that mean that we can all count on him to make a bunch of stupid decisions killing Tecmo and their successful brand names within the next few years then?
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Ill read one Itagaki interview before I read 20 of anyone else's. I usually cant even make it through those other ones, as they are all boring, uninteresting, and sound exactly the same - the interviewer lobs softballs ("Mr. Kojima, your games have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are they so popular?") and the developer still can't hit it.Quote:
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I think a lot of boring interviews stem from the interviewers' boring questions.
Itagaki gets asked the same questions and he still rocks them, by actually having a personality.
Q: "What do you think of your competitors products?"
Regular developer: "They're great and we're working real hard to top it"
Itagaki: "Tekken 4 is a piece of shit."
Itagaki = champion.
He reminds me of that guy from 989 Studios that would talk shit about EA's sports games. I forget his name.
Oh yea. Kelly Flock. That guy was awesome too.
"Liquid AI is the shit that ran down EA's leg when they saw our game"
Forced EA to up the ante, he did.