Contribute to XBN's Monthly Column: Ask Itagaki!

[MechDeus]

From the book of Itagaki, "Any game that forces you to control the camera has a shitty director"

Amen.

And considering that I had to constantly center the camera in Ninja Gaiden, thus forcing me to control it because it clearly wasn't doing its job itself, means...?

[Contra]

Q: My roommate smells awful. What should I do to make him shower more often?

Q: I'm thinking about taking up smoking to help make me look cooler. What brand of cigarettes would make me look the coolest?

Q: Where do babies come from?

[Cheebs]

Which is cooler: ninjas or pirates?

PIRATES!

*runs off to design and program Pirate Gaiden*

[Captain Vegetable]

Pirate Gaiden would be awsome!

[AstroBlue]

My Sega Saturn will be useless after Dead or Alive Ultimate/Online is out. Are there any other possible uses for it apart from playing Dead or Alive?

Have you ever patented the titty jiggle technology used in your games?

[Sl1p]

Q: Pirates or Ninjas?

[Regus]

Q: Where do babies come from?

You stole my question.

[James]

Any camera you can't control shows a total lack of foresight into what an individual gamer will want. A good camera shouldn't have to be messed around with by the average player, but that doesn't mean you rip control of it from him.

Either way you look at it, the Ninja Gaiden camera has issues, and not allowing the player to correct them is a design oversight.

James

[AaronChance]

The only thing I can think of asking him are boring questions like what are his plans for Ninja Gaiden 2, DOA4, and other upcoming projects, including their target platforms and what are the things he'd most like to improve about these franchises.

[Zerodash]

Q: Is the Ryu Hayabusa in Dead or Alive the Ryu from XBox Ninja Gaiden or the NES series?

Q: Why did Ryu lose the ponytail?

Q: Who would win: Jaquio, Ashtar, or Doku

Q: Do you think that you could beat Hideo Kojima in a fight?