Is there a more JUST game developer Tomonobu Itagaki?
>Basically a rockstar game director
>Create the Ninja Gaiden IP
>Direct Ninja Gaiden Black, arguably one of the greatest action games ever made and basically a flawless transition to 3D.
>Tries to make a worthy sequel with Ninja Gaiden 2, but performance and game balance gets fucked by being rushed out the door.
>Everyone at Team Ninja also hates his guts because of his devil may care attitude.
>Finally leaves the company to start Valhalla Studios.
>Aims to make the ultimate Melee Action/Shooter hybrid with Devil's Third.
>In development for years because Itagaki no longer has Team Ninja and developing a game while doing coke off hooker ass and playing backgammon is hard.
>THQ goes bankrupt.
>Suddenly lose the Darksiders engine the game ran on, as well as funding.
>Nintendo offers to pick it up but the game now basically needs to be completely remade.
>Final version turns out to be a huge mess of wasted potential.
>Now stuck making mobile and Naruto games.
>Meanwhile Hayashi is raping the Ninja Gaiden IP with Sigma, Yaiba and NG3.
How do we save Oatmeal?
>>376797617
>Create the Ninja Gaiden IP
(You)
>>376797617
Hayashi has left it untouched though after RE thanfully though
What is he working on now, some naruto game? That might be good.
>>376797617
That looks like one tasty oatmeal cookie
>>376797617
Cool, another Japanese jerk off thread
>>376799005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5nItyTRWqA
Although Soleil ltd is a subsidiary of valhalla, he isn't mentioned at all in the trailer so I'm not sure how much of a role he has in it
>>376797617
You missed out that he is being sued over his use of valhalla in his company name
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-11-10-itagakis-valhalla-game-studios-faces-trademark-dispute-with-valhalla-motion-pictures
>>376799080
>when you only have one good western game released recently
>>376799079
>>376799214
Prey, and..
Shit, you're right.
>>376797617
>Create the Ninja Gaiden IP
you fucked it up, he only revived it
anyway, not sure how he did it but it's flawless
>>376797617
What' wrong with his face, does he have aids or something?
>>376799462
What you just said to me you little bitch?
>>376799462
A Sony executive threw acid on him, that whole DOA 2 story is made up by gaijins.
>>376799462
Acne scars.
Some people get some shitty-ass genes.
>>376799740
I've never ever seen an East Asian with acne, let alone as bad as he had it. He could have saved his face if he treated it; I had acne when I was a teen.
>>376799894
>I've never ever seen an East Asian with acne, let alone as bad as he had it. He could have saved his face if he treated it; I had acne when I was a teen.
Acne medication most likely wasn't much of a thing when he was young.
Also, some people really can't help it. It has nothing to do with bad hygiene.
Daisuke Ishiwatari has created Guity Gear, he made the character design, he made all the music, he made all the artwork until GG Xrd, and he dubbed Sol Badguy until Joji Nakawa replace him for Xrd, he also help for the dev, and have worked on various thing on BlazBlue, especially the music
>>376799894
you haven't met many east asians then.
there are tons of people with acne in east asia, that's why there are so many skin clinics and things called 'aesthetic clinics'.
>>376797617
>Is there a more JUST game developer Tomonobu Itagaki
At least he has his hair.
>>376797617
The story of Devil's Third is one that always amazes me. I've never come across a game that had so many problems one after another and at such a pace. Every 2 months or so, something went wrong.
If I were on my computer I'd type out a green text story, as an Itagaki fag it's interesting.
Also Tomonobu Itagaki is secretly Tommy Wiseau
who?
why should I care about some ugly nip who makes games no one heard of
>>376800706
He's the Japanese John Romero.
>>376800853
>>>(You)
>>376800853
If you're gonna be browsing 4chan underage at least have the decency to act like you're not.
So what you're saying is he's the John Romero of Japanese devs.
>>376800706
Not secretly, but the real question is:
Is Itagaki the Japanese Tommy Wiseau, or is Wiseau the Western Itagaki?
>>376800638
After what he went through with DoA2 and the aftermath to it, I just want him to have a happy easy life
>>376800638
>get sued for false sexual harassment claims
>get demoted
>don't get properly paid
>leave Team Ninja
>create independent studio, Valhalla games
>work with THQ to make an action game, Devil's Third, for PS3/X360
>THQ goes bankrupt
>lose right for the game engine which was the Darksiders engine
>lose/port progress to Unreal Engine
>stay in development hell/limbo for 8 years.
>Nintendo decides to help them out because they needed a "mature online" game in order to ditch the stigma of WiiU being a kiddy toy or some crap
>has to switch target consoles from X360/PS3 to WiiU
>on release, NoA does fuck-all to promote or stock the game properly
>so the multiplayer, which is the game's saving grace, is DoA
>cookie then decides to work with Nexon to make Devil's Third Online because his company owns the IP
>make the beta JP/RU only for whatever reason.
>Nexon JP has not been doing well apart for very select games even before Devil's Third Online
>so Devil's Third Online gets shut down soon after even before the international version happens.
The world just doesn't like Cookie that much.
>>376801063
>on release, NoA does fuck-all to promote or stock the game properly
To be fair it would be pointless, the game was ass.
>>376801307
Since when did Freddy Kruger start making comics
>>376801063
Nintendo is now the co-owner of the Devil's Turd IP as well.
>>376801553
So it's dead on consoles forever? Though I doubt anyone would ever want to make a sequel anyway.
You guys, he's not japanese john romero or that other guy you said...
he's fucking japanese Steven Tyler. We all remeber that DoA2 opening sequence...
>>376801725
Just means Ivan is more likely to be in Smash than any other 3rd party Western character.
>>376797617
>>Now stuck making mobile and Naruto games.
You people are some of the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.
The guy is the main man of the company but that doesn't mean he has to work on every fucking project. Same with Kamiya and this board obsession thinking the dude directed every single Platinum game because is the only dev they know.
>>376801553
>co-owner of the Devil's Turd IP as well.
source on that. Cookieface/Valhalla owns Devil's Third as far as I know
http://archive.is/LO7zr
>>376801947
Look up 'Devil's Third Press Release' they had a PDF on the old Valhala games site when DT was released and it states that Nintendo also owned the IP. You can still find it through google.
>>376802139
>Nintendo also owned the IP
But Devil's Third Online got made after Devil's Third release
So Nintend owns Devil's Third on WiiU, but they don't own the IP itself?
>>376797617
American Mcgee
>>376802483
With that name, the JUST was inevitable
>>376802483
This
>>376797617
>wasted potential
That's an overstatement
Some of the old school id Software guys had a far worse outcome than Tomonobu Itagaki. Tom Hall, Romero, and American McGee got fucked. Especially Tom Hall.
>>376797617
>Yaiba
TAKE A SUCK
>>376802483
American McGee runs 'pirate jams' where people games on unity on their laptops while sailing
There is a step below mobile games apparently
Ninja Gaiden 2 is better than Ninja Gaiden Black. Anyone who says otherwise just thinks Ninja Gaiden 2 is too hard and will generally complain about incendiary shurikens because they're a scrub.
>>376797617
>>376801063
Will Itagaki ever make a comeback? Why didn't he join up Platinum or Capcom?We all know it's pride
>>376805938
(You)
>>376797617
>Final version turns out to be a huge mess of wasted potential.
Devil's 3rd is perfect, nigga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGRsIBRFNjM
>>376808190
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGquX7JmGis
It had a decent ending theme at least. Really shows cookie's Aerosmith inspirations
>>376801859
Wouldn't mind, he is fucking hot.
>>376807361
(Me)
>>376801307
>/tv/
Fraser
>/co/
Frank Miller
>/mu/
???
>/v/
Itagaki
>>376797617
You should have mentioned how Tecmo held money from him that he was owed.
>>376797617
>KBTIT
>Samuragochi
why do scammers wear shades?
>>376806658
I don't think I've ever played an enjoyable Capcom game in my life, RE is a mess, and I don't like SF
Why is his skin like that anyways?
>>376810685
bad acne. His skin is better nowadays. Or he just had somebody shoop every picture he posted either officially on Valhalla or personally on FB
>>376797617
>Meanwhile Hayashi is raping the Ninja Gaiden IP with Yaiba
It was Keiji Inafune who fucked up the Ninja Gaiden franchise. He used that game to promote Mighty No. 9.
>>376812281
>He used that game to promote Mighty No. 9.
I'd like to know more about that
>>376812698
Beck was like a preorder skin in Yaiba
At least we got Nioh out of this
>>376797617
He was a programmer with the original NES NG, not a designer or producer.
We won't know the truth about KT and him since no third parties are willing to come forward. Whether or not he harassed somebody or got stiffed on his bonus is anyone's guess. Him and KT had a bitter separation and there isn't much more to it.
The original Devil's Third trailers didn't show off anything noteworthy. Unless a magical alpha appears that shows otherwise, I can only assume the game would have been like the DT we have now. The DT we got is closer to Vanquish, and that game was significantly more polished.
NoJ did him a favor by salvaging his game, but everyone in the pipeline knew it was a stinker. NoA was right to let it sink. If anything it proved that "mature games" for Nintendo doesn't work. His big put up or shut up moment resulted in a shut up in a shove off into mobishit space.
>>376803971
>TAKE A SUCK
That was Keiji Inafune's doing.
>>376801307
>/mu/
>not Marilyn "Failed Dirty Bulk" Manson
>>376809258
>Duke Nukem Reject
>Hot
Eww anon
>>376814849
>implying he isn't actually supposed to be Hideki Kamiy
Don't think so
>>376801307
Fucks sake Miller looks like he has one foot in the grave here.
>>376810502
>>376813643
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChZ-QSinSF8
>>376814969
Who was another one of the great action game directors that got completely fucked over. Granted not nearly as hard as Itagaki.
>>376812953
I still haven't played Nioh. Hayashi didn't direct it right? Only produced?
>>376817569
Co-directed with Yasuda.
Kou Shibusawa produced it.
>>376799167
I get to exclusively own the name of the viking afterlife
>>376813396
Kill yourself degenerate
https://derpibooru.org/310341
>>376818035
I know, what makes it worse is I've seen people saying that Itagaki is in the wrong because the logos both have longboats,
>>376806658
>Why didn't he join up Platinum
I wouldn't be surprised if he pissed them off. Isn't there a quote from him slagging off Okami or some other Capcom/Clover Studios game?
>>376797617
Thats what he gets for being an xbot. Failing just like xbone lol!
>>376818658
Yeah, he had quite a long-running feud with Kamiya back when DMC and NG were both relevant. He slagged off Bayo a bit too iirc