THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: demi on June 03, 2008, 01:55:48 AM
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http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3168056
AHAUHUAHAUHAUHAUHAU
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lol@dmc
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Draft am suiciding. I don't want to to suicide either :(
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i ain't supporting NG without him.
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Systems rocked and owned:
Xbox
Xbox 360
PlayStation 3
Nintendo DS
Farewall Itagaki-sama. May you own faces somewhere more accepting of your greatness, and stocked with many a buxom young intern. :bow2
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Sell your Tecmo shares, it's all over!
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selling now.
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NOOOOOOO
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HUAHUAHUAHAUHAUHA
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 confirmed
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Sell your Tecmo shares, it's all over!
WAIT! TECMO BOWL!
They still have a single good product left. :'(
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Sell your Tecmo shares, it's all over!
WAIT! TECMO BOWL!
They still have a single good product left. :'(
Without Itagaki and Bo Jackson, even Tecmo Bowl is doomed to failure. :(
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Itagaki was too busy mulling over his precious money to focus on NG2 :lol
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Itagaki was too busy mulling over his precious money to focus on NG2 :lol
would explain the res.
start your conspiracy theories.
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Sell your Tecmo shares, it's all over!
WAIT! TECMO BOWL!
They still have a single good product left. :'(
Without Itagaki and Bo Jackson, even Tecmo Bowl is doomed to failure. :(
Uh... Fatal Frame 4! Wait, Nintendo's publishing that. Does it still count?
Er. Oh! Rygar! Yeah. Ry... gar... :'(
Tecmo RIP :japancry
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take note that Itagaki saved Tecmo when they were about to close down.
what a fuck up.
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I hope MS hires his ass.
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Itagaki left the sinking raft of Tecmo to head to the rising airship of Sega.
ONWARD TO 10/10/10! Shinobi 2 is gonna kick so much ass!
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-Monster Rancher
-Super Swing Golf/Pangya
-Those casino games with the pink-haired anime girl
...Yep, Tecmo's fucked.
Shinobi 2 is gonna kick so much ass!
OMG SHINOBI BY ITAGAKI :o :heartbeat :dur :hump :drool
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platinum games please hire itagaki
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Capcom hires Itagaki, Devil May Cry 5 :bow
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platinum games please hire itagaki
I dunno, I don't think their humble, "We just want to serve you with revolutionary and unique titles" style would mesh well with Itagaki's "in-your-face, you ninja dogs" attitude.
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DERBY STALLION WILL SURVIVE
i agree with white man though
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platinum games please hire itagaki
When Itagaki goes to Sega, I am sure that he might bump heads with Platinum Games once in a while. Inaba and Mikami can show Itagaki how to make a good camera while Itagaki can show them his private porn stash of Leah Dizon.
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Tecmo Bowl is all Tecmo has anyway. The DS game looks kickass.
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Capcom hires Itagaki, Devil May Cry 5 :bow
I'd agree with you if Capcom wasn't such a shitheap this gen. What the fuck is with them outsourcing EVERYTHING?
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platinum games please hire itagaki
Yeah right...
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OMG the Itagaki going to SEGA idea is getting better by the minute.
He can talk with Platinum Games, while directing Shinobi 2: Game of the Red-Sashed Forever. :D
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outsourcing everything?
dr, lp, dmc4 and re5 ain't outsourced.
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Big discussion ongoing in #evilbore IRC now. Fanboys are pissed.
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Nintendo should pick him up. They've got money to blow, and just think how sweet a ninja minigame collection would be with Wiimote sword swinging and balance board support. :drool
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Damn that's a bit disheartening. At least I got one more Ninja Gaiden made by him.
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Wow just wow :o
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Maybe now he'll get a better art team.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21CJ0XKK88L._SL500_AA150_.jpg)
It was foreshadowed long ago.
I suppose this can be looked at positively. Itagaki will go onto work for another company or start up his own and continue to make the same type of games. And also if Team Ninja isn't broken up over this, then perhaps the Ninja Gaiden and Dead Or Alive games will continue on in a new direction.
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Capcom hires Itagaki, Devil May Cry 5 :bow
I would love that. :lol
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man, on the day of NGII's release? that's fuckin' classy.
I wonder what will happen to the teams. even if a lot of the talent is secretly with them, it's hard to imagine Team Ninja without Itagaki. Hmm.
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the tecmo guy wants multiplatform titles for profit while itagaki is xbox only.
sounds like another shinji mikami.
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I got the Master Ninja to sign my copy of DOA...the original arcade board. The Master Ninja was pleased with my acquisition.
Today I weep for him
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somewhere in japan, Hayashi laughing...
(http://i27.tinypic.com/11bq05s.jpg)
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somewhere in japan, Hayashi laughing...
(http://i27.tinypic.com/11bq05s.jpg)
That's a nervous laugh of a dead man. One who will sleep with one eye open for the rest of his life, for daring to assume the master's place.
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Where's Draft :rofl
In your mother's bed, doing a better job than you or your daddy ever did.
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Hayashi will not be laughing soon
when he sees half of team ninja doesn't come in tomorrow
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3-2 on, he'll end up at MS or somewhere strongly related to them.
MS doesn't have a Japanese dev house now, nor do they have any Japanese devs that are solely aligned with them. I really hope he goes to Capcom to save the floundering DMC series.
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MS doesn't have a Japanese dev house now, nor do they have any Japanese devs that are solely aligned with them. I really hope he goes to Capcom to save the floundering DMC series.
DMC series is in no trouble. DMC4 might have not been that great, but DMC3 was amazing. DMC4 wasn't even DMC2 level of bad.
Sega needs him most. Sega has also been showing how awesome they are lately. Soon Shenmue 3 will be announced!
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:bow true ninjas taking a stand against lifetime employment salarymen drones :bow2
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flying lawsuit
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MS doesn't have a Japanese dev house now, nor do they have any Japanese devs that are solely aligned with them. I really hope he goes to Capcom to save the floundering DMC series.
DMC series is in no trouble. DMC4 might have not been that great, but DMC3 was amazing. DMC4 wasn't even DMC2 level of bad.
I dunno. I think it's obvious that Capcom doesn't quite know what to do with the series. If they did, it would be more consistent.
Sega needs him most. Sega has also been showing how awesome they are lately. Soon Shenmue 3 will be announced!
Jesus fuck no. I want him to make more good games.
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flying lawsuit
:lol :lol
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I dunno. I think it's obvious that Capcom doesn't quite know what to do with the series. If they did, it would be more consistent.
They do seem confused about what to do with the series, but I don't think it something so crucial that they need to shift the team and all that. I don't think it is worth giving up on yet.
Jesus fuck no. I want him to make more good games.
Did you think I wanted Itagaki to work on Shenmue 3? oh hell no. Yu Suzuki is the only one I want doing Shenmue 3. No need to get into a talk about Shenmue quality now, I was just talking about how Sega is moving up.
Itagaki should do a sequel to the PS2 Shinobi.
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Sega is far beyond retribution - even for the mightiness of Itagaki.
Honestly, I'm looking forward to what he does next. Ninja Gaiden is awesome, but it's the gameplay rather than the IP that makes the game. His influence in a new IP will be just as awesome, if not moreso.
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platinum games please hire itagaki
When Itagaki goes to Sega, I am sure that he might bump heads with Platinum Games once in a while. Inaba and Mikami can show Itagaki how to make a good camera while Itagaki can show them his private porn stash of Leah Dizon.
:bow Mikami :bow2
Since people are talking about Shinobi in this topic, I never did pick it up. What's the verdict on that game, swaggaz?
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Is Team Ninja now disbanded or is that going elsewhere too?
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Itagaki should take over euro disney and create some twisted itagaki theme park with breasts
Also, Shinobi PS2 = awesome tate fever if you hate it you hate games with tate fever magic. Nightshade wasnt nearly as good but oh well, fun enough I spose.
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:bow Mikami :bow2
Since people are talking about Shinobi in this topic, I never did pick it up. What's the verdict on that game, swaggaz?
It is very hard. I would say it is harder than God Hand, Ninja Gaiden, and DMC3. I haven't played it in a long time, but I do remember enjoying it quite a bit. I always thought it was like a second tier action game along with the Otogi games that were awesome, but lacked something that games like God Hand, Ninja Gaiden, and DMC had that mad them so great. While Shinobi is awesome, the "sequel" Kunoichi/Nightshade isn't nearly as good and like DMC > DMC2, they went to the extreme opposite with the difficulty and it became way too easy.
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Is Team Ninja now disbanded or is that going elsewhere too?
People are usually contracted on a per-project basis, I'd imagine that the people left over who didn't leave after NG2 mastered up would be reshuffled to something else.
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How could this happen the very moment he released NG2.
What's the deal?
He couldn't leave his game in the hands of those lesser than him
Talk about dedication!
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Not really, Tecmo is fucking trash. Everyone in Japan hates Tecmo. Itagaki was like Tecmo's mascot. His games are like the only thing you can associate with Tecmo.
suing your employer (very publicly) isn't going to help you get a new job quickly.
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i suspect he will go to from software or mistwalker.
both have close ties with MS.
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I suppose this can be looked at positively. Itagaki will go onto work for another company or start up his own and continue to make the same type of games. And also if Team Ninja isn't broken up over this, then perhaps the Ninja Gaiden and Dead Or Alive games will continue on in a new direction.
i hope the rest of team ninja has some honor and follows itagaki's lead. and ninja gaiden and doa are nothing without the guiding hand of itagaki. so no sequels necessary.
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you forgot kenny k stepping down
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A lot of people seemed to think I'd be upset by this news, and I don't understand why.
I never had any great loyalty to Tecmo.
I only admired Team Ninja's output when it was directed by Tomonobu.
He is the innovator, the leader.
It's not as if he's dead.
He'll join another studio, or start his own, and he'll surpass NG, and a new franchise will take the action crown.
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he's next game is an action game and violent as well.
Draft, would you support NG3 without him?
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he's next game is an action game and violent as well.
Draft, would you support NG3 without him?
I love NG so I will always look to future games with hope.
But not a lot of hope.
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i don't mind them whoring out doa since it's their main source of profit but i will hate to see NG3 getting the DMC2 treatment :(
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The best part about this is, DOA and NG are like the only thing Tecmo has. Hopefully his co-workers aren't spinless fuckfags and leave or refuse to make sequels to his games. He needs to goto SEGA and restore some love to Shinobi or goto Microsoft and own the piss out of whatever Tecmo makes, which will probably be a shitty Ninja Gaiden 2 PS3 port.
God Damn, I'm so pissed off right now. My favorite games are RUINED, the Master is without a job + team, and PS3 fans get to brag about it.
FUCK YOU TECMO!
:lol
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How could this happen the very moment he released NG2.
What's the deal?
He couldn't leave his game in the hands of those lesser than him
Talk about dedication!
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I actually really like that. He said this happened right after DOA4 was released.... more than two years ago??? I like that he stayed to finish NG2.
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Itagaki-sama :'(
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I love Team Ninja. They made some of my favorite xbox games. Now they're likely dead.
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(http://i29.tinypic.com/rsbl8w.jpg)
from gaf :rofl
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:rofl
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Hope he finds a great place. I love his Ninja Gaiden games. Can't wait for NG2!
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Crazy generation:
- J Allard nowhere to be found
- Peter Moore leaves MS for EA
- Phil Harrison leaves Sony for Atari
- TOMONOBU motherfucking ITAGAKI leaves Team Ninja
-Bungie leaves MS
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nice rating on the DS game :lol
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GAF jokes are never fun
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Nice.
MS should make a studio for him, let him hire who he wants and let him do his thing.
Tecmo sucked balls anyway, Tecmo ain't shit without itagaki.
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Where's Draft :rofl
In your mother's bed, doing a better job than you or your daddy ever did.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3131/2546525999_bdb34b51c5_o.gif)
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GAF jokes are never fun
You're living proof of that.
:rofl
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Mondain got owned pretty hard
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i suspect he will go to from software or mistwalker.
both have close ties with MS.
probably FS if it's one of those two. the guy doesn't strike me as an RPG-junkie.
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wait..a japanese developed WW2 game?
It'd have Imperialistic dogma in the storyline, realistic kamikazi piloting, a busty maiden photographing mini-game, and then they'd find a way to put in 100-foot chrome T-Rex's that you can behead. That's pretty awesome, they should make that.