Author Topic: Yaiba Is Now Ninja Gaiden Z (Read 8006 times)

MCD · « **on:** September 13, 2012, 02:19:47 AM »

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Message from Keiji Inafune

Since my departure from my former company in December of 2010, I have been thinking about how to live up to people’s expectations as an independent game creator. What do people expect of me? What do they want to see me do? A year and a half has passed after becoming independent, and I have been fortunate enough to announce several projects along the way.

I have announced three consumer titles and three social game titles. I have given speeches in various seminars, panels, universities and schools. I have published three books. I am still aggressively challenging myself in various arenas. But I asked myself “Have I covered all everything?” It felt like something is missing; something people expect from me the most. Everywhere I go, people ask:“Are you working on it?” “ When is it coming?”

The expectation seems higher in the west. The expectation is clear. It’s for my next zombie game. There are countless zombie games out there, and yet, people say they want to see a new Inafune zombie game. I am flattered and grateful, for people associating me as a “Zombie Lover”. For that, I must, answer to this expectation. This new concept for my game was born some time after becoming independent. I don’t want to spoil everything just yet, but I hope you will enjoy my new game that is loaded with stuff I love, zombies, ninjas, robots, and action. It’s called “YAIBA”. I hope you are excited. I know I am.

Keiji Inafune, CEO/conceptor, comcept Inc.

It's good to see dinosaur devs getting back on their feet.

MCD · « **Reply #1 on:** September 13, 2012, 02:24:16 AM »

He is doing Soul Sacrifice

Do you know how hard it is to make a Vita game?

MCD · « **Reply #2 on:** September 13, 2012, 02:27:45 AM »

To actually bother making one for a dead handheld.

Feels bad man.

Tasty · « **Reply #3 on:** September 13, 2012, 02:33:06 AM »

Inafune made a zombie game before?

MCD · « **Reply #4 on:** September 13, 2012, 02:35:20 AM »

Dead Rising

That bad port POS you got on the Wii, remember that?

MCD · « **Reply #5 on:** September 13, 2012, 02:39:21 AM »

He produced RE2 or was it RE1?

In any case, gaming industry is all about stealing cock pics and ideas. So good for him.

MCD · « **Reply #6 on:** September 13, 2012, 02:45:27 AM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiji_Inafune

Resident Evil 2 – promotion producer

Soon, it shall be his.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #7 on:** September 13, 2012, 02:50:58 AM »

Oh fantastic another zombie game, just what I wanted

Trent Dole · « **Reply #8 on:** September 13, 2012, 06:56:54 PM »

This video is from 2009. Three years ago somebody was taking the piss on the excess amount of Zombie games out there...

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #9 on:** September 13, 2012, 10:09:42 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on September 13, 2012, 02:32:23 AM

actually, my bad, one of his games actually released a couple days ago for android in japan. it's sitting at a review average of 2.5 stars. keiji, showin' japan how it's done.

Sakaguchi wins again

chronovore · « **Reply #10 on:** September 14, 2012, 02:43:33 PM »

Quote from: Green Man on September 13, 2012, 02:35:53 AM

Quote from: Andrex on September 13, 2012, 02:33:06 AM
Inafune made a zombie game before?

He worked on a game called Dead Rising. It wasn't that popular, so you probably didn't hear about it.

Yeowch.

MCD · « **Reply #11 on:** September 19, 2012, 07:23:17 AM »

Not enough balls for a new IP. SMH

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #12 on:** September 19, 2012, 08:09:28 AM »

I guess this is the New Team Ninja game thats supposed to be at TGS. And here I hoped we were going to see Ni-Oh return.

And eww Spark Unlimited.

MrSingh · « **Reply #13 on:** September 19, 2012, 11:06:29 AM »

And now for some Yaeba http://greenspointdental.com/yaeba-japans-crooked-smiles/

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #14 on:** September 19, 2012, 12:07:24 PM »

Spark Unlimited is also developing Lost Planet 3, right?

demi · « **Reply #15 on:** September 19, 2012, 12:27:31 PM »

Tasty · « **Reply #16 on:** September 19, 2012, 01:35:39 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on September 19, 2012, 07:00:43 AM

Wow, so it turns out this Yaiba game is actually Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z by Team Ninja and, lol, Spark Unlimited. Inafking, Team Ninja Dog, and the developers of Legendary... this is like a Voltron of failure.

Wow.

Purple Filth · « **Reply #17 on:** September 19, 2012, 02:44:51 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on September 19, 2012, 07:00:43 AM

Wow, so it turns out this Yaiba game is actually Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z by Team Ninja and, lol, Spark Unlimited. Inafking, Team Ninja Dog, and the developers of Legendary... this is like a Voltron of failure.

God damn.

It sucks Itagaki can't comment since he's busy trying to save his fucking game.

chronovore · « **Reply #18 on:** September 19, 2012, 03:30:33 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on September 19, 2012, 07:00:43 AM

Wow, so it turns out this Yaiba game is actually Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z by Team Ninja and, lol, Spark Unlimited. Inafking, Team Ninja Dog, and the developers of Legendary... this is like a Voltron of failure.

maxy · « **Reply #19 on:** September 20, 2012, 03:12:50 AM »

It looks pretty good

http://gematsu.com/gallery/yaiba-ninja-gaiden-z/september-19-2012/

Tasty · « **Reply #20 on:** September 20, 2012, 03:19:53 AM »

That does look cool.

Raban · « **Reply #21 on:** September 20, 2012, 12:53:36 PM »

I don't trust the name "Ninja Gaiden" anymore, so good luck selling me on this, devs.

MCD · « **Reply #22 on:** September 23, 2012, 03:21:19 AM »

Japa trolling

Best trolling

Tasty · « **Reply #23 on:** September 23, 2012, 03:43:55 AM »

He's kind of right.

Takao · « **Reply #24 on:** September 23, 2012, 10:57:37 AM »

He is right. What is Inafune even doing on these games? Soul Sacrifice is developed by MarvelousAQL with producer guidance by SCE, MarvelousAQL is also behind that weird 3DS penguin game, and J.J. Rockets. Here you have Team Ninja, and Spark Unlimited. What is the purpose of Comcept? This gen's Mistwalker I guess.

Diunx · « **Reply #25 on:** September 23, 2012, 11:06:29 AM »

Dude Mistwalker was THIS gen.

Takao · « **Reply #26 on:** September 23, 2012, 11:25:57 AM »

Quote from: Diunx on September 23, 2012, 11:06:29 AM

Dude Mistwalker was THIS gen.

I'm assuming Comcept will be involved with PS4/720/Wii U games. Maybe I shouldn't assume.

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #27 on:** September 23, 2012, 02:03:53 PM »

Mistwalker actually did stuff. They were just like Red in that they came up with the idea and had someone else develop it. And for The Last Story, Sakaguchi actually directed the thing.

Himu · « **Reply #28 on:** September 23, 2012, 04:53:19 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on September 20, 2012, 04:19:50 AM

Ninja Gaiden 3 and Legendary looked cool pre-release, too. If only we lived in the world where looking cool made a decent game.

on what planet

Momo · « **Reply #29 on:** September 23, 2012, 05:05:14 PM »

Inafune is such a horrible fucking failure

Himu · « **Reply #30 on:** September 23, 2012, 05:35:12 PM »

At least we had Dead Rising!

Tasty · « **Reply #31 on:** September 23, 2012, 11:21:14 PM »

Oh snap.

Himu · « **Reply #32 on:** September 24, 2012, 01:51:04 AM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on September 23, 2012, 11:12:42 PM

Quote from: Stringer Bell on September 23, 2012, 04:53:19 PM
on what planet

I don't mean all the way up until release, just that at some point, possibly right after announcement and one or two pictures were shown, it looked fine.

Remember this? http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=36563.msg1321562#msg1321562

Wow, I forgot all about this.

It's pretty easy to forget after the god awful E3 presentation.

Team Ninja, why have you forsaken me

Momo · « **Reply #33 on:** September 24, 2012, 02:11:51 AM »

Without Itacookie they are lost

Tasty · « **Reply #34 on:** September 24, 2012, 02:16:04 AM »

Itacookie.

I forgot about that.

Takao · « **Reply #35 on:** September 24, 2012, 05:43:53 AM »

So there's a good chance this game's running on UE3 ...

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/09/23/yaiba-ninja-gaiden-z-being-developed-on-unreal-engine-3/

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #36 on:** September 26, 2012, 12:45:06 PM »

That studio only ships games on UE3. I'd expect no less!

Takao · « **Reply #37 on:** September 26, 2012, 01:13:45 PM »

What's up with DmC and this using UE3? Are they unaware that engine is apparently a pain to get to 60fps with?

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #38 on:** September 26, 2012, 01:43:50 PM »

Hey, the DC vs MK game runs at 60fps!

(After ripping everything out of the engine and drawing two characters)

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #39 on:** September 27, 2012, 12:49:05 AM »

I'm assuming Tecmo is not paying them too much for this, and they can't make a new engine from scratch, and there's no way Westerners are figuring out the Tecmo engine which is probably insane Japanese spaghetti code, so it only makes sense that this is happening the way it is

Takao · « **Reply #40 on:** September 27, 2012, 10:14:47 AM »

I dunno why Japan keeps on doing this. These outsourced spinoffs made by C-tier studios tend to appeal to no one, even if they're pretty okay like Ridge Racer Unbounded. Unbounded is a pretty shitty name though.

Takao · « **Reply #41 on:** September 27, 2012, 11:28:25 AM »

But Dead Rising 2 was a few years after this craze began. I understand that Japan was struggling to cope with HD development initially and thus had to outsource some stuff to keep series relevant but come on. Do you guys remember when Namco Bandai started that "Surge" label for western focused titles and they dropped it after Afro Samurai bombed? lol

Bebpo · « **Reply #42 on:** September 27, 2012, 11:14:04 PM »

Isn't the problem that Japan can't do in-house because they're technologically behind and slow as a turtle at PS3/X360 gen tech and so they need to outsource to the US to pick up the pace but unfortunately for them US developers don't work for slave labor, just almost slave labor, so any decent US developer will cost more than having it developed in Japan so they're forced to hire the absolute cheapest and worst US developers because it's the only thing they can afford.

chronovore · « **Reply #43 on:** September 28, 2012, 03:12:29 PM »

Aren't the Flat-Out devs European?

At this point, with the yen being as strong as it is, Japanese publishers should be able to afford America.

Takao · « **Reply #44 on:** September 28, 2012, 04:53:03 PM »

Yaiba: Ninja Gaijin Z

kekeke

Takao · « **Reply #45 on:** October 21, 2012, 12:55:33 AM »

So this is apparently a shooter for next gen.

Okay.

MCD · « **Reply #46 on:** October 21, 2012, 01:00:55 AM »

Hmmm what?

Takao · « **Reply #47 on:** October 21, 2012, 04:01:35 AM »

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/10/19/yaiba-ninja-gaiden-z-is-for-next-gen-consoles

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Various job listings for developer Spark Unlimited indicate the anime-inspired Ninja Gaiden spinoff Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z will be a third-person combat game on next generation consoles.

A senior designer listing details "tuning for a third-person action shooter on next generation consoles" in the job description. Spark is also hiring for a multiplayer engineer and AI engineer to develop network code for "multiplayer/co-op functionality."

An effects artist job and engineer position further corroborate that Yaiba will be a next-generation console title, although neither of these listings indicate it's a shooter. IGN inquired with Tecmo Koei about the information but received no comment.

Job posting in question:

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Spark is looking for an experienced Senior Designer to create first-in-class content for a breakout hit, based on the established console franchise Ninja Gaiden, called Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z. This is an opportunity for you to have a hand in creating a bold new take on 3rd person action slasher with horror elements.The Senior Designer will be responsible for collaborating on game design systems, designing/developing levels, and implementing gameplay scenarios including: level construction, basic lighting, event scripting, AI scripting, game balancing, and tuning for a third-person action shooter on next generation consoles.

I saw nothing there that looked next gen to me, unless they mean like Wii U or something, and good luck with the shooter elements.

parallax · « **Reply #48 on:** October 21, 2012, 07:13:59 AM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on September 19, 2012, 07:00:43 AM

Wow, so it turns out this Yaiba game is actually Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z by Team Ninja and, lol, Spark Unlimited. Inafking, Team Ninja Dog, and the developers of Legendary... this is like a Voltron of failure.

god damn. i almost bit through my lip trying to supress laughter

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