Tomonobu Itagaki is a fucking Douchebag

[zomboid]

With a capital "D".

discuss!

[ThunderPeel2001]

Any particular reason or just in general?

[zomboid]

In general. And also:

1) His games. More specifically—his generic, 12-year old boy aesthetic sensibilities.

2) His hard-rock, "bad boy" persona.

3) The feeble shit talking he does that seems to blow so many minds wide open.

[ysbreker]

Should I know this guy?

[toblix]

Edited June 8, 2009 by toblix

[ysbreker]

Nope, still not ringing any bells.

And I'm too lazy to google or letmegooglethatforyou.com-ing it

[ThunderPeel2001]

Ninja Gaiden Black was awesome

I know what you mean about his "12 year old boy" sensibilities, but he's not as bad as the guys who put together, say, Rumble Roses XX.

[Shakesbeard]

Seems like a cool dude. He was a programmer on Tecmo Bowl back in the day and also designed the new Ninja Gaiden games which helped define the third person "hyper-action" genre.

What have you done lately?

[zomboid]

  Shakesbeard said:

What have you done lately?

Jeff Bell!!!! How's the new job treatin' ya?

[Shakesbeard]

  zomboid said:

Jeff Bell!!!! How's the new job treatin' ya?

Haha, p. good man how are the kids?

[zomboid]

  Shakesbeard said:

Haha, p. good man how are the kids?

Well, they're all dead. But other than that I'm doing fantastic!!!

[Shakesbeard]

  zomboid said:

Well, they're all dead. But, other than that I'm doing fantastic!!!

Oh yeah, that's right! I told you to avoid gettin' mixed up with the little buggers, it's simple economics! Let me give you a friend of mine's number, he'll straighten you out with a free Chrysler.

[ThunderPeel2001]

It was all making sense a minute ago...

[zomboid]

That was fun!

Anyhoo... My weird compulsion to post a thread on an internet message board about a man I have never met, was because of some E3 smack-talk he did. Thing is, I feel no real reason to defend Bayonetta (I'll probably rent it) other than thinking it has about a kajillion times more style than anything this guy has ever touched. I get that the hardcorz love Ninja Gaiden for it's punishing difficulty, which I admit is not my bag - but I just think this guy's stuff is so ugly and generic looking.

And also, dude looks like a lady.

[Shakesbeard]

  zomboid said:

That was fun!

Anyhoo... My weird compulsion to post a thread on an internet message board about a man I have never met, was because of some E3 smack-talk he did. Thing is, I feel no real reason to defend Bayonetta (I'll probably rent it) other than thinking it has about a kajillion times more style than anything this guy has ever touched. I get that the hardcorz love Ninja Gaiden for it's punishing difficulty, which I admit is not my bag - but I just think this guy's stuff is so ugly and generic looking.

And also, dude looks like a lady.

  Itagaki said:

"The power I needed to make DOA came from Aerosmith and the movie Armageddon."

I rescind all prior statements in regards to this man. String him up.

[80's Bad Guy]

Some days I think he's a tool and represents everything wrong with 'star developers' and some days I think he's exactly the kind of tool the industry needs. Either way I agree, he's an arrogant tool.

Let's see what he does next first though, which will be very interesting to see.