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[erikevrhrd]

Excellent feature and great read. I look forward to tomorrow's update. We love Itagaki.
http://teamninja.1up.com/

 

[Wunderchu]

Excellent feature and great read. I look forward to tomorrow's update. We love Itagaki.
http://teamninja.1up.com/

I agree

I look forward to seeing the rest of it, as well

 

[GashPrex]

so does tuesday's update come at 3am tonight? or 3am tommorow?

 

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should be pretty soon. I think we're going through some last minute edit & art changes.

 

[Nutter]

so does tuesday's update come at 3am tonight? or 3am tommorow?

12:00 am Pacific tonight.

or in about 2 min.

 

[GashPrex]

should be pretty soon. I think we're going through some last minute edit & art changes.

thanks, it's worth staying up for

you guys rock

 

[Gribbix]

The update is up.

Itagaki Hardcore Pt. 1

 

[SpokkX]

sweet, wanna hear the NG2-stuff

NG Black hasn´t even got a release date in europe yet though

 

[Blimblim]

The update is up.

Itagaki Hardcore Pt. 1

Very nice interview. As expected they will start working on NG2 when DOA4 is done, looks like the wait will be long.

 

[Optimistic]

Fuck Beach volleyball, I want Ninja Gaiden 2. I mean really, who the hell cares about a sequel to a craptastic volleyball game? If they make it, make it after NG2 ffs.

 

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I love the way he goes through each gameplay suggestion one by one and dismisses them as stupid. :lol Itagaki is hilarious. I love how direct and unfiltered his answers are.

TI: I think the technique of recycling the characters and just changing the names and keeping everything else the same is just to add meaningless volume is the worst thing you can do, I hate it. I don't have time to talk about something so despicable when we have so much other stuff to talk about.

1UP: Speaking of similar characters, as an aside, how would you distinguish between Bayman and Leon?

TI: [Ponders] I think that was our mistake. That may have seemed logical at the time, but looking back it may have been a mistake.

1UP: How so?

TI: This is the danger you have with doing those kinds of things. Because at the time it seemed like a good idea; OK you get one more character without a whole lot more work. But then we realized we didn't want to be doing that kind of thing, so we killed Bayman off. But now you have a situation where you've got these Bayman fans and they want to see him back. and so now we had no choice but to bring him back and now we have both of them. So when you do something like that all it brings is trouble.

:lol He goes on a whole rant about how doing pallette swaps is despicable and then says he did it.

TI: So with the discussion of should we make her American or English got really heated, one of the staff said "Oh, how about Japanese?" I said "No, not Japanese." And he said "Seriously! How about a robot?" And when I saw that this guy was seriously suggesting making her a robot I realized that he was seriously suggesting making her a robot I realized he was completely out of his mind, so i said "OK, Japanese is fine." And we've already decided that all of the female characters of this game will appear at a South pacific island with coconuts and all that good stuff.

1UP: What? Where?

TI: Of course, DOAX2. And when I said "No one wants to see a robot in a bathing suit," and then the other guy was like "Well, there are some robots that are sexy." I was like "Oh, this guy is crazy." And at this point I got fed up with the whole thing, that's when I decided on Japanese and the name 'Kokoro.'

1UP: Is that guy a big Hajime Sorayama fan? Who paints sexy robots.

TI: I don't know that artist in particular, but I'm aware that there's a kind of sexy robot subculture within a subculture, but I have no intention of bringing that sort of culture into Dead or Alive. And when I said we would make her Japanese, he was satisfied and we were finally able to return to doing serious business.

Do you think my decision was right?

1UP: I like the character.

TI: You know there was a chance that she would be this android that had a satellite connection to a sniper satellite that could attack you from 10,000 miles up in orbit. That was one of the ideas that came across. And the guys suggested that it was this crazy plot about how it was actually this sniper satellite that killed Maria, Helena's mother, in the backstory. This guy was crazy.

1UP: Maybe you have to let your developers outside a little bit more.

This interview is priceless. :lol

 

[rastex]

The new interview rocks as well. Really interesting statements about developing for sequels and all of that.

 

[PhatSaqs]

Fuck Beach volleyball, I want Ninja Gaiden 2. I mean really, who the hell cares about a sequel to a craptastic volleyball game? If they make it, make it after NG2 ffs.

Agreed. NG2 should be the next priority after DOA4.