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Ikumi Nakamura Introduces Her New Studio Unseen
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anthony2690
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Yes
TwiztidElf
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ProgenitorCastle
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The hypest game news I've heard! Bring on the weird Jpn games!
BaneIsPain
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Nice Black Jack shirt. Looking forward her new IP
Craig of War
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CamHostage
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Art designer, creative director of Ghostwire Tokyo, and kind of all-around voice-of-the-team formerly of Capcom/Clover, PlatinumGames, and Tango Gameworks.
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SlimeGooGoo
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Bonfires Down
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She does get a lot of attention for having done very little so far. I'm sure she's a good artist, but she has yet to prove that she is a good game director.
remember_spinal
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No im pretty sure she had a lot to do with the direction of Bayonetta also and some other good clover studio games
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ParaSeoul
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She did the background art for Okami which is all of her contribution to clover studio and was a concept artist for bayonetta. Most shes ever done was being the lead artist for the evil within games.
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CamHostage
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I mean, nobody has to care about Ikumi Nakamura. She doesn't have a published game director credit yet, she left her major directorial project before it launched (four years into development, with another two years to go before the game would be finished,) she had at least one other bite at the apple that didn't get picked up for producing, and most of her career was in art design rather than game creation. Nakamura could well be a flash-in-the-pan creator who ultimately never lives up to all the ink.
On the other hand, nobody needs to be a bully about it either, just because she caught some spotlight. Nakamura has been in the business for over 15 years and has worked at legendary Japanese studios for some of the most revered designers in the business. She was key art staff on a number of projects, and the great Shinji Mikami had picked her out of the art group to lead a full game development project at Tango Gameworks (he had initially pulled her into Tango immediately upon founding his own business.) And she's got enough heat in the industry right now to start up a studio, in Japan, to make horror games.
Like, okay, be mad at the press for elevating her celeb status if that's something burning a hole in your heart, but this is a good thing that a new studio is starting up with momentum in a genre in Japan that could use momentum.
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ANIMAL1975
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"... and its games will focus on her interests in mystery, horror, sci-fi, and the supernatural."
Uuuuh my kind of games!
Uuuuh my kind of games!
March Climber
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The most exciting news here is that we have another Japanese horror director/studio. The options have been slim to dire lately.
Resident Evil is the moneymaker.
Fatal Frame is hanging on by a thread.
Shinji Mikami is hoping Ghostwire succeeds.
Silent Hill is beyond dead.
Kojima keeps trolling everyone with Guillermo.
Sony’s Japan studio has dissolved.
Resident Evil is the moneymaker.
Fatal Frame is hanging on by a thread.
Shinji Mikami is hoping Ghostwire succeeds.
Silent Hill is beyond dead.
Kojima keeps trolling everyone with Guillermo.
Sony’s Japan studio has dissolved.
CamHostage
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I'm guessing you know this already, but as far as Sony's Japan Studio, the group there into horror ventured out and is making Slitterhead:
(BTW, we don't need to go into it since I agree anyway that J-Horror gaming needs more studios, but Japan Studio hadn't made a horror game since 2008's Siren project, and before that hadn't done much horror except the first Siren in 2003... the subgroup at Sony Japan were called Team Siren, but probably it was always a misplaced hope that Toyama and his group would make the next big horror game when they were doing Gravity Rush and probably had most hands taken up at the time of closure by the supposed RaySpace sci-fi project.) (So, hopefully this move towards independent studios forming in Japanese game development will lead to a brighter future in the wake of many major Japanese publishers dragging anchor the past few years. And hopefully, some good horror games will come out of it.)
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ParaSeoul
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Didn't read but I'm sure you made some good points.
FingerBang
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Yeah, i have to agree with this point. She annoyed the hell out of me, but that's apparently what people want so more power to her and them. I found it odd the same people who are angry at the patriarchy and crap like that are fine with an adult woman acting like she's out of an anime. Stereotypes are basically fine sometimes.
I have no reason to be excited about her own studio though and I agree the only reason we care about her is she acting like a retard on stage.
Cyberpunkd
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Waifu thirst is real.
TidusYuna
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Yup. She was the creative director behind Ghostwire Tokyo before leaving Tango Gameworks.
Mister Wolf
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She should have finished Ghostwire first.
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Roman Empire
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I like her as a personality, but there is still much for her to prove herself as the head of a studio. Not trying to discredit the woman, but I hope her next project can be a banger, especially if it has action and horror mixed into it.
nikolino840
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Tams
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Yes, women who have reached puberty and haven't reached menopause need sanitary products. What a revelation! They might even like some free ones!
What's your point?
Joshmyersbv
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Yeah that and her looks is the only reason why people even talk about her. She like a japanese Jade Raymond. Hell she couldn't even finish Ghostwire Tokyo.
Shifty1897
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Japan's Jade Raymond. Can't complain about another studio attempting to make horror games though, since there are so few.
InfiniteCombo
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Yup that's pretty accurate and the impression I get.
I read up on her, and, sorry to say, but her career is pretty lackluster. I would almost describe it as "failing upwards."
But I do commend her on starting her own studio; starting a business enterprise of any sort takes guts. Good luck to the team, and (as a fan of horror games myself) looking forward to anything cool and interesting they do!
Joshmyersbv
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I just don't see how this company is going to be successful. She left mid development of Ghostwire Tokyo due to stress then she decides to start a video game company? She couldn't handle being a creative director, so now she's going to be a owner of a company and creative director for a game that may very well decide the fate of her company? That doesn't sound like a recipe for success.Yup that's pretty accurate and the impression I get.
I read up on her, and, sorry to say, but her career is pretty lackluster. I would almost describe it as "failing upwards."
But I do commend her on starting her own studio; starting a business enterprise of any sort takes guts. Good luck to the team, and (as a fan of horror games myself) looking forward to anything cool and interesting they do!
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InfiniteCombo
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100% agree with you. From an almost purely logical standpoint, this is being built on shaky ground and will likely not end well.
Still, we can wish her well, though. The gaming industry can always use more creative outlets, and more positivity in general.
Joshmyersbv
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I think the only way this works if she decides to be hands off and allows someone else to be the creative director and she handles management duties. It most likely will be a smaller studio with smaller budgets which should be easier to manage.
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It's all in the wrist
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It's as if some of your get your daily energy from unmitigated misogyny.
Porcile
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It is quite possibly less stressful and more fulfilling than being a suck-up at a J-company.
Good for her for going independent and doing her own thing. The Japanese games industry needs way more of that.
The Cockatrice
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You posted in the wrong forum besides making 0 sense. Even if she was a man, the replies would be the same. Realistically speaking, she's all hype and no substance at least until we see what her new studio does.
InfiniteCombo
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Garbage post.
The other forum is that way
Read
The Cockatrice
's reply to you and learn something for a change.Joshmyersbv
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Ok so tell me what has she done that would make these criticisms unwarranted? The very first game she was in charge of she quit in the middle of. Now she wants to run a company having very little experience in management (which btw she couldn't handle).
Timberwolf25
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Some day I'd like a Korean devs take on a horror game given how unique their horror movies are.
InfiniteCombo
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It's the "method acting" of videogame development
justiceiro
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I'm pretty sure she quit because she got pregnant at the time.
If Dr. Disrespect can have his studio, than so can she.
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RoadHazard
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Unseen. Abandoned. Anyone that doesn't see the connection is fucking stupid.
InfiniteCombo
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From Wikipedia:
"However, Nakamura left the project and the company mid-development in 2019 due to her declining health.[4] The stress of developer-publisher politics and the publisher's ultimate control over Ghostwire: Tokyo left her unable to sleep and struggling with daily nightmares.[1]"
EDIT: also not sure what the Dr. Disrespect comment has to do with anything. No one is saying she can't have her studio; in fact some people in this thread are celebrating it (and I did commend it myself.) But the fact remains that her track record is exceptionally weak and can reasonably make one question the potential success of this new studio.
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