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Yuji Naka hate thread
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Mama Smurf
My penis is still intact.
Anyone have a list of the games Sonic Team have worked on since the end of the Saturn? Not Sonic Team USA, not Dimps, not the half of Sonic Team that's actually UGA...just Naka's normal Sonic Team.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
Honestly, dissolve Sonic Team and let spread the members out across the other groups. Let another SEGA team develop Sonic games from now on.
I dislike Yuji Naka only for the reason that he collects all the glory for the Sonic franchise while the REAL mastermind behind Sonic, Naoto Ohshima, is ignored by the gaming populace.
That said, Naka is a damn fine programmer, and was one of the biggest reasons the original concept of Sonic was executed so well on the Genesis. I hold him in high regard for that engine.
That said, Naka is a damn fine programmer, and was one of the biggest reasons the original concept of Sonic was executed so well on the Genesis. I hold him in high regard for that engine.
Already happened. Sonic Team is just a brand Sega puts on some of its products now.Dr. Kitty Muffins said:
Zweisy1 said:
Now you mention it. Oshima is the perpetrator of Blinx and Iizuka the perpetrator of Shadow the Hedgehog. So, more recognition my ass. If we do so, we should give recognition to all teams.
The ones that designed, directed, etc. the PSOs, Samba de Amigos, Chuchurockets and all those "sonic team" games should need to be recogniced as well. Same with Miyamoto games, btw.
Oh, and saying Naka is only usefull as a programmer is kind of stupid. Videogame world is plenty of programmers who became excelent designers too. A lot of games have shown Naka's talent on directing or designing, as Sonic 2, Phantasy Star 2 (where he was director as I have said before...) and a lot more. It is just kind of stupid to put that on doubt.
And he made "girl's garden" and so I love him!.
Seriously, I think a lot of Naka hate comes from the same bitter nintenfans (or ex-nintenfans) who still believe Sega as a whole is some kind of enemy, because they -fanboys- have not been able to trascend 16 bit era yet. Not to mention new pretended sonicfans, but they are too obscure for me to analize.
Just saying they had far more to do with how NiGHTS plays and feels than Naka did. Although Naka does deserve recognition for his coding work for the game as it is one of the best looking Saturn games.
This is true.
Oh and I dont HATE Naka. Just sick of producers getting all the credit for games so often.
This is true.
Oh and I dont HATE Naka. Just sick of producers getting all the credit for games so often.
Zweisy1 said:
Yes. I was not talking about you on that respect, but the whole thread (and Naka as a designer, not only programmer, too). Sorry for that.
And actually, I agree with you on that about producers getting all the credits so often. But maybe is the easiest way for people to talk about the DNA of a game at first sight.
Zweisy1 said:
Ok
. Btw, you know one of the people I am following the most right now? Jordan Thomas, the lead designer of Thief DS and designer of its great "robbing the cradle" mission. I dont know where he went when Ion Storm Austin closed :/. I would love a whole game designed like that mission.
So people hate him cos of what? He allegedly has a huge ego? He stopped the STI having the NiGHTS engine for Sonic X-Treme? He has a Ferrari? He gets more credit than he deserves?
All of you calling for a disbanding of Sonic Team - wake up. You'd be the ones begging them to reform if they split up after Sonic and Knuckles.
All of you calling for a disbanding of Sonic Team - wake up. You'd be the ones begging them to reform if they split up after Sonic and Knuckles.
KyotoMecca
Member
You guys obviously know shit. Naka had next to nothing to do with Shadow.
Except for you. Post of thread.
Link316 said:
Except for you. Post of thread.