Itagaki Is a Jackass

Itagaki, the creator of the Dead or Alive series, and the recent Ninja Gaiden revivals is a colossal jack ass, there I said it.

I don't think I'm alone in thinking this either because he strikes me as being a pretentious twat and I can't be the only person in the world who thinks this about him.

Maybe it's my inner child but I remember a time when games were supposed to be, oh I don't know, FUN. It wasn't about who could make the shiniest game but about things like getting the highscore and having tons of fun while trying. Super Mario Bros, Metroid, and the original Ninja Gaiden games on the NES were like that. They were hard in some areas but they were also fun. People understood them to be what they were, entertainment.

Fast forward to now where you have a man who's claim to fame is creating a fighting game with bouncing boobies and an action game that's an exercise in controler breaking frustration.

Now I'm not adverse to a game having a learning curve but when that curve is the bloody cliffs of dover from the get gothen we have a problem; because at that point it's no longer about having fun but about how much of a twit the programers were.

I think it really comes down to image, and really that all Itagaki has. He's made a point of publicly talking down to and about gamers who don't have the 360, like it was somehow the only machine worthy of him and those filthy people who like other systems were just poor plebians who didn't get it.

No Itagaki you don't get it. You see you are not a rock star. You are a game designer and games are supposed to be fun above all else and you don't seem to get that. Shigeru Miyamoto and Hideo Kojima get that games are supposed to be fun. Sure they can be difficult at times but they're still fun.

You on the other hand seem to think that only an enlightened few should be able to beat your games. This doesn't make you a better designer, it makes you a pretentious twat. Walking around like you're best thing to happen to the industry doesn't make your opinion true, but copping the attitude while also making terrible games makes you a pretentious twat.

Oh and in case you didn't get the message, that also makes you a pretentious twat.

That's all for now

May the Lord bless you and may the Lord keep you. May He make His Face to shine upon you amen and amen

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