/vr/ - Retro Games

Sounds to me like Sakaguchi was jelly of Nasir being the face of Final Fantasy and the driving force being it (as well as the other successful titles he worked on like Rad Racer and 3-D World Runner). So when Nasir left the company despite now being at a higher position, which is an unreedemable sin in Japan, Sakaguchi saw the opportunity to become the face of the company, the "creator of Final Fantasy", and "the man that saved Square multiple times over", but in order to do that, you gotta start by destroying the reputation of the only face (ads) and name (all over the games title screens) people knew about.

Reminder that during the making of FF2, Nasir's work visa expired. The entire dev team followed him to California. If he was a bad programmer they would have replaced him. Even if he was "just a good programmer", they would have replaced him.
Also he hads hands in more things he has been given credit for as proved at least by a document that hints at him working on Rad Racer 2 despite not being credited for it.

>joins in when Square is on the brick of bankruptcy
>programs hits after hits using Iranian wizardry
>singlehandeldy saves square multiple times over
>so respected by the company he even gets his name all over the games title screens and advertisment
>makes shitloads of money in sales
>just leaves at the top of his glory
>disappears off the face of the earth
>legacy forever untouched

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>>10669982
I think Japanese players weren't likely to make that mistake

>>10551560
Shitting on Nasir is the trendy thing to do. You probably think it makes you knowledgeable.

The truth is knowing that Square owes its entire empire to him. Square before Nasir: mid-tier games that flopped.
The moment he joins you get Rad Racer, 3-D World Runner, and Final Fantasy. All worldwide phenomenoms the entire company was built on.

The bugs in FF1 are nothing compared to the bugs of competing jRPGs and he was one of the best video game programmer of his generation in Japan. When FF2 was in dev, his work visa expired. Did Square replace him? No, they delocalized the entire dev team to follow him to California. When FF3 came around, just him was enough to advertise the game.

>>10324528
>Wait, what? Guy had been doing Apple II coding since like 1980 and he had never once heard of or seen Ultima or Wizardry? Was this dude for real?

Your first assumption is that "the dude was not real", whereas your first assumption should be that the quote is bullshit and I wouldn't be surprised if you asked Nasir he'd have a completely different memory of that event.

And if he was such a dumbass, how comes he became Square's star programmer?

>>9646756
Yes, it looks like Square was trying to create a star programmer of their own

Pic rel was a magazine ad

>>9646632
> the anniversary doc on the same subject that's on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0rRgdQ1kK0

https://archive.org/details/famimaga-1990-feb-23