The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers

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The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers Anonymous Thu Jan 22 22:17:55 2015 No.2193669 [Reply] [Original]

The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers

Uploaded it just for you guys:
https://mega.co.nz/#F!1VwlnJ7C!ddvS89R3ufnq0wf6hdfBKQ

If you don't know what this is:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1748556728/the-untold-history-of-japanese-game-developers
https://lovedelicgames.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/dvd-review-the-untold-history-of-japanese-game-developers/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7KzCWNDwrA

A 4 hours documentary where some faggots go to japan to interview old as fuck game devs that show original drawings, musics, prototypes, office blueprints, how they worked and some obscure shit.

Got it from here, someone posted links with captchas and fucking 50kb/s caps, so after months of downloading, I uploaded it to somewhere better.

Also ITT: old pics, videos, documentaries, interviews and whatever of game studio/developers from the 80s/90s.
Kinda like this old thread: >>2166605

Anonymous Thu Jan 22 22:30:34 2015 No.2193693
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>>2193669
I already have the book and it has drawings and blueprints, is the video version worth it? Does it have more material? Is it an actual documentary or just raw unedited footage? Because the four hour length makes it seem like it'd just be raw footage.

Also contributing with Soul Blazer 2 concept art (before the project turned into Illusion of Gaia).

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 22 22:32:19 2015 No.2193698 File: 145 KB, 960x584, toriyama.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Akira Toriyama working on Dragon Quest.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 22 22:39:54 2015 No.2193708 Is it any good?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 22 22:44:01 2015 No.2193714 Thanks OP. I'll try it out.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 22 22:45:41 2015 No.2193715 >>2193698 That looks pretty fucking nice for an office. That transparent globe might get in the way of the darts table though. And that alien figure explains so much.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 22 22:45:49 2015 No.2193716 >>2193708 well its free nigga see for yourself

>>	Oakland Thu Jan 22 22:49:28 2015 No.2193719 The wait (and hope) for the next volumes of the book is killing me. I'm dying to get the Westone interview.

Anonymous Thu Jan 22 22:57:14 2015 No.2193729

>>2193719
Is it getting made? I thought the autor got sued by his first interpreter and then the media stopped reporting on the book because the interpreter was buds with them and the sales weren't enough and etc etc.

>>2193716
Maybe he doesn't feel like downloading 3 gigs before finding out if it's good or not?

Oakland Thu Jan 22 23:00:54 2015 No.2193738

>>2193729
The interviews themselves exist, as proven by the DVD, as to whether or not they'll get published is another. I'd rather not go into the drama about Agnes Kaku here though.

Anyway. A big reason I'm looking forward to the Westone interview outside of being a big fan of them, I want to know if it alludes to anything related to their recent bankruptcy filing, like if they knew it was coming.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 02:32:49 2015 No.2193964 >>2193669 I really wish the dude was a better interviewer.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 02:33:04 2015 No.2193965 >>2193669 thanks OP I'm excited to watch

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 14:33:23 2015 No.2194649 >>2193669 >untold history of japanese game developers >told by white americans that don't know shit about the industry No

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:26:46 2015 No.2195095 >>2194649 >white americans Isn't the guy behind this project british? It would have been better if they could get an actual japanese speaker to conduct the interviews

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:08:30 2015 No.2195143 >>2193715 Toriyama used to watch Alien and Terminator 2 a lot while drawing Dragon Ball.

Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:18:56 2015 No.2195158

>>2193669
Thank you, you're doing God's work, OP.

>>2193708
Hard to say. It has things that are definitely worth seeing in it but sketcz is as shitty of an interviewer as he is a person. I guess it's different when you're not making harassing phone calls or insulting someone to get your story.

As a long-time "fan" of sketcz though, it was great to see the stuff like him taking creep shots/ogling chicks and other stuff that makes him look totally unprofessional. I mean more than usual.

>>2193964
I'm just sad that he did the project, because from all accounts a lot of the folks he interviewed are so pissed over the whole drama issue that they don't want to deal with this shit again. It's a shame someone like Ray Barnholt or Frank Cifaldi didn't do this first. Someone with their shit together, and who didn't hire a chick's sister because he had a creepy little crush on the (married) chick.

>>2195095
Yeah, he's a limey fuck, which explains a lot about his approach towards journalism.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:20:19 2015 No.2195159 >>2195158 >a lot of the folks he interviewed are so pissed over the whole drama issue what? did the developers get dragged into the kaku drama?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:25:19 2015 No.2195169 >>2195159 Not sure what the whole story is (we'll never know) but supposedly some of em pulled out because of the Kakus or word of mouth from other devs (hence his claims of "sabotage") and others because he was a fuckup and unprofessional/rude.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:27:27 2015 No.2195171 >>2195169 Holy fuck that's embarrassing. I did notice the interviews felt extremely stiff but I thought maybe it was just the language barrier.

Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:27:30 2015 No.2195172

Oh, the best fucking part of this video is that he'll be in someone's office and they'll talk about having VHS tapes or whatever with footage of games, and he'll make a big deal about it and how it's unseen footage, but then they don't have a VCR so he just kind of tapes the VHS cassette for a minute.

Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo Sat Jan 24 00:04:14 2015 No.2195427

>>2195171
The interviews aren't stiff as much they need more editing so the chaff's been rid of. His interview with Kimura was maybe the longest single one in the book, and I'd think he could have cut out a whole page's worth or more of side-comments and tangents. Video's way more awkward to watch than his interviews are to read.

>>2195172
Seeing Flash Boy for the DECO at all is cool, but yeah, not having tech on-hand to watch the videos Yu Suzuki and Yoji Ishii filmed in the United States is a bummer.

>>2195169
I thought he was claiming sabotage by the press after this released, not during the summer trip itself. His appeal to GamerGate recently is more of a self-sabotage than what apparently were small harassment attacks on Facebook and other social networks prior to him telling his side on the Kickstarter page. Don't recall hearing anything about interview subjects being mad at him and/or dropping out; if anything, he greatly increased the number of contacts in just one trip, which has lead to him planning two more print volumes because there's just more content than expected.

>>2195095
Someone who can juggle lots of relevant questions and communicate them in Japanese cogently. Not easy to find, though I'd love to be that person someday.

Oakland Sat Jan 24 00:19:50 2015 No.2195457

>>2195427
I really enjoyed seeing the inside of Westone's office. Seeing the dioramas they used for the Monster World covers really filled me with joy.

I really enjoyed seeing The Game Preservation Society. Outside of Joseph Redon being the creepiest looking motherfucker I've ever seen, he seems incredibly nice.

>>	Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo Sat Jan 24 01:59:08 2015 No.2195656 >>2195457 GPS, DECO, and BEEP Shop made for great segments.

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sat Jan 24 06:33:14 2015 No.2195881

>>2195427
Yeah if there was anything that DVD needed it was editing, both for brevity, and as that one dude mentioned earlier stuff like him filming people or bitching for ten minutes about breaking the tripod.

I can't agree more with >>2195457 about the Westone stuff though. I love dioramas, and the fact that he got to see those in person makes me hate sketcz even more than I do normally ;p.

Anonymous Sat Jan 24 07:38:08 2015 No.2195914

>>2195427
>Someone who can juggle lots of relevant questions and communicate them in Japanese cogently. Not easy to find, though I'd love to be that person someday.

Well, the guy from GPS sounded like a really interesting guy with a lot of knowledge and he was able to communicate in Japanese. I actually hoped to see more of him.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 07:47:44 2015 No.2195921 So where's the download link?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 10:00:25 2015 No.2196026 >>2195921 >So where's the download link? >>2193669 >https://mega.co.nz/#F!1VwlnJ7C!ddvS89R3ufnq0wf6hdfBKQ

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 10:45:33 2015 No.2196076 Are there scans of the book version?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 10:56:13 2015 No.2196086 >>2196076 Sure, here's a pdf file: https://mega.co.nz/#!1wdQ2TxC!Tn0st8NGX0QIo5GuRLgPYLZ9ApoN0wnFud-Tubvz6do

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 11:35:24 2015 No.2196142 >>2196086 Thanks

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 13:28:45 2015 No.2196274 He interviewed the Quintet guys, right? That's all I care about.

Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo Sat Jan 24 14:32:12 2015 No.2196391

>>2196274
No one knows where to find Miyazaki, so the most important figure in Quintet's history still hasn't been interviewed.

>>2195914
Agreed. Redon or even Fitsko, the help from Hokkaido, could have done better interviews. Then again, they'd focus more on computer people than arcade and console devs, and part of fulfilling the Kickstarter goal was catering to each audience somewhat evenly.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 15:00:24 2015 No.2196458 >>2196391 What about the rest of the company? No nice footage?

>>	Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo Sat Jan 24 15:02:13 2015 No.2196460 >>2196458 No footage, just Yokota's account of his period at Quintet and then his project at Shade, Granstream Saga.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 16:41:35 2015 No.2196641 >>2196026 Disregard, I'm a drooling retard

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 13:36:50 2015 No.2198214 >>2193669 >>2196086 Thanks

Anonymous Sun Jan 25 17:07:46 2015 No.2198523

>>2195158
>I'm just sad that he did the project, because from all accounts a lot of the folks he interviewed are so pissed over the whole drama issue that they don't want to deal with this shit again. It's a shame someone like Ray Barnholt or Frank Cifaldi didn't do this first. Someone with their shit together, and who didn't hire a chick's sister because he had a creepy little crush on the (married) chick.
Exactly. This guy is such a fuckup. It's embarassing to see something with so much potential like this be handled so poorly.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 17:13:03 2015 No.2198535 >>2195158 >>2198523 >from all accounts a lot of the folks he interviewed are so pissed over the whole drama issue that they don't want to deal with this shit again More information please.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 17:14:32 2015 No.2198538 >>2196086 Hilariously amateur layout.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 17:16:34 2015 No.2198539 >>2198523 Do you have any info/links on what really happened? All I could read is Sczc's appeal to gamers (obviously one sided) and Kaku's passive agressive tweets (which don't reveal much).

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 17:18:27 2015 No.2198545 >>2198539 thats all there is

Anonymous Sun Jan 25 17:21:58 2015 No.2198550

>>2198539
I'm not saying I believe any side, but the stuff on the versusjs blog (linked above) builds a more credible story than Szczepaniak's claims, especially given what other people I know have said about interactions with him, and the quality of what's been produced for that project so far.

I mean, Kaku is probably crazy, too, but that doesn't exonerate Szczepaniak from being incompetent.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 17:24:04 2015 No.2198553 >>2198550 >the versusjs blog (linked above) Oh, that wasn't linked in this thread. Sorry. It's versusjs dot blogspot dot jp. There's a pretty comprehensive account, including emails.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 18:07:15 2015 No.2198624 >>2198553 >>2198550 >versusjs That's actually a very well-written blog that does a good job of clearly explaining the other side of the story. I'm impressed with the clarity of the text.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 19:00:06 2015 No.2198734 God damn what a fuck up this entire thing is. Not surprising it's associated with that hard core gaming 101 website, I keep hearing nebulous, dark things about it.

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sun Jan 25 19:43:30 2015 No.2198797

>>2198523
>>2198538
I felt kind of vindicated after seeing the final product. It kind of lends credence to the claims that he was in over his head.

>>2198539
The ralphretort "interview" was great. His claims that the gaming media were out to get him were such bullshit, since he had more coverage than the average kickstarter project when it was ongoing, and when the DVD/book were released.

>>2198550
>>2198553
>>2198624
I know I posted this a while ago (sorry), but if you haven't read this thread it sums up his professionalism, sense of ethics, and character pretty well (and a good idea how this project ended up this way):

http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?t=961&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

There's tons others, I know they posted some links on a somethingawful thread. Obviously I'm biased as all shit against him but if you read some of that stuff and then her blog, it backs up some of the things that she mentions like his "wi-fi sensitivity".

>>2198734
It has its good and its bad.

Anonymous Sun Jan 25 19:47:05 2015 No.2198803
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Fuck Gamergate.

I was kinda on their side because of the corruption from organizations like Kotaku, and I'm not very fond of the liberal crybabies who want to force their view on others, but now it's very clear that gamergate is composed of useful idiots who are hellbent on inflicting collateral damage.

I just read the Chronology of Events article on the Versusjs blogspot, and while I'm hesitant to pick a side -- you know the saying: there's always two sides to a story -- I think it's really pathetic how gamergate (basically 4chan /v/, eight-chan et al.) gets involved and once again attacks a woman just because of some unsubstantiated claims. I wouldn't be surprised if they already pulled that "swatting" shit on her.

Anonymous Sun Jan 25 19:52:00 2015 No.2198809

>>2198803
Whenever there are "movements" going on we need to take 500 steps back and observe from a distance. Often, both are being stupid on various levels, no matter how righteous.

Taking sides is a foolish decision for us all anyway. Our loyalty is with ourselves only.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 19:57:09 2015 No.2198816 >>2198803 I dont even know what gamer gate is. I avoided that drama shit like the plague. When I go to /v/ or /vr/ I want to talk about videogames not twitter drama.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 20:03:11 2015 No.2198826 >>2198816 It's politics. It pays to at least see what is going on. You may not care, but they care about you.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 20:10:30 2015 No.2198839 torrent link???

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 20:11:31 2015 No.2198843 File: 54 KB, 640x436, 24630_front.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2198826 it's not politics, it's bullshit I don't give a fuck about. >>2198816 Truth.

Anonymous Sun Jan 25 20:11:45 2015 No.2198845

>>2198803
> attacks a woman just because of some unsubstantiated claims.

The claims were pretty heavily substantiated. Also, most people I've heard from GG go out of their way to say that it isn't specifically about her and prefer to focus on shitting on Gawker and Kotaku.

How it's going right now is up for debate though, I never even hear anything about GG anymore except for people on vidya boards complaining about it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 20:12:12 2015 No.2198846 Cool, thanks.

Anonymous Sun Jan 25 20:19:04 2015 No.2198860
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>>2198803
>who want to force their view on others,
they aren't forcing their views on anybody they're just whining about dumb shit on their dumb sites I just don't visit shitholes like polygon or kotaku. I was with them until they shifted their focus from corrupt journos to fighting the evil sjw boogeyman that has little to no effect on the industry.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 20:25:13 2015 No.2198873 >>2198797 >It has its good and its bad. Not the same guy you're replying to, but the forums are a shithole.

Oakland Sun Jan 25 20:58:19 2015 No.2198907

>>2198734
The site is fine, the forum is DOOOOOOOOOGSHIT. Sam Derboo is a fucking faggot too.

Also, the whole Kaku drama is stupid. I'd have to side with John though, because I really do enjoy his work and I liked what I got out of TUHoJGD. However, I've known that Agness Kaku is a vile, toxic person for quite a while. You could even tell from the interview she did for HG101 when they were doing all of their Metal Gear interviews.

Anyway...reading about Mitchel Corp. fucking bums me out.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 21:00:22 2015 No.2198912 >>2198907 >You could even tell from the interview she did for HG101 when they were doing all of their Metal Gear interviews. According to versusjs blog post, it was removed. Archived somewhere?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 21:00:33 2015 No.2198913 >>2198907 sketch is a vile, toxic person though.

>>	Oakland Sun Jan 25 21:03:17 2015 No.2198914 >>2198912 Wayback machine? >>2198913 Last I knew, he didn't burn bridges with every single employer he's had, much like Kaku does.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 21:04:53 2015 No.2198917 >>2198914 >much like Kaku does What are examples of this happening, besides this one?

>>	Oakland Sun Jan 25 21:14:58 2015 No.2198929 >>2198917 Anything she's done with Konami. I think Jeremy Blaustein has said that she's had a nasty habit of being unprofessional and talking shit about every employer she gets.

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sun Jan 25 21:17:13 2015 No.2198931

>>2198912
http://web.archive.org/web/20120125211117/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/metalgear/agnesskaku.htm

>>2198914
He did with EDGE and some other magazines/sites, that's why he had to write for HG101 ;p.

If you haven't, read that link I posted earlier and see what you think of him. Frank Cifaldi is a pretty chill guy and sketcz pulled multiple dick moves on him and some other people that trusted him.

Also, if you think the HG101 forums are bad, they've been a lot worse in the past. He was part of it. Thankfully he's been quiet. Derboo is a sanctimonious white knight first-class, but in his defense he's never stooped to some of the shit sketcz's said and done.

>>2198917
IIRC she's said some stuff on Twitter that she lost work over this thing.

Anonymous Sun Jan 25 21:23:50 2015 No.2198941

>>2198931
> In fact, infamously, when a certain print magazine dared to score one of Konami's football games only a 7/10 rating, they promptly went and pulled advertising across every magazine at that publishing house, deftly showing that yes, the tail can wag the dog. Obviously I can't say which magazine, because Konami knows who I am...

Is this enough proof that gaming journalism is not to be trusted?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 22:02:16 2015 No.2198984 >>2193669 Thanks for the upload, friend. I downloaded it and will watch it soon.

Anonymous Mon Jan 26 02:50:45 2015 No.2199319

>>2198931
>Also, if you think the HG101 forums are bad, they've been a lot worse in the past.
Nope. They're just as bad now as they were in the past. There's no quality control unless it's a taboo topic that irritates the mod team like feminism. Why even bother registering there then?

Anonymous Mon Jan 26 03:39:38 2015 No.2199356

>>2198941

Wait, you needed more proof for that?

Or were you just afraid to realize it, cause you thohght it would associate your with GamerGate or something like that?

Shady cases in game journalism were documented ages ago before any GamerGame started. For example this video from 2012 lists several known examples of corruption for the past:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwD2GgWKIrs

Of course GamerGame is both understandable, since some people probably weren't perceptive enough to realize what's going on in game journalism and The Fivefuck Zoe provided an easily shareable starting point, and understandably pointless, because it's way too easy to hijack any sort of uncoordinated movement like that and because shitty game journalists are not gonna cut off their source of income.

It's best to ignore it all. Gaming journalism can't be saved.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 03:47:33 2015 No.2199363 so, what DID sketcz do to frank cifaldi?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 03:59:40 2015 No.2199368 Don't really know anything about the whole drama situation, but a quick glance at Kaku's twitter scares me.

Joseph Joestar AFK Mon Jan 26 11:12:17 2015 No.2199880

>>2198941
>>2199356
Real journalism is corrupt as shit, why should games journalism be any different? :)

>>2199319
It's cool, you have a right to your opinion and I respect it (same goes with Oakland on Sketcz, no disrespect intended there either). But I guarantee you, it has been much, much worse, especially around 2009-2010. We've had some elder god-level autists and overall not-nice people in the past that are thankfully gone or are near nonexistent and it's a much more positive and friendly place as a result. That is of course so long as we're not talking about Gamergate or games where beloved cult classic animu heroines are getting gang raped by goblins.

>>2199363
Long story short he was being buddy-buddy with him and other people at Lost Levels and Assembler to get information for an article. However, the article dropped and Sketcz misquoted/misrepresented things that Frank and others said to him in a way that made them look bad, and quoted things from PMs and stuff that he was told was off the record, and did it out of context. When they called bullshit on him, he acted like a huge baby and threw temper tantrums on their forums calling them unethical for trying to censor him, etc., and writing that he was quitting being a game journalist. The whole thing reads a hell of a lot awful lot like the Kickstarter updates bashing the Kaku sisters, and his subsequent updates.

Anonymous Mon Jan 26 13:59:02 2015 No.2200173

>>2199880
>We've had some elder god-level autists and overall not-nice people in the past that are thankfully gone or are near nonexistent and it's a much more positive and friendly place as a result.
I would argue there's still some Elder God-tier autists there. Do we really need a thread asking why nobody has ever done a ROM hack of the NES Metal Gear that makes it more accurate to the MSX version? Or some random newbie who shills his Top 40 games list on his very first thread?

>>	Joseph Joestar AFK Mon Jan 26 14:14:09 2015 No.2200203 >>2200173 Eh, it's just like here or any other forum when it comes to the number of frivolous threads and shitposts. Although I agree, the number of shills on the forum is annoying.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 15:27:18 2015 No.2200348 >>2199880 Maybe I should consider signing up for intelligence companies in order to get good information.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 15:28:38 2015 No.2200352 >>2199880 >games where beloved cult classic animu heroines are getting gang raped by goblins There is such a game...?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 15:35:49 2015 No.2200360 >>2200352 Valis X

Anonymous Mon Jan 26 16:47:14 2015 No.2200495

>>2198803
>Fuck Gamergate.

>This post
>This thread

My impression went from
>There's a Japanese Game Dev Documentary?
to
>Oh look some pics of Toriyama there's a book somewhere I think
to
>Whoo boy this took a dive into no man's land

Anyone actually downloaded this? How's the video?

Anonymous Mon Jan 26 22:17:20 2015 No.2201291

>>2200203
Sorry for gossiping about the forum here, but what's the deal with this vnisinian kid anyway? Does he have mental disorder or something? He writes some of the most nonsensical shit on that forum and I seen his name pop up in some Irate Gamer smear blog.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 22:45:32 2015 No.2201352 >>2193669 Downloaded. Watched. Worst thing I've ever seen in my life. Szczepaniak is much more interested in masturbating to his own disgusting ego than he is in actually documenting the history of japanese game development. Painful to watch.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 22:50:13 2015 No.2201365 >>2201352 >Szczepaniak Now I must watch this. If only to see the nutcase who's about to get owned in court by a counter-suit.

Anonymous Tue Jan 27 03:57:06 2015 No.2201872

>>2195158
>I'm just sad that he did the project,

still surprises me that his kickstarter could get that kind of attention based on...what? so few of the backers actually heard of him (based on the speed they support/defend him), and his little resume in the ks description is on par with the stay-at-home freelance writer mom who pumps up her thumbnail sized blurb in mccall's as reason to pay her more. I guess if nothing else it shows that more than just us and hg101 actually are willing to pony up for that sort of thing. the problem is it's mostly the over the top sociopaths who care to seek out the programmer of space fucks for pc-6601

Joseph Joestar AFK Tue Jan 27 09:55:08 2015 No.2202120

>>2200352
>>2200360 is correct ;p.

Sorry I keep bringing those fucking things up; I love the Valis series to death but I still find the fact that those games exist to be hilarious. It's just so wrong.

>>2200495
>>2201352
I'm far from impartial, so take this with a grain of salt. It has both good and bad points, but I'd have felt really cheated if I spent money on it.

Watching it is kind of like if someone fed some uncut diamonds to their dog along with some Hormel chili and it was your job to find them.

>>2201365
Sadly, it's France we're talking about, so with our luck he'll be knighted (or whatever they do there).

>>2201291
Nah it's cool, that's half of why I come here, to talk shit about HG101 people.

TBH I don't really pay much attention to him because he doesn't bust my balls. I guess that's why I don't generally HATE being on the forums - unless it's something where someone's letting their white privilege activist flag fly, or they're outright attacking me or my nigras then I just kind of ignore it. I dunno; I think it would be good to have more quality control as mentioned earlier, but I'd be afraid it would go from 0 to 60 and we'd end up with something like NeoGAF where it becomes impossible to post a dissenting opinion or make a mistake without getting permabanned.

BTW what bothers me the most about that Metal Gear thread is he didn't bring up the HIND fight. That was a hell of a lot more fun than the shitty Metal Gear "fight".

>>2201872
Hey, don't forget NeoGAF ;p. They got super wet over it.

>the problem is it's mostly the over the top sociopaths who care to seek out the programmer of space fucks for pc-6601

I wish there were a game called Space Fucks.

Anonymous Tue Jan 27 18:07:18 2015 No.2202812

>>2202120
>Nah it's cool, that's half of why I come here, to talk shit about HG101 people.
vnisinian is one of the biggest poseurs I've ever encountered in a gaming forum. Even more so than that Irate Gamer his friend BatDanNight was obsessed with. He misuses terms he doesn't understand, can't follow a simple GameFAQs tip without having it spelled out for him, doesn't grasp the concept of a spinoff being different from a mainline game and thinks Doug Walker is a legit critic instead of an unfunny pseudo comedian. He once made a dumb shitpost about how he was going to invade Nintendo's HQ and demand them to make a Mother 4, which shows how ignorant he was about the series when Itoi said 3 would be the last one (he later admitted he never even played the games).

But none of that would've even bothered me that much if it wasn't for some dumb comment he made about how he thinks everyone in that Anonymous hacker group will end up in hell when they died while he'll be with Jesus Christ. On top of being a poseur, he's also a religious nutjob.

Oakland Tue Jan 27 21:20:39 2015 No.2203105

>>2199880
To each their own. I guess a big reason as to why I'd defend John is because I was very satisfied with the book. The DVD was just supplemental material, I don't think I'd count it as a documentary. I honestly didn't follow the kickstarter and only became aware of the content after it was done and when HG101 was selling the DVDs before the book was publicly sold. I for one really enjoyed the DVD for what it was and (at least for the first disc) was smiling almost the entire time. Outside of the recordings occasionally having framerate dips. I do understand why people might not like it though. But seeing Westone's office? Seeing footage of the Deco? Watching Yotsui play Osman? The whole sections of the book collection and the GPS? Great stuff.

I really just want the future volumes to come out, after what was teased in the first book. He has the interviews and I'm sure he's transcribed them.

But again, to each their own. Would it have been better if it was anyone else? Maybe. But John being persistent as all fucking hell is a contributing reason as to why Mitchell is selling rights to their games for digital distribution.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 27 21:28:13 2015 No.2203120 >>2203105 >"Yes, fine, licensing to mobile, whatever, sure. Now please leave our office and don't email me again."

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 27 21:29:16 2015 No.2203126 >>2203105 >Mitchell is selling rights to their games for digital distribution. its gonna bomb, lol strider just had a hd metroidvania remake and not many people seemed to give a fuck to that, let alone fucking osman

Oakland Tue Jan 27 21:32:33 2015 No.2203130

>>2203120
Roy's interview was sorta funny outside of the shit about how EA and Nintendo of America fucked him over.

>>2203126
Man, I'd buy it. I think it's less about how well it sells (not to Mitchell though) and more about how these arcade only games will FINALLY get ported.

>>	Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Tue Jan 27 22:11:00 2015 No.2203174 >>2202812 Do you have a link to where he damned Anonymous? This sounds amusing. >>2203105 I thought the actual on-topic stuff was good to see, the real "never before seen by crackers" stuff like you mentioned.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 27 22:28:27 2015 No.2203206 sketcz has a long long history of being a complete fuckwit & while its impossible to prove whether his interpreters did or didnt scam him otu fo $200 or w/e its really easy to corroborate their character assessment of him

Anonymous Tue Jan 27 22:38:40 2015 No.2203216

>>2201872
peopel were so desperate for this dev info that they didnt stop to question this guys credentials or aptitude for the project even though five minutes of googling would have exposed him for what he really is

ofc it didnt help that the people who knew what he was like werent more vocal during the campaign but i guess they didnt want to involve themselves with his bllshit which is fair enough

either way this project proves that even sketch cant keep interesting people form giving good interviews. theres some okay info in his book... no insight or empathy or even real conversations but enough trivia to bolster a few wikipedia articles i guess

Anonymous Tue Jan 27 23:32:45 2015 No.2203301

>>2203174
>Do you have a link to where he damned Anonymous? This sounds amusing.
It was some thread when Megaupload got shut down. It was pretty unprovoked too.
http://hg101.proboards.com/thread/8778/stop-internet-piracy-act-hg101?page=5&scrollTo=207715
He also got duped by some obvious joke made by Onyx.

I don't know if he's dumb or just suffers from some sort of disability like autism or Asperger's. The latter kinda explains his obsession with James Rolfe and Doug Walker though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 28 00:37:48 2015 No.2203410 Szczepaniak is nuts Agnes is nuts match made in heaven Cifaldi hasn't done anything of note; why do people ride his nuts so hard?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 28 00:40:12 2015 No.2203415 >>2203410 he made a chill little mr gimmick play around on youtube

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 28 00:41:05 2015 No.2203416 >>2203410 Well, if I am not mistaken, doesn't he run a site devoted to preserving prototypes and whatnot and dumps protos from time to time? I believe he was partly responsible for buying the now-dumped prototype of Bio Force Ape.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 28 00:42:01 2015 No.2203418 >>2193669 If I were to download it, woudl it make Kurt Kalata get absolutely butthurt? Pls respond.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 28 00:47:20 2015 No.2203429 >>2203418 kalata doesnt have anything to do with this, this is entirely sketzczkzz's baby

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 28 00:54:26 2015 No.2203442 >>2203416 Lost Levels. They're not as active as they were a decade ago, but they dumped so many unreleased NES games throughout the years. http://www.lostlevels.org/

Joseph Joestar AFK Wed Jan 28 10:25:12 2015 No.2203874

>>2203206
>>2203216
This.

I'll give him credit, considering that his investigative style is one step up from stalking, at least he was trying something new with this project. I mean, considering that most of his prior stuff consisted of him making harassing phone calls or emails to people until they talk to him to make him go away, or tell him to fuck off like that (alleged) Akira dev.

>>2203301
Hory shit. Good times...

>>2203410
In my case, as >>2203416 and >>2203442 said, Lost Levels. That and to my knowledge Cifaldi hasn't tried to ruin peoples' careers because the demons in his head told him that people were out to get him.

>>2203418
I don't see why he would outside of this being a 4chan thread and 4chan being the villainous hive it is.

I know for a fact that HG101's not making a dime off it. AFAIK Kurt's just promoting the DVD because Sketcz asked him to, he's done that for other contributors in the past like Pitchfork and his book.

Anonymous Wed Jan 28 12:17:11 2015 No.2203973

>>2202120
>Nah it's cool, that's half of why I come here, to talk shit about HG101 people.
Speaking that, I took a look at your friend Jason K's Twitter and forum activity, and that guy is even more henpecked than I realized. Does he seriously think Anita Sarkeesian gives a crap if he's actually playing Rushing Beat? And he's still bitching about Kojima putting a bikini-clad sniper in the new Metal Gear too.

>>	Joseph Joestar AFK Wed Jan 28 12:36:01 2015 No.2204003 File: 20 KB, 313x173, 194zd9aoril3ujpg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2203973 I guess we all have our price. Also I would tell Anita that I've been playing Hunie Pop but I think I'm blocked.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 28 12:49:46 2015 No.2204018 File: 137 KB, 690x551, 1853-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2193669 >https://mega.co.nz/#F!1VwlnJ7C!ddvS89R3ufnq0wf6hdfBKQ oh how I waited for this. thank you very much.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 28 13:19:03 2015 No.2204064 >>2193738 >I'd rather not go into the drama about Agnes Kaku here though. well guess what you got me interested and I came across this it's pretty fucking funny http://versusjs.blogspot.ca/ https://twitter.com/agnesskaku

Anonymous Wed Jan 28 14:11:13 2015 No.2204189

>>2204003
He even had a whole Twitter conversation with your friend Kimmi about whether Jill and Rebecca are positive female protagonists and then dismisses HIS own complaints by saying it's just a zombie game. Why even bother bringing that up in the first place?
https://twitter.com/SilentFanatic/status/558577320915914753

Anonymous Wed Jan 28 14:32:11 2015 No.2204229

>>2203301
>obsession with James Rolfe and Doug Walker though.
>obsession with Doug Walker

I think I just puked a little in my mouth, and I was freaking EATING.

Is there ANYTHING about this sczeperniak guy that doesnt scream creepo or "stay away from me"?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 28 14:42:14 2015 No.2204249 >>2204229 You're reading comprehension sucks. I always talking about some other guy on the HG101 forums, not Sketz.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 28 14:43:32 2015 No.2204252 >>2204249 Oh man... I used to read HG101 a lot, I thought John was the only weirdo there. I guess I was wrong.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 28 14:44:44 2015 No.2204253 >>2204252 Yeah, I deleted my other post just to fix my typo.

Joseph Joestar AFK Wed Jan 28 15:15:40 2015 No.2204317

>>2204189
Ah, she's not a friend. She wouldn't follow me back on Twitter so the hell with her, lol.

>>2204229
BTW >>2203301 was referring to someone else. However, on a related note...

>>2204252
I think if you get enough video game players together it forms a personality disorder rainbow.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 28 19:06:26 2015 No.2204670 Both Kaku and Sczc seem unhinged or at least unpleasant, which is nice since I can gawk and laugh at this whole thing without any investment to either of them.

Anonymous Wed Jan 28 20:51:40 2015 No.2204865

>>2204317
>I think if you get enough video game players together it forms a personality disorder rainbow.
That's why I decided to stay away from the HG101 forums and only observe it from a safe distance.

With that said, no gaming forum will ever top insomnia.ac/culture.vg in terms of sheer mental disorder.

Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo Wed Jan 28 21:11:20 2015 No.2204906

>>2204865
I wonder if Alex Kierkegaard's visited this board.

>>2203874
Etch-A-Sketch also let others handle the formal thank-you letters he most likely would have bungled. My prejudice tells me these developers are more likely to gain an impression of him and other Western journalists through keigo than looking online to research production histories of Kickstarters.

>>2201872
>it's mostly the over the top sociopaths who care to seek out the programmer of space fucks for pc-6601
Hopefully the Japan Computer Games Association will provide a conduit for better journalists to contact developers, assuming no one can amass the list Szczepaniak has.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 28 21:25:30 2015 No.2204930 >>2204906 >I wonder if Alex Kierkegaard's visited this board. He did. He has a dedicated thread in his forum where he documents every time his name and site gets mentioned in other places. Naturally 4chan pops up a lot.

Anonymous Wed Jan 28 21:35:07 2015 No.2204946

>>2204906
the developers that (allegedly) said they wont be dealing with westenr journalists anymore are devs that were involved w/this project, not just random people who read about it on twitter or w/e

remember, over the course of the project he:

-cancelled interviews due to his own poor scheduling (he refused to make a sensible timetable w/sensible software & laid otu his entire itinerary on a constantly edited word document sent via email attachment

-cancelled a backer interview b/c he didnt feel like doing it & asked the interpreter to make up lies for him in his cancellation eltter

-tried to cancel an interview b/c he objected to having to submit interview questions beforehand (he was too lazy to write them)

a couple were put off even before hed left for japan, a couple more were spooked by the legal notice from the interpreters, or so tehy claim

his top secret master list of contacts came form just googling peoples names & cold calling/messaging them, any ol idiot could do this & almost any ol idiout would have handled this project a lot better

>>	Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Wed Jan 28 21:48:18 2015 No.2204969 >>2204906 >Etch-A-Sketch I love it.

Anonymous Wed Jan 28 21:52:11 2015 No.2204978

>>2204946
Holy shit, I'd stop doing interviews for outsiders if this was how they treated it, not a single ounce of professionalism.
Sucks that he burned some bridges for all others, but hey maybe some jap can give better interviews and somebody will translate that.

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Wed Jan 28 22:00:02 2015 No.2204994
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>>2204865
My main complaint about the forums is that nobody fucking comments on the podcast "game of the month" threads. Then again neither do I, lol.

>>2204978
pic related

Anonymous Wed Jan 28 22:36:12 2015 No.2205064

>>2204978
only a few of the dozens of people he interviewed have shut their doors to indie foreign journos, theres def. still opportunities for projects in this vein, just ones w/o sketch

the interpreters were basically running the entire show before long: they scheduled every interview, handled all correspondence, booked all his accomodation, meals, etc, did all his errands, everything except conduct the interviews

the other problem was that he was impossible to talk to or reason with in person, when they talked to him face to face hed just sit there and not but then hed go back to his hotel room & bitch them out on the phone or write an angry million word email about nothign

>>	Oakland Wed Jan 28 22:45:38 2015 No.2205083 >>2205064 Is there a list of the developers?

Anonymous Wed Jan 28 23:06:15 2015 No.2205130

>>2205083
i only heard one name from when he was still in japan & id idnt recognise it at the time. the others came after the interpreters sent out their jp letter abotu the suit, i never heard their names so i cant confirm/deny

the deal was that this guy had heard about the project & offered himself to sketch for an interview and also offered to invite a couple fo his friends from the industry to come along

sketch didnt wanna do it until he learned that one of the friends had worked at sega or something (there were a few companies that refused to officially participate: sega, capcom,e tc), once he learned that he gave the goahead

when the dude told him his friends couldnt make it he lost interest in the interview & just stopped replying. the interpreters ended up having to make excuses for him & apologise when it became clear it wasnt gonna happen, the dude wasnt happy

i dont really have any inside info, just crap id been told by a japanese acquaintance whod been hearing things while he was over there

>>	Oakland Wed Jan 28 23:10:15 2015 No.2205141 >>2205130 That's pretty shitty. I hope it's nobody he actually put in the book. I'd feel so awful if someone like Yoshiro Kimura wouldn't do interviews with foreigners anymore, he's such a great guy.

Anonymous Thu Jan 29 15:57:19 2015 No.2206080

I'm 21 minutes into the documentary and it's most amateurish production I've seen yet. There's a few interesting factoids in the movie, but it's all offset by Sketchz going into off topic tangents like whining about his broken tripods during dinner or filming someone's apartment. I reserve final judgement until I see the full thing, but it's a bit underwhelming thus far.

Joseph Joestar AFK Thu Jan 29 17:01:40 2015 No.2206179

>>2206080
I'm glad someone else took issue with the tripods thing, lol.

>>2205064
>when they talked to him face to face hed just sit there and not but then hed go back to his hotel room & bitch them out on the phone or write an angry million word email about nothign

Somehow this is exactly how I imagined he'd handle IRL situations.

Anonymous Thu Jan 29 18:10:55 2015 No.2206279

>>2206179
>I'm glad someone else took issue with the tripods thing, lol.
He really needs an editor to tell him which crap to cut. Also, it would be nice if I could actually hear what the game designers say when they talk., but Sketchy seems to in love with his own voice to give anyone else microphones.

I'll comment on the rest of the documentary later on, since I left off at the Westone segment.

Anonymous Fri Jan 30 01:03:04 2015 No.2206891

Almost two hours into documentary.
>The Westone segment was passable. Really worth watching just for the Monster World sculptures.
>The TGS segment was pretty cringe-worthy, especially his bitching at the Falcom booth. What did he expect from a company that releases most of its current catalog on PSP and Vita? The GameSide interview was not really informative.
>The segment with the game shop owner and the strategy guide collector were the best thus far. It helps that interviewees actually spoke English. The arcade shop owner with the Zeroize game was cool too.
Thus far the documentary is a 3/5 for me.

Anonymous Fri Jan 30 03:44:11 2015 No.2207151

Seen the entirety of Part 1. It gets a lot better towards the second part. I don't know why the interview with Ozaki and Yotsui came off so awkward though, since it leads to a very poor first impression. Even the written interview on the HG101 blog has a passive-aggressive vibe to it from Ozaki's answers.
http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2014/08/mitchell-corporation-arcade-games.html

Anonymous Fri Jan 30 04:03:47 2015 No.2207165

>>2207151
i've been in those "fuck why did I agree to do this why didn't i know better" situations. you hope that curt answers will move things faster and get you the fuck out, but sometimes you get the real autists who couldn't read you if you were in 80-point printed type.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 12:32:55 2015 No.2207618 >>2207165 I thought the way the text interview was written was due to the way the translation was handled, but even in the video there's a sense of discomfort.

Anonymous Fri Jan 30 12:44:12 2015 No.2207629

>>2207165
> JS: You said Strider didn't sell well, but when it was ported it made money. It's money for nothing, because the game already exists. Converting to a home system can be done quickly and cheaply.
Ok, even ignoring hardware limitations that's an incredibly stupid thing to say, there are still publishing, marketing and overhead costs in console conversions.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 12:47:28 2015 No.2207636 >>2207629 And even if they ported to steam or cellphones, do you think they are just going to ship a rom of Osman on a copy of MAME? etch-a-sketch is a fucking retard

>>	Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo Fri Jan 30 12:48:35 2015 No.2207639 >>2207636 It honestly sounds like a question he came up with on the fly, if VersusJS's case about him not pre-submitting questions to interviewees holds true.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 12:49:54 2015 No.2207641 yea console ports are totally free to make, dude you just compile the source code with a -windows command and run game.exe

Anonymous Fri Jan 30 12:50:50 2015 No.2207642
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>Mr. Kouno directed the first Clock Tower on Clock Tower on SNES
Wut? Did anyone even proofread this?

Also, it annoys me how people use NES and SNES when referring to FC and SFC games, but that's just me nitpicking.

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Fri Jan 30 21:04:22 2015 No.2208701

>>2207151
>>2207618
It seemed like Ozaki just wanted him to go away.

I love how etch-a-sketcz was taking credit for them looking into digital distribution. That dude is so insecure.

What's ironic is that sketcz fucking hates Steam/digital distribution. I've been trying to find the HG101 thread but he got into an argument about why digital distribution was bullshit or whatever, and he ended up admitting that he doesn't like Steam because he couldn't figure out how it worked.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 22:00:45 2015 No.2208807 This Sczez whatever guy sounds like an idiot. Like jesus christ, everything technology related is impossible for him to work with, which is bizarre when he works with old video games so much.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 22:05:33 2015 No.2208818 >>2207642 It's the only way the whole audience will understand in the west, for the rest of us the improper terms will annoy us to no end.

Anonymous Fri Jan 30 22:30:19 2015 No.2208859

>>2208818
the whole audience for this book is people who know and expect him to make the distinction and i wouldn't be surprised if most of them knew more about a lot of these topics than he does

>>2208701
he flipflops between being a conceited jerkoff who lauds his own genius and resents having to share the world with the untermensches & a barely functional moron who doesn't grasp basic concepts and can't understand anything he's not already familiar with

here's one example of him desperately failing to parse a gradeschool synopsis of evolution: http://www.selectbutton.net/archive/topic/4825

Anonymous Fri Jan 30 22:35:58 2015 No.2208862

>>2208701
>What's ironic is that sketcz fucking hates Steam/digital distribution. I've been trying to find the HG101 thread but he got into an argument about why digital distribution was bullshit or whatever, and he ended up admitting that he doesn't like Steam because he couldn't figure out how it worked.
I can't find the thread, but If I remember correctly he only hated Steam due to how Valve handles its digital distribution. He seemed to prefer GOG at any rate.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 01:12:46 2015 No.2209164 >>2207642 >>2208818 Considering this was produced for a Western audience, it makes perfect sense to use the Western names when referring to the hardware. It's called localization. Stop being weeaboos.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 01:13:57 2015 No.2209167 >>2207639 Even if he did come up with it on the fly, it's grossly insulting and downright incompetent to make such unfounded assertions, it's safe to say this clown has zero industry experience and is just an angry Internet nerd

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 01:16:30 2015 No.2209169 >>2209164 >Stop being weeaboos. where the fuck do you think we are?

Anonymous Sat Jan 31 01:31:49 2015 No.2209191

>>2209164
Except this is documentary aimed at a niche audience who most likely know their shit and most of us knows Clock Tower never had a localized release, so it's strictly an SFC game.

Not to mention the proper names for the Japanese systems are used in other parts of the documentary, so it's a bit inconsistent to suddenly refer to the SFC by its overseas name.

I'm more annoyed at the redundant wording at any rate. It's such a sloppy mistake to let it slide like that.

Anonymous Sat Jan 31 14:41:19 2015 No.2209856

>>2209191
That's fair, they should have been consistent overall but I think it would be fair to say "SFC/Super Famicom" in the case of Japanese-only releases.

It'd still be stupid to not use Western equivalents otherwise, however, even if you make the claim that this aimed at "a nice audience who most likely know their shit".

If that is who he was aiming for, well, that's yet another example of how he fucked this up.

Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:28:10 2015 No.2210016
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>>2209856
It's not the complete trainwreck some of Sketcz's haters make it out to be, but the documentary could've been handled a lot better. I've just watched the whole thing and despite my early misgivings, I would still recommend it. There's quite a lot of fascinating stuff, such as the interview with Joseph Redon of the Game Preservation Society and his collection of old computers and all those videos of rare game software and concept art. A lot of stuff could've been cut out though, like the unnecessary airport interview with his cameraman.

Also, Joestar said something about Sketcz taking creepshots of women for the video, but I didn't see it. When exactly was this?

Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:48:41 2015 No.2210056

The book is great, the dvd passable.
The people taking the Kakus at face value amaze me though considering their story of "handling everything" fell apart the second the end product got out pretty close to schedule . (not to mention this is the San Franciscotard who broke a serious NDA because she felt she was a better MGS writer than Kojima)
The HGH guy is clearly the average HGH ultra-sperg, but as far as actually achieving something he did well. It ain't worth much talking about who would have been a preferable interviewer when no one else seems remotely interested in talking with japanese devs who aren't Zun imo.

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sat Jan 31 17:13:41 2015 No.2210098

>>2210016
Hehe, that was an exaggeration - it's not quite "real" creep shots, but you can see in some parts where the camera's lingering on women when he's walking around. I'll try and find some examples.

Personally I'm glad OP posted this because like you said there is some stuff that's worth seeing (I'm a fan of the Westone bit, especially the dioramas). So this way people can see it and not have to give their money to a sociopath manchild to do so! :)

>>	AVANT-FUNPOSTING 2k16 Sat Jan 31 17:37:22 2015 No.2210152 disregarding all drama, this is a really fascinating read/watch and i would suggest picking it up if you are interested in the stuff covered

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 17:44:54 2015 No.2210174 >>2210152 Are your standards as low as John's? Then you'll cum buckets for this!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 17:47:10 2015 No.2210181 >>2210152 HG101 shill confirm

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 17:55:34 2015 No.2210204 This DVD had by chance, spanish subs?

>>	Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sat Jan 31 18:53:26 2015 No.2210340 >>2210181 Not HG101, they just advertise it. God knows why though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 18:59:59 2015 No.2210358 >>2210340 >Promoting the work of someone who contributed plenty of content for your site. You're right, that's a pretty odd thing to do

>>	Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sat Jan 31 19:08:40 2015 No.2210373 >>2210358 Under normal circumstances I would agree.

>>	AVANT-FUNPOSTING 2k16 Sat Jan 31 19:10:47 2015 No.2210378 >>2210174 >>2210181 quality posts lads, keep the good work up

Oakland Sat Jan 31 19:22:59 2015 No.2210396

>>2210152
I think the book is fantastic, but I wouldn't so much recommend the DVD to someone unless they enjoyed the book or know they're interested in the content on the DVD.

Watching the DVD alone is a BAD idea, since it's just supplemental material to the book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 19:54:32 2015 No.2210427 >>2210373 And what exactly makes you think this is not a normal circumstance?

>>	Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sat Jan 31 20:10:22 2015 No.2210446 >>2210427 What makes you think it is?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 20:14:25 2015 No.2210451 >>2210446 He wrote for HG101, so they returned the favor by promoting his book. I'm sure HG101 plenty of traffic from all those Metal Gear interviews, regardless of the subsequent fallout with Kaku.

Anonymous Sat Jan 31 20:41:50 2015 No.2210496

HG101 mainly pushes the book as a courtesy to skez but there are more connections, f.ex Kalata's dad edited the DVD, not that you'd know it had an editor just from watching it

kalata and co are also the reason he released an ebook version after months of claiming it was impossible: the huge insurmountable hurdle was that he didn't feel like doing it and didn't want to spend a whopping 1% of his budget to have someone else do it for him, but they eventually got through to him

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sat Jan 31 20:49:07 2015 No.2210507

>>2210451
I agree about it being about "returning the favor"; in fact I said that earlier in the thread. I just was expressing my personal feelings that support for him was a liability, especially considering the tweets between Kurt and Kaku.

Anonymous Sat Jan 31 22:18:00 2015 No.2210617

>>2210496
>HG101 mainly pushes the book as a courtesy to skez but there are more connections, f.ex Kalata's dad edited the DVD, not that you'd know it had an editor just from watching it
That's interesting. Why would Kurt's dad edit his videos? Is he a professional editor or something?

>>2210507
>especially considering the tweets between Kurt and Kaku.
I missed out on this. What exactly did they tweet to each other? I know he told you, Jason and Bedwetter to quit linking Sketcz's posts on Twitter.

Anonymous Sat Jan 31 23:36:07 2015 No.2210697

>>2210056
she wasn't under NDA, she kept "silent" because no-one had asked and she didn't think anyone would care

>>2210617
idk about the tweets but the tldr is that she thinks hg101/kalata is "taking sides" by defending/excusing sket's behavior for so long and not doing more to distance themselves from him

kalata doesn't want to be seen as being involved in their spat so he simply refuses to acknowledge or mention it publicly except to tell people he's not involved

>>	Oakland Sat Jan 31 23:49:30 2015 No.2210710 >>2210697 If I recall, he uploaded unused scripts for games from Konami, which is under NDA. Konami actually had then removed before the interviews got pulled.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 23:56:19 2015 No.2210716 >>2210710 It was some early scripts for a bunch of Konami games Kaku worked on, including MGS2 and Ghost Babel. I managed to download them from a mirror site.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 00:03:13 2015 No.2210721 >>2210716 why would anyone want to read that

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 00:06:31 2015 No.2210726 >>2210710 konami did have them pulled but there was no NDA and she wasn't legally obliged to keep them private. the same is true of a ton of games from that era

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 00:08:42 2015 No.2210727 >>2210721 Why wouldn't anyone want to read that? It's not all Metal Gear stuff though. There's stuff from Azure Dream, Shadow of Destiny and Hybrid Heaven too, plus lots of manual translations for other games.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 00:32:14 2015 No.2210751 >>2210726 doesnt excuse what she did, she even mentions in the interview those would probably be pulled >>2210727 why waste time reading that as opposed to playing the game? not even kaku thinks they have good writing

Anonymous Sun Feb 1 00:38:14 2015 No.2210758

>>2210751
>why waste time reading that as opposed to playing the game? not even kaku thinks they have good writing
Who gives a shit about whether Kaku think it's good or not? It's not like she's a good writer herself.

I think those scripts are something nice to skim over once you've played the games. Some of them even reveal information not mentioned in the main game.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 01:12:14 2015 No.2210793 >>2210758 >Metal Gear scripts Perfect, where can I look for them?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 01:14:39 2015 No.2210794 I need to get my hands on dem scrips a link would be niece

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 01:24:13 2015 No.2210804 >>2210793 It's just for MGS2 and GB, and some of it is still raw. http://www.mediafire.com/?zt77earaodvcc3s

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 01:27:24 2015 No.2210807 File: 1.93 MB, 235x240, 159.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2210804 Doing God's work, son

Anonymous Sun Feb 1 01:53:16 2015 No.2210837
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>>2210804
Smee agen,

just took a look some of those MGS2 files and

>from right to left
>written vertically
>roman numbers and letters 90 degree angle

I'll find a good use for this stuff for my own fan-translation even if it's not MGS relatedbut Kaku was still involved at some point.

pic related: my reaction upon viewing these beauties

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 02:01:10 2015 No.2210848 >Scott Dolph's middle name is Andrew Did they ever mentioned this in the actual game?

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sun Feb 1 16:43:23 2015 No.2211629

>>2210617
>>2210697
Yeah basically he doesn't want to get involved in their fight. Anyway, thankfully he seems to have gotten Sketcz to stop talking on the forums, so thank goodness for small blessings. That's another reason why I say the forums may be bad, but nowhere as bad as they've been.

Hybrid Heaven was surprisingly fun for as much shit as it's gotten over the years. It's so retarded, it's great.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 18:30:26 2015 No.2211829 >>2211629 >Anyway, thankfully he seems to have gotten Sketcz to stop talking on the forums, so thank goodness for small blessings. I thought he was banned because he told one of the regulars to kill himself.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 20:04:39 2015 No.2211953 >>2211829 he was, temporarily. it never sticks

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sun Feb 1 21:10:32 2015 No.2212047

>>2211829
Nah, like >>2211953 said, etch-a-sketch got a pass. Up to that point he'd been a complete and utter fuckhead on a number of other occasions, like the Smithsonian thing or getting into arguments/insulting forum users for no reason on a daily basis, but that was a new low even for him.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 22:09:52 2015 No.2212162 >>2212047 I doubt Skectz is on bad terms with HG101 or anything, since he still writes for their blog.

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sun Feb 1 22:27:08 2015 No.2212204

>>2212162
Oh, I'm sure that he's on good terms with Kurt, but then again Kurt is a pretty forgiving guy, and as that one anon said, schizo's stalking I mean investigative work has gotten results in the past. Nobody else can stand him though, he's picked fights with other site staff, and they all fucking hate him.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 22:35:01 2015 No.2212221 Hey. I'm just searchin for some gossip or something. How is kurt as a person?

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sun Feb 1 22:59:17 2015 No.2212250

>>2212221
Aside from like, this, and his obvious liberal leanings, he's a rather fair and overall good guy. He's not the type that holds grudges and I can respect that, even though I don't agree with it in this case. I said some very uh "unkind" things in a PM a couple years back when I lost my shit in response to his promoting Sketcz's kickstarter, but he was civil about it. Also unlike other sites he's actually using the Patreon to be able to take care of the contributors.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 00:03:07 2015 No.2212328 >You will never have a crazy Japanese tomboy girlfriend to spank hard and fuck up the ass when she's being a bitch why even live

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 00:08:37 2015 No.2212339 >>2212250 >He's not the type that holds grudges I don't know. I do remember him saying not to link to Icycalm's site on his forums after Icy banned him from Insomnia.

>>	Oakland Mon Feb 2 00:14:55 2015 No.2212353 >>2212339 To be fair, you shouldn't go to Icycalm's website anyway. Fuck him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 00:25:08 2015 No.2212370 >>2212328 >You will never have a crazy Japanese tomboy girlfriend who spanks you hard and fucks you up the ass when you're being a bitch FTFY

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 00:30:12 2015 No.2212381 >>2212370 She's Japanese, not black.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 00:33:10 2015 No.2212383 >>2195143 Cool to know he was a fan, Frieza's form was definitely a tribute.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 01:05:22 2015 No.2212437 >>2212339 He seems to be obsessed with that Planetary Annihilation game lately. Barely even covers anything else on his site.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 01:34:46 2015 No.2212473 >>2212250 >obvious liberal leanings gasp not that! and to add to the pile of evidence that john is a crazy person who should be promptly ignored, he also likes the CDi Zelda games

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 01:44:16 2015 No.2212487 >>2212473 Have you actually played them? They seemed okay for a couple of side-scrolling action games made for a system intended for edutainment shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 01:54:16 2015 No.2212498 >>2210804 Thank you so much for this, wasn't MGS2 initially going to be called MGS III though?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 01:58:50 2015 No.2212507 >>2212498 It was http://cse.spsu.edu/jpreston/cgdd2002/readings/metal_gear_solid_2_grand_game_plan.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=85114404&v=iO4TRDPjdtA&feature=player_detailpage&x-yt-ts=1422579428#t=272

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 02:02:19 2015 No.2212515 >>2212507 I've already seen that video because the game originally shipped with a making of DVD, but thanks a lot for the game design document, didn't hear of that.

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Mon Feb 2 08:18:24 2015 No.2212795

>>2212339
Ah, forgot about that. But I'm with Oakland on that one.

>>2212370
What's Chris Claremont got to do with this?

>>2212383
There's a lot of "westaboo"-ism amongst manga and anime figures. My favorite example's still Yasuomi Umezu; in most of his non-movie artbooks he's done some form of fanart of western action movies (which shows in his anime, including the not-Bruce Willises in KITE). That kind of stuff warms my heart.

>>2212473
Hey, that kinda thinking's leading to the collapse of western civilization. Or at least making twitter impossible to look at without inducing pain, take your pick.

Also I wasn't gonna mention those reviews b/c they're kind of low hanging fruit but I totally agree, heheh.

>>2212487
As someone who has played them, they're...not. To be fair, the CDI controller was just not meant for anything more than maybe ICOM-type adventure games. While I wouldn't say they're the worst ever, they're not good or even mediocre either...certainly not as good as he lets on.

On one hand I appreciate the fact that it's an article about the Zelda CDI games that aren't just jumping over the "MAH BOIII" animation and screaming that it's shit, it's kind of the opposite extreme end of the spectrum. I put that article of his on the same page as that Swordquest video by AVGN - it's obvious that they're in love with the idea of the games or something about it (i.e., the bizarre animation) to the point that they're ignoring the fact that the games attached are objectively awful, and end up hyping the games up to be something much more than they are.

Anonymous Mon Feb 2 12:30:54 2015 No.2212980

>>2212353
>>2212795
There was a time I used to admire Icy's rhetoric and thought he was just being an asshole to prove a point. But then I read Orgy of the Will (or more accurately, Icy's bulletpoints of random thoughts) and realized the guy has the worldview of a spoiled rich kid who got bullied too much at school.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 12:58:21 2015 No.2213008 >>2212980 >Orgy of the Will Made me giggle.That`s some bullshit stoner philosophy from the 10th grade.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 13:12:31 2015 No.2213028 >>2213008 Wasn't he supposed to be working on some ubergame or something that was supposed to be the next Deus Ex and Far Cry? I learned the other day he had a fallout with zinger (his composer).

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 2 23:44:41 2015 No.2213923 >>2212980 >the guy has the worldview of a spoiled rich kid who got bullied too much at school. now that sounds familiar

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 3 00:17:42 2015 No.2213956 >>2193669 Bless you, kind anon

>>	Joseph Joestar AFK Tue Feb 3 15:37:22 2015 No.2214870 >>2213923 That makes me wonder who'd have done a better job of the two managing this kickstarter.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 3 18:46:03 2015 No.2215119 >>2214870 At least Etch-a-Sketch delivers on his promises most of the time. Icky can't even stay true to his own schedule.

>>	Joseph Joestar AFK Wed Feb 4 09:59:29 2015 No.2216024 >>2215119 I'm sad to agree with this but I do, heheh. As for Icky, my main problem with the guy is how he doesn't allow emoticons on his forums.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 4 10:04:39 2015 No.2216026 >>2216024 We don't really allow them here, either.

>>	Joseph Joestar AFK Wed Feb 4 10:09:38 2015 No.2216034 >>2216026 Tough shit :).

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 4 20:57:35 2015 No.2217012 >>2216024 Emoticons are a retarded way to express yourself in a forum anyway. Did you ever read what Icy wrote about Kurt? http://culture.vg/forum/topic?f=16&t=2059&start=75 http://culture.vg/forum/topic?f=16&t=2059&start=125

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 5 03:27:44 2015 No.2217461 >>2217012 ;'s

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 5 05:15:06 2015 No.2217548 (>u<)

Joseph Joestar AFK Thu Feb 5 10:23:41 2015 No.2217756

>>2217012
I think that's part of why I use them.

I'd read those a long time ago. I think the first one is the better of the two, it's a lot more constructive. The second one starts out with valid criticisms, but then ends up drowning those valid points in a sea of autism, I mean elitism, which seems to be a problem with some fans. For a moment there I thought the second rant of his was a compilation of random posts on the SHMUPS forums.

To my understanding, the "Hardcore" in HG101 was never really about being "hardcore" in the sort of way the "1cc crowd" view it; it was more that during the mid-2000s when the site was created it was for the most part dealing with games that weren't common knowledge at the time. This is a lot less applicable now since more and more people've gotten into retro gaming, and some games that were less-known are now commonplace or memes or whatever the shit. So in that case, the Icycalm/shmups definition is more appropriate.

On one hand I totally respect the devotion some people have to certain games and the amount of effort they put into being good at them, because I am weak and I don't have that devotion. Problem is that a lot of those folks seem like they're bitter about the fact that there are people that can't do this shit, which was apparent in those posts by Icy. I mean it's totally awesome if you can 1cc Mushihimesama Futanari Chaos Black Edition with the joystick up your ass and facing away from the screen, just don't hold it against other people when they can't. Or don't, some people love being miserable.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 6 23:53:35 2015 No.2220254 Does it take £50000 to make a documentary on the history of game development?

Anonymous Sat Feb 7 00:05:37 2015 No.2220280

>>2217756
>just don't hold it against other people when they can't
I don't. People can play games however they want. I hold it against people when they play like a fucking casual but desperately want to be called "hardcore" just because they played a relatively obscure game

Anonymous Sat Feb 7 03:31:22 2015 No.2220508 [DELETED]

It actually really bothers me that the term "JRPG" has become a thing.
As a mechanical descriptor, "JRPG" implies that there is something mechanically different between a "JRPG" and plainly an "RPG".

And going by the people who argue that there is indeed such a difference. "JRPGs" if one is to insist on using that term, were never even unique to Japan. And originated from, including the biggest ones, from America. With games such as Wizardry and what have you.

The biggest reason is mostly that the video game industry almost died flat out in America in the middle of the 80s, whereas it persisted and grew in Japan.
America used to make games of all kinds. Japan did and have continued to make games of all kinds.
And then America's industry died. And later resurface a little after a whole decade later, with games such as Fallout and Baldur's Gate and what have you. And then some shitty American game reviewer who didn't know his terminology started talking of "JRPGs" and "WRPGs", while making very embarrassing blanket statements all around while also being wholly ignorant on the video game history of both America and Japan.

And since then it has been as if everyone have started using the terms for everything. Having given up completely at using actually descriptive descriptors for their games. And were satisfied with terminology such as JRPG and WRPG. While continuing to making embarassing blanket statements, while also being ignorant of RPG history, or video game history in general.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 7 04:15:18 2015 No.2220545 >>2217012 >It was a sad, sad testament to the state of the industry that Arcana Heart was judged as one of the better releases. Fuck this guy. Arcana Heart is great. And Examu are some of the most competent fighting game developers.

Anonymous Sat Feb 7 09:20:55 2015 No.2220882

>>2220508
Did you reply to the wrong thread or something?

>>2220280
>>2220545
Kurt's review of the original Renegade was just as offensively casual. It basically amounts to trashing game cause he sucks at it and lambasting because it plays nothing like Final Fight. It's almost DSP-tier bad.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 7 21:07:55 2015 No.2221868 >>2220508 I'm not sure why you post this here, but I feel the same way about idiots who refer to Japanese adventure games as "visual novels."

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 7 22:35:41 2015 No.2221994 >>2217012 normally I think Kierkegaard is a lunatic, but he has a point this time

Anonymous Sun Feb 8 08:35:43 2015 No.2222569

>>2220508
JRPGs are distinctively different from CRPGs. That their roots are not in Japan doesn't change that at all. The differences aren't absolute and all-encompassing, but there are enough of them on a consistent enough basis that JRPGs and CRPGs can be considered two different things.

>And then America's industry died. And later resurface a little after a whole decade later, with games such as Fallout and Baldur's Gate and what have you.
This never happened. CRPGs were constantly churned out during that time, along with all kinds of other games. The Atari crash had little or no effect on computer games.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 10:08:45 2015 No.2224612 >>2193669 I watched this over the weekend and really enjoyed it thanks OP! Going to buy the book too when I'm able.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 14:42:46 2015 No.2224928 >>2224612 It's a pretty decent book and documentary, despite all the shit-flinging in this thread.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 18:21:01 2015 No.2225351 >>2198803 >attacks a woman >i'am a white knight Uhh, dude. You are already chosen your side.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 07:19:49 2015 No.2226579 File: 16 KB, 400x400, 1418332541913.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why does every thread on /vr/ that mentions HG101 become a cancerfest? Can we auto-sage/ban/filter mentions of the site?

Anonymous Tue Feb 10 11:51:22 2015 No.2226924

>>2226579
>HG101 in general has done a great deal of harm to the cause of videogame criticism and theory. Every single one of its writers is an emulator-abusing, credit-feeding, save-stating, FAQ-reading, YouTube-watching imbecile, whose "opinions" are nothing more than a regurgitation of inbred commentary scooped up over a period of months and years from Wikipedia articles and miscellaneous online message board threads.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 13:33:51 2015 No.2227116 File: 20 KB, 480x360, BxiiiqBCUAICIGW.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2226924 I think that should answer my second question, too

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 15:46:40 2015 No.2227368 >>2226924 Hahahahha, holy shit. Get a fucking life, Icyhot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 15:50:45 2015 No.2227378 >>2227368 If talking about HG101 means not having a life then what are you doing here?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 16:31:29 2015 No.2227445 >>2227378 Same as you, having no life.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 21:57:14 2015 No.2227981 >>2227116 >>2227368 >HG101 basically does to old games what IGN does to new ones. This is one way of looking at the site. Another way is as a private version of Wikipedia, dedicated to old games. Either way, what a waste of time and effort.

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Tue Feb 10 22:06:28 2015 No.2227997

>>2226924
>>2227981
Yeah, after re-reading the Renegade review that the first quote came from I have to agree with Icy that narcissistic, schizophrenic rants that say absolutely nothing of value about the game in question are the apex of video game journalism.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 22:13:27 2015 No.2228010 >>2198803 >Picking sides >1776+(15.4596248^2) It's lose/lose, no matter what you choose. Anyone following the drama could see that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 22:15:18 2015 No.2228017 Icycalm is the biggest sperg on the entire internet. I had no idea he was still around.

Joseph Joestar AFK Wed Feb 11 11:52:44 2015 No.2228846

>>2220254
Probably, I'm guessing a lot of the budget went into the trip, Japan is fucking expensive and I don't see a prissy guy like Sketcz subsiding on ketchup packets like certain other game journalists. The rest probably went into his legal fees or cocaine because it sure as hell didn't go into the production values for the book/dvd.

>>2220280
That's cool and a hell of a lot more level-headed than other hardcore gamers, so mazel tov.

>>2220882
...that, and I do agree that the old Renegade review is in need of an overhaul, and I'm pretty sure Kurt would as well. Once again, if anyone has any input or wants to propose a new version now's the time.

>>2225351
Speaking of which, if there's any DFW anons, the wicked witch is gonna be at University of Texas Dallas tonight speaking.

>>2221994
I'm guessing you mean the casual-ness of Kurt's Renegade article, because that was the only valid point I could find.

BTW, was he trying to be sarcastic in http://insomnia.ac/commentary/arcade_culture/ ?

>...or the new games journalists and their impressionable adolescent followers who think that some flowery adjectives dug up from a thesaurus can make up for the fact that they don't have a fucking clue about what it is they are talking about...
It's hilarious how he talks shit about other people doing the same shit he does. That, and I'm still trying to work out what kind of warped worldview would lead to the crap in that bit about the "arcade business model".

I'm glad you guys brought all this up, it's been ages since I've seen any of his stuff and I'd forgotten how fascinating it is.

>>2228017
I'd be really surprised if he's not some degree of autistic based on how he's got a major problem dealing with differing opinions and other things that conflict with his world view.

Has anyone met the guy in person? I'd be interested in seeing if he's the stare at the floor and mumble type, or if he's the type that spazzes out in public because he doesn't know better.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 11:57:27 2015 No.2228851 What are the patrician equivalents to HG101? Preferably english-speaking though JP is fine too.

>>	Joseph Joestar AFK Wed Feb 11 12:06:45 2015 No.2228861 >>2228851 I'm not sure any of the patricians have gotten off their ass or stopped infighting about who is leetest long enough to do one.

Anonymous Wed Feb 11 12:20:52 2015 No.2228881

>>2228851
Game Catalog @wiki is pretty useful for the most part, even though it's in Japanese and mostly text only.
http://www26.atwiki.jp/gcmatome/

Icy seems to like Blame the Control Pad, but it hasn't been updated in like four years.
http://blamethecontrolpad.com/

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 13:12:40 2015 No.2228938 >>2228851 >What are the patrician equivalents to HG101? HG101

Anonymous Wed Feb 11 16:23:45 2015 No.2229182

>>2227997
My biggest beef with Icy's Renegade review is that for all the shit-flinging he does towards HG101 (deserved or not), I don't think he understands the genealogy of belt-scrollers or 3D beat-'em-ups(/character action games/stylish action/whatever-the-fuck-you-want-to-call-them) very well. I never really got the impression that Devil May Cry nor Ninja Gaiden 2004 were really inspired by belt-scrollers aside from the basic concept of a long hero taking out dozens of mooks.

At the very least, I don't see that many 3D beat-'em-ups with cooperative play.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 17:05:35 2015 No.2229259 will this thread be linked on icy's diary/forum website? hi icy

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 20:15:49 2015 No.2229542 >>2228846 i have no idea how or if he spent the money but i do know that he's a huge penny-pincher and his kvetching about money underpins most of the drama surrounding the book

Joseph Joestar AFK Thu Feb 12 09:36:57 2015 No.2230549

>>2228881
Blame the Control Pad is a pretty good site, although I'm surprised Icy would like it considering Shellshock is a regular contributor for HG101 (and would thus fall under >>2226924
). That, and his writing doesn't sound like it came from a highschool kid that found "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" for the first time.

>>2229182
Yeah, he seems to have a problem with going down good paths for discussion but totally destroying any point that he had made with either masturbatory stories or information/opinions that are off-base like you mentioned.

>>2229259
Dare to dream.

>>2229542
I'm sure he could have stretched it more if he actually gave a shit about the project, or a number of other factors. Stuff like the fact that he wasn't doing an e-book (despite the fact that about 99 percent of the folks that funded him were in it for that) was definitely him being cheap and lazy though.

To play devil's advocate though, there's the chunk you hand over to Kickstarter, and depending on where he was at the time there's taxes, etc. that would've cut into it. That, and I'm assuming he bought a special containment suit to keep the wi-fi beams from killing him, Japan's absolutely covered in the stuff.

Anonymous Thu Feb 12 17:18:30 2015 No.2231246

>>2230549
>That, and his writing doesn't sound like it came from a highschool kid that found "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" for the first time.
Most of the contributor reviews on insomnia.ac are all pretty decent though, and even Icy's own early reviews didn't went overboard with the Nietzsche quotemining. It seems Icy values mechanical criticism of games more than mere plot and manual regurgitation. I think he said something how reviews should be written more like forum posts, where they get to the point about what issues they have with the game.
http://culture.vg/reviews/
http://insomnia.ac/reviews/

Also Icy doesn't dislike HG101 entirely. He apparently likes some of Sketcz's work. Take that as you will.

Anonymous Thu Feb 12 22:00:59 2015 No.2231614

>Also Icy doesn't dislike HG101 entirely. He apparently likes some of Sketcz's work. Take that as you will.

peas in a pod. I remember way back, John posting on the insomnia forums trying to reason with icy's insanity, for whatever reason. take THAT as you will.

oh look the court case was today
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1748556728/the-untold-history-of-japanese-game-developers/posts/1129064

>So I have permanently moved out of London to stay at my uncle's countryside estate, to convalesce and focus on Volume 2. Maybe do a bit of horse riding too.

yeah say hi to buffy and the little master for me while you're there, you spoiled moron

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 12 22:03:40 2015 No.2231617 >>2231614 >I remember way back, John posting on the insomnia forums trying to reason with icy's insanity, for whatever reason. take THAT as you will. Really? I can't find the thread on the forum.

Anonymous Thu Feb 12 22:17:26 2015 No.2231642

You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Wonder why noone made a documentary about this topic before? Because they know they'd get no profit because everyone would fucking steal it. If you enjoy this type of content, and you want more stuff like this to exist in the future, you really should be buying it or otherwise supporting the creator.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 12 22:19:26 2015 No.2231643 >>2231642 Gee, I wonder who this could be. Fuck off, dicknose.

Anonymous Thu Feb 12 22:31:47 2015 No.2231667

>>2231246
>Also Icy doesn't dislike HG101 entirely
I doubt he dislikes half the shit he claims he dislikes, point remains, he's legitimately fucked in the head.

http://www.gamengai.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3155
This whole thread is a work of art (note that he's a fan of Gamengai).

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 12 22:37:51 2015 No.2231674 >>2231642 The creator is an egotistical idiot and I'd be happy to see the back of him.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 12 23:22:40 2015 No.2231735 >>2231642 should've made something worth watching in the first place then. the thing is absolute shit and the drama has led to a new disdain for hg101 for me

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Fri Feb 13 04:33:33 2015 No.2231983

>>2231642
Go home, Sketcz, you're drunk.

Seriously though, here's a golden oldie that was deleted from the HG101 blog where he throws a hissy fit because they cut the hostess clubs from Yakuza 3 (and encourages people to pirate it):

https://web.archive.org/web/20100323064422/http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2010/03/dont-buy-yakuza-3.html

>>2231246
>>2231614
Evil smells its own kind I guess.

>yeah say hi to buffy and the little master for me while you're there, you spoiled moron
hahahah, nice!

Anonymous Fri Feb 13 11:51:26 2015 No.2232348

>>2231667
>There's no formula for making everyone "believe you".
>Organized religion across hundreds years of humanity will disagree with you.
I like how this reply went over Icy's head and he misinterpreted it as a dig at religion.

>>2231983
>Let's boycott Yakuza 3 because they're removing inconsequential side-content that doesn't affect the rest of the game in any way.
And then he wonders why Japanese developers don't take more of a risk when it comes to localizing their more niche titles.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 13 12:01:24 2015 No.2232356 >>2231983 >>2232348 Bandwagon alert. If anyone other than Sketcz had made the exact same post you would have agreed with it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 13 12:14:49 2015 No.2232372 >>2232356 Keep telling yourself that. This doc could've been so much better if almost anyone else did it, instead it just set us back 5-10 years and made a bunch of developers not want to work with us.

>>	Joseph Joestar AFK Fri Feb 13 12:42:55 2015 No.2232408 >>2232356 No.

Anonymous Fri Feb 13 13:36:01 2015 No.2232475

>>2232356
It really depends on the kind of changes made. Sure, Yakuza 3 is missing lots of side-quests, but I wouldn't had known about it if I hadn't read about it online. And let's be honest here, the game could've used a lot more trimming, especially when it comes to that dumb golf minigame.

It's not like they completely changed the aesthetics like they did with Mobile Light Force or something.

Anonymous Fri Feb 13 14:19:31 2015 No.2232518

>>2232372
Ok? I don't see what the documentary has to do with Yakuza 3.

>>2232408
Yes. He is completely correct in that stripping out tons of content for a localization isn't acceptable.

>>2232475
Rationalization. Again, had this been said by anyone else you would have agreed. But now you have to disagree, no matter what, just because it's him.

Anonymous Fri Feb 13 14:34:07 2015 No.2232534

>>2232518
I don't have the same hateboner Joestar has for Sketcz, but not all cut content are equal.

Do you think Resident Evil 1 is a lesser game because they censored the cheesy live-action intro? or SotN is bad because they took out two familiars that were just parodies of Japanese voice actors?

Games modified and altered all the time for localized markets.

Joseph Joestar AFK Fri Feb 13 15:03:25 2015 No.2232560

>>2232475
>>2232534
The Hostess Club dating sim stuff was creepy and a massive drag, so I didn't have an issue with it being cut. Same with the massage parlor mini game (where you got a handjob from a tranny in 3, which probably appealed to him). Mahjong and Shogi were a bummer, though, and I was glad they left that stuff in when Yakuza 4 came over (even though I'm awful at mahjong).

Actively advocating not buying a game because they were cut was stupid and pointless, especially considering how Yakuza games have always sold like shit in the west. We were lucky to get the ones we have because someone at Sega was willing to take the risk. Being a twat and boycotting the games "on principle" isn't going to get Sega or any other company to change their practices on cut content, unless you're talking about cutting the game from the release schedule. I

>>2232534
>hateboner
I prefer to call it righteous indignation, but that works too, lol.

>>2232518
Just to clarify, are you asking if I'd have agreed if someone other than a Sketcz supporter had posted it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 13 22:19:12 2015 No.2232963 tons of people had a hissy fit about Yakuza 3. Schoochoo joining the hyper-entitled isn't exactly news.

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Fri Feb 13 22:22:59 2015 No.2232968

>>2232963
Eh, it was at the time, which was why they pulled that and a couple other blog posts. Why they didn't pull his Smithsonian meltdown too I dunno, but it's a great example of why he's a twat and why this thread is a good thing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 14 11:48:00 2015 No.2233675 >>2232968 Which were the other ones that were pulled?

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sat Feb 14 20:40:37 2015 No.2234431

>>2233675
It's been a while so I don't remember all of them, but the ones that came to mind first were the Yakuza 3 ones because of how retarded they were. Aside from the one I posted there were at least two others pulled, probably because it was him talking about how Sega was run by morons and should die, etc. I know one of those was accessible on that archive.org link, couldn't find the other(s).

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 14 20:42:44 2015 No.2234440 >>2232963 >entitled Oh look it's this rhetoric again.

>>	Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sat Feb 14 21:18:00 2015 No.2234486 >>2234440 This would maybe fly if the target of the rhetoric weren't bragging in his last Kickstarter update about being a professional parasite.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 14 21:24:24 2015 No.2234494 >>2234486 I am talking about the "gamers are entitled" rhetoric.

>>	Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sat Feb 14 21:28:35 2015 No.2234505 >>2234494 My bad, chief.

>>	Razz Sat Feb 14 21:36:01 2015 No.2234526 >>2234494 It bothers me more that they use "entitled" to mean "self-entitled," which is quite literally the opposite meaning.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 15 03:18:46 2015 No.2234953 >>2234505 Holy shit! I just realized your friend Jason X unironically follows Brian Who on Twitter. How the hell can you be friends with a Kool Aid drinker him?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 15 15:23:58 2015 No.2235456 >>2196086 /gd/fag here Holy fuck, that layout, or lack thereof in this case, is beyond fucking ridiculous. How could anyone put this shit to print jesus christ. I am absolutely baffled.

>>	Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sun Feb 15 16:35:12 2015 No.2235565 >>2234953 I have no idea who that is because I'm old.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 15 16:42:07 2015 No.2235586 File: 53 KB, 599x404, opression_olympics.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2235565 Brianna Wu (aka Spacekatknight), a transgendered game designer who is very outspoken about GamerGate. She's a bit of a self-centered nutjob to say the least.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 15 16:59:46 2015 No.2235636 >>2235586 Man, I don't really care about Gombergit but that Wu chick is one seriously crazy bitch. Seems to think everyone's out to get her.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 15 17:16:31 2015 No.2235669 File: 529 KB, 1026x670, rev60wooaahh.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2235586

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 15 17:38:33 2015 No.2235698 Is this what /vr/ has become

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 15 17:42:14 2015 No.2235706 >>2235636 Jason boy seems to follow a lot of SJW types on Twitter and he genuinely believes Anita's bullshit about how nobody questions Moviebob's gaming credentials, nevermind that he's probably one of the most ridiculed e-celebrities online.

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Sun Feb 15 20:13:53 2015 No.2235916

>>2235706
Yeah, it sucks that he's into feminist stuff, but nobody's perfect - we've all got vices and character flaws (although I tend to forget this and rush to judgment, so there's one of mine). Anyway, he's not a fuckhead to me about our obvious differences in philosophies, so I'm not that bothered. If he were out there with Tim Schaffer et al smoking out and crucifying "misogynists" it'd be another story...

That being said, Brianna Wu can eat shit, I'm sick of reading about her career victim antics. Anyway, best thing to do is ignore her shit and when she realizes nobody cares then hopefully nature will take its course.

Anonymous Mon Feb 16 00:19:44 2015 No.2236304
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>>2235916
I never liked Jason X. I always found his opinions to be uninformed and his taste in things to be pretty questionable. Not to mention he's a complete hypocrite when it comes to his own morals (like how he doesn't consider transgender people to be the gender of their choice if he dislikes them).

He actually likes this cringe-worthy writing from the new She-Thor comic (pic related).

>>	Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Mon Feb 16 08:20:18 2015 No.2236779 >>2236304 Absorbing Man said nothing wrong.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 16 14:58:05 2015 No.2237327 >>2236779 Agreed >>2236304 He named himself after Jason X, nuff said

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 16 17:36:28 2015 No.2237583 >>2193669 Oh nice, I hadn't been to /vr/ in a while and completely missed this I got the book back around Christmas, kept hoping the movie would eventually find its way online Thanks

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 12:44:53 2015 No.2239293

Just heard about this train wreck. Sczc updated the kickstarter page the other day to say the court case was finished and that he is retreating into the fucking wilderness to live the hermit life because he can't handle any more harassment.

The whole thing was a sham from the get-go. He spent $1000 per DAY on fucking interpreters so he could do the interviews himself rather than just pay or convince a Japanese game journalist to do them instead and then translate them later. And the interviews are generally a mess of unfocused chit-chat and tangents and him not being able to have a real interaction with the interviewees because he's not knowledgeable about the topic and is going through an interpreter. He is obviously not qualified to do these interviews and it's a shame that some of the developers might have been put off from doing further interviews. FFS, he couldn't even prepare questions beforehand.

It's absurd to think that $100,000 went into this book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:30:06 2015 No.2239373 File: 10 KB, 200x113, 650_3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2239293 He's apparently going to be in an episode of NONFIX (a Fuji TV documentary program) about crowdfunding. http://www.fujitv.co.jp/nonfix/library/2015/650.html

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:31:06 2015 No.2239374 >>2239373 >http://www.fujitv.co.jp/nonfix/library/2015/650.html Welp! Looks like it aired a few days ago.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 14:05:03 2015 No.2239451 >>2239374 http://varadoga.blog136.fc2.com/blog-entry-57959.html There's an embedded video on the blog post. Skip to 18:00 for Sketcz's portion.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 15:59:48 2015 No.2239717 >>2239373 I love how all of his photos (such as the kickstarter headshot) are of him looking down on us peons. >>2239293 I wonder if he used any of the KS money to hire a hooker. Something tells me he's never seen a vagina.

>>	Joseph Joestar AFK Tue Feb 17 18:25:27 2015 No.2239940 >>2239717 He always looks like he just smelled a fart. Is that a British thing?

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 19:31:13 2015 No.2240069

Hanako Kaku's comments about Sczc:

"I just thought of him as a nice young man who was a little overwhelmed. I felt somewhat protective of him. Every time he went to an interview, he asked me to tell him what trains to take and which station to transfer at. The first time we met in person, my first thought was to find him an English-speaking hospital because he had bruised his arm badly in a fall. He was a quirky person. Even when he was becoming very nervous and irritable, l felt protective of him. I felt sad for him too, because from what he told me, he seemed to have no one close to him who was happy for his big chance."

http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2015/02/controversy-behind-the-untold-history-of-japanese-game-developers-part-2/

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 20:26:30 2015 No.2240161

>>2239717
>I love how all of his photos (such as the kickstarter headshot) are of him looking down on us peons.
It's publicity shot from the aforementioned Fuji TV show. He didn't event mention the show's actual title (NONFIX), just the episode title. It took me a few Google searches to find out the official site. Kinda lazy of his part.

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 22:47:31 2015 No.2240332

>>2240069

mr blogjob gamergate expose writer man somehow neglected to mention that the guy who posted sketcz' accusations on the igda board is both a pal of his and a colleague of many of the people who run igda, yet theres no talk of blackouts or collusion in reference to them refusing her right to rebuttal and apologising to sketch

he also uncritically reprinted comments from sketch that present things as "hypothetical' when theres a lot of evidence to show that they happened as described, but i guess fackchecking is a lil too much to ask from the saviors of games journalism

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 11:53:14 2015 No.2241248 File: 87 KB, 1280x853, 1405868668993.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2240332 >fackchecking

Joseph Joestar AFK Wed Feb 18 12:23:43 2015 No.2241305

>>2237327
That movie had some amusing bits, though. That, and it's always nice to see David Cronenberg trying to act.

>>2239293
Yes, but would James Cameron let someone else go underwater in a submarine in his place to film stuff for him to jerk off to? No, he'd get his fap on himself. Because sometimes the journey is part of the adventure or something.

Jesus that particular reply from that blowjobblog guy in the comments section was mindbreaking.

>>2240069
No good deed goes unpunished.

>>2240332
That, and he had all of those sites giving him free publicity before the book dropped (including reviews of the DVD), so it's not like they shut him out.

Other highlights: citing several anonymous sources calling John "very professional", etc., yet poo-pooing the "anonymous individuals" defaming him. Similarly, no mention of how schz tried to campaign to get Agness Kaku banned from Twitter before he started whining about the blackout.

Joseph Joestar !!Gw0DoE7xkFM Fri Feb 20 07:07:34 2015 No.2245118

>>2195159
On this topic, apparently there were some that were pissed at comments that he made in his Kickstarter updates; he said something along the lines of "the Japanese were untrustworthy", but didn't figure that some of the developers and other Japanese users were following the project.

AWK-WARD...

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 07:25:46 2015 No.2245125 How the hell does this guy get to be on TV? I heard from more than a few people that their programming is crap but now I see why...

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 07:34:12 2015 No.2245129 How/why does this have anything to do with gamergate? Those dorks are beyond retarded.

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 08:14:07 2015 No.2245169

>>2245125
i haven't looked into it at all bu i'm pretty sure the show he's on is one of the shows that just ambushes people at airports and follows them around in the hopes that they might do something interesting

they like to target foreigners in particular and if you have a clique that regularly goes to/from japan you'll hear about them sooner or later. theyre quite pushy and unless youre an egocentric like sketch youll want to be rid of them after a few minutes

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 08:19:09 2015 No.2245170 >>2245129 It doesn't, besides kaku being a feminist and ketczk blaming kotaku for boycotting coverage of his book.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 08:30:24 2015 No.2245178 >>2245169 Aaah ok, that sounds better, I never saw that show so thanks for cleaning that up.

Joseph Joestar AFK Fri Feb 20 08:55:28 2015 No.2245207

>>2245169
I dunno man, it'd be fun to misrepresent white people and totally coon it up just to be a troll.

>>2245129
>>2245170
Basically it started and ended when Sketcz tried to appeal to Gamergate by out of the blue blaming feminism and the leftist media for his failure as at being a man, and failed hard. People don't give Gamergate supporters enough credit, I mean, they were able to smell bullshit, which is more than I can say for a lot of his Kickstarter backers who apparently can't form their own informed opinions.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 09:34:34 2015 No.2245246 >>2239373 his segment starts at about 17:30 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2h1xqq

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 10:32:12 2015 No.2245332 >>2245207 Gamergaters able to smell bullshit? Please.

>>	Joseph Joestar AFK Fri Feb 20 11:03:05 2015 No.2245371 >>2245332 I'd say it seems like it for the most part. Aside from that blogjob guy and ralphretort, it's not like they're exactly a united front for sketu-kun.

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 12:44:39 2015 No.2245523

>>2245169
>>2245125
I love how you morons don't actually read the posts above you. It's been fucking explained that it's a documentary show about crowdsourcing.>>2239373
>>2245118
>On this topic, apparently there were some that were pissed at comments that he made in his Kickstarter updates; he said something along the lines of "the Japanese were untrustworthy", but didn't figure that some of the developers and other Japanese users were following the project.
[citation needed]

>>	Joseph Joestar AFK Fri Feb 20 12:48:14 2015 No.2245527 >>2245523 I'm not your mom, do it yourself.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 12:52:07 2015 No.2245537 >>2245527 I have no horse to bet on in this race, but If you're going to shitfling on a guy, at least provide evidence for what you're saying.

>>	Joseph Joestar AFK Fri Feb 20 13:03:27 2015 No.2245554 >>2245537 I would have if you weren't being so nasty to that other guy.

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 13:14:56 2015 No.2245571

>>2245554
The other guys were making wrong assumptions of what kind of TV program Sketcz was when it was already explained what it was, so they deserve to be call out on their ignorance.

Either way, you're participating in a thread where everyone is shit-flinging on someone in some form or another, so it's best to back up what you're saying in some form.

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