@ Taroyamada: I have to thank you, for your continued support and understanding towards how devastated I am after hearing this news.
It is SEGA shattering news to me and I am afraid it will be very hard to get over it given the current situation, it may be a deal breaker.
@ everyone else:
I can not question Nagoshi's legitimacy as a SEGA designer cause his entire career has been modeled by the SEGA I grew up with, but he's turned out as such a sleaz ball.
The way he dresses and the games he designs with breast ogling buttons and hot tub masturbation mini game, his games are marketed around sex and violence which is a part of life and all very enjoyable that is why it is a part of so many other games.
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Shenmue had a red light district, with hostesses and the Yakuza very much present and it showed them accurately with people warning you how wrong they are and then people telling you how cultured they are. It is also true Yakuza is so much deeper then how it is marketed and if you pick up and play it, while it has a lot of ridiculous crap in it the message deep down is heart warming and 100% true blue. I just wish they toned down the sleazy marketing, just look at the damn box art for Yakuza 4.
I stuck with my Dreamcast all the way till 2005 and bought my GameCube (followed by PS2 an year later) arguably during the worst era to be a SEGA fan around the time Shadow the Hedgehog came out needless to say it was my first game for the system. This was around the time SEGA had minimized almost all internal development and were publishing tons of crap.
I quickly went back and started buying the games I had missed out over the last 3 - 4 (2001 - 2005) years all made by the AM teams and they were fantastic just like all the games on the Dreamcast.
I researched to see why these SEGA games weren't good, it was due to the downsizing and staff departures that AM games weren't on the same quality.
Then we had games like Alien Syndrome, Golden Axe, VectorMan 3 solidified my belief that developers associated with the franchise can make the best game for it. I have love and respect for them and I am willing to give them another chance even if they fail cause they have given me great games in the past.
So one of the games I played on PS2 was the super fantastic Shinobi and it's slightly disappointing (only in terms of plot) sequel Nightshade, I really really love them. Then I bought the DMC trilogy for PS2, the first game is horribly dated and not fun. It appears at the time of it's release even it wasn't fun as it was more centered around it's brilliant graphics than fun gameplay.
Given that it came out the same year as Shinobi, it doesn't hold a candle to it. Especially since it is termed a hack and slash similar to the classic games of old (GAMESPOT). Then I checked out the sequel which was a critical failure where as Nightshade was a commercial failure, and a critical success a huge improvement over Shinobi.
DMC3 might be fantastic but it really doesn't matter cause Shinobi didn't get to make the 3rd game. Instead SEGA started publishing those Tenchu games which I didn't bother with a few years back SEGA deal with the Tenchu studio expired and it was time for Shinobi to return instead we got Bayonetta.
So I really needed Shinobi 3.
Noriyoshi Oba is my favorite developer and IT MATTERS A HELL OF A LOT TO ME that the developers involved with the franchise (company) make games in the genre (for the targeted demographic) cause if they don't we get Golden Axe: Beast Rider, and if they are involved and make a crappy game we get Altered Beast which I can live with.
CAPCOM went downhill just like SEGA just look at the new Resident Evil game and D.M.C, they look so uncapcom that is because their developers left and SEGA gave them a 2nd chance.
WHY DIDN'T THOSE ASSHOLES GIVE THEIR OWN A SECOND CHANCE!!!!
WHY THE FUCK DOES CLOVER GET A SECOND CHANCE WHEN WOW ENTERTAINMENT, SMILEBIT, UGA, OVERWORKS AND ALL THE OTHER GEMS FAID INTO OBSECURITY AND YOU ASSHOLES JUST ACCEPT IT!
STILL SUPPORTING SEGA, AND WORRYING ABOUT THEIR FINANCES AND BUYING GAMES JUST TO GIVE THEM MONEY, WHEN ALL IT DOES IS REINFORCE THEIR POLICY ON MAKING CRAP!
I WON'T BUY BAYONETTA CAUSE I DON'T WANT BAYONETTA, I WANT SHINOBI 3 and that makes me a true blue SEGA FAN where as you will buy anything with the SEGA LOGO on it.
While I expected Sharky to do the exact opposite of what I do, as in most cases we are polar opposite and he'll probably even be fine if Platinum Games makes Shenmue 3, I am really disappointed in a lot of people here, rationalizing such a loss as a usual rant, or downplaying the significance of Noriyoshi Oba as a whole.
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
He was the head of OverWorks which makes him responsible for the classic Streets of Rage and Shinobi on MegaDrive, Clockwork Knight on Sega Saturn, Skies of Arcadia on Dreamcast, and Shinobi, Nightshade & BloodWillTell for PS2.
It doesn't matter what role he had.
Madeline Shrouder wasn't the creator of Sonic but without her the original would've been like Sonic 06 ending with Sonic making out with Madonna!
If She was still around many of the things you hate about the classic Adventure games or 06 wouldn't have happened. PEOPLE MATTER, IT IS PEOPLE WHO MAKE THE GAMES!!!
That said, their is still a little hope in me Obha might be gone but he was instrumental in creating Team Valkyria as many members in that studio worked under him and Rieko Kodama and since I finally have a PS3 now it is only a matter of time before I get my hands on that gem.
@ Sanus: Your little remark was probably the thing that single handedly hurt me the most. Imagine all the time you've ranted on about Ecco and I've always empathized with you.
Nice to see how you finally acted when I was in a similar position.
