Heard he's been miserable, avoiding all MN9 questions, not giving MN9 interviews, and avoiding the subject at Cons.
Is there any way he can redeem his career? Or is it just a downward spiral from here?
Fucking ugly ass gook
>>344160092
Who cares? He squandered a huge amount of money on a piece of garbage.
>>344160092
He returns to his mansion, in his $300,000 sports car, and starts laughing for hours.
>>344160092
Can't live without Con Man
>>344160352
the music theme even played in my head
>>344160486
He was a Capcom producer, and then a CEO of a small indie game studio. I am sure he's living comfortably, but I doubt he is that rich.
He could spend 200k on an indie crew to make him a subpar nes game then use the feigned hipster excitement and damn hes still got it to get another mil from kickpatreon
>>344160352
>>344160605
What's this from?
>>344160685
>Keiji Inafune is considered by many to be one of the world’s leading authorities on video game concept development and design. He has been named one of the top 10 game creators in the world by Gametrailers.com and has authored several books. Inafune was employed at CAPCOM for 23 years where he was the former Global Head of Production and Head of Research & Development and Head of the Online Development Division. Inafune’s games generated large sales for CAPCOM over the years and included such blockbuster hit series as Mega Man, Resident Evil, Onimusha, Street Fighter, Lost Planet and Dead Rising. Inafune was directly involved in creating over 60 game titles in his career at CAPCOM and was in charge of over 900 employees. Inafune, after leaving CAPCOM, founded comcept Inc., a company dedicated to designing creative concepts. Inafune and comcept Inc. have an extensive network of the industry’s top game designers, developers, artists, engineers and producers to collaborate with. Inafune is also a frequent guest lecturer at industry events including Game Developers Conference.
>Inafune graduated from Osaka Designers’ College with a degree in Graphic Design.
Mostly the latter.
Can't say he's completely at fault here, but he still pretty much fucked up. Guy deserves to be haunted by the ghost of Megaman and those who had their promises broken. At least he released the game though? But fuck, there's so many controversies involved with it, I don't even know where to begin.
He's not even the creator of anything and tried to make everything but the game itself before the game even released, if anything, it's the fault of those who haven't bothered researching his actual background and having not divulged such information beforehand, otherwise, he wouldn't even have a quarter of the support he had. Most of the people who supported him were mostly people who were under the illusion that he was the creator of Megaman when that's barely the truth for the sake of just getting something like the Megaman games from back then.
tl;dr Megaman should stay dead at this point, there's honestly no going back now. Megaman as a whole was already milked beyond belief, if you want to play a Megaman game, play the ones that already exist, I'm sure you lot still haven't played all of the games under his name.
And for once in your pitiful life, actually bother researching who the fuck actually made your favorite games.
>>344161751
>He's not even the creator of anything
He's the creator of Mighty Number 9 and Red Ash.
>>344161751
>tl;dr Megaman should stay dead at this point, there's honestly no going back now. Megaman as a whole was already milked beyond belief, if you want to play a Megaman game, play the ones that already exist, I'm sure you lot still haven't played all of the games under his name.
This statement has as much as logic as saying you shouldn't want to buy any more games.
>>344162012
Now that you mention it, whatever the fuck happened to Red Ash? Was it cancelled? I barely hear shit about it.
>>344160092
I don't care for Megaman but he committed the eternal sin of driving Capcom to the ground during 7th gen
https://www.vg247.com/2010/09/02/inafune-devil-may-cry-5-to-have-western-touch-to-attract-buyers/
>>344161751
>And for once in your pitiful life, actually bother researching who the fuck actually made your favorite games.
A lot of the info for old games is lost, not recorded, or in Japanese. For a lot of the NES Mega Man games, we have... Inafune as the only source. And oh suprise, it turns out that according to him he was the most important person there. And there were one or two times when Inafune said he didn't create Mega man, but he always did it in a "well I made half of him" which ends up being very confusing if you don't know the whole story. Plus every media outlet still refers to Inafune as the "series creator" for Mega Man. I don't blame the average MM fan for thinking he's the creator of the series.
THis guy is going through old interviews and translating them, shedding a lot of light on development back then.
http://shmuplations.com/games/
>>344162301
Te kickstarter failed, but a Chinese Developer Fuze came in and funded it. So apparently it's still going, and Wikipedia says it has a 2017 release. But we've heard NOTHING about it. Nothing at E3. No screens, no updates.
My feeling is that Red Ash is another disaster in the making. Expect it to be released in 2019, full of bugs, and looking like a student project.
>>344162530
I'm hoping it'll turn out better than Mighty Shitty 9, but I don't have much expectations about it either.
>>344160685
I'll help you out of pity anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyZ7ss7JpzM
You didn't listen.
>>344163028
I made a collage of those.
To Kamiya this isn't controversial. To the retarded MM fanbase, that think he directed the games and made MM, it is. I remember /v/ thinking that Kamiya was jealous at Inafune or something.
>>344163028
Anyone who isn't a fucking retard knew this already, we didn't need to listen to an angtsy bald jap shitposting on twitter to realize that.
And for that matter, megamanchildren are all retards.
![421607_170472649737426_1219444462_n[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/7zeHXRZ.jpg "421607_170472649737426_1219444462_n[1].jpg")
One of the most punchable faces in gaming.
>>344163398
>Anyone who isn't a fucking retard knew this already,
99% of /v/ was excited for this. The 1% that said Inafune was a producer, not a director, or that he isn't any good, were shot down immediately. Don't re-write history.
>>344160092
>Heard he's been miserable
How do you think the people who bought his shitty game feel?Including me.
>>344163516
What platform? Please tell me PC. It's at least playable there.
>>344163139
Is that laughing tweet real? I couldn't find it when I checked.
>>344163139
He tried to warn us, we didn't listen.
He was simply trying to avoid the impending cataclysm by informing those involved about Inafune's farse.
>>344163139
Kamiya's subpar command of English often gets him in trouble. That, or people just love to misunderstand him.
>>344163665
https://twitter.com/PG_kamiya/status/746616923476000768
The first ep of that Mighty No 9 documentary reminded me a lot of the first part of that Broken Age one where it's all hopeful because it just started. Can't wait for the later on episodes when everything goes to shit it was pretty entertaining to watch for the doublefine one
>>344163960
I guess he actually doesn't think much of Inafune.
>>344160984
what's wrong with being a graphic designer.
Also, just because you go to school and get a certain degree doesn't mean that's what you're gonna be doing for the rest of your life.
>>344164241
Never watched the double fine one. What happened?
Also I'm not sure if we're even going to get more episodes. Inafune/Comcept/Inti seem to want to move past the game and pretend it doesn't exist. They might tell them to put all future episodes on hold.
>>344164241
How much stupid money did this documentary end up eating? Like 100,000 ? That's money that should go to the game.
>>344164408
Nothing wrong. But the bio there hypes up Inafune as some big time Game Creator, and calls Mega Man, Resident Evil, Onimusha, Street Fighter, Lost Planet, and Dead Rising as "Inafune's games".
Producer, CEO and illustrator perfectly sum up Inafune's jobs. He's never a director and never responsible for any of those games being big hits.
>>344164517
Oh yeah that reminds me-
What's going to happen to the MN9 animated series? Or the merchandise line? Or any of that other unnecessary crap?
>>344164809
>What's going to happen to the MN9 animated series?
Zero updates since the original teaser announced. Web site has not been updated. It still says "Q2 2016" (aka right now) as release date. Code for cancelled.
>merchandise line
Almost certainly cancelled as well.
Why is he considered a con man? He seems more like an idiot that doesn't know how to manage money. He poorly spent the money on the game, and I doubt he will make a ton of money from the game because it probably won't sell well. Or or you guys saying he's not an idiot with money but just pocketed the cash?
>>344164517
DoubleFine one started off all arts-fartsy ohh we have this beautiful idea we want to tell and all this shit and in the last 4 or 5 parts of it you can see the trainwreck and them trying to justify reusing 3/4's of the previous games levels and rushing the whole thing it was pretty entertaining.
>>344162530
>But we've heard NOTHING about it. Nothing at E3. No screens, no updates.
Maybe that's a good thing.
>>344163509
>tfw the 1%
At least we get to say we told you so.
>>344165452
Half con-man, half idiot.
The Con Man part comes from him doing very little to counter the idea that he created Mega Man. He didn't create it but he sure as hell profits from it. He even refers to himself as "Mega Man creator" in a video. Then, after MN9's release he's pretended the game doesn't exist. That's pretty scummy.
The idiot part is the horrible mismanagement of the project.
>>344165008
>right now
We're in Q3, buddy
The best part is he denounced the entire japanese industry for using tried and true games instead of pushing the bounds of innovation.
The first thing he does is make a mega man clone, and a shitty one.
Thanks inafaking
>>344166372
If only he stuck with that transformation idea and ran with it more, MN9 might have stood out more, but nah, let's just make an MMX clone and then just make you dash2win.
>>344166372
Second thing he does is make a Mega Man Legends clone. And he made this comic too.
And both use Japanese devs, whom he previously said were shit.
I think purely from a business angle, he wanted to get some safe money by establishing two clone series to be reliable yearly cash cows for the company. Then expand past them.
I'll try to memetext the whole debacle about Mighty No 9.
>2010/2011, Capcom basically cancels all upcoming Megaman projects. Megaman-fags angered and disappointed at Capcom deciding to focus on DLC-fest fighters/snubbing Megaman.
>time passes by
>August 2013, Infaune starts a kickstarter for Mighty No. 9. Most of the internet collectively gets excited for a new Megaman-esque game and a "way to stick it to Capcom."
>four gorrillion dollars later with a lot of hype on /v/
>nothing for a few months
>goobergate happens and Mighty No. 9's "community leader" starts getting involved in the project by making Beck female and claiming "she's a big Mega Man fan."
>then months of nothing, maybe a blurb at E3 here or there
>gets shit on for looking like shit
>E3 2016, cringeworthy pitch for a Mighty No. 9 animated series come in. People wonder what the hell the $4 million is being spent on.
>months of nothing, no release date, nothing
>suddenly a trailer appears showing how terrible the game looks with tryhard Old Spice ad-esque dialogue
>internet basically riffs the trailer
>game finally releases, mediocre reviews everywhere
>Inafune voices disdain, says "it's better than nothing"
>now we're here
>>344167040
>>2010/2011, Capcom basically cancels all upcoming Megaman projects.
I don't blame them really. None of the projects looked any good.
>>goobergate happens and Mighty No. 9's "community leader" starts getting involved in the project by making Beck female and claiming "she's a big Mega Man fan."
Dina pre-dates Goober-gate. Dina was just a retard SJW who got into flame wars over politics and bullshit on forums, which is the opposite of what a Community Manager should do. She didn't want to change Beck, she was just drawing Beck with her OC character (which is an idealized version of herself).
>>344167029
>that pic
>>344167553
I'd fuck a female Oompa Loompa.
If Iga pulls off even a decent game on time he'll make Inafune look like such a buffoon. Inti-Creates worked on the majority of both games.
https://twitter.com/YachtClubGames/status/746135059850158082
I want Yacht Club Games to come in and make a better Mega Man than them.
>>344168503
Inafune already makes himself look like enough of a buffoon.
>>344169181
I know, but Bloodstained looks like one of the NDS games made in full 3D. It looks like a nice, full, competent game. MN9 looked like total shit from the first gameplay videos and never got better.
>>344168503
The demo he released already does that.
>>344167029
His job was a producer, it was his job to make sure games sell.
So he noticed more than most people how japanese games were losing relevance in the west.
Problem is it never crossed his mind that western games are shit and western people dumb pigs that eat up what's offered to them. Also racism.
Can't blame him that he saw the fault in the japanese industry.
>>344165747
I can't fucking believe I paid for that shit.
I feel so dumb. I backed a lot of games on the Kickstarters. At leastWasteland 2was worth it.
>>344168503
THANK YOU IGA MAN
>>344170339
He wewent too far on shitting on the Japanese devs though. He acted like they were garbage, and Superior Westerns are just better.
A few strategies:
1. Why do some Japanese games sell well in the West? Resident Evil or Metal Gear series have always been huge. The reason is quite simple. They're serious gritty settings, with adult characters, with gritty art styles. I can totally picture why dude bros picked up RE5. So instead of abandoning Japanese devs, they should just adopt their games. Make them more like RE series and have them appeal to both Japan and the West. Make Western style games, but with the Japanese heart and spin on it.
Collaborate with Western writers and artists for new stories, settings, and gameplay. Game is made mostly by Japanese, but with some Western input.
So if anything, it's about preferences in story settings, and gameplay, rather than Japanese suck.
2. Accept certain series have limited appeal, and budget accordingly. DMC is always going to be a 2-4 million series. From does a good job with their Souls series since they know it will sell 2-4 million copies, and they have reasonable budgets so that the games are very profitable.
3. Most importantly: advertize. Japanese do not advertize in the West. Morons buy what ever they are told to buy. Hype sells games. Japanese devs failed to keep up with Western publishers when it came to marketing. Why aren't there tv ads like with Final Fantasy 7?
People give these people money, even people from /v/?
Is everyone retarded?
>>344168503
>My conman is better than your conman
Never change /v/
>>344174148
Yes. Pandering to nostalgia works.
>>344174737
>le contrarian laughing face
Iga is delivering. His game looks like a professsional video game at a modest budget, rather than the sloppy, unrefined student project that was Mighty Number 9. Iga is learning from Inafune's mistakes, and learning from successful kickstarter projects like Shovel Knight so that the project will go smoothly.
They're not trying to create a new series, or spin off movies, or adding stupid features no one cares about. He's just making a simple game. It looks like a 3D version of the NDS games. And that's all anyone ever wanted.
>>344174737
The Con Man cycle:
>This guy attached to this old series I am nostalgic for is asking for money
>I'll give him plenty!
>Whoah that turned to shit. I'll never be fooled again!
>months pass
>This guy attached to this old series I am nostalgic for is asking for money...
>>344175929
>>344174737
>>344175426
Just ignore the retard. He's been at it for weeks trying to make this into the new MN9 fiasco.
>>344161751
>At least he released the game though?
So you're saying that it's better than nothing?
>>344162530
Don't forget the anime, which did meet it's kikestarter goal.
>>344163139
>Do they know hte fact that the man who made the first Rock Man is Akira Kitamura?
HE WARNED US, IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY
>>344163429
M-my hand! It's m-moving on it's own!
>>344176105
known conman sounds korean
>>344176530
Heck no.
>>344176295
Simple changes like releasing it in a staggered format is going to make all the difference. Extra features that no one cared for are what delayed MN9. With Bloodstained, like Shovel Knight, it will follow a staggared release. So the base game gets releeased, then, say a month later, extra character gets released, and so on.
>>344166203
Even worse, it's dedder than ded.
>>344168503
THANK YOU IGA MAN
>>344160092
This fucker needs more shame and suffering, he needs some close relative or loved one to die in front of his eyes, he tricked 60k people into giving him money for a game he always knew was gonna suck
>>344176696
>>344163630
360, I havent even recieved my game yet
>>344160092
What is up with his hair?
>>344177501
>he tricked 60k people into giving him money for a game he always knew was gonna suck
Nah. He wanted to turn MN9 into a cash cow series with sequels, and movies. He is just wildly inept as a manager.
>>344177647
don't get 360. Get PC. Only version that can get consistent 60fps. And to be honest, the game isn't worth your time. Just play the classic games, Zero, Rozenkruizestillete, etc.
>>344160984
>He has been named one of the top 10 game creators in the world by Gametrailers.com
That doesnt mean shit, GT gave GRAW 9.9 and were trying to give the game a 10 but Shane stopped them
>>344164408
>what's wrong with being a graphic designer.
Only women and complete faggots are graphic designers anon
>>344177748
Mega Pony
Mega Man Unlimited
Mega Man X Street Fighter
Mega Mari
>>344178603
>Mega Pony
>Mega Mari
