/v/ - Video Games

He's a businessman and mostly a good one, started making a lot of mistakes because he took the microsoft FUD shilling really hard during the 7th gen but found himself in a very prominent position at capcom, very influential. Journos often miscredited him as the father of mega man and he exploited that to his interest, as most business men do. Whenever an article about how Japan is no longer relevant in gaming would be around they would make sure to tack the title "father of mega man" as the source. In the 7th gen Microsoft ramped up a FUD campaign to shoe horn the control of the industry to prominent Western studios, it worked for a while but what we're seeing today is the remains of it while Japan is recovering. Inafune was a primary force in this campaign often expressing his failures as a leader in Capcom as a problem for the entire Japanese industry, obviously this hit everyone pretty hard and was tough for morale both outside and especially inside of Capcom.

After making a few Western focused titles like Dead Rising and Lost Planet they decided it would be best to outsource development of future installments despite them being very good games because of their Japanese touches. Obviously this outsourcing was an utter mess but just as Inafune's plan started to really roll out he ducked out of Capcom, Capcom was left with a dead end MML3 project with no director, a ton of contracts they had already spent money on and obviously had no choice but to fulfill and the little businessman got away with a few flop corporations he keeps trying to run like Western businesses, as well as a funny Kickstarter story to tie it all together.

That's the story of him basically, enjoy.

>>16261815

He planned on selling M#9 back to Capcom as a Mega Man game.

>>16261868

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>>16262339

>non-clipboardimages

>>16262373

>anime

>it's all terrible low framerate CG

I'm still curious about where these 4'5 million dollars were spent. Any ideas?

>>16263253

Much like Mr. Shitface he's bad with money and just moving them around to whatever fucking project he thinks he can make more money around, instead of focusing on a single project's quality, he just went around doing stupid shit and there's the hubris of his choice of Westerners to evangelize his game, he let a fucking worthless cunt to hijack it with no repercussions.

MN9 was the last kickstarter / preorder I ever did. I Refuse to back anything early-access again. What was funny about this entire process, the turning point was when MN9 team announced the game would be delayed b/c they wanted to launch on additional platforms as well. When they said 3DS, people began to sweat. There's no way any PC/Xbox/PS3 game would function on the 3DS.

And look what we received. Indie game tier environments that were bland and simple as fuck. The "cutscenes" (if you could call them that) were as basic as they could have done. I'm a /3/ guy— trust me, I looked at the vertices. IMVU had more complexity than MN9.

Also, as to "why" he was doing what he did– he was a businessman first and foremost. He was creating a revenue cycle from an IP that he assumed would be a hit. This is what investors look for when buying businesses. He really went big for trying to do figurines, animation, spin-offs all at the same time. The shame of it, if he would have had his team finish the launch product for PC first, sell it, then worried about the additional platforms and spinoff stuff next; the game wouldn't have suffered as much. The concept PC footage looked waaay better than what was delivered. Reeks of "this stage isn't working on Platform Y, cut it"

>>16263299

More quality ss.

Still going to chalk the entire Dina escapade to dumb luck; hysterical it happened during the #gamergate years. She really was the icing atop the shit cake. If she had a lick of professional integrity, she would have stepped down and admitted the hire was out of nepotism.

>>16263299

Why did you even back this?

>>16263319

Becuse hindsight is 20/20.

We were pitched

> "Hey, MML3 was cancelled. How about we band together and make our own for PC?"

Not

< "Hey, MML3 was cancelled. How about we band together and launch a game that can work simultaneously on PC, Xbox, PS3, 3DS, and use the extras to start some spin-off titles b/c I can't have programmers / designers / 3D artists sitting around and tweaking or fine-tuning things."

If any of you have experience with RL project management; you know what I mean.

I just love how the kickstarter page turned into basically an open forum with no moderation since concept took the money and ran.

>>16263319

The Capcom hate was high and the hunger for more Megaman games was high, hysteria, hype and delusion happened.

>>16263452

I feel a similar sense of loss, though I never paid so much as a penny into it.

>>16263253

>The Desolate Hope

that game is so fucking good, I almost feel bad the game is free.

We were warned… "he's a businessman, not a creator" was absolutely correct.

The worst part is, as a business venture, Mighty No 9 was probably considered a big success. Inafune got all the money upfront - and looking at the game we ended up getting, very likely spent very little on it. The largest part of the budget was probably the star-studded Japanese voice cast.

Of course, there's the little side-effect of it devastating Kickstarter - I don't think an event like MN9 could ever happen again, most of the backers were probably soured on crowdfunding forever. But Inafune already had his money and attracted those sweet Chinese investor dollars.

>>16263581

indeed ,we were warned

>>16263585

>Alternate title screen if you hold Jump when you click start

>Achievement for killing Bombchu with an F-Bomb

>Customizable pasta text

>/v/ doesn't care about feminist robots screeching

>You can use the bait hook to grapple the boss

That flash game is much better designed than Mighty No 9.

What is there to know?

He's a producer

He's a pretentious suit that pretends to be the real talent to make a buck