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[GigaBowser]

One of the last truly legendary active visionaries and developers in gaming.

Let's take a second to appreciate his work.

Year	Game	Role
1996	Resident Evil	System planner
Arthur to Astaroth no Nazomakaimura: Incredible Toons	Planner
1998	Resident Evil 2	Director
2001	Devil May Cry	Director, story
2002	Resident Evil Zero	Original game design
2003	Viewtiful Joe	Director
2004	Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations	Japanese voice of Godot
Viewtiful Joe 2	Story
2005	Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble!
2006	Ōkami	Director, story
2009	Bayonetta
2013	The Wonderful 101
2014	Bayonetta 2	Supervisor, story
Cancelled[a]	Scalebound	Director, story
2019	Astral Chain	Supervisor
2021	World of Demons
2022	Sol Cresta[59][60]	Creative director, story
Bayonetta 3[61]	Executive director, story
TBA	Project G.G.[62]	Director

 

[Team Andromeda]

And the best blocker on Twitter

 

[remember_spinal]

He’s dusty

 

[cireza]

He has been associated to too much bad press in recent years, and PG certainly haven't been that impressive with their last games.

 

[MilkLizard]

And the best blocker on Twitter

BEWARE MY RULES INSECTS!!!

 

[01011001]

PG certainly haven't been that impressive with their last games.

 

[adamsapple]

And the best blocker on Twitter

Yeah about that..

 

[hemo memo]

Resident Evil is Mikami. Bayonetta is okay. Viewtiful Joe is extremely overrated.

 

[cireza]

This was pretty meh and 30fps. They have to do better than this.

 

[kunonabi]

He’s dusty

Pretty much. Hasn't really done anything worthwhile since W101. I was hoping G.G. would be a return to form but Im not sure I care any more.

 

[Arachnid]

Holy shit, he directed RE2 (I thought that was all Mikami) AND the original Devil Mary Cry?

Hellena pls go

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

In Kamiya we trust

The Wonderful 101 and all his directed games are Pure Platinum and still would support Scalebound if it sees the light of day

The funniest part is, I thought I made this thread and someone bumped it XD

 

[01011001]

This was pretty meh and 30fps. They have to do better than this.

pretty meh? this game has the most interesting fighting system of the last 10 to 15 years, and it plays well even at 30fps on a tabled sized console. I feel this as a massive win, and I am certainly not alone in this.

sure having it on a better console to make 60fps possible would be preferable but still, what they pushed out was great

 

[GigaBowser]

He has been associated to too much bad press in recent years, and PG certainly haven't been that impressive with their last games.

I'm not sure sure what you're talking about because I don't follow these things other than the recent Bayonetta pay thing,

but the quality of his games is amazing, and Bayonetta 3 will be as well, which is all that's important to me while I'm playing.

 

[ByWatterson]

HOT TAKE: Voice acting in silly games like Bayonetta isn't hard and the low pay isn't that big of a deal.

 

[GigaBowser]

HOT TAKE: Voice acting in silly games like Bayonetta isn't hard and the low pay isn't that big of a deal.

I only care about the gameplay in these games.

The stories are hilariously bad.

 

[remember_spinal]

HOT TAKE: Voice acting in silly games like Bayonetta isn't hard and the low pay isn't that big of a deal.

People can say this while for the past year throwing an absolute fit about Mario’s voice actor not being cast in the movie lol

 

[kunonabi]

People can say this while for the past year throwing an absolute fit about Mario’s voice actor not being cast in the movie lol

Not to mention when Frank West's, Snake's, Travis Touchdown's VAs, etc. we're replaced or in danger of being replaced it was perfectly fine to be upset. Now it conveniently doesnt matter and voice work in video games isn't important at all.

 

[ByWatterson]

People can say this while for the past year throwing an absolute fit about Mario’s voice actor not being cast in the movie lol

Chris Pratt sucking doesn't make Charles Martinet a great artist or anything.

These aren't the Troy Bakers you're looking for.

 

[SLB1904]

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

 

[TwiztidElf]

The mob disgusts me more than ever.
Everyone with a pitchfork in hand needs to take a good hard look at themselves.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

He’s been involved in some great games

The way he comes across on twitter on occasion he strikes me as the kind of guy who would fart up your nose and be insulted that you gagged

 

[01011001]

People can say this while for the past year throwing an absolute fit about Mario’s voice actor not being cast in the movie lol

it's a bit different isn't it? Martinet voices what is essentially the Mickey Mouse of video games, in fact Mickey Mouse has fallen behind Mario in popularity a long time ago.
meanwhile Bayonetta is a game series with 2 released entries that are mediocrely popular at best and only played by a small subsection of hardcore gamers.

so we are comparing THE BIGGEST video game character of all time... vs. a character from an almost failing game series.

Martinet voiced Mario since the 90s in dozens of highly successful games. he voiced him on an E3 Booth where he interacted with people on the show floor live using a 3D animated Mario on a screen. and he also voices dozens of other characters in the Mario titles.
he also created the Mario voice as we know it, the way Mario talks was entirely a creation of his... he basically was part of makin Mario who he is.
he is in the Guinness Book of World Records for voicing the same character in more than 100 game releases

meanwhile Hellena Taylor got the VA director's directions to sound like a posh british lady and did that pretty well for 2 games (plus voice samples for Smash I guess)

TLDR: this isn't comparable.

(also Martinet is in the Mario movie where he will apparently have multiple cameo voices)

 

[Nankatsu]

Would have a much more deserved recognition if it were multiplatform.

Game is awesome though.

 

[01011001]

Would have a much more deserved recognition if it were multiplatform.

Game is awesome though.

hey, it sold better than Bayonetta 1 and 2, so I bet Nintendo saw it as a medium success for a completely new franchise

 

[bender]

Deleting your Twitter account, Kamiya?

 

[Puscifer]

I was bored of this game a hour in, all that detective nonsense felt like padding.

 

[01011001]

I was bored of this game a hour in, all that detective nonsense felt like padding.

the game doesn't even really start until 1h to 2h in. the start of the game is really not optimal

 

[Neff]

Resident Evil is Mikami.

Kamiya was a planner on the first game, which is a pretty big role. He also did some level design work on RE0 after his RE3 got scrapped which isn't mentioned often.

 

[Skifi28]

I was about to say how great he is, but he blocked me.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Redditcore thread. Everyone knows he's legendary.

 

[GeekyDad]

And on a side note, this thread has been quite helpful. Added a few users to my ignore list.

 

[FUBARx89]

Holy shit, he directed RE2 (I thought that was all Mikami) AND the original Devil Mary Cry?

Hellena pls go

Naw. Mikami was producer for RE2 and constantly fought with Kamiya about it and tried to influence the dev team to how he wanted RE2.

He eventually stopped and demanded to see the game once a month & that was it.

 

[Haint]

HOT TAKE: Voice acting in silly games like Bayonetta isn't hard and the low pay isn't that big of a deal.

It wasn't even low pay, they were paying her like $250 hour. There just weren't that many hours, there aren't a lot of lines in an action. Woman has delusions of grandeur, thinking a videogame VA deserves many 10's or 100's of thousands of dollars for 15-20 hours of booth work. News flash, you're not a celebrity voicing a Disney movie.

The people defending this woman are fucking retarded, 90% of them probably make less than $15/hour stanning for somebody making $250. Same deal with the Jason Shreier brigrade wailing about crunch for people earning $120,000/yr+in cushy offices with juice bars and nap corners. Brains so smooth you could play hockey on them.

 

[Rat Rage]

One of the last truly legendary active visionaries and developers in gaming.

Let's take a second to appreciate his work.

Year	Game	Role
1996	Resident Evil	System planner
Arthur to Astaroth no Nazomakaimura: Incredible Toons	Planner
1998	Resident Evil 2	Director
2001	Devil May Cry	Director, story
2002	Resident Evil Zero	Original game design
2003	Viewtiful Joe	Director
2004	Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations	Japanese voice of Godot
Viewtiful Joe 2	Story
2005	Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble!
2006	Ōkami	Director, story
2009	Bayonetta
2013	The Wonderful 101
2014	Bayonetta 2	Supervisor, story
Cancelled[a]	Scalebound	Director, story
2019	Astral Chain	Supervisor
2021	World of Demons
2022	Sol Cresta[59][60]	Creative director, story
Bayonetta 3[61]	Executive director, story
TBA	Project G.G.[62]	Director

 

[Captain Toad]

That game wasn't great.

 

[Urban]

Ive never played a Game of his.

Can you guys pls recommend one?

 

[Arachnid]

Naw. Mikami was producer for RE2 and constantly fought with Kamiya about it and tried to influence the dev team to how he wanted RE2.

He eventually stopped and demanded to see the game once a month & that was it.

Good. I don't want to attribute that survival horror RE goodness to anyone but Mikami.

Between DMC, Bayonetta, V Joe, and Astral Chain though, Kamiya knows his cracked out action. I'll give him that. Surprisingly, I always thought he made Vanquish too. Turns out that's actually Mikami.

 

[Represent.]

Hasn't done anything to push the medium forward since Devil May Cry.

 

[bender]

Ive never played a Game of his.

Can you guys pls recommend one?

RE2, Viewtiful Joe and Bayo are musts.

 

[GigaBowser]

That game wasn't great.

Leave it up to someone who likes games for babies like Captain Toad not to like Astral Chain.

 

[Skifi28]

That game wasn't great.

That butt though...

 

[Neff]

Ive never played a Game of his.

Can you guys pls recommend one?

 

[Kataploom]

WTF is this thread? Why on earth am I agreeing with a GigaBowser post?

Visionary or not, the man is great for this job, the only problem I see with him is that his artistic vision (characters, story, dialogs, etc.) are way too outdated and seem like trying to appeal some darky teenargers from early 2000s, but to be quite honest I like that from him, it's just not good for marketing

 

[GigaBowser]

 

[Majukun]

him and miyamoto are there in my hall of fame of videogame directors...this being said,w101 didn't attract me that much, nor did sol cresta

and i'm still pissed at him that he has not directed bayo 2 and 3

 

[GigaBowser]

him and miyamoto are there in my hall of fame of videogame directors...this being said,w101 didn't attract me that much, nor did sol cresta

and i'm still pissed at him that he has not directed bayo 2 and 3

Kojima as well.

Legends.

 

[Saucy Papi]

It wasn't even low pay, they were paying her like $250 hour. There just weren't that many hours, there aren't a lot of lines in an action. Woman has delusions of grandeur, thinking a videogame VA deserves many 10's or 100's of thousands of dollars for 15-20 hours of booth work. News flash, you're not a celebrity voicing a Disney movie.

The people defending this woman are fucking retarded, 90% of them probably make less than $15/hour stanning for somebody making $250. Same deal with the Jason Shreier brigrade wailing about crunch for people earning $120,000/yr+in cushy offices with juice bars and nap corners. Brains so smooth you could play hockey on them.

Oh wow, so she would only do 15-20 hours worth of work? I'd kill for that pay.

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

Yeah about that..

 

[Nocturno999]

Lots of people here downplaying him smh.