[SonicBreak712]

Hi.

So, I think Yuji Naka gets it worse than George Lucas.

An article has been spreading about him apparently getting fired six months before the release of Balan Wonderworld, a  game that I am not afraid to admit that I had a blast with, and everyone is saying good riddance to him.

I don't know or care about other people's perception of him. What I do care about is that he and Naoto Ohshima and Yuji Uekawa have brought wondrous designs and concepts into the world, and I as an aspiring creator feel obligated to focus on all the good they have all done instead of wasting time and energy on the "bad."

If others would like to join, please feel free.

[rapappa the pepper]

I don't know how do i celebrate, and i don't think it would, change anything, specially here. Well, he was one of the main ppl to get Sonic working, i guess that's a celebration, even if, i have zero anymore.

[SonicBreak712]

I'm sorry people choose to be hopeless.

I've already told my story of being viciously targeted by the gaming community for being mainly an ardent supporter of Sonic and Sega to this very day. I'm sick of what I unabashedly find to be a defamation campaign. I've heard people tell me that my special interest in Sonic deserves to be taken away from me, that deserve to be bullied until I'm on suicide watch, and even that Sonic infantilizes people in general.

Every single little thing that Sonic does, has done, and apparently ever will do is so profoundly incorrect that it's cursed as far as the gaming community is concerned. If that's how it is, I want no part of it.

Gamers have been demanding for the most permanent solutions to problems that are so temporary.

[Sinister Cat]

  Granted I'm not too deep into the sonic fandom and aside from going back to mobile game dev I don't know what Yuji Naka is up to, but I haven't seen anything that is outright Yuji Naka hate lately. While I don't believe Naka deserved to be canned from squenix, Balan really showed how married he is with his old hat values of game design. I hope it was a wake up call for him that there is indeed a thing as 'too simple' and I do hope he does get another shot somewhere else to make something big again.

[SonicBreak712]

Granted I'm not too deep into the sonic fandom and aside from going back to mobile game dev I don't know what Yuji Naka is up to, but I haven't seen anything that is outright Yuji Naka hate lately. While I don't believe Naka deserved to be canned from squenix, Balan really showed how married he is with his old hat values of game design. I hope it was a wake up call for him that there is indeed a thing as 'too simple' and I do hope he does get another shot somewhere else to make something big again.

Stay away from Siliconera and Kotaku.

Klonoa has always been "too simple" in my mind, but I still have a blast with it anyway even though I do look forward to a time where even Klonoa can evolve into something like Sonic. It doesn't have undergo a complete overhaul, mind you.

[the_darai]

Stay away from Siliconera and Kotaku.

Klonoa has always been "too simple" in my mind, but I still have a blast with it anyway even though I do look forward to a time where even Klonoa can evolve into something like Sonic. It doesn't have undergo a complete overhaul, mind you.

...What are you on about? They said nothing about where they got their sources.

Also Klonoa IS a simple game, but the thing about it is there's many mechanics around it, so that it keeps gameplay fresh.