You can be so damn annoying.
Kobun Heat = Chris Kohler. Author of Power-Up and writer for Wired. He's at least as credible as IGN. And as you can see from those quotes Itoi is not a game developer. He's an author.
Tsubasa no Tenshi Wrote:All this really meens is that we probally won't see Mother 4 until the year 2020... either that or Nintendo simply will have someone else work on it instead.
Kobun Heat Wrote:There's about as much chance of that as there is of Bloomsbury having somebody else write Harry Potter books after J.K. Rowling finishes the last one.
Ranger X Wrote:Just change the producer. Like if the franchise was owned by this guy or something LOL
I don't see a problem and you guys seriously shouldn't give a fuck.
Kobun Heat Wrote:Itoi isn't the producer -- he's the writer, and he's famous in Japan. Not nerd-famous like Miyamoto, famous famous. Household word famous. Mother without him is literally like the scenario I described above.
He probably doesn't own it outright, but Nintendo wouldn't even consider doing it without him.
Ranger X Wrote:Imagine if it's the same guys as usual that are working on the game except for the writer.
Kobun Hea Wrote:Imagine if I was right and you were wrong.
Let me say this again: it is the equivalent of pulling JK Rowling from the Harry Potter series. Whether or not they could is entirely irrelevant. Mother is popular because it is a creation of Itoi.
Kobun Heat Wrote:I realize that Mother is a special case, which is why I've gone to some lengths to explain it rather than just sit back and assume that it is obvious. Mother came about as a game that was written by Itoi; that is its primary reason for being and the reason it sells. Dude's name is on the box.
Kobun Heat Wrote:In the credits for 3, Itoi is listed first, as "Story, Scenario, and Message." The game has three producers and two "progress supervisors," none of which are Itoi, which cements the impression in my mind that Itoi probably couldn't produce his way out of a paper bag.
But that is tangential. Mother games are like Itoi books; if he's not writing them there's no point. The end. For more, see Power-Up, pages 78-80.
Kobun Heat = Chris Kohler. Author of Power-Up and writer for Wired. He's at least as credible as IGN. And as you can see from those quotes Itoi is not a game developer. He's an author.