Well idols and famous people always had to apologize publicly for stuff they did in their private life over there.
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DQ creator Yuji Horii divorces wife, $10m settlement, marries DQIX staff member in '20 year affair'
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Well idols and famous people always had to apologize publicly for stuff they did in their private life over there.
This is an unfortunate and sad mistake on his part no doubt. I don't like anybody getting hurt in this manner but we don't know all the details so let's not jump to the conclusion that he is scum of the earth.
Yeah, what a asshole. Many people from every company in this industry and pretty much every place is one then. lol
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I never really like how Dragon Quest relies so heavily on Auteur Theory. Not only is it misleading but it creates this myth surrounding how Horii, Sugiyama and Toriyama are prefect creative genesis that can't do no wrong. Viewing other people as such never ends well...
This is weird to me to see like a scandal type thing posted about a game industry person. Thought the press and general public didn't really care about game makers personal lives compared to celebrities and government officials.
I don't know about this individual person, but people at the top of their game in video game development are making a lot more money than you seem to presume they are. It certainly wouldn't surprise me to hear that the creator of a very successful series would pay out a 10m USD divorce settlement.
And tonight FF dug it's own grave and stands over the hole ready to belly flop in.
This seems like a topic we should discuss in detail about.
(Not thread whining, just curious why the personal lives of game developers should be discussed in a video game forum).
(Not thread whining, just curious why the personal lives of game developers should be discussed in a video game forum).
A lot of celebrities gets a comeback by coming clean. Their personal lives is just a cog in the entertainment industry. Unless you're suspected of doing drugs, cheating is not that big of a deal career-wise. Even opens up opportunities
To be fair you don't usually see a videogame IP literally owned by individuals. Usually the publisher owns everything, so Horii is kinda a special case. DQ is his baby, not SE's, but his.
I imagine that this is super common in Japan (as it is everywhere else in the world), but it only seems fitting that everyone within the "DQ Creator Trinity" is marred by some sort of controversy now.
I doubt that this'll affect his standing within S-E though. I'm sure they're all at it.
And if Sugayama and Toriyama haven't affected the series in Japan, I doubt this will either.
I doubt that this'll affect his standing within S-E though. I'm sure they're all at it.
And if Sugayama and Toriyama haven't affected the series in Japan, I doubt this will either.
Yeah this
lol isn't it. I would gladly get cheated with a law like that.
The real villain of this story are the japanese marriage laws. The guy didn't fuck prostitutes while doing cocaine. He has married the other woman after 20 years, he just fell in love.
Kind of iffy on bosses getting it on with their employees. There are too many potential red flags in that power dynamic that complicate consent, regardless of whether or not they married 20 years later. The implication of getting fired or having your career hindered if you reject their advances looms over that entire relationship.
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Even though guys like Horii, Sugiyama and Toriyama own those companies, they have a lot of people working along side them.
For example a lot of Dragon Quest art isn't drawn by Toriyama, instead they are drawn by multiple artist that draw similar/trained in his style(they are usually hired by Toriyama company). Even the current art we see today isn't drawn by him. Also, during the early days, Horii would just give vague hints to Nakamura and he would have to figure out what Horii wants by mostly himself. Now Horii has a bunch of assistant writers who work along side him. He might have the final say, but he's not the one coming up with every single idea.
You can read more of Horii and Nakamura's work related relationship here: http://shmuplations.com/dragonquestiii/
So the truth is that Dragon Quest is developed by a lot of people, not just those three. Not only that, they change development teams for the mainline games every so often. I do agree that they have influence over the series' identity in someway(even though I'm not too found with the series' ties with Sugiyama). However, I think this auteur theory preservative tends to erase the hard work everyone else has done. Especially considering that these people lack the celebrity status that Horii, Sugiyama and Toriyama have.
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You complained so much about everything, yet, you are here.
As I said in another thread, some people here just hate for the sake of hating. And another poster said that I was in 4chan when I said that some people call this forum a hate group...
Yo what? I complained about the article going over someone's personal life tabloid-like, not about the thread. Also, "hate"? I'm not hating on anyone buddy.
I fail to see what peoples private lives are to do with me on a video game forum. Might just be me though. It's totally irrelevant who someone is sleeping with or not or married to or not married or divorced etc. Again might just be me. 1. I am not the Moral Police. 2. I don't give a monkeys.
It's just a funny topic dude, if you dont care why are you posting in it?
I am indeed. I saw the thread, read the op, saw some of the posts and I made one myself. Almost as if I was on a forum. It wasn't a drive by. It was a legit post. I was calling into question what business the thread had at all being on a video game forum - and if you can't do that within the thread itself I am not sure where you can. Pop it on over in EtcetEra where people's private lives are discussed freely - no problem.
This forum is not just for the games themselves, we also discuss figures in the industry and other side topics. If you can't comprehend the fact that this is about a head developer of a massive franchise doing something funnily stupid, and therefor video game forum related, then you should think a bit harder. you're making a fuss over something that happens all the time. You don't decide what is "video game" enough lmao.
If it had anything even tangentially related to the said video game then I would agree with you. Take out 'DQ Creator' and it's a nothing story about nothing to do with video games or the related topics. It's some people's private lives is all. You can see it's not really a hotbed of interest - with it only being 4 pages so I assume no one else cares much like I don't. I am not saying close it, I am not saying you can't have it, I am not saying you can't talk about it. I am saying it's not video game related at all in any way. It's gossip on peoples private lives. By all means gossip away. By replying twice I've given it more thought than it deserves and I'll leave it there.
