Haha this is amazing. She must be a true collaborator to be able to be this blunt with her boss. Really looking forward to seeing what exactly ghost wire is.
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Ghostwire director Ikumi Nakamura has developed quite the fan art following [see staff posts]
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She must be incredibly, incredibly good at her job. In most corporate cultures, but especially Japanese corporate culture, you do not undermine the boss in public like this unless you've got some fucking clout. What other games has she worked on? This week is the first time I've ever heard of her.
Because it's used primarily by alt-right/GG figures, (and their i'm not racist BUT allies), to downplay ANY sort of discussion that points out problematic things. It's about as useful for discussion as calling someone an SJW.
OR develop a cult following where she can do no wrong and ensure future success for herself!
For sure. This lady is devilishly smart and knows what's she's doing.
I bet you she's all, "ALL ACCORDING TO KEIKAU" right now and Mikami must be proud of his sith voice 'apprentice"
Maybe it's time we do away with press conferences and directs in the future, and just release elaborate sizzle reels.
Just because it happens doesn't mean every ally is secretly a Nick Robinson waiting to be exposed.
Okami and Bayonetta.
Has been appointed by Mikami in 2013 as one of three possible game directors to succeed him at Tango.
This game will be amazing, I'm feeling it.
I hate to point back at my post again but we had the exact same reaction to Unravel Dev when he came up and was nervous and with the reaction to Davide Soliani. It's also discounting a lot of female artists who have made art of her because they like her as well and/or look up to her.
Yeah I agree. I feel the discussion is just going to go even more toxic as it goes on. Shame because she deserves the attention/respect of the community for the amount of amazing projects she's worked on.
Cool cool. She's been at this for a while, then. I hope the game turns out good. Bring on some gameplay, Tango! I have a lot of problems with TEW2 but I'm not willing to write them off as a studio yet.
Oh sorry lol
I basically mean unless you feel threatened somehow, letting nerds salivate over you could be advantageous.
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I'll take this in another direction.
My mom says Nakamura is very cute and "bubbly", she doesn't know her work but appreciated her enthusiasm and presentation style. Is that ok?
It definitely escalated now. I guess I can't blame it considering the way it is framed with the title, honestly, as much as I understood the reference and that the inention is not out of malice.
Amazing, Smasher. The game will be Amazing.
Just embrace the hype.
Keanu was charming and cute yesterday and so was she. I don't have any alternative motives. Sorry people
I have absolutely no problem with female artists being inspired by her and wanting to pay tribute to someone they think is super awesome. That's great! I'm just always uncomfortable when a bunch of guys start falling over themselves and using words like "cute" to describe a working professional who's doing a really important job on a game like she's some kind of music video idol.
I pretty much agree, it was not a good way to make my point, nor would I ever want to associate myself with alt-right imbeciles. It's better to make a clear and genuine argument than to stifle conversation by tossing out one-liners.
There's a difference between her enjoying the fanart and you getting smug and repeatedly posting about how you can and should be able to talk about what you think of women's appearances
And for record, Scarlet Johansson has numerous times expressed displeasure at people talking about her appearance to her in interviews. But she is not the woman this topic about and they don't share the same opinion.
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But it's not like she gave some dry business presentation. Some of her mannerisms on stage were actually quite similar to a music idol
I don't know how much the rest of you know about Japanese corporate culture (I'm an expert), but undermining and clout are huge parts of it.
I'm sorry I'm getting confused here.
Why am I not allowed to comment on a woman's appearance?
EXACTLY!! She was exaggerating herself to make an impression! Again, all a method of marketing yourself
Seems less like it's about "motives" to me and more about behaving in a way that won't alienate other people. The fan-art was appreciated by her, but you can definitely go overboard too.
Okami, Bayo and Evil Within. Artist roles on all 3. She's creative director for Ghostwire.
Ah, so just there for you to be passive aggressive. Got it.
A: She's not a celebrity who regularly attends the red carpet
B: People did not draw a bazillion person fanart of Keanu in a moe-style
It's false-equivalence, baby.
lmao amazing. Reminds me of when Shimomura roasted Nomura for wanting to make a musical game.
What's funny is that she was actually the first to do that during her Evil Within days
Yea ofc.
"Wow you're virtue signaling"
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"Virtue signaling exists and every time a person raises a concern about a pattern of behavior/treatment towards POC/women/LBGT/etc. they're just faking concern for internet points"
is one of those easily acceptable arguments for people who are not marginalized to accept, because it's often presented:
"Doesn't it just SUCCCCKKKKKKKKK that people are so SERIOUSSSSSSS ALL THE TIME BROOOOOOOOO, ughhhhhhh"
lmao amazing. Reminds me of when Shimomura roasted Nomura for wanting to make a musical game.
Oh my god I've never seen this. I can just picture Shimomura's face as Nomura goes off on another stupid tangent like this, knowing full well she'd be the one in charge of the music for it.
LMAOlmao amazing. Reminds me of when Shimomura roasted Nomura for wanting to make a musical game.
This is the best.
She's been somewhat known for a bit now, specifically from the The Evil Within franchise, because Mikami had been talking her up over the years as his successor of sorts. Interestingly she was originally slated to direct Evil Within 2, but it was given to someone else iirc. Presumably it was because she was getting to create this new IP instead.
Cool. This game seems way more conceptually interesting than TEW2 anyway.
This is so cool, I can't wait to see her have full creative control. Gonna be very special.
Nah.
The fact she is cute is a bonus, people already loved most of her designs and attitude and it's awesome that she gets to be director.
Also completely ignoring the fact that women loved her as much as the men if not more since is a clear inspiration for women working in the industry as you can see on twitter.
And ignoring the fact that she has no issue with what's going on, which is what matters really instead of how people feel like it's offensive.
Honestly, the sheer amount of people obnoxiously spouting "ew, people are gonna get creepy and sexualize her" pisses me off more than anything. Could you just...shut up, please? No one's done that. No one's bringing attention to that. No one wants to see that or even think of that. You're putting that shit into people's heads. All of this fanart has been wholesome, fun shit. Why do you have to try to ruin that? If creepy weird shit pops up, then yeah, shame that shit, ban them, report them. But you're the only ones bringing that up. It's like seeing a retail store clerk and telling people "hey, nobody better think about this person sexually". People are trying to show appreciation of a charismatic female director. Stop inventing an issue that hasn't arisen and trying to make everyone uncomfortable. You're being gross.
A: What does this have to do with anything?
B:
It was a joke, baby.
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At times I feel people WANT to feel offended so that they can feel better about themselves.
E3 is full of corporate people that all act and behave the same. People like her are fun. Bethesda's show was terrible and she really shined in all its blandness. Stuff like the older interviews with Mikami just reinforce that she's an amazing person. Honestly, I hope more people like her were at E3 presenting their games.
Alright, I guess I misjudged that xdA: What does this have to do with anything?
B:
It was a joke, baby.
Cool poster btw. Keanu and her were definitely the stars of E3. Very surprising to have such a personality-presence with Kojima being far away. Hopefully Doug Bowser of Nintendo is next in line? :3
Bonus points: Keanu with the anime finger swirlA: What does this have to do with anything?
B:
It was a joke, baby.