Tanaka or Yoshi?

[syntaxlies]

I think I would prefer tanakas version.

what is with you and necro bumps, this thread is a year old.

[Zell]

5 years to make something.... begs the question.. what the hell was Tanaka doing for 5 years? Yoshi has done more for the game, going an up hill battle, fighting the infrastructure place by Tanaka. Yoshi-P is building a new game while refining the old one AT THE SAME TIME.

For the life of me, I do not understand the Tanaka love-fest. His arrogance and approach to game is like the Ford Model T. Great when it first came out, but completely outdated. Yoshi-P gets it, and thank goodness for that.

[Jokerz]

Tanaka became a troll as of recently. See Neo-Nyzul and ask yourself how the hell you can possibly do it reliably

[Elexia]

5 years to make something....

5 years is actually very little for a game of the newer generation, also FFXIV only went into actual production in 2007 and released in 2010. If you played FFXI in 2007+ (as any FFXI player would tell you this) it was very obvious when XIV actually moved out of the planning stages because it took them up until 2010 to actually finish WoTG, whereas every other expansion finished within a year tops excluding 'finale tie in' missions.

For the life of me, I do not understand the Tanaka love-fest.

I hope you never played and/or severely dislike these games:

Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy IV
Seiken Densestu (Secret of Mana) 2
Seiken Densetsu 3
Xenogears
Chrono Cross
Final Fantasy XI (especially the 2002-2007 time when it felt like an adventure.)
Final Fantasy III DS

Since you know..he does nothing right with games.

[Zell]

5 years is actually very little for a game of the newer generation, also FFXIV only went into actual production in 2007 and released in 2010. If you played FFXI in 2007+ (as any FFXI player would tell you this) it was very obvious when XIV actually moved out of the planning stages because it took them up until 2010 to actually finish WoTG, whereas every other expansion finished within a year tops excluding 'finale tie in' missions.



I hope you never played and/or severely dislike these games:



Since you know..he does nothing right with games.

Fine. Praise him for the past, but there's nothing in FFXIV that I can say he did right. The entire game was designed to prevent RMTs and the cost of the actual player base. Like I said before, he hasn't progressed. He was stuck in the past with absolutely no awareness of his surroundings (other mmos, the mmos genre in general, the what changes had undergone in the industry since FFXI).

That's why you have a horrific UI and concepts like FATGUE, artificial caps on the number of leves you can do a day, and the concept of LEVES being the centerpiece of the entire game. The best and worst thing about FFXIV was Tanaka. He failed so miserably that we got Yoshi-P.

If Tanaka returned to take the helm and undermined Yoshi-P i would leave the game in a heartbeat.

[Rokien]

prais him for the past LOLOL Xenogears came out recently and thats a freaking hit

[Squiggles]

Anyone in the business world can say who it was. Tanaka didn't have the final sayso, also look at the release period and year. Notice how SE was actually lacking in 2009/2010 with very little for 2011? That explains it all and suffice to say, Tanaka isn't one in charge at SE.

well no shit, yoichi wada is, and hes been a horrible CEO from what ive heard.
regardless, tanaka tanked, naoki yoshida is the bomb

[yukikaze_yanagi]

prais him for the past LOLOL Xenogears came out recently and thats a freaking hit

.......for real ? xenogears landed in 1998, meaning 14 years ago. While isn't so much time, it don't fit for "recently"

[Onidemon]

prais him for the past LOLOL Xenogears came out recently and thats a freaking hit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenogears released in 1998 lol dude..... Did you actually think a game that looks from the PSN era got released recently? wow.... im speechless..

[Zell]

prais him for the past LOLOL Xenogears came out recently and thats a freaking hit

Are you referring to Xenoblade Chronicles? That was by Monolith Soft... not SE. Tanaka had nothing to do with that game. If you're talking about Xenogears, as previously stated... that came out 14 years ago.