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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Super Monkey Ball. Yakuza. Brown awesomeness. Those are three things that SEGA game designer and fashion plate Toshihiro Nagoshi is best known for. His latest game Ryu Ga Gotoku KENZAN! (aka Yakuza 3) was released today in Japan. Commenter Bellamy sends this good ol’ fashioned Kotaku Stalku:
One of the big draw backs of Games Convention is that it is virtually impossible to get a direct flight here. To get to the Leipzig airport you pretty much have to fly to either Munich or Frankfurt. I flew into Frankfurt and then had a leisurely seven hour lay-over that I killed by blowing ungodly amounts of money on robotic roulette, reading and posting on the site.
When I finally hopped over to the gate for my flight to Leipzig I discovered a virtual whose who of game developers waiting to catch the same flight. Standing in the line were folks from the Call of Duty 4 development team; Dave Doak, Free Radical’s director; and Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Kotakuite Trencher has done us and humanity a huge favour. He met “filmmaker” Uwe Boll, so we don’t have to. After getting free tickets from his local comic book shop, Trencher attended the Canadian Postal premiere. What did he think of the flick? “I definitely wouldn’t put this on my ‘must see’ list,” Trencher writes, “but it’s a good movie to see with a bunch of buddies or a large ‘geek’ crowd.” More, importantly, how was Boll? He tell you to go fuck your mum? Punch you in the chopper? Trencher writes: …as i walked in the door Uwe Boll was standing right there. So i had to go over and say hi, i grabbed the attached pic of myself and him and made sure to thank him for pissing off videogame fans everywhere. He mubbled something in German and i heard a few shit and fucks coming out his mouth. …he is quite a nice guy. I picked up his autograph and walked into the theatre.
There you go. Posing for pics and signing autographs, Boll is beautiful human. See, it’s just that he’s misunderstood by the gaming public. That, and he makes shit films.
Live in Wisconsin? Heard of Uwe Boll? If you answered “yes” to that, then maybe, just maybe, you can help us. From October 26-28, film festival It Came From Lake Michigan 2007! Best part: Uwe Boll will be there. In person, even! That means, you could actually go up to him and talk to him. Prefect for quality Kotaku Stalku! Anyone who does happen to meet Boll, please ask chowderhead if he plans on making the following games into movies:
So today, Mega Man/Dead Rising/Lost Planet dude Keiji Inafune made an appearance at the GameStop on Broadway in New York City. Kotakuite Samuel was the first in line, getting there way before anyone else and worrying about whether anyone would actually save his place should he need to take a leak. Being the first in line meant that he’d have first crack at Inafune — perhaps catch him off-guard and ask him when they’re going to start making Dead Rising 2. He’d never see that one coming! Samuel writes:
I asked Inafune-san a question, so I’ll quote myself and him verbatim:
