[HN Gopher] Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki, 58 passes away
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       Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki, 58 passes away
        
       Author : corvad
       Score  : 105 points
       Date   : 2025-10-17 15:36 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.gamedeveloper.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.gamedeveloper.com)
        
       | msie wrote:
       | I was a big fan of the DOA series. Played a lot of it on the PS2.
       | RIP
        
       | ranger_danger wrote:
       | RIP King of the age 99 jubblies.
        
       | nahnahno wrote:
       | Sad. This guy was such a force of nature and a uniquely
       | wonderful, creative personality.
        
       | throwmeaway222 wrote:
       | Damn too early.
        
       | AdmiralAsshat wrote:
       | He made one very good game (Ninja Gaiden remake), a couple pretty
       | good games (DOA 1 & 2)....and some crap. I was never really keen
       | on his shit-talking media personality, especially since he had
       | long since admitted that it was purely a marketing campaign.
        
         | fidotron wrote:
         | He wouldn't have got to make the later games, like the NGs, if
         | not for his marketing style.
         | 
         | He literally saved Tecmo, and then later he had to sue them for
         | not paying bonuses to him and his team properly.
        
       | nh23423fefe wrote:
       | Ninja Gaiden on xbox is one of the best games of all time
        
         | tclancy wrote:
         | I was hoping for the same dopamine hit and bought the new one
         | for Switch and it is very good, but 15 years or so on, even
         | knowing what I was in for difficulty-wise, I don't know if I
         | have it in me.
        
       | fidotron wrote:
       | It says a lot that it falls to his rival, the Tekken creator, to
       | give the most fitting comments:
       | https://x.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/1978773188034109651
        
       | basfo wrote:
       | Sad news. I played a lot of Dead or Alive 2 on the Dreamcast.
       | 
       | He was always on the cutting edge of boobs physic engines.
        
         | popalchemist wrote:
         | My exact thoughts, reading this headline. What an interesting
         | legacy to leave behind! I never thought about the person behind
         | DoA but reading the twitter thread from his rival, he seems to
         | have been a very interesting character.
        
       | leshokunin wrote:
       | Repost of https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/dead-or-alive-
       | creator-t...
        
       | bitwize wrote:
       | Because of his somewhat similar traits (long hair,
       | rockstar/edgelord vibe, ego, puerile game tastes) I always
       | thought of Itagaki as "the Japanese John Romero". A personality
       | type for which I have a grudging respect: probably difficult as
       | all get-out to work with, but brilliantly creative, seems like he
       | has a lot of fun with it, and ballsy enough to defend his ideas.
       | I'm sad he's gone so soon.
        
       | bad_haircut72 wrote:
       | One of the best movies Ive ever seen
        
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