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kap Minister of Paranoia


Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 2107 Location: purgatory
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 7:48 am Post subject: |
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Bumping old threads is all good when you're actually contributing something. :) |
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Kid Fenris

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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 7:56 am Post subject: |
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I actually got in touch with Mr. Yoshikawa last year and pelted him with questions about Wurm. He was really nice and answered them all in detail.
One thing I didn't ask about was the Bonk 64 game that eventually became a Bomberman title. I'd like to hear the story behind that. |
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GDRI
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 352
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:03 am Post subject: |
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Kid Fenris wrote: | I actually got in touch with Mr. Yoshikawa last year and pelted him with questions about Wurm. He was really nice and answered them all in detail. |
And you didn't care to share with the rest of the class?
Hopefully, I'm not regurgitating questions. I'm sure you didn't ask questions about Cyclone System or A.I...right? (I really didn't ask much about Wurm) |
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Kid Fenris

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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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GDRI wrote: |
And you didn't care to share with the rest of the class? |
Most of my questions dealt with geeky Wurm trivia, so I didn't think that many people would want to know how, for example, the character Sylvia was supposed to hook up with Moby's middle-aged father in the original script. I could still send you all of his answers, if you're interested.
GDRI wrote: | Hopefully, I'm not regurgitating questions. I'm sure you didn't ask questions about Cyclone System or A.I...right? (I really didn't ask much about Wurm) |
Nope, and I didn't ask about Aicom, either. Or how his early plan for the second Golgo 13 game differed from the final version made by Aicom. Or whether or not he worked on that canceled Bonk RPG (I'm guessing he didn't). |
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GDRI
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 352
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:55 am Post subject: |
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Kid Fenris wrote: | Most of my questions dealt with geeky Wurm trivia, so I didn't think that many people would want to know how, for example, the character Sylvia was supposed to hook up with Moby's middle-aged father in the original script. I could still send you all of his answers, if you're interested. |
I guess PM them.
We're currently in the process of translating the interview (and I'm still asking questions). Yoshikawa has to approve. I suspect it'll be up next week. If you like obscure game developer tidbits, you'll enjoy it. |
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Skrybe Staff

Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 1610
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Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:02 am Post subject: |
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Kid Fenris wrote: | Most of my questions dealt with geeky Wurm trivia, so I didn't think that many people would want to know how, for example, the character Sylvia was supposed to hook up with Moby's middle-aged father in the original script. |
Hey, I like Wurm! I'm all for some geeky Wurm trivia! |
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GDRI
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 352
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:28 am Post subject: |
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This is the big one! The Shouichi Yoshikawa interview is pretty much ready to go (still combing for typographical errors). I took numerous liberties with this one: answers were changed, questions were reordered, questions were changed/rewritten to fit the new order, notations were made by me in the English translation but not the original Japanese, I rewrote his English-only answers so they'd make more sense, questions were reasked to reflect new discoveries...
Eventually, Kid Fenris' Wurm Q&A will go up as a text file. I will probably not rewrite Yoshikawa's original English. |
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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi


Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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So, he DID confirm that Eon Man was Black Manta 2 with a new face, right? His answer was a little confusing. |
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GDRI
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 352
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:50 am Post subject: |
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TheRedEye wrote: | So, he DID confirm that Eon Man was Black Manta 2 with a new face, right? His answer was a little confusing. |
Yeah, basically, but I guess he had little to do with the retooling from Black Manta to Eon Man. |
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rbudrick not rubrdick
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 549
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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Ummm, what's Eon man? Please excuse the ignorance.
-Rob |
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Smeg Staff


Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 1600 Location: beneath enemy scrotum
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