Former Working Designs President Forms Gaijinworks

[GibtheGamer]

What did the toilet paper say to the butt?
























Poop.










By: Vic Ireland










LOL, still, I love him for his importing prowess. I can't wait to see what comes next for Gaijinworks.

[Danzego]

Is that a real joke from a WD game? I honestly can't tell.

....and therein lies the problem.

[Crusader]

Originally Posted by Danzego

Well, that certainly explains why it took them so long between releases. After chopping out most of the script, it DOES take a long time to fill all that empty space with poor cultural references and poop and fart jokes.

Are we talking about the same WD games here, Rog? Because there have been a couple that weren't bad at all (he kept his stupidity to a minimum), but I've played another couple that were just horrid in that regard.

I mean hey....we're guys. As such, we're prone to being amused by toilet humor (cultural references have ALWAYS annoyed me in any entertainment format, though). I'll be the first to admit it. But at least I've always known you to appreciate the poop and fart jokes that were BETTER and not as obvious as Vic Ireland tends to throw around. Maybe you've just played the ones with the "quality toilet humor" (at least what would pass as quality for ol' Vic).

I may not have played some of the games that are as bad as you say. Dragon Force was pretty good, and the Lunar games weren't bad either. Growlanser Generations was questionable at times, but overall it wasn't bad at all. I'm thinking that the lesser-known games were the worst, such as Popful Mail or Vanguard Bandits.

[Danzego]

Albert Oddysey had a few truly horrible moments in it- Vic is always at his worst when there are major story points happening and he starts throwing out the bad jokes right in the middle of it. Too bad, really. I was actually very impressed with the game and, mind you, I started playing it right after I finished FFIII on the SNES. It stood up rather well to that other than Vic's "treachery".

I dont know about Vanguard Bandits, but I've heard that he absolutely slaughtered Popful Mail (I've only played a tiny bit of that, so I don't have firsthand experience on that one).

But aside from all that, whatever Vic has planned for this upcoming generation of consoles, he best get the ball rolling and get to talking about it soon. For many of us, over the last five years, WD and Vic has gone from premier RPG publisher to faded memory. You can thank the stepping up of Atlus and stepping in of NIS for that. Now there's two companies who have really come into their own and quite handily filled that void that WD has left us since late in the 32bit era (about the time of the Arc the Lad collection debacle and beyond). If he doesn't do something REAL soon, it's going to be "Vic WHO? Oh yeah....I remember that guy and his company from way back when. I wonder whatever happened to them. Oh well."

Fun fact: When Lunar for the DS was picked up by Ubisoft for release outside Japan, Vic Ireland called Ubisoft and offered to handle the translation part of the localization process. It's sad, but pretty telltale, that they turned him down, seeing as how bad the translation ended up being.

But then anyone who is familiar with WD is full aware that had they taken him up on that offer, the game probably STILL wouldn't have made it to store shelves yet.

[Crusader]

Too bad Ubisoft didn't change some other things...Lunar DS wasn't very good. At least we would have had some toilet humor from Vic to go with the sh1tty game.

NIS and Atlus really have been diamonds in the rough these last few years. They've both put out some excellent titles. As you're aware, Dan, I've been on the hunt for Atlus and NIS games. Remember we both bought Makai Kingdom that one time I visited you?

Of course, NIS does put out some questionable games, such as Phantom Brave. I'm not big on the battle system and it lacks the same pizazz that Disgaea had.

[GibtheGamer]

Originally Posted by Danzego

Is that a real joke from a WD game? I honestly can't tell.

....and therein lies the problem.

LMFAO, that's exactly the response I was expecting from you! * wipes tear *... Thanks for that.